The Doctor Is Out And Other Updates...
As good as my word, dear readers (all five of you), I have returned to Alaska and have some updates/thoughts...
First, as the title says - the Doctor is indeed out. I know many of you might be hoping for a great story out of this one, but it's actually rather mundane. We had been communicating back and forth since February and were all set to get together when I got back from Florida when she called and told me she was leaving Alaska. Surprisingly it really had nothing to do with me and she felt rather bad about the whole debacle. Really the choice has to do with career - a better internship for what she wants to do in medicine. We made the usual promises about keeping up with one another, but I'm really doubting that at this point - we really only hung out once and then talked a lot.
Secondly, an observation from my trip in Florida. This is something that my wishful thinking and optimism stopped me from seeing what is the truth...Alaska woman when compared to the rest of the nation in terms of general attractiveness seem to come up lacking. There, I said it! My friends have been telling me this for awhile and I always thought, "no, this is the same as anywhere else." I've even dated some very attractive women (and, admittedly, some not so attractive ones) since I've been in Alaska. I'll admit that there are some very attractive women in Alaska, but the overall quotient of hotness is less than other areas of the nation...
As you can see the rest of the nation is typically 10 points or more higher in an overall hotness quotient than Alaska and the disparity is only growing.
I really didn't notice this until my four hour layover in the Minneapolis Airport. Minneapolis is not widely regarded as a bastion of attractive ladies, but here I was feeling like a man just let out of prison! I got a cramp in my neck from how often I strained it in reaction from all the attractive women walking around. I thought there was a hot girl conference in town (I know they happen...don't tell me anything different). Then it hit me, this wasn't the mythical hot girl conference (San Diego 2009!!!), but this was the old normal from when I actually lived in the Midwest. So now the old normal is the new hot girl conference normal.
Thank you Alaska...
In any case it was like going from this...
And in the interior this...(yes, that's a woman!)
...to this in Minneapolis...
And this in Florida...(no joke, I made eye contact with this woman and my eyes melted from the hotness)
The Arctic Fox's lawyer wants to make a note here that all pictures do not represent the actual people they may or may not actually be and/or the places they are from. Any suggestion that these pictures are being used for monetary, sexual, emotional, mental, gastrointestinal, or any other type of gain is false and if you can Google the image and they contain no legal protections on said photos then anyone that wants to complain can just suck it!
That being said there is much more to dating than just looks and there are plenty of good enough looking girls for me as my appearance is closer to a male version of this...
...than anything that the female population of the larger nation or Alaska may want to date - as a great man in dating history once said, "beggars can't be choosers."
This was just something I noticed during my many travels over the last few months and there's no way I'm going to change it over the minimum two years I have left here in Alaska.
In other news and updates I have a second date with a woman I've been dating since I've been back and there's no nickname yet and the usual initial lack of craziness, but as always I'm very hopeful and I'm proud to say she has a much higher attractiveness quotient than the average Alaskan woman noted here. I just hope she doesn't notice my attractiveness quotient anytime soon!
Until next time keep being choosers (even if you are a beggar!).
AirForceKush, aka, The Arctic Fox
First, as the title says - the Doctor is indeed out. I know many of you might be hoping for a great story out of this one, but it's actually rather mundane. We had been communicating back and forth since February and were all set to get together when I got back from Florida when she called and told me she was leaving Alaska. Surprisingly it really had nothing to do with me and she felt rather bad about the whole debacle. Really the choice has to do with career - a better internship for what she wants to do in medicine. We made the usual promises about keeping up with one another, but I'm really doubting that at this point - we really only hung out once and then talked a lot.
Secondly, an observation from my trip in Florida. This is something that my wishful thinking and optimism stopped me from seeing what is the truth...Alaska woman when compared to the rest of the nation in terms of general attractiveness seem to come up lacking. There, I said it! My friends have been telling me this for awhile and I always thought, "no, this is the same as anywhere else." I've even dated some very attractive women (and, admittedly, some not so attractive ones) since I've been in Alaska. I'll admit that there are some very attractive women in Alaska, but the overall quotient of hotness is less than other areas of the nation...
