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January 2009

We’re running out of maybe people

admin - January 12, 2009

I think slowly but surely we all realize we’re not going to end up with any of our maybe-people. Heavy for a Monday morning, but here’s how I see it. As modern adults we exist in large, co-ed friends groups. Within those friend groups are people you have slash would hook up with and those you haven’t and would never. Of that set is the …

The Facebook can be a real cock tease

admin - January 9, 2009

Take one female friend’s recent discovery regarding a guy she’d seen more than a few times. Said guy doesn’t live where my friend lives. On the occasions that they’ve gotten together she’s either gone to or happened-to-be-in his area or he has traveled to hers. They remain, for the most part, in occasionally regular contact. A week or two may go by in which they …

To me you are – probably making a mistake

admin - January 7, 2009

I watched Love Actually with my family over the holiday break. I’m sure you did too. It’s reached official holiday status. I enjoy Love Actually for the same reasons most people do. It gives you hope in the possibility of unbelievable love stories, and it features Hugh Grant. But every time I watch it I get caught up on one scene that, hard as a …

These should be easy resolutions

admin - January 4, 2009

At this very time last year I posted my two very simple New Year’s Resolutions. To read at least one book per month and to not hook up with people for insensible reasons. Of the two I successfully accomplished one. And so once again I will post very simple, seemingly easy to accomplish New Year’s Resolutions in an effort to be motivated by the potential …