By Valerie on November 9, 2011
So, as per my last post, I recklessly and courageously dove into the back end of my website – after carefully backing everything up and then doing a bunch of updates. Several hours later, my one noticeable change to the look of my website was losing the custom favicon I’d already worked really hard to figure out how to install [insert stream of profanity here]. Continue reading »
Posted in geek, romantic ponderings Tagged dating, geekery, giving up, hanging in, letting go, relationships, web development
By Valerie on September 15, 2011
I was chatting with a fella the other night, asking him about how he met his girlfriend (I’m always fascinated by the myriad of ways people come together and fall in love) and he followed up by asking me:
What about you, you’re unpartnered right now?
Unpartnered… I’d never heard the term before and found it odd. My state of being as a state of not-being something else. Continue reading »
Posted in philosophizing, romantic ponderings Tagged change, family, lonliness, relationships, single, solitude
By Valerie on June 29, 2011
Buckle up readers, you’re about to take a ride on the tangent train…
So my world these days is surrounded by really smart people, and a lot of really smart men. There’s one fellow in my life I absolutely adore, brilliant, kind-hearted, grounded, really easy to be with. And VERY young – young enough to be well eliminated by the creepy age difference formula of half your age plus seven. So, in a state of drug-addled sentimentality last night I realized if I’d made a baby in high school, he would have gown into this man by now. Continue reading »
Posted in another 100 days, romantic ponderings Tagged attraction, brains, geeks, love, nerds, sexy, teenagers
By Valerie on June 17, 2011
So, I’ve been watching a lot of movies in my downtime. Too dreary outside, and brain still too fried to read much. It helps if you watch movies that aren’t too mentally challenging, hence Bull Durham. Though I put the French subtitles on to see if I couldn’t osmose a second language – I think I’ll get very good at swearing if nothing else (in case I ever run out of English words).
Right, so Bull Durham isn’t just a movie about sex and baseball, and a bit of Walt Whitman thrown in, it is very profound insight into the emotional lives of men Continue reading »
Posted in another 100 days, romantic ponderings Tagged baseball, letting go, men, philosophy, pop-culture, relationships, sex
By Valerie on June 1, 2011
Somebody was telling me about one of Mark Hopkins’ We Should Know Each Other events in his livingroom. He got the conversation started with the question: what scares you? Good one! I’m all for getting people beyond the shallow small talk, and this question is a hum-dinger way to do that.
It also got me thinking, what scares me right now? Continue reading »
Posted in another 100 days, romantic ponderings Tagged dating, fear, intuition, love, paradox, relationships, stuck, unconditional
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