Have we discussed this "nice guys" article here? [link] Aside from the myriad other issues with it (like, it's an article about what women want with only one quote from an actual woman, way down at the end of the article), this part is really puzzling me:
Neil Strauss, author of the "The Game," a best-seller that explores ways for men to pick up women, once found himself in the Mr. Nice Guy category. He was friends with a girl he liked. He was painting her walls one time when she left to go on a date with another guy. Strauss quickly figured out that women desire someone who is kind but also has a backbone and is confident.
So he's friends with a woman, wants to be more than friends, and doesn't tell her this. And then, when she goes out with other guys, he blames the fact that he helped her paint her apartment? If a guy friend offered to help me paint my apartment or something like that, it would never occur to me to interpret it as him wanting to date me. The lesson I'm getting from this isn't "Women don't want to date guys who are too nice," but "Women aren't mind readers."
Nora, how far is your house from Boston?
It's in Salem, which is a 25-30 minute train ride from North Station. The commute is actually not too bad about 95% of the time. If your BF wants to buy our house without realtor interference, we can sell it for under market price and include shit like the washer/dryer, gas grill on the deck, couch, and dining room set! Also, perhaps an awesome and beautiful but enormous dresser in our bedroom.
Probably just for the price of a couple lawyers to make sure everything's legit.
The neighborhood is nice, it's convenient to town and has plenty of public transportation. Salem is really coming into its own, as well.
That sounds so lovely, but his job is a half hour south of Boston (Brockton), so I think he wants to stay in Boston. But I loved the pictures of your house I saw.
I have literally accomplished almost nothing today. Which isn't the end of the world, except that I feel like working from home is a privilege that I don't want to abuse. But still, I've gotten nothing done. (I did spend several hours researching something and deciding it was the wrong way to go, but you can't actually show that to anyone.)
So we're not going back to the Moon, but it was just announced that Obama Aims to Send Astronauts to an Asteroid, Then to Mars
By 2025, the United States is expected to begin testing spacecraft for deep space exploration, vehicles capable of exploring beyond the moon on the first-ever manned trip to an asteroid, Obama said.
"By the mid-2030s I believe we can send humans to orbit Mars and return them safely to Earth," President Obama said.
So we have to wait 20 years just to send humans to
orbit
Mars? Bah.
I feel like we need some sort of quadruple patient/donor liver transplant situation (like [link] to get Nora & Tom's place, msbelle's place, and Bob's place in Chicago sold (forgive me if there's anyone I've forgotten).
"Don't be a guy, Lloyd. The world is full of guys. Be a man."
(And now Lloyd only looks right written like "LLOYD!!!" Frickin' Piven, man.)
