WJLC = “Westchester Jew, Lived in Cincinnati”<\/p>\n
First date with WJLC, who lives in Westchester County and recently moved back from living in Cincinnati for three years.<\/p>\n
37 years old, 5’11”.<\/p>\n
WJLC does not drink alcohol so we met up for coffee on W 10th street, near where he was going to meet friends for dinner, later. \u00c2\u00a0He suggested we go grab a coffee and take a walk in the park.<\/p>\n
WJLC is of Eastern European descent. \u00c2\u00a0He is fair and was probably blond-ish when he was young, which is a look I like.<\/p>\n
We grab a coffee and I ask, “So, what park did you have in mind?”<\/p>\n
WJLC: \u00c2\u00a0Isn’t Washington Square park around here?<\/p>\n
Me: \u00c2\u00a0It’s a little that way.<\/p>\n
WJLC: \u00c2\u00a0Or we could go to the Highline?<\/p>\n
Me: \u00c2\u00a0[Happy about the suggestion] Oh, I haven’t been to the Highline. \u00c2\u00a0[It was built during the time I moved away and I haven’t ever been]<\/p>\n
WJLC: \u00c2\u00a0Ok, then let’s go there.<\/p>\n
We walk over that way, not realizing we were a little too far south, so we walk up a bit and find the entrance. \u00c2\u00a0We walked along the city streets. \u00c2\u00a0Doing the usual smalltalk. \u00c2\u00a0Mixed in with some bits of silence. \u00c2\u00a0Walk walk walk.<\/p>\n
WJLC: \u00c2\u00a0You’re so tall! [He is not 5’11”]<\/p>\n
Me: \u00c2\u00a0Yeah, I’m pretty tall, for being Korean.<\/p>\n
WJLC: \u00c2\u00a0Oh, you’re Korean? \u00c2\u00a0Now I can’t guess what you are!<\/p>\n
Me: \u00c2\u00a0Haha, oh, sorry! \u00c2\u00a0I know you white people love to guess what we Asians “are”.<\/p>\n
WJLC: \u00c2\u00a0Hahaha. \u00c2\u00a0[He laughed and did not take offense]<\/p>\n
We got to the southern-most entrance and talked about a bunch of things along the way. \u00c2\u00a0The usual date question made an appearance, of course. \u00c2\u00a0“If you could do any job without salary being an issue what would you do?”<\/p>\n
For me, that’s easy. \u00c2\u00a0I’d teach.<\/p>\n
WJLC: \u00c2\u00a0Well why’d you leave teaching then? \u00c2\u00a0And don’t say it’s because you didn’t get paid enough.<\/p>\n
Me: \u00c2\u00a0Mostly, I left so I could work in a capacity to have a larger impact, more reach.<\/p>\n
WJLC: \u00c2\u00a0Good. \u00c2\u00a0That’s the right reason. [Thanks for your approval?] Because you shouldn’t let money be the motivation. \u00c2\u00a0I mean, if you can make ends meet and you’re passionate about what you do, you should do it.<\/p>\n
Me: \u00c2\u00a0But money is an issue for teachers. \u00c2\u00a0Teachers should be paid more. \u00c2\u00a0And I can’t just stay in a job where I don’t feel like I get paid enough for all the hard work I’m doing.<\/p>\n
WJLC: \u00c2\u00a0Yes, that’s true. . .You know it’s funny, last year I made the most money I’ve ever made and I was completely unhappy.<\/p>\n
. . .<\/p>\n
Then, WJLC slips into a mode that many men do. \u00c2\u00a0He starts telling me about this and that, as if he’s teaching me stuff. \u00c2\u00a0Like, how to look at a building’s architecture, what this and that means, what that building is, what that restaurant is, blah, blah, blah.<\/p>\n
We walked up the entire Highline, then walked all the way back down. \u00c2\u00a0That’s about a mile and a half — and I’m thinking it’s good because I didn’t go to the gym today, but it’s also very humid out and I can tell the curls I curled in my hair before the date are now very limp and my hair’s gotten frizzy. \u00c2\u00a0Not to mention feeling sweaty and hot on an unusually warm October day.<\/p>\n
The conversation went in many different directions with intermittent bits of silence. \u00c2\u00a0Stuff about the similarities of Asians and Jews. \u00c2\u00a0Diet, working out, work, the City, but it’s hard to tell jokes, be sarcastic or silly because we are walking side by side the whole time and don’t really see each others’ faces.<\/p>\n
WJCL talked a lot about diet. \u00c2\u00a0His diet. \u00c2\u00a0He’s vegetarian. \u00c2\u00a0Then proceeds to tell me about how much protein we need to eat, what protein is for, how if we only ate the required amount of calories our body needs to function we’d be very healthy, blah, blah, blah, and I hesitate telling him that I know these things, that I was a biology major, and taught biology.<\/p>\n
WJCL: \u00c2\u00a0So how risk-loving or averse are you?<\/p>\n
Me: Hmmm<\/p>\n
WJLC: \u00c2\u00a0Like, would you go skydiving?<\/p>\n
Me: \u00c2\u00a0Yeah, I want to. [It’s on my bucket list.]<\/p>\n
WJLC: \u00c2\u00a0Would you go up in a small airplane that I was piloting?<\/p>\n
Me: \u00c2\u00a0Yeah, I’d do that! \u00c2\u00a0[I totally would.]<\/p>\n
WJLC: \u00c2\u00a0[Smiles] That’s great.<\/p>\n
Then proceeds to tell me more about his flying stuff.<\/p>\n
We got back to the Meat Packing District and I let WJLC hail me a taxi. \u00c2\u00a0Cheek kiss, goodbye. \u00c2\u00a0I went home and WJLC went to his dinner.<\/p>\n
I’m going to see in what place Adam Scott is in the President’s Cup.<\/p>\n
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