THE SEARCH FOR MR. ADEQUATE
9/29/06

By Susan Silver

Maybe it’s the change of season, but I suddenly feel more alive.

I have decided to take steps to get busy! Yes, yes I know I should have done it years ago … get out of bed, that is. So I changed my closets, as I do every season, and that inspired me to change my life. Again.

I finally got so bored about lack of dates that I actually put my new photo

(which you will see at the end of the column) on an Internet dating site.

And I got tons of responses!

Then comes the hard part. I had to read them all. No seriously, there were some very nice guys … most of them not my type, at least from the photos.

But there were two, doctor and lawyer ... what else … who were promising, and I emailed them back.

When you are young, you want to date jewelers, furriers, as you get older a Doctor in the house sounds good.

Now I have two drink dates in the following week. Will keep you posted.

There were also three adorable young and I mean young guys. I told them I was flattered but no. However, one is a guy that I’ve met before around town and we now have a deal … he’ll fix me up with older guys and I’ll fix him up with younger girls.

I also have some political events coming up, some lunches with new lady friends, and some short trips on the schedule.

No one is going to come knocking on the door to wisk me away to new

adventures after all.

I went to an off off Broadway show last night and it wasn’t far enough “off.”

A friend was involved and what do you say … ”what an evening” … ”wow is all I can say.” ‘Oy’ didn’t seem appropriate.

But it gave me a chance to catch up with another old friend whom I hadn’t seen in years. She is a decade older than I am and still has lots of energy and enjoys her life.

However she, as a few of my friends my age, has totally given up on finding a guy. They aren’t even interested in looking! I can’t say the same, so I thought I’d better get on the stick, so to speak, before I too get to this place.

Not that you can’t have a totally interesting life without a mate. I just prefer to have one.

Thin is not in 

I just have to comment on the new fashion scandal … Madrid declaring that ultra-skinny, walking skeleton types are no longer “in.”

It’s about time!

“O” is not a size, folks!It signifies “nothing!”

Two is not a size for anyone over two!

A four or a six is ok for fashion, but we are talking about real life here and kids who are starving themselves to look scary. Enough!!

TV stuff

The new season continues and here’s what I think.

Too many ripoffs of other previously successful shows. ‘Six Degrees’ is yet another ‘Friends’ meets ’30 Something.’ Good looking, interchangeable types talking too much.

“Heroes” … good looking, interchangeable types, plus one nerdy Asian guy talking with subtitles … and they all have some supernatural skill visited on them. This is kind of “Lost” meets “Superman” meets “Friends” and I got bored.

‘Shark’ starring Jimmy Woods, one of the really good actors around, is a pretty good copy of my favorite show, “House.” It’s a fast talking, rough edged, cantankerous lawyer instead of a fast talking, rough edged, cantankerous doctor, but I liked it.

However, the brilliance in the cases of the medical show can’t be duplicated.

I have a dilemma in that ‘House’ runs at the same time as ‘Dancing with the Stars’ and I don’t have TIVO. Quel problem!

Hey, maybe I’ll actually be so busy soon dating that I don’t have time for TV at all!

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