Kim Rollins has changed her marital status. From "single
and looking" to just "single." That's one of many insights
gleaned from two personal ads the internet celebrity posted
online in November....
After leaving Wil Shipley two years ago, Kim has quietly begun looking for new
relationships -- online. "The Committee to Canonize Kim Rollins" has by now
disappeared from the web, and loyal fans of the whimsical-yet-troubled online diarist find she's now
vying with the less-auspicous ads placed by other local women. ("SWF seeks
unemployed male crack head for long term relationship. Pluses include: previous
jail time, married with kids, girlfriends, emotional baggage, smokers,
alcoholics, sexually transmitted diseases, couch potatoes, republicans,
pro-lifers, SUV drivers, cell phone users, poor spellers and bankruptcy
filers.") Enigmatically, in the "favorite quote" section of her own ad,
Rollins has included a definition of the phrase "ultra short-term nostalgia."
"Homesickness for the extremely recent past: 'God, things seemed so much better
in the world last week.'."
After the turbulent break-up of their nine-year relationship, the former couple
picked up the pieces of their lives, with Wil throwing a dinner party and Kim
paying a visit to New York. Ms. Rollins even received a
mention from online journalist Kymm. "She's so delicate and fine-boned and
translucent-skinned and porcelain-like that you think she's a fairy princess,
until she opens her mouth, that is." In a recent update to his own online
journal, "Scab," Wil Shipley even posted his best wishes for the woman he'd
once asked to marry him.
"She's living on her own now, and I'm proud of her."
But despite the wave of public scrutiny Kim faced in their relationship's
aftermath, a new quote which turned up in her personal ad shows the internet
personality still wishing for a spotlight. The word that Kim had chosen to
define
for her would-be suitors was "fame-induced apathy."
"The attitude that no activity is worth pursuing unless one can become famous
pursuing it."
Until fame arrives, Rollins continues displaying her characteristic sense of
humor.
Later in the month, she changed the sardonic listing of her occupation -- from
"cruise director" to "cat herder."
