Date #9 - Ezra

Ezra is funny.  He's really sarcastic and his emails would crack me up.  Here are a few examples of his humor:

He said he appreciates good spelling and grammar, and I said that I couldn't agree more and told him about BestBuy guy who types "wud" for "would" (moron).  So on our 4~5th email exchange, he ends his email with:

"Wud u wanna meet up sumtime?  ttyl, Roseanne!"

And when I suggested Coffee Bean for our rendez-vous, he replies with:

"Coffee Bean would be fun, but maybe I can think of something more exciting yet equally safe (you might be a serial stalker, I need to be smart about this)."

Hahahahahah!!  :)  Not only is he funny, but his pictures were cute so I was looking forward to this date.  And when he showed up at Urth Caffe, he was still cute!

Pros

• Funny!  I love his style of humor.  Even in real life, he still makes me laugh.
  
• When he laughs, his eyes totally crinkle up and disappear.  For a white guy, he has smallish eyes but they're very cute when he laughs.  :)
• He's smart and ambitious.  His contract work just ended and he has all sorts of ideas to start up his own business.  He did product management before so his brain is geared to think up new business ideas.
• He's green.  He rides his bike a lot, he goes hiking with his dog in the mountains, he goes to the gym and he's fit enough to be trainer it seems!
• He seems well balanced.  When we talked about religion it was super pressure-free and we have similar viewpoints.  His grew up Jewish (Russian Jewsish!) but he doesn't practice at all it seems.  That's fine with me!  Also, I like his perspective on being healthy.  He didn't want to be a trainer because he had to sell 30-sessions at a time, but he feels that once he trains with people, he wants to show them how to lead an overall healthy lifestyle on their own.  So he wouldn't want to force people to sign up for 30 sessions.  How awesome is that!
• He's an overall nice guy.  His neighbor is out of town for the holidays so he's sticking around and watching the neighbor's dog.  He has his own dog too, but still nice enough to take care of dog #2.
• He walked me to my car.
• He texted me thanking me for enlightening him about the quadrants of Santa Monica.  Point was he did a follow up text!  Eli didn't do that!

Cons

• I've spoken to some Jewish friends before about relationships with non-Jewish folks, and I'm not sure if the potential in-laws won't accept you because you're not Jewish (for long-term relationships, that is).  Clearly, Lily H. Madison is not Jewish.
  
• He is as white-skinned as they come.  Hahahahaha not a bad con at all, but he's very light skinned.
• Talks a bit too quietly.  I can't hear him sometimes!  And anyone who knows me knows that my favorite lines are, "What?", "Can you say that again?", "Wait, what?", "I can't hear you, what?", etc.

We had really good chemistry.  He laughed a lot as did I.  When we got to my car, he asked if I'd want to do this again sometime and I answered, "Of course!".  Since he's so close to where I live and he has some time off right now as well, I think our 2nd date will happen soon.  :)