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Man, you guys know how to have fun! Reminds me of the communal fun I shared with friends during college. I can't tell you how much I miss those days sometimes. Kudos to you for managing to maintain that comradery. I have one question: do any of the folks gathered in the photos have kids? I have a theory that having kids is the death knell for an adult's social life. I noticed Sophie the bowler, and I was curious about the parent status of your group members.

Another thing. . . you have got to be one of the most introspective folks I know. Your solipsism was very soul-baring! I felt as if my own inner turmoil was exposed and laid bare just reading it! Do you sleep at night or do you toss and turn? How on earth are you able to put your thoughts out there to the Internet world each day while at the same time being acutely aware of what people think as they read them? That is very contrary. I noticed that you even altered the clause about living at the poverty level. You certainly go to great lengths to explain yourself.

Are you sure you are getting enough Celexa? Just kidding. . . but since my journey with Lexapro started, my motto is "never explain, and never apologize" (with some obvious exceptions, as needed) To behave otherwise renders me anxiety-riddled and full of self-doubt 24/7. Instead of explaining my actions and apologizing for being what I am, I try to "embrace" myself (my psychiatrist's catch-phrase of the month). Give yourself a big hug, Ian! Right now! I mean it!

I think you are great, and I expect that your blog audience does too (with the exception of Professor What's His Name from a few weeks back - ha!) You are certainly an aberration from the old Men Are From Mars theory. Tessa is very lucky to have a husband who can communicate emotionally like that -- you have no idea! Sorry to be a pest about this, but if you guys decide to become parents, your kids are going to be so far ahead of the game emotionally. . . the Blake-Williams household will be brimming with great emotional and mental health!

Thanks for sharing each day. Have a good weekend! With the anniversary tomorrow, give yourself, and Tessa, and Chopin, some extra hugs.

Hey, if we do play Jarts next time we do this, they shouldn't be available to me during the quiz show. If I'd had a weapon handy, I'd be in jail right now.

I feel immensely wistful seeing this entry...even more so realizing that Michelle was indeed able to make it to "Bachelor Party Reunion 2004!!" All I can say is, 'f.'

We still haven't heard definitive news about the family health issue that kept me in NC last weekend, so I'm still in a slightly weird headspace. But I have been thinking of you, Ian, and Tessa, as you speed across the country...and I thought of all y'all throughout the weekend/Labor Day--I hope somebody was able to do a cannonball into the mine pit lake for me!

I will make it next time, you may be sure.

Can we just clarify for the record that the aforementioned Professor David AbUlafia from a few weeks back must have been an ever-clever alias by one of the not so dense denizens haunting this blog? 'He', a supposed somesuch Oxford professor, called Ian a shivering pearly pussy or something didn't 'he'? Hell, know nobody's gonna 'fess up, but somebody sure hoodwinked Laury from Manlie Dorm. In the immortal words of a youthful Eddie Murphy, "HaHa very funny MotherFucker!"

yeah for Labor Day.

Can we just clarify for the record that the aforementioned Professor David AbUlafia from a few weeks back must have been an ever-clever alias by one of the not so dense denizens haunting this blog? 'He', a supposed somesuch Oxford professor, called Ian a shivering pearly pussy or something didn't 'he'? Hell, know nobody's gonna 'fess up, but somebody sure hoodwinked Laury from Manlie Dorm. In the immortal words of a youthful Eddie Murphy, "HaHa very funny MotherFucker!"

yeah for Labor Day.

Laurie, you're very sweet. And invited to Jartacular 2005. And yes, curiously, I do go to bed and sometimes wake up in a sweat thinking I've revealed way too much.

Annie - Our thoughts are with Grace!

Cullen - yeah, those guys bum me out. I don't mind criticism, but the anonymousness makes me want to slug somebody.

I was turned on to your and your brother's blogs recently and I must respond to something Sean said a while back. He doesn't allow for non-Blogger people to post so I will do it here. He goes on railing about how many women have a stick up their ass about sex. And how we haven't learned to enjoy it. I have never heard anyone who claims to know women sound that clueless. Women are afraid of sex at first because they are afraid of having sex with someone and losing them and feeling used. Once it happens to you even once or twice early on, some guy tells you everything you ever wanted to hear and you think you're heading into a reslationship and then you give yourelf to him and all of a sudden never hear back and feel like crap. After that happens you are careful to be at your most intimate until you really trust someone. It's an emotional thing for us and we don't like to get hurt. Secondly, Sean says that he's done the 'standard stuff' to women many times and they told him how amazing he was. Sean, I've said that to nyone who has ever gone down on me beause that makes them happy and they keep doing it. It's so easy to feed them that. Men think they're priceless for doing it so why not tell them how wonderful they are? In fact, a novel just came out where the exact phrase 'standard stuff' is used by a guy in the same context, making the same statement as sean. Your brother has been having sex for a much shorter time and seems to be much more intuitive about women, which is what counts in the end, not quantity.

By your brother I meant Ian, by the way. I havent read the other blogs. He seems to at least know what women are thinking.

GIG - I can't find the blog of Sean's you were talking about, but I assure you, Sean is a perfect gentlemen when he isn't on the internet. I mean, when he's not making jokes about Down's Syndrome.

holly?

Women's like to be kissed, real slow like. I like to kiss the womens for, like, four or five minutes, and then I do the ol' "Clit Grab" that I patented back in the 80s.

The internet is a place where you can say any damn thing you please, you can even claim that I've said something I clearly haven't. But seriously, the whole "women are different than men and here's how" thing doesn't really get us anywhere.

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