Email styles of women

Have you ever had it happen where someone's voice reminds you of someone you already know, and as a result, when you hear that voice, it brings up all the assumptions and impressions of the original owner of the voice?

I posted a thing on Craig's List the other day looking for interesting women, and tonight, talked to one respondent. I was struck by how similar to Sarah she was in not just the sound of her voice but the cadence of her speech, and I had a hard time not falling into the habit of talking with her the way I talked with Sarah.

Alison's voice is quite different than anyone I've talked to recently. She and I still haven't spoken in person, though she promises we will. She asks me little things about me, but doesn't say a lot about herself. I think it's just an email thing... I've noticed that younger women tend to writer shorter, shallower emails. Women over 40, who are less likely to have had email in high school or college, seem to approach it more the way they might a paper letter, and their emails tend to be longer and more in-depth.

I guess we'll see.

This weekend will be spent on the road. I decided to go visit Laurie in Ohio after all... and in addition, I may take a sidetrip on Sunday and visit a woman I'd met online nearly four months ago, but with whom I hadn't talked until tonight. She was driving from New York to Cleveland... apparently she lives in both places and shuttles back and forth across Pennsylvania for work.

I haven't done that trip -- across all 365 miles of Interstate 80 -- in nearly 20 years now.