June 20, 2008 07:58 PM The One Year.

It's my belief that after a couple breaks up, there has to be a year grace period before they should be allowed to speak to one another again. By allowed, I mean through social constraints of course and not a whacked out legal system. It just seems that there is usually so much hurt and bitterness at the conclusion of a long term relationship, there usually isn't much groundwork to rebuild a friendship upon. Worse, why would you want to bother? If someone didn't have your best interest at mind when they were dating you, how is that going to just switch on when you decide to remain just "friends"? Besides, if there is lingering emotions, you would be a fool to imagine that wouldn't surface sometime during the whole "Friends" crap. Be it either an accidental romantic encounter or pity sex or a freakout when your former beau has now moved unto someone else and you're just not over them yet.

Why a year? A year is a hell of a long time to get your shit together. The first few months may drag, but eventually you should reach the point where they start to drift out of your thoughts. Then if you decide to take that leap into talking, well it's not so raw anymore. You don't feel like crying at the mention of their name (or alternatively, driving hot pokers into their stomachs); You're ready to just try and have a conversation that's akin to catching up.

If, at this point, you can both be adults and perhaps have a friendship, more power to you. BUt a year also offers you a chance to recconect with people that you may have pushed aside while you focused on your other. At that point... maybe they just aren't that important anymore; maybe that person you were so desperate to have in your life doesn't really mean all that much anymore. A year allows the chance to figure out if they ever really mattered at all.

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June 19, 2008 11:36 PM Weeds

So Dave and I accidentally left off watching "Weeds" for an entire year. Now in the last days we are in this apartment, we finally remembered to get around to breaking down season 2. This means I still have to purchase Season 3 and then convince my parents to buy Showtime so I can watch Season 4. Man, I love me some Mary Louise Parker, hardcore. But my favorite character will always be Celia! She's the heart and soul of this damn show :)

"Dick Cheney had a lesbian daughter"

"Yeah and she's not in the pictures either. And I didn't shoot anyone in the face, so stop with the comparisons."

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June 18, 2008 11:36 PM For Tim >:)



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June 17, 2008 11:16 PM The Mets.

If you're a fan of baseball, then this post is going to come as no shock or surprise: Willie Randolph was let go from the Mets today. I'm also sure that you've already created an opinion on the whole brouhaha that's surrounded the way they decided to go about the whole firing. Instead of doing it after the disaster of last September . . . or one of our losing streaks this season (Such as blowing four games to San Diego), they waited until Willie was across the country and coming off winning 3 of the last 4 games. Worse, they did it at 3 a.m. at night: normal people are not awake at that time, much less being fired. But that's the way the Mets organization decided to play it and really, it's there damn choice . . . but it still leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

Worse, they are playing like shit tonight! Seriously, two errors in four innings? And what was with taking Jose Reyes out of the game in the first inning . . . I understand you don't want to risk him worsening an injury, but that's going to leave a bitter taste in the mouths of players who've already gone through a lot tonight. Not to mention the fans.

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June 16, 2008 10:26 PM Marriage day in California.

So same-sex marriagehas begun across the great state of California. Well technically, I should re-word that as "same-sex marriage has returned across the great state of California," considering I already wrote about this a a few years back. It's touching that the first couple married back then had their shot at getting a legal union (now sponsored by the state). These two old biddies waited 50 years to actually have a sanctioned marriage (something they never expected in their lifetime). How can anyone look at them and say: Yeppers, they are definitely going to be destroying the sanctity of our marriages! It's odd that a few years ago, I broke into tears when this announcement was made, but now . . . now it's almost like I expect it. Maybe Massachusetts has numbed me to the excitement of this ruling. However, I think it's more this: Why should I get excited over something that should just be an option? I expect that I should have the right to marry because I honestly don't see any moral or legal reasonings against this right being given to me. I am not a religious person and I don't buy into the whole "sin" argument that people try to use to justify their hatred of others. I'm not jumping for joy or getting emotional because I'm more annoyed that I would even have to. This is not something that should be discussed anymore; it should be a right offered to all citizens and the fact that isn't denied pisses me off more than having a single state take a step forward to do what is right.

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