Kelly
Third-year history major, Asian Pacific American studies minor
What are the physical and personality attributes you are looking for in a date?
Somewhat decently tall with a good sense of humor and laid-back personality.
What are your religious affiliations?
12 years of Catholic school but a liberal at best.
What music do you like (genres and bands)?
Everything: from Oldies, Motown, Hip-Hop, Rap, 50s, blues, jazz, folk, country, classical, pop, soul, electronica, techno, house, you name it, I’m sure I can find something I like [but] not heavy metal too much — though Rammstein’s “Du hast” is catchy.
What’s your favorite food?
Japanese food, rice and miso soup and definitely lychee hi-chew.
Favorite books/authors: Wilderness (Collection of Jim Morrison poems), Pride and Prejudice, Catcher in the Rye, Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto and the HP series (of course).
What are deal breakers (won’t date a smoker, height, age, etc.)?
Smoking, married, anything above 40 (excluding George Clooney).
Do you smoke?
No
What do you want to do when you graduate?
Teach English in Japan and live a meaningful life, what that is, I have yet to figure out.
If you were a member of the circus, who would you be and why?
The panda trainer or the person that plays with the pandas and if there were no pandas, I’d bring in the pandas.
Greg
Fourth-year music major, East Asian studies minor
What are the physical and personality attributes you are looking for in a date?
All of my friends insist that I’m enthralled by Asian women, even though I have a close-to-50/50 Asian/white girl ratio in terms of interests. Otherwise, I’m sometimes rather scattered on the subject but I like girls with really pretty faces — nice hair, pretty eyes and a lovely smile. Personality-wise, it’s kind of hard to say. Sometimes I really dig shy girls and other times I’m into more funny, outlandish girls. Regardless, they should be interesting, open-minded, sexy and caring.
What are your religious affiliations?
My Facebook reads “Catholic Plus,” which basically means that I go to and enjoy Catholic mass but have many views that deter quite a bit from Catholic doctrine...more modern ways of thinking and what not.
What music do you like (genres and bands)?
Without a doubt I am most passionate about jazz (Chris Potter, Brad Mehldau), but I like music from most all genres sans rap (I even like a fair share of country!). In high school I really liked punk rock (The Ataris, Rx Bandits, Fenix Tx) but I like to say my tastes matured a lot when I entered college. Now, in terms of non-jazz music, I really dig Radiohead, Björk and Beck. My favorite non-jazz artist of all time, though, is absolutely Stevie Wonder.
What’s your favorite food?
There are some really good authentic Japanese foods out there that I am quite fond of but I am quite taken with American Chinese food. The best thing I’ve ever eaten, though, was this Chilean Sea Bass in New York. SO killin’.
What are your favorite books/authors?
Call me a girl but Pride and Prejudice is my favorite book and second would be The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy in terms of novels. I am a huge comic collector, though (spend around $100 a month on those babies) so in terms of that my favorites are “Runaways” (Vaughan/Alphona), “Astonishing X-Men” (Whedon/Cassaday), “Ultimate Spider-Man” (Bendis/Bagley) and the modern X-Factor books by Peter David.
What are deal breakers (won’t date a smoker, height, age, etc.)?
Smokers are a negative and weirdly proportioned girls cut the deal as well.
Do you smoke?
Never have, never will.
What do you want to do when you graduate?
Find a relatively cool job. I thought about substitute teaching for a year at a certain high school so that I could get that feeling of “oh, my kids have grown up and graduated!” but that probably won’t be an option. I’d like to continue working hard playing my saxophone and get a job in the music industry, preferably for a jazz label. At this point they can hire me for whatever, really.
If you were a member of the circus, who would you be and why?
I’ve never been to a circus...but NOT a clown. ANYTHING but a clown. Either an acrobat (because of the swinging from stuff and the flying through the air and the flipping and, and, and...!) or maybe one of the elephants. Oh man! Except I’m allergic to peanuts! So much for the elephant...
Date: Friday, Sept. 19
Time: 7 p.m.
Location: Lemongrass
Greg: I got there pretty early and I was standing outside of the restaurant. She approached me and said my name. Once I confirmed it was her, she gave me one of those one-armed hug things.
Kelly: It was kind of crowded and we sat down. We were talking a lot and we weren’t looking at the menu, so when the waiter came, we were a little indecisive ... so he suggested that we order for each other — he picked something out and I picked something out and it worked out well.
Greg: It was nice. I have to be cautious about what I eat [because of my nut allergy but] she did well and didn’t kill me, so I was thankful.
Kelly: We talked about how we both went to Tokyo and that he’s a music major and East Asian studies minor ... he knows a lot about Japan.
Greg: At first [we talked about] the basic get-to-know-you questions, like what are you majoring in and what kind of stuff do you do, just basic things. We talked about our experiences in Japan, as you skillfully matched us up in that regard ... and music and other stuff we liked.
Kelly: We like a lot of the same music. I asked him if he’s a music snob who looks down on other people’s collections and he was like, “A little bit.”
Greg: The whole time we were talking, I was kind of thinking, “I wonder how they matched us up?” and every time something we had in common [came up], a light without a bad hue went off, and it was often.
Kelly: I asked him about his questionnaire and he said that I’ll have to read it when they print it out. I kind of figured it out because he really likes Asian things — and I bet that’s why they set us up.
Greg: I wouldn’t tell her what I wrote and I didn’t expect her to tell me, so it was a mystery, [but] our conversation had a lot of similar answers to the questions.
Kelly: He’s part of Japan Club and I have a few friends who are in it — one of my friends that I went to Tokyo with, so yeah, small world.
Greg: We finished our meal and [decided to] go for dessert, which I wasn’t expecting ... it’s an addition to the evening, eating the dessert.
Kelly: We got sticky rice and mango; it’s one of my favorite desserts, and he had never tried it.
Greg: I walked her home and we stopped by a convenience store to buy cookie dough ice cream. I was thinking, “Oh man, I hope [the ice cream] wasn’t a brooding thing, [like] when girls go and buy cookie dough and are all like, ‘Blah! Boys!’”
Kelly: He said good night and we hugged.
Greg: [Overall,] it was good enough that we spent a lot longer together than I originally expected. Coming into the date, [I thought,] “Oh I’ll only be eating for an hour,” but it turned out to be double the time — it was good.
Kelly: He’s a really nice guy — I’d give it a 7 [out of 10].
Greg: I’d give the date a 8.5 [out of 10]. It was a lot of fun. She was very nice and happy, and she had a lot of interesting things to say. She was really interested in talking to me, so conversation was flowing easily, I think.
Where they are now:
Greg friended Kelly on Facebook, and she accepted. Later, Greg said he would change the date to 7 out of 10. “She said she listened to Katy Perry, which is a pretty big deal. But [7’s] still a pretty good score,” he said.
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