Sometimes you just know

Well I have to admit the online dating thing can be tedious. I'm so tired of writing the equivalent of small talk in emails. Don't get me wrong. I enjoy getting emails and corresponding, but there are few people I'm having meaningful conversations with. It's weird what you can tell just from a person's writing. To a degree, you can judge intelligence. (Though spelling skills are not supposed to be a good measure of intelligence, I would think most intelligent people would at the very least try to spell the name of the person they're trying to woo correctly). After a few emails, you get a sense for whether the person is optimistic, self centered, cocky, funny, socially backwards, clingy, and/or afraid of commitment. Not saying I'm a grammatical snob, it's just the little innuendos you pick up on that give you a flavor of what that person is like. For example, a person that gives up writing in paragraph form and makes three different lists in one short email, may be a little rigid or analytical for my taste. I have nothing against lists (in fact, I probably will post some in the future). I just don't want a conversation to turn into one....... You're probably reading this and thinking, "boy she's picky". Really I'm not that picky. Sometimes you just know.