I'm FAMOUS!

Okay, not really, but I feel famous right now... Valerie has decided to feature my post about being emotionally slutty (a la Carrie Bradshaw) on a project she and some other ladies are working on called "Ladies, Say What You Say." My article is here!

If you go to the homepage, it's a little ways down on the page, but I'm super-excited to see what happens and how people respond...

I also wanted to mention that this is a cool project and I keep noticing new sort of "meta-blogs" or collections of blogs and writers with articles grouped by topics, many of which are aimed at twentysomething women. I find this very exciting. So far the ones I can think of right now include the one listed above, HerFuture (a network on Ning), and ChickSpeak (which is technically supposed to be for girls in college, but whatever, most of it still applies)... do you all know any others?

Musical Chairs

If this entry was an episode of "Friends," it would be called "the one where I attempt to make a Carrie Bradshaw-style statement about relationships" (or something like that)!

I've decided that dating and relationships are a bit like a giant game of musical chairs when you're in your twenties. People that are married and in long-term relationships are like those people who are completely convinced that the music is about to shut off and thus they stand quite close to the chair they want to take and barely circle around it, pretty much squatting over it and barely making any kind of movement.

Meanwhile, being single is like remaining in the game and running around in giant circles because you know that the music isn't going to come to an end, at least not right away and then even if it did, the odds that you'll be the one left out and left alone are honestly not much greater if you continue to keep your head up so you can see what's around you (and even go explore it), and play the game fully than if you decided to do the squat and tiny circle.

Because ultimately, even if you do "settle down" now, that's no real guarantee that you won't be the only one left standing when the music ends...