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I need groceries August 31, 2006

Posted by Niels in : Personal , 3 comments

Since I spend every weekend in the city, it’s hard to motivate myself to go shopping.  In fact, this is my first night at home since last Wednesday.  (My landlord, who returned last Wednesday from a two month vacation, was rather confused that he never saw me.)  In short, I have no food, and since I’m leaving to visit my family on Friday, it hardly seems worth the time to procure any. 

So I fall back on my bachelor pad recipe book, finely tuned over three years of graduate school.  I got all the way to Option 6 today.  I don’t know what Option 7 is.  I hope I never find out.

  1. Stir fry spaghetti with a ton of vegetables.
  2. If out of vegetables, fry up veggieburger.
  3. If out of veggieburgers, prepare spaghetti with tomato sauce.
  4. If tomato sauce is moldy, turn to olive oil.
  5. If no olive oil available, try canned tuna.
  6. If out of can openers, throw cheddar cheese on spaghetti.  Place in microwave.  Cheddar does make it better.  Though not actually good.
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#@^% it all! August 30, 2006

Posted by Niels in : Personal , 1 comment so far

I recently had to change my cell phone service plan to include nearly unlimited text messaging.  I used to hate texting.  I still kinda do.  But when you’re running around in noisy bars in New York, you use up a lot of text messages.

I didn’t realize how repressed I was until now.  Fleshpopsicle! Genital!  Rubyredbag!

Fight the power!

83 words you can’t say on Verizon Wireless

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I love being a dating coach August 28, 2006

Posted by Niels in : Dating coach , 3 comments

33 hours on the first three minutes.  I’m exhausted.  But I feel incredible.  I’ve got a total workshop high going on.

I got to help in all the classroom training, which I didn’t expect at all.  My role to the students thus was essentially the same as any of the full-fledged instructors’.  I helped in the fashion critique (hah!), standing and hand movement, group control, and more.  It was a blast since all the students were so enthusiastic about learning.

The students did incredibly.  I could hardly believe how well they did.  They were talking to strangers all night long.  They did so well there was almost nothing left for me to do.  I just hung out with the other instructors, feeling proud and watching the students have fun in a bar for the first time in their lives.

Saying goodbye to everyone today was so moving.  I’ve never had so many people so grateful to me.  Everyone talked about how their lives have changed over the course of just three days.  I feel awesome.

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Paris Hilton has 733t H4xx0r skillz August 25, 2006

Posted by Niels in : Links , 1 comment so far

A friend told me a while ago about the rumors that Paris Hilton hacked Lindsay Lohan’s cell phone.  “No way,” I said.  “Paris Hilton?  A monkey with a soup spoon would stand a better chance.”

 But now there’s this press release from SpoofCard.com:

SpoofCard.com confirmed that Paris Hilton was among the terminated customers, and that Lindsay Lohan was among those whose voicemail accounts were broken into.

Well, damn.  Maybe Paris is smarter than she looks.

paris

Maybe not.

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What women want August 24, 2006

Posted by Niels in : Dating coach, Links , 3 comments

The current politically correct climate in the United States urges the androgenization of men and women.  “Men and women are the same!”  “Only sexists talk about the difference between men and women.”  It’s a travesty.

I side more with David Deida (The Way Of The Superior Man), who states that passion comes from the clashing of two opposite polarities.  One partner must be dominant and the other submissive.  The dominant partner doesn’t have to be the man, or even the same partner all the time, but the contrast has to be there.

Women are wired to look for the alpha male.  If they find a “sensitive new age guy” and whip him into submission, that unconscious voice in the back of their head starts to think, “Wait, if I can control him this easily, he must not be an alpha male after all.”  And there goes the relationship.  It’s why Brad and Angelina aren’t going to last.

It’s not a popular sentiment, but Nirpal Dhaliwal says it in this article (How feminism destroyed real men) with no holds barred.

“These are cardboard cut-out men who gush with empathy whenever their wives and girlfriends need to dump their professional stresses and female angst on them: weak and soulless men who haven’t the guts to make a mark themselves, who take the passenger seat in their women’s juggernaut journey to post-feminist Nirvana.”

Take a look.  Dhaliwal’s definitely trying to push some buttons, but most of what he says is on the money.  The one place we part ways occurs near the end, probably right about where you find yourself infuriated by his writing.  It’s true that he probably saved his marriage that night, but what happens in the bedroom should stay in the bedroom.

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