Say you’re having a bad day. Well now, that’s all right, tomorrow is a new day. But what if tomorrow’s another bad day? That’s all right, the weekend is coming. And what will the weekend bring? Plans with friends? A hot date? Quality time with the family? Maybe there’s none of that. But that’s all right, you can have some time to rest. It’s no big deal. Just a rough few days at work. Maybe then you lose your job. Well, that’s no good. But it’s all right, you have a lovely home to go to and ride it out…. [Read More]

I had a very… difficult… dream last night. It was not about elephants. But let’s pretend that it was. Imagine that you have a friend. Your friend wants, more than anything in the world, to have an elephant. You find this amusing at first. Maybe you decide to be a good friend and take him to the zoo to see some elephants. He thinks you’re awesome for this. You’re not really interested in elephants, but he can have his thing, and you can have yours. No worries. All is good. But, after a while, your friend is perhaps not being… [Read More]

This was NOT what I wanted to write about. I wanted to write about something completely different. I even had a Venn diagram. That’s right, this topic has so taken over my mind that it trumps the beautiful nerdity of a Venn diagram. Because, you see, I had a conversation today, and it was about something that keeps happening to my friends (and has, of course, also happened to me, and in fact has almost definitely happened to you too). This is the thing that keeps happening: You meet somebody and you are attracted to one another. Perhaps you then… [Read More]