Westminster

Beautiful women. There's something London has in spades. Two possible reasons for this: London's more cosmopolitan, diet and attitude to healthy living are better here. And: a large proportion of Londoners are also foreigners.

Traditional English food - in my experience - is some dead animal (often cow or sheep) cooked in grease and maybe served with mushy vegetables that have had all the goodness boiled out of them. The best 'traditional' English food 've come across that's vegetarian is Yorkshire pudding with roast vegetables. Bland and mediocre at best. This I think is why Indian restaurants selling spicey food are so popular here.

But they wolf it down, with butter and beer, and refry the leftovers for breakfast. And so more than half of British women are what doctors call unhealthily overweight, and 30something percent are outright obese. Lots of fat chicks over here. Lots. But London's the happy hunting ground.

This is an ethical problem I have with myself. I would like to think about people based on how good and interesting a person they are. And I would like to be attracted to people by things like emotional compatability and intellectual partnership.

But I can't. I don't choose who I'm attracted to, my friend Zeus does, and he's not interested in how cool a person is. He likes slender young teenage girls (and on occasion an especially cute guy - but that's another story :-) So here's the problem: beautiful teenage girls aren't ideal partners: they're difficult to land, don't always make great conversation and their parents cause a hard time and make things complicated. And I'm not sure yet f I should feel bad about hitting on people based on sexual attraction alone.

On the other hand, if you can pull it off, success is it's own reward and then some. Getting down and intimatea willing girl (optional bonus: that you care about) is about the most amazing thing in the world. I have so far lived a full life, and tried all osrts of things, from riding in hot air balloons to experimenting with drugs, and no other experience comes close to the exhiliaration and fulfillment of finally getting with a beautiful girl you really want. For comparison, I gave up illegal drugs long ago, they just don't excite me that much.

But there aren't all that many hot young women in Britain, and competition is fierce for them. And there are so many intelligent, interesting women out there who aren't foxes who could still be an excellent friend and partner. And here's me too proud to lower my standards and just settle.

I don't know if that's a good thing or not. But hey, getting back to London food, I've found an all-you-can-eat-pizza joint. I don't stop for many square meals on the road so this could take awhile. So... I can contemplate the dilemma of the 'haves' versus the 'should haves'. And my blind slavery to evolution's forces. And there are these two stunning teenagers eating pizza over there....