Whenever I get the money, and sitting at my computer, on Amazon.com.

I like not having to leave the house to do my Christmas shopping. I wonder if they have Black Friday type sales. I'd be okay with camping out in front of my computer until midnight.

Tags: bb09, beginning holiday shopping, best buy, black friday, writer's block

I'd want to be a good student. Organized. Fluid writer. Awesome with deadlines.

Tags: writer's block

"Chemistry" is instant. We're attracted to each other via pheremones that broadcast our immune systems, and tend to match based on what would create a genetically diverse portfolio. We also judge based on looks. Certain attributes such as long hair, youth, full lips, healthy skin, proportional bodies and healthy weights suggest a healthy, functioning potential mate. (Women tend to have preferences too, but from my experience, they're not as uniform.)

The evolving component of attraction has a lot to do with developing positive feedback mechanisms between the two partners. As long as they both feel that their partner is the best thing they are realistically capable of obtaining (the theory of Comparison of Alternatives), as long as they're reinforcing each other and meeting each other's needs (financially, sexually, socially) they're likely to stay together.

It's nice to think of love as being an art of nuance, but let's be realistic here, there are practical precursors, and the nuance itself only comes after the foundation is built, and remains solid.

Never mind the Triangular Theory of Love. Most people state that consummate love rarely exists - that it's usually two out of the three existing in any given relationship.

I admit, I don't remember EVERYTHING about my interpersonal relations class, and I'm sad that I didn't buy a better quality copy of the textbook (mine was bought used, and is now falling apart) but I remember that much. Feel free to correct what I've misremembered.

Have I ever given someone a second chance? Yeah. I'm single, so ultimately, it's never worked for me thus far.

Have I ever fallen for someone I didn't particularly like or desire at first? You bet. When I was younger, I only allowed myself to be attracted to people who I knew were already attracted to me. Somewhere around the age of 25, I grew the fuck up. Granted, I still tend to pick people who show interest in me first, but I no longer try to shame myself into giving some guy I'm not at all interested in a chance.

Tags: instant love, writer's block

I have. I've gotten to the point where it doesn't matter anymore, and it feels awesome.

Friend of mine lost his shit at his brother when he noticed his brother looking up his old girlfriend, who was belittling and a complete bitch. My other friend and I had to explain to him that sometimes it took that sort of process to help get over a person, and that it could actually be a good thing in the long run.

Tags: cyberspy, cyberstalk, writer's block

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_histocompatibility_complex#MHC_and_sexual_selection

I've been telling people that my uncertainty when it comes to men has to do with the MHC.

formal discipline: The belief that the faculties of the mind can be strengthened by practicing the functions associated with them. Thus, one supposedly can become better at reasoning by studying mathematics or logic.
- An Introduction to the History of Psychology, Hergenhahn, B.R.

As for Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize...it seems as if we gave it to him anticipating results, rather than awarding it to him based on results. Which I thought was odd. I always thought most people didn't get awarded the Nobel for their work until they were about to keel over and die.

I mean, come on. Seriously, world. The audacity of hope!

Current Music: Lisa Loeb - I'm Not Aware of Too Many Things

Some have a style that they work hard to refine,
so they walk a crooked line
But she won't understand why anyone would have to try
to walk a line, when they could fly

Current Music: Bangles - If She Knew What She Wants

I didn't even break $50 tonight. But that's okay, because afterward Bruno and I sat in the parking lot with 1/4 of a bottle that his table gave him, with Rohizzle (who politely declined). Mmm, raspberry. It was a Cotes du Rhone aged and bottled by a negociant.

I think we made Josh feel left out and jealous. He's been nice to me lately (as opposed to trying to mate me with Rohit while we're both blacked out) so I felt kind of bad. I also turned down an invite to drink with Moe and Lisa at Friday's. (I'm so tired. :/ )

The evening ended when Steve wheedled Bruno and Rohit into trucking a low coffee table to his house. (Steve is a bitch.)

I think our workplace would lend itself well to comic strip format.

Current Music: Simon and Garfunkel - Old Friends

I feel like I'm moving in slow motion. I tried taking a nap. Still tired. I need to read about Joseph Drouhin and create a presentation on his LaForet burgundy. Not interested. I have two papers to write. I need to put my laundry away, and do the dishes from my latest pasta experiment.

Pasta experiments are awesome when you're too broke to buy groceries. Today, I sauteed black olives, garlic, sweet onion, a pinch of red pepper, Glenlivet, petite diced peeled tomatoes, oregano, parsley, and parmesan cheese. With whole grain penne. Not bad.

I know it's my depressed brain, because along with being lethargic, I'm also overly anxious. :/

All I want to do is drink a bottle of wine and pass out. Preferrably the Drouhin LaForet white, or maybe that white Bordeaux I tried yesterday. It was deeeeelish.