If you're not paranoid enough about your relationship, check out this article: "10 things your spouse won't tell you."
Most of the items center on money, ranging from "I spend more on my mistress than I do on you" to "I blew our savings because the saleswoman was beautiful."
Awkward.
Friday, March 4, 2011
Free fries at Chick-fil-A
Are you a dipper or a squeezer?
I'm sure the answer to that question somehow affects your dating life, but explaining the phenomenon requires a degree beyond my qualifications.
Instead, I'll refer you to a video about the new Heinz Dip & Squeeze Ketchup packets.
Cameraman and I filmed the investigative project on Thursday. I learned a variety of lessons, including the unique taste sensation that comes with putting 27 grams of ketchup on a burger.
We posted the video in conjunction with Free FryDay at Chick-fil-A. Visit a Chick-fil-A restaurant between 2 and 4 p.m. today (March 4) and you'll get a free medium order of fries. But there's a catch: You must ask for Heinz Dip & Squeeze Ketchup.
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Inappropriate meet markets
Sara's blog post about dating at the library makes me wonder: Are any places off-limits when it comes to meeting a romantic partner?
My answer is the gym.
I think you should have the freedom to get sweaty on the treadmill without being interrupted by someone asking for your phone number.
And as someone who's received one too many pickup lines in the reference section, I can see how the library could be considered an off-limit meet market as well.
Any other inappropriate meet markets?
My answer is the gym.
I think you should have the freedom to get sweaty on the treadmill without being interrupted by someone asking for your phone number.
And as someone who's received one too many pickup lines in the reference section, I can see how the library could be considered an off-limit meet market as well.
Any other inappropriate meet markets?
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Charlie Sheen and dating
It was surprisingly easy to find an article connecting dating and the recent Charlie Sheen fiasco.
With just two clicks, I found this Huffington Post piece: "Is your ex worse than Charlie Sheen?"
You'll learn all about the High Conflict Personality Pattern, which is described by terms like "rigid and uncompromising, repeating failed strategies."
Sound familiar?
With just two clicks, I found this Huffington Post piece: "Is your ex worse than Charlie Sheen?"
You'll learn all about the High Conflict Personality Pattern, which is described by terms like "rigid and uncompromising, repeating failed strategies."
Sound familiar?
Read Across America Day 2011
I was a weird kid.
The revelation probably doesn't come as a total surprise, but I'll attempt to justify my eccentricities by noting I attended five different schools before ninth grade.
When I moved to my third school in fifth grade, I decided I was officially done with making friends.
I spent every recess sitting against a wall near our classroom door, reading a book.
Before long, I became somewhat of a freak show attraction. I watched my classmates whisper while brainstorming ways to lure me away from my book and onto the playground.
The thing is, I wasn't really lonely. I kind of enjoyed existing in a bubble and only befriending fictional people whose allegiances existed only between a novel's pages.
It wasn't entirely healthy, though. Eventually, I learned a valuable lesson:
Books can be an escape, but they can also urge you to live beyond their chapters' limits.
Happy Read Across America Day!
The revelation probably doesn't come as a total surprise, but I'll attempt to justify my eccentricities by noting I attended five different schools before ninth grade.
When I moved to my third school in fifth grade, I decided I was officially done with making friends.
I spent every recess sitting against a wall near our classroom door, reading a book.
Before long, I became somewhat of a freak show attraction. I watched my classmates whisper while brainstorming ways to lure me away from my book and onto the playground.
The thing is, I wasn't really lonely. I kind of enjoyed existing in a bubble and only befriending fictional people whose allegiances existed only between a novel's pages.
It wasn't entirely healthy, though. Eventually, I learned a valuable lesson:
Books can be an escape, but they can also urge you to live beyond their chapters' limits.
Happy Read Across America Day!
Choose your own adventure
Newsweek has an interesting piece called "The science of making decisions" -- though it probably should be retitled "The science of indecision."
Short summary: Sometimes, sources like Twitter and Facebook offer a depth of knowledge that helps us make more informed decisions.
But other times, those avenues provide too many pros and cons to weigh -- in turn paralyzing our decision-making skills. An excerpt:
The research should give pause to anyone addicted to incoming texts and tweets. The booming science of decision making has shown that more information can lead to objectively poorer choices, and to choices that people come to regret.
I've certainly seen this "info-paralysis" extend to the dating world. Even at a relationship's earliest stages, people have a tendency to pose their romantic quandaries to all their Twitter followers and Facebook friends.
It's nearly impossible to find any sort of coherent consensus, leading the dater to either make a poor decision or (more often) second-guess the relationship entirely.
If there's any lesson to learn from all this, it's that perhaps we should occasionally make decisions without soliciting additional opinions from the Internet.
You know, the old-fashioned way.
Short summary: Sometimes, sources like Twitter and Facebook offer a depth of knowledge that helps us make more informed decisions.
But other times, those avenues provide too many pros and cons to weigh -- in turn paralyzing our decision-making skills. An excerpt:
The research should give pause to anyone addicted to incoming texts and tweets. The booming science of decision making has shown that more information can lead to objectively poorer choices, and to choices that people come to regret.
I've certainly seen this "info-paralysis" extend to the dating world. Even at a relationship's earliest stages, people have a tendency to pose their romantic quandaries to all their Twitter followers and Facebook friends.
It's nearly impossible to find any sort of coherent consensus, leading the dater to either make a poor decision or (more often) second-guess the relationship entirely.
If there's any lesson to learn from all this, it's that perhaps we should occasionally make decisions without soliciting additional opinions from the Internet.
You know, the old-fashioned way.
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Natalie Portman & mommy wars
The conversation happened four years ago, but I still remember it vividly.
I was having dinner with three female friends. Somehow, motherhood entered the conversation. My friends, all of whom were working at the time, agreed motherhood is the greatest job of all.
"Don't you think so, Sonya?" someone asked.
I said no. My friends were briefly silent. Then, they asked me to explain my answer.
"Well, I'd really like to work at a bigger newspaper one day," I stammered. "And maybe write some young-adult novels."
We ate our Thai food to avoid a greater debate.
Fans of Sunday's Oscars watched best actress Natalie Portman call motherhood "the most important role of my life."
Now, some people are questioning the line. Check out this excerpt from a Salon.com essay:
Why, at the pinnacle of one's professional career, would a person feel the need to undercut it by announcing that there's something else even more important? Even if you feel that way, why downplay your achievement?
Why compare the two, as if a grueling acting role and being a parent were somehow in competition? And remind me -- when was the last time a male star gave an acceptance speech calling fatherhood his biggest role?
Share your thoughts, please.
I was having dinner with three female friends. Somehow, motherhood entered the conversation. My friends, all of whom were working at the time, agreed motherhood is the greatest job of all.
"Don't you think so, Sonya?" someone asked.
I said no. My friends were briefly silent. Then, they asked me to explain my answer.
"Well, I'd really like to work at a bigger newspaper one day," I stammered. "And maybe write some young-adult novels."
We ate our Thai food to avoid a greater debate.
Fans of Sunday's Oscars watched best actress Natalie Portman call motherhood "the most important role of my life."
Now, some people are questioning the line. Check out this excerpt from a Salon.com essay:
Why, at the pinnacle of one's professional career, would a person feel the need to undercut it by announcing that there's something else even more important? Even if you feel that way, why downplay your achievement?
Why compare the two, as if a grueling acting role and being a parent were somehow in competition? And remind me -- when was the last time a male star gave an acceptance speech calling fatherhood his biggest role?
Share your thoughts, please.
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