Q - Dear Annabelle, Thanks greatly for your reply to 18,000 miles - much appreciated, and I guess you're almost inevitably right. (Of course, the fact I found it entirely rational doesn't necessarily mean I'll obey it *:-)* ) Sorry to be banging upon your doorstep (eardrum? hard disk?) once more, but yesterday's reply triggered another problem/whine. I'll understand if your advice coupons are only good for one use, but once more, I'd love any suggestions. ...Anyway, you hit a water-pipe in the last message which has been leaking over me or ages. Namely "the intelligence dilemma". Said with a sterling-shined grin and bulging pectoral region, you are right about my intelligence, and it's becoming infuriating. I feel I'm only really able to associate entirely with other intelligent people perhaps in the way that most people like being in the company of people whom they can tell anything. (In other words, I like girls whom can reciprocate interesting ideas and, most especially, argue well.) The problem being that all the even moderately intelligent girls I meet seem to have either a chronic inferiority complex, no wit/flare at all or, worst of all, a rather uninspired nature. I guess the problem is rather evident by now, as is the reason this London girl has got me so delirious. (Academically, she's almost like a twin). ...So, once more - advice would be deeply appreciated - I feel like a wanna be Sartre, (pardon the 3rd trumpet-blow in 3 mails), dating most of the wanna be Kidmans and Crawfords of the world, but only interested in finding a wanna be de Beauvoir. A - Dear JB, Hey, donât worry, I understand and, at university level youâll be awash in high level lovelies...(trust me on this one) ...... and THEY will be looking for smart hunkmuffins who have fabulous personalities and not the lower IQ types. It all works out.....youâll be fine.....just remember, until youâre about 25+ youâll be very changeable so you donât need to take anything right now very seriously. That doesnât mean Îdonât enjoyâ, it just means that itâs not the end of the world if things donât work out quite right. You'll be pleased to know that most of the high IQ types donât have the maturity level ......for YEARS.....to do anything but sound really opinionated.....so, take it slowly, lots of brains are much more interesting when tempered by Îreal worldâ experience. So, donât go spouting off too much....youâll end up agonizing over your callow impetuousness if you talk too much and observe too little.......much will be learned in these next ten years.......you have the necessary equipment, just learn to allow OTHER people to think how smart THEY are......it will not only gain you friends, it will save you a great deal of embarrassment. - Annabelle