I'm glad my sweet-talking did the trick. There's plenty more where that came from. Si

Anyway, you seem beyond promising from what I've seen of you by way of your profile. For one thing, I respect a girl who once lived in filth - that indicates your priorities to be in the right place. It's clear from certain details that you're extraordinarily intelligent and not at all a pseudo-intellectual, unlike most of the people who dwell in my neighborhood (I've been living in Williamsburg for the past five months with an old friend of mine who's also my entertainment lawyer, but she's moving to Manhattan next month whereas I'd prefer to go back to Bushwick or something). In addition, you're clearly very clever on top of being intelligent, and probably a lot of fun as well; I probably don't come off as fun from my profile and my online persona in general, but I have to maintain an image of respectability due to certain aspects of my career. In real life, I'm the fucking king of fun.

So, I think we'd hit it off; you mention that you'd like a guy who could shut you down with a quip if necessary, and I basically shut people down with quips for a living. Hopefully I could offer more than just being an asshole, though; I'm not the sort of guy who attracts women by way of being mean to them, which is an easy, stupid trick (and women who fall for it are lacking in awareness and plenty else besides), and my personal ethics revolve around politeness anyway. I will note that I do have a problem which has caused my last several relationships to end fairly quickly - I'm very dedicated to my work, which has taken a certain unusual turn recently, and that often takes up a lot of my attention. And, hey, you just asked to chat with me, so I'll go ahead and send this.