Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1.chuqui 4/7/84; site nsc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!nsc!chuqui From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: Intelligent and single women Message-ID: <1072@nsc.UUCP> Date: Sun, 17-Jun-84 17:45:37 EDT Article-I.D.: nsc.1072 Posted: Sun Jun 17 17:45:37 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 22-Jun-84 05:25:47 EDT References: <802@shark.UUCP> <1045@nsc.UUCP> <21@cbosgd.UUCP> Organization: The Warlocks Cave Lines: 26 >But more seriously, there is a real difference between interesting and >intelligent. I dated a nurse for more than a year who had a great >personality, was warm and sociable and interesting, but not in >the same league intellectually. She was curious and asked about my work >and other interests, but it seemed like talking into a black hole. The >explanations were all at a low level (thus long-winded and boring for me), >"information" flow was one way, and it didn't seem like she had much >to teach me. The world of ideas is important to me, and I would rather >spend my time with someone who will also contribute. They are around, but >they are at least as hard to find as intelligent men. This may sound like a dumb question, but could the problem have been that you simply weren't interested in her work as much as she was in yours? I happen to find medicine a fascinating subject personally, but it could have been that the things she contributed were not in your interest, not that she wasn't interesting. chuq -- From the ledge of the seventh cornice: Chuq Von Rospach {amd70,fortune,hplabs,ihnp4}!nsc!chuqui (408) 733-2600 x242 Love is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself. - Saint Exupery