As you can see the rest of the nation is typically 10 points or more higher in an overall hotness quotient than Alaska and the disparity is only growing.
I really didn't notice this until my four hour layover in the Minneapolis Airport. Minneapolis is not widely regarded as a bastion of attractive ladies, but here I was feeling like a man just let out of prison! I got a cramp in my neck from how often I strained it in reaction from all the attractive women walking around. I thought there was a hot girl conference in town (I know they happen...don't tell me anything different). Then it hit me, this wasn't the mythical hot girl conference (San Diego 2009!!!), but this was the old normal from when I actually lived in the Midwest. So now the old normal is the new hot girl conference normal.
Thank you Alaska...
In any case it was like going from this...
And in the interior this...(yes, that's a woman!)
...to this in Minneapolis...
And this in Florida...(no joke, I made eye contact with this woman and my eyes melted from the hotness)
The Arctic Fox's lawyer wants to make a note here that all pictures do not represent the actual people they may or may not actually be and/or the places they are from. Any suggestion that these pictures are being used for monetary, sexual, emotional, mental, gastrointestinal, or any other type of gain is false and if you can Google the image and they contain no legal protections on said photos then anyone that wants to complain can just suck it!
That being said there is much more to dating than just looks and there are plenty of good enough looking girls for me as my appearance is closer to a male version of this...
...than anything that the female population of the larger nation or Alaska may want to date - as a great man in dating history once said, "beggars can't be choosers."
This was just something I noticed during my many travels over the last few months and there's no way I'm going to change it over the minimum two years I have left here in Alaska.
In other news and updates I have a second date with a woman I've been dating since I've been back and there's no nickname yet and the usual initial lack of craziness, but as always I'm very hopeful and I'm proud to say she has a much higher attractiveness quotient than the average Alaskan woman noted here. I just hope she doesn't notice my attractiveness quotient anytime soon!
Until next time keep being choosers (even if you are a beggar!).
AirForceKush, aka, The Arctic Fox
Amazingly, I can access this site. Let's keep it that way. I have a few arguments to make in retrospect of your current statistical study. Firstly, I would take offense but I sadly agree that there is a problem in Alaska. I would add that the men there are 20pts below the average specimen. This is based on an inductive argument citing the most podunk bar in rural NY and the ratio of cute NY men to AKers as well as my current situation in a desert where everything and everyone is beige.
Secondly, I find logical fault in your Minneapolis Airport report. Clearly these women were not Minnesotans at all, but, rather, New Yorkers en route to California to attend said conference. And here I thought you were an analyst. Shame.
I think it just comes down to the maxim: Alaska: where the odds are good...
You know the rest.
~M
I don't know if you can remmeber all of 2+ years ago in the lush cornfields of Iowa the differance between the city's of Ames and Iowa City. There was the same jump in quantitive hotness at you left ames and got to IC, and this is all within the same state! Burns and I finally nailed it down: ISU and Iowa had the same amout of HOT girls (9's and 10's), but when it came to the 7's and 8's, IC had many more of them. Further, the less attractive IC residents didn't go out as frequently as the same in ISU. Add to this mix the understandably higher guy/girl ratio at Iowa and one can see where there is clearly more hotness in IC as opposed to Ames. As there is clearly a gradient of hotness in the state of Iowa it wouldn't be a major leap of logic to conclude that a similar un-even (non homogenous) distribution of hotness nation wide exsists. That's just my two cents (worth approx. 5 yen). In case you hear something about a crane collapsing in KC, let it be known it didn't hit me. I've bee wrist deep in turbine for about 24 of the last 48 hrs. Keep your stick on the ice and livin' the dream.
-Tim "you can't grab a handful of ugly" Barton
Ok, I am now in total agreement with this post. 4 days in Seattle, 5 in the SF Bay Area and now a week here in podunk Marysville, CA have convinced me. I was constantly almost wrecking my vehicle in SF from female distractions all over the place. Also, after several trips to Walmart and Target here in the Marysville/Yuba City area (cumulative population of about 60k) I've come to the same conclusion you did in this post. Even the trashy girls down here are at least better looking than the trashy ones up there. I have yet to really go out here (minus a bowling/pool night) but hopes are high.
CB