From: ap.2519@cupid.sai.com
Subject: Boston SWM 29 y.o. professional
Followup-To: alt.personals
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Reply-To: ap.2519@cupid.sai.com
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Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 00:31:31 GMT

Hi!  Thanks for reading my ad!

You've taken the step of peering into alt.personals, so I assume you're
single, and I hope you're reading my ad because you're a woman in the Boston
area and I'm the right age.  And this is hacker country, so you have at least
above average intelligence.  GREAT!  I'm starting to like you already.  Read
on & see if I might be worth meeting.

I'm a physician, currently interrupting my clinical training in internal
medicine to do a research fellowship in medical informatics.  What's THAT?  In
short, it's using computers for medical information management & decision
making.  We hope to help fix the health care morass, and improve some of the
things that make you hate going to the doctor.

My professional life is important to me.  It's fun, and I'm afraid it's part
of how I define myself, but it's not my TOP priority.  The only bedrock source
of happiness or depression is one's personal life.  My job allows me some
flexibility, so even though I put in long hours I do make room for my personal
life pretty easily.

The obligatory self-analysis:  I'm basically serious but often playful.  I
love learning.  I'm caring, tender, considerate.  I'm a first born and have
"first child syndrome" (an overdeveloped sense of responsibility) in spades.
I still have some of my youthful idealism.

Belief system:  Empiricist/atheist.  I do believe that spiritual pursuits have
some value but I'm happy enough with my life that looking for spiritual
pursuits isn't a priority.

Interests:  I'm into windsurfing and sailing.  I love arts of all kinds but
I'm a consumer not a producer.  My musical tastes are eclectic--I like
practically everything but country, top 40, and heavy metal.  I like to dance,
and I'm not bad for a total amateur.  I like to cook, and I make much of what
I eat from scratch--to avoid the partially hydrogenated vegetable oil, corn
syrup, and preservatives in most commercial foods.  But I'm not a health food
fanatic: I even occasionally eat red meat.  I care minimally about
conventional sports like baseball.  If your interests are different, worry
not.  I'm not looking for shared interests as much as a shared style & outlook
on life.  If we have that then developing shared interests will be easy.

Appearance: (The awful truth is that appearance IS kind of important, right?
The standards are a little mutable, but I'm afraid we all have them.) 
I'm 6'1", blond, brown/green eyes, lanky but fit (I lift weights but my
dedication varies).  I look considerably younger than 29.  Women used to call
me "cute," but I've recently heard "handsome," which feels like progress.

Well, enough about me.  What about you?  If you read this far, I must be at
least a little interesting, so why don't you introduce yourself?  I'm sure you
have no shortage of opportunities for dates, since the computer world is so
male-dominated, but maybe you're hoping to meet someone a little different.
Remember that responding through cupid.sai.com is anonymous and therefore risk
free!  Check it out first by sending mail to ping@cupid.sai.com.  If you do
respond, I'd like to exchange notes a few times before we make plans to meet,
so that we'll have the best chance of not wasting each's other's time &
emotions.  I'm tired right now of relationships that move too fast, so a
friendship first approach would suit me best.  Write soon, though, 'cause
summer's moving along.

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