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Well, that last blog was a little self-indulgent, wasn't it? I think I will always get angst-ridden when this time of year rolls around. You thought I was a sad-sack fop in the previous entry? Wait until the end of February, the one-year anniversary when my fiancee told me that she loved a screenwriter more than me.

Anyway. Do you think I would attract more,...
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It struck me today that 22 years ago, I hadn't pictured myself being single at this age. When I was 14, I wasn't obsessed with marriage or with settling down (what adolescent is focused on such things?), but I did have a general belief that I would not be single for all my life. I'm 36 years old now, and I'm beginning to wonder if...
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Always love. Hate will get you every time.

On a whim, I went to an info session at Boston University that discussed the Master's of Computer Science for professionals. I left inspired, so I've decided to apply to the program. In the meantime, I registered for a course in artificial intelligence for games at the university.

You've been reading the blog of the hottest new co-ed on the BU Metropolitan College campus. I...
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The year 2008 has come and gone. It started with so much promise, with a marriage proposal accepted and fanciful dreams of matrimonial happiness close to becoming reality. However, what should have been a joyous engagement turned into a bad episode of a relationship sitcom, when Mary Jane dumped me for some Hollywood screenwriter. The year ended with my family feeling the effects of the...
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Allow me to set aside the smarmy for a moment to share with you what I have learned in these final days of 2008.

A broken engagement is nothing compared to becoming a widow after a marriage of 40 years. How could I have ever thought that I knew what heartbreak was, when I hadn't experienced the sudden loss of the person with whom I...
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Why do people have to die? I don't want to witness the deaths of family and friends. Please, if you have a vaccine against death, let me have it, so I can give it to every person that I love.

I have only one question for you: Why didn't you tell me Morgan is so awesome? Best company Christmas party non-date, even though her arrival heralds disastrous ice storms. I really hope she always rolls 20 on a d20 die.

I think I talk about MJ too much. It's been 10 months and I'm still not over her.

I was watching '13 Going On 30'...
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This is one of my favourite music videos. Watch for Nicky Clyne from Battlestar Galactica as the singer of the band. I so dig that shimmy the girl in the black-and-pink checkered dress does at the end.



I stole a furniture part from a display on the Ikea showroom floor. Does that make me a criminal?

Do you think bringing a girl to the cafeteria...
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