I made you and then I ate you. You were delicious. I hope we can do it again soon. Call me.
Lovingly,
K.
Dear reader:
Is there a gentle way to tell someone that A) over the past 6 years, they have developed an exceedingly obvious pattern in their intersexual relationships (that is, relationships with the opposite sex - I don't think that's entirely clear when I reread that sentence), B) the pattern is not especially healthy because it always ends up with some kind of alienation and C) they might want to consider curbing this pattern.
[The Pattern is this: 1. Know the person for a few months, sometimes years. 2. Heighten the energy level of the relationship by spending more time together or talking on the phone more often - in a friendly, familiar flirtatious way. 3. After two weeks to two months of this, do something to further increase the Relational Energy Level (often a confession of intense feelings). 4. Make an Event (book a plane ticket to see the person, do a Big Dinner, etc.) 5. Halfway through the event, develop a distaste for the person and all but break off contact with them when the event is over.]
Admittedly, these sort of episodes add that Dawson's Creek cayenne spice to the normal gossip that I like. But it's mostly like a Jenn storyline. Maybe an early Jenn/Dawson storyline. My quesiton is this: how can I make this person turn it into something more entertaining - like a Dawson/Pacey/Joey storyline? I mean the late high school stuff, not the post-high school stuff. THANKS!
If you are interested in viewing some of THE WORST EXAMPLES OF DATA PRESENTATION EVER, then I'd encourage you to go here. It's all kids aged high school or lower, but these things are almost unilaterally fucking terrible. The pre-formatted 3-D graphs make daddy cry (notice the odd optical illusion that happens with those - is it the outside or inside corner of the box? [NB to the link: can you actually see ANY change in ANY of the data over the years in that 3D graph? Not really.). Before you decide to make a graph, stop and think: Will I make it in 3D? Could the information be equally or better presented in a table? Will this have 6 datapoints or less? If you answered yes to any of the questions, put down your Microsoft Excel Chart Wizard and save us some time. Print it out as a table - formatting to the appropriate significant digits with commas for numbers greater than nine hundred ninety nine. [ END DATA MANIAC RANT ]
When I see mannequins (Why didn't you look that up to see if it was the correct spelling? Because I am WAY TOO PUNK ROCK to look it up to see if that's the correct spelling) that have no legs - the ones that are cut off at the hips and have a circular base holding them up with a metal rod (almost always female mannequins) I cringe.
