February 2011
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Attention, Ladies: Semen is An Antidepressant
Perhaps you’re familiar with the McClintock effect, the observation that when groups of reproductive-age women live or work together (in college housing, the military, all-female workplaces, etc.), over time their menstrual periods tend to become synchronized. The accepted explanation is that the women detect each other’s pheromones, subtle scents that each of us produce, and somehow...
January 2011
92 posts
Michael Chorost's Ten Hard-Learned Dating Tips
I don’t think any man who gets married for the first time at 45, as I did, can call himself a relationship guru. I spent most of my adult life being single, dating, and making mistakes.
But I did learn a great deal along the way. So for what it’s worth, here’s 10 things I learned about dating. 1. You know a good potential relationship when it brings out the best in you. You...
don’t you just hate it when you let people sleep over, but they fall asleep faster than you, and they start breathing really heavily, and then it starts bothering you and you can’t sleep?
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also I got drunk and talked to my ex-crush again, and we held a regular (?) conversation. which was really hard for me when I was crushing on her. yay me?
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If you wanted something bad enough, you'd go out...
Something thats been bothering me the last several.. months? years? I don’t know.
Now, I should start off by saying I don’t desire too many things in life. It’s not like a lack of ambition or anything, I just find that sticking to the basics and necessities of life is much more satisfying than wanting a whole bunch of stuff. Because, really, you can never have too much of...
dancingpapayas:
I like talking to people working in service industries. I hope this doesn’t sound condescending, so let me clarify:
Many of these housekeepers, janitors, gardeners, cashiers, and etc are nice. They’re humble. They seem to enjoy a good chat as much as I do, even though they must be a million times more exhausted.
They remind me of what I’m working for, to make use of the...
The Single Greatest Threat to New Relationships
The most common way we sabotage new love possibilities is through what I call The Wave of Distancing (or simply, the Wave). The Wave occurs when we unconsciously push a caring and available person away by inwardly diminishing his or her worth. Our lack of training in the phenomenon of the Wave has led to the loss of countless relationships.
Groucho captured it perfectly: “I don’t...
“I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain;...”
– The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (via thechocolatebrigade)
Sometimes...
I wonder, maybe even wish, that someday the world would end up annihilating itself through a nuclear war, where all of humanity is wiped out, and over the next several thousand years a new species will evolve to replace us.
Then someday, somewhere, a member of this new species will discover an ancient relic from our time, like an old book, or a movie, or the ruins of an old building, and look at...
No amount of physical beauty can ever make up for...
It really is one of the ugliest traits to see in another person.
First (two) Days of School
Meant to write this post yesterday, but I forgot, so here goes…
Warm showers in the morning are amazing. I could stand there for 30 minutes or more if I could. Unfortunately I would be late to class so I don’t. It’s like, you get out of your warm comfy bed and jump into another warm, soothing shower… yeah.
First class on Tuesdays/Thursday is general Biology. Teacher...
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This morning after I got out of the shower I sat on the toilet in my bathrobe and painted my toenails, hunched over and around one bare knee at a time, balancing the bottle of coral colored polish in my left hand. I started thinking. I bet you didn’t know that I did things like that, did you? Polishing my toes with my robe falling off my shoulders, just barely tied around my waist. Not sexy, not...
WatchVice Guide to Film - Gaspar Noe
“You kinda of want to plant your flag in the sand, and say this is what I stand for, and say we’re not about celebrating Hollywood or stars; what we want to do is find the punk rock of cinema, the great stories that are out there, the lunacy, the art, the beauty, he defines what we’re doing”
“The best part of a relationship, is getting to call the person, or lay down next...”
– Tegan Quin
Who should be blamed when a leaf falls from a...
How to Dance in the Rain
We need to share our inspiring stories. This one, recounted by a nurse, happened at a busy clinic at 8:30 one morning. An elderly gentleman in his 80’s arrived to have stitches removed from his hand and said he was in hurry because he had another appointment at 9 o’clock.
While attending to the various steps in any medical visit, the nurse noticed that he kept looking at his watch. When...
“Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt.”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.