Dating Profile of the World’s Most Fascinating Woman

By David Sheskin

I am the only person in the world whose cooking has been awarded a three-star Michelin rating. When I am in Rome, the Romans do as I do. I won an Olympic gold medal for the way I jump rope. Whenever a tree falls in an empty forest, I can hear it. I have won a Pulitzer Prize for a eulogy I delivered at a funeral. I can count from zero to infinity in less than thirty seconds. When I have occasion to travel to Scotland, I swim alongside the Loch Ness Monster. I have taught a penguin how to play the violin. I was once abducted by aliens, and the aliens insisted that I probe them. My saliva is considered to be an aphrodisiac. No less than forty songs have been written about my clitoris. I can stop a tsunami by yodeling. The last time I visited the Louvre, I was asked to modify the paintings so they were more to my liking. I was awarded a Nobel Prize for a medley of songs that I sing in the shower. A jeweler once offered me a million dollars for one of my freckles. I invented the color puce. I have bungee-jumped off a cloud. When I vacation in China, I play poker with a family of pandas. After I take a bath, the water is cleaner than when I went in.  I once landed a Boeing-747 on the summit of Mt. Everest. If I recite the Lord’s Prayer backwards, I can render myself invisible. When I vacation in Egypt, I regularly wrestle with crocodiles in the Nile. I am fluent in five languages that nobody else is able to speak. I won a MacArthur Genius Award for my daydreams. I have built a maze in my back yard that anyone who has entered has never found their way out of.  I once persuaded a family of vampires to become vegetarians. Eskimos have fourteen different words to describe my smile. I have had dinner with The Man in the Moon. I heard the Big Bang.

In the interest of full disclosure: For more years than I can remember, I have had overwhelming anger management issues. In order to maintain my sanity, I imbibe a daily cocktail of Zyprexa, lithium and Valium. In spite of the fact that during the past year I have not been psychiatrically hospitalized, I am still under a court order to see my psychiatrist twice a week. This morning I shot my neighbor’s cat for napping in my back yard. 

Regardless of what certain people may say, I am a good person.


David Sheskin is a writer and artist whose work has been published in numerous magazines, including The Dalhousie Review, The Satirist, DIAGRAM, Puerto del Sol, Chicago Quarterly Review, Tamarind, Shenandoah, and The Journal of Irreproducible Results. His most recent books are Art That Speaks, David Sheskin’s Cabinet of Curiosities, and Outrageous Wedding Announcements. A former university professor, he is also the author of The Handbook of Parametric and Nonparametric Statistical Procedures.