Archive for July, 2009

I know most of my blogs start with ‘I was talking to a friend.’ Since I started this blog, two things happen in my conversations with friends – either they say, please don’t use this in your blog; or hey what I just said would make a great blog.

That’s how this list started. A friend of mine, who definitely wants to remain anonymous, sent an email with a very simple question: ‘how can you let a guy know that you are not interested? I kind of worked myself into a pickle and don’t know how to get out of it!’

To me, it’s very simple, you just tell him. But I admit I have used cruel and unusual tactics before. There was this guy I had absolutely no interest in, but he was incredibly persistent, seriously. As his calls and visits increased, I knew I had to do something but I couldn’t figure out what to say. He came over one night and the ‘retired’ evil bi-atch in me just appeared. Please note the operative word ‘retired.’

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“Are you crazy, Lawhead? What’s gotten into you?” Rosen bellowed.

Lawhead flinched a bit but for the first time in his life he stood his ground. He was no longer afraid of the broken man lying in the hospital bed.

“No, Rosen, I am perfectly sane. This is the only opportunity we have to revive the Hybrid Africa project.”

“God darn it, man! It’s gone, it’s done! Don’t you understand? None has the right to tamper with life. I made a mistake, and it needs to be corrected.”

Lawhead laughed a little.

“Corrected? Corrected by who? Rad? For your information, he is in a lot more trouble than he bargained for. Nimako called me. His neighbor remembers there was a white man in a Mercedes outside the house. The neighbor got a good look at him and Nimako is taking her to the police station later this week.”

Rosen sighed. He was tired, physically and mentally drained. He had intended to discharge himself in a few days but today was good enough. Lawhead was not going to ride over him like this. He had to take care of this mess personally.

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Disclaimer:

I have not, and may never sign up for any online dating. This post is just to generate dialogue and obtain opinions about online dating

I know this is one subject that a lot of people, particularly Ghanaians – if I may so, have strong opinions about. The few people I have spoken to don’t have a middle ground on this, it’s either for, or against.

The day of my photo shoot with Justin, later that night, Pearl, Esi and I were lounging and the topic naturally veered off to men. What else do we have to talk about? I was lamenting, as always, about the dearth of ‘good’ men. And Esi said, why don’t you try online dating? Ah, online dating, the unspoken death sentence of a single woman. I said I had actually thought about it, and Pearl vehemently said, ‘no way, I am not that desperate.’ And Esi, God bless her, said, ‘why do you have to be desperate first?’

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