happy valentine's day!

No flowers on your desk? No problem!

Turn to this blog as your No. 1 coping source all day. I'll be updating it with a good mix of not only info knocking the virtues of Valentine's day, but also last-minute tips if you're navigating the holiday in coupledom.

But first, the obligatory mix of articles reaffirming your assertion that love stinks:

*This blog, conveniently called The Poop, gives a list of reasons why Valentine's Day could easily be the worst holiday ever. Among the evidence? "Conversation hearts taste like crap."

*Once again the beacon of hard-hitting analysis, CNN calls Valentine's Day the holiday from hell. The article is stacked with scientific case studies, including this one: "Brian Wise, a 32-year-old technical writer from Seattle has seen his Valentine's Day go sideways repeatedly -- most memorably the time he ended up in handcuffs (and not in a good way)."

*Apparently the Chicago Tribune also did some serious research, resulting in this conclusion that men and women celebrate Valentine's Day differently. And one of the article's last sentence pretty much summarizes the entire holiday:

"What hasn't changed is the fact that if you don't get your butt out and buy your wife, girlfriend or any woman you ever hope to speak to again in your life a present, you might as well disconnect your phone, change your e-mail address and join a monastery."

Amen!