the other kind of social disease

The Meriam Webster Dictionary defines the term “social disease” as the following:
Main Entry:  social disease
Function: noun
Date: 1891
1: venereal disease.
I’d like to respectfully submit a second meaning:
2:any disease or condition that significantly impacts ones social life, friendships, relationships, and general interaction with society…
I was recently diagnosed with CFIDS or Chronic Fatigue Immune Deficiency Syndrome.  I have [...]

i can say i knew her when

maybe i’m a total doofus, but i just got really excited because one of my best friend’s improv groups is referenced in the NYTimes today.  And called nonsensical (the name, not the improv)!!!!
sileva is famous
also, when i got to my brand new office today and my brand new job, there was a ringwraith riding a [...]

the (e)star wars girl

so, it’s been a long couple of weeks.  the cb situation continues to spew it’s rumours, budget meetings and consternation.  i had a marathon 36 hours in miami beach with my latin american agents.  i went straight from the airport to say goodbye to a dear friend moving to the left coast.  i got up [...]

ricky nelson, i salute you

enough of the brain problems, back to the fun.
we went back to the temple bar again the last night.  we’d gone to see casa mila (la pedrera) late in the afternoon and hadn’t accomplished much else that day.  because, as i explained to cs, that we had a problem.  we couldn’t leave our hovel because [...]

a motorway for rabbits

 cs lewis and i spent much of our first three days lounging beside the resort pool or on one of the beaches.  tenerife has black sand beaches, with a finer grain than those of hawaii, and a remarkable natural beauty and varied climate, which is marred and scarred by the endless strips of english snackbars [...]

what do you get when you cross a hedge fund trader and a longshoreman?

well, that depends on whom you ask, i guess.  but according to ronnie of carle place, long island, what you get is what i, apparently, need. 
cs lewis and i met at the beer garden for a drink after an especially painful stab therapy session.  as i’d suspected, cs lewis’d made friends by the time i arrived.  [...]

it happened again.

i had another desperately sad deja vu this week when a wonderful,  gorgeous, funny, nice guy i work with asked about my boyfriend and when i said  i had nothing, he couldn’t believe it.  he was shocked that i’m single and told me that all the guys on his team think i’m the coolest.  he couldn’t [...]

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when the good ’ship sails

it is so much harder than walking away from a best friend than a boyfriend (girlfriend), no?  there can be something so much more intimate about a true, close friendship than a romantic relationship.
for one thing, a truly good friend really likes you for who you are.  they appreciate you for you.  that’s why they’re here. 
think [...]