Good stuff still happening, here, then? Carry on...
Title and Pom, good starts...
Nora, love, the woo will get you when it's ready.
Lorna, sounds far too complicated for me!
Wine, go you (and your amazing vagina)!
As for looks in OD, I'm certainly no 10, but I think I'm passably attractive. I don't, however, take a good picture, so I struggled to find ones for my OD profile. We were assembling a scrap book of pictures of our team at work recently for a colleague's retirement, and I laughed about the fact that I always look like I'm pulling a face. I wasn't sure whether to be flattered or not when someone piped up "but that's how we always see you".
Some good looking men (and I'd guess women, too) are knobs, and use their looks, while others know that looks aren't everything. I think people can fall into the same trap when 'judging' others - for some people looks override personality, and for others an ugly personality is a massive turn off, however attractive the person is. Having said that, the most stunningly good looking men I've met have turned out to be people that I'd rather just look at than have anything else to do with.
I agree with Bant about confidence being attractive. I particularly liked what you said about talking to someone, knowing that by doing so you'll improve their evening. That, dear Thread, is how we should all feel.