<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/shehan/5113426792/"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-5533" title="5113426792_1ab9ebba61" src="http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/5113426792_1ab9ebba61-300x199.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="199" /></a>A few weeks ago I ranted about the rotten and mutated fish in the Match.com sea.  <strong><a href="http://www.diaryofalatebloomer.com/2011/04/22/day-206-i-intended-on-making-my-first-curry-but/" target="_blank">Consider it my PSA.</a></strong> I reiterate:  If you are single and you enjoy fresh fish, you better find a different body of water, girlfriends.

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I was prepared to wade out my singleness (again) for as long as necessary, until Cooleenie suggested for the 1,001st time that I paddle around in the pristine freshwater lake that is known as eHarmony.  It worked for her.  That's where she met her hubby.

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And that's where a colleague who is on Cooleenie's team at work met her hubby, and that's where one of the women on my team met her live-in-boyfriend/soon-to-be-fiancé, and that's where our former colleague who is now in another division met her new fiancé, and that's where my friend met his wife one year and a couple of months ago, and so on and so on and so on.

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More importantly, all of these eHarmony peeps seem to be unpolluted, i.e, emotionally intelligent and NORMAL.

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<span style="font-size: medium; color: #666699;"><strong>Most importantly, they are all in LOVE.  Sigh...</strong></span>

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I turned Cooleenie's offer down for the 1,001st time.  I've tried eHarmony before.  The lake was dry at that time.

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That's not entirely true.  There was the one guy that wanted me to halt my 401k match and buy whole life insurance from him instead.

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This is my life.  Welcome to my world.

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<span style="color: #ff00ff;"><strong>Cooleenie:</strong></span> But that was then and this is now.

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<span style="color: #666699;"><strong>Me:</strong></span> Nope.

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<span style="color: #ff00ff;"><strong>Cooleenie: </strong></span> I'll find you a promo code.

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<span style="color: #666699;"><strong>Me:</strong></span> Not interested.

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<span style="color: #ff00ff;"><strong>Cooleenie:</strong></span> It's been awhile.  Just retake the free personality profile.  You are under no obligation to sign up, and you'll enjoy reviewing the results.

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<span style="color: #666699;"><strong>Me:</strong></span> O.k.

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Darn it!  Cooleenie knows me well.  <strong><a href="http://www.personalitypage.com/INFJ.html" target="_blank">INFJs</a></strong> are always suckers for free personality analyses.  We live for that stuff.

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<span style="font-size: x-large; color: #666699;"><strong>eHarmony's Profiling of My Personality:</strong></span>

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I'll share the digest version (the bullets) and spare you the unabridged version (the novela).  I'm summoning up my courage to reveal the good, the bad, and the ugly.

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You've heard their commercials and their "21 dimensions" jargon, correct?

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<span style="font-size: medium; color: #666699;"><strong>On the openness dimension you are: </strong></span>

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<span style="font-size: medium; color: #666699;"><strong>Curious.</strong></span>

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Words that describe you:

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<table width="100%">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td width="33%">
<ul>
	<li>Original</li>
	<li>Inventive</li>
	<li>Thinker</li>
</ul>
</td>
<td width="33%">
<ul>
	<li>Brave</li>
	<li>Eccentric</li>
	<li>Avant-Garde</li>
</ul>
</td>
<td width="33%">
<ul>
	<li>Out-of-Touch</li>
	<li>Unique</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
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Ok, ok, eHarmony.  I admit it.  You had me at "curious".

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What do you think, dear readers?  Should I allow my innate curiosity take over and sign up for eHarmony again during my Year of Living Curiously?

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Am I truly as brave as they say I am?

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