Little Wit Knits - Unplugged

It’s true that my mind has been focused a lot recently on my relationships with men. I may have been doing some reading (and by may have I mean most certainly). Today I stumbled on this amusing quiz from Cindy Chupack excerpted from her book “The Between Boyfriends Book.” I wanted to share it with you dear readers because honest answers to the following questions can lead to greater understanding of both you and your partner’ s intentions.

Relationship Equivalency Exam for Men

1. English: What does it mean when you say, “I’ll call you?”

2. Math: How many women can you have sex with and still be monogamous?

3. Psychology: Other than abject fear, what are some possible reactions to the words, “I love you?”

4. Economics: Who pays for dinner if your date makes more than you, and how long before you resent her for it?

5. Physics: Find a way to arrange your bathroom items on your half of the sink, knowing full well your girlfriend needs the whole sink for her items.

Relationship Equivalency Exam for Women

1. English: When you say, “I’m not in a rush to get married,” define the word “rush.”

2. Math: Is the amount of minutes it takes you to evaluate a date as a potential husband more than or equal to the amount of minutes it takes you to identify and ignore the red flags?

3. Psychology: Other than abject fear, what are some possible reactions to the words, “I need space?”

4. Economics: How much should you pay for an apartment you never visit in order to keep a boyfriend from freaking out that you live in his?

5. Physics: Find a way to arrange your bathroom items on your half o£ the sink while still maintaining the illusion that you wake up looking this good.

Pencils down. Break up or marry accordingly.

My friend Sara sent me this picture today. It doesn’t make me want the shoes. I don’t really want to die. They are cute and strappy…but being buried in the desert hauled out in the trunk of an old black car…I don’t know. It’s just not my style. Perhaps if it was in the trunk of a Porsche 911. Then we might be talking.

I was sifting through my daily e-mail when I got to the Yoga Journal Daily Digest:

The abiding and self-congratulatory myth regarding Americans and relaxation is that we’ve got too much on our plates. But as a culture, clearly we have underdeveloped ideas about nothingness. While we’re indeed busy, most of us aren’t too busy, not by a long shot. More than half of Americans spend at least four hours a day watching TV, according to Nielson reports.

“The majority of Americans are doing what I call default relaxation activities, which yield lower levels of process benefits,” says Juliet Schor, author of Overworked American (Basic, 1993) and a professor of sociology at Boston College. Process benefits are the pastimes correlated with higher levels of human satisfaction. “Watching TV and shopping, for example, are shown to have low process benefits,” says Schor.

Tara Mathur, a meditation teacher at the international Art of Living Foundation in San Francisco, says, “In modern society, when we say we’re tired