I'm corresponding with a woman, call her jk, that my dad "introduced" me to in one of his typical long, rambling, confusing voice-mail messages. At first I thought he was telling me about someone he was dating--which wasn't at all cleared up by his voice-mail post-script attempting to straighten out the first message which after the fact he apparently decided might lead me to conclude he was getting a mail-order bride. Plus he had the email address wrong. If I ever get as weird as my dad, will I even know it? I hope my friends tell me.
Anyway, what he was actually trying to do was to get me to write to jk, because we have a lot in common: jazz, sf, rpgs (MUDding in her case). We're about the same age (she's a little younger), and she's divorced. Is my dad trying to set me up? Does she just want to make new friends? I haven't a clue. He apparently talked with her about me, and she either wanted him to introduce her or at least went along with the idea.
So we've exchanged a few emails, and we do indeed have a bunch in common, and similar tastes in things that I didn't know we had in common (such as animated movies). I kind of wish I knew whether she was in the market for a relationship, so to speak. I don't know whether I'd prefer the answer to be yes or no, but it worries me a little how my dad might have presented this to her without clearly communicating it to me. I could ask him for clarification, I suppose, but since he's a) garrulous and b) apparently associates with her relatively frequently (neighbors?) I'm hesitant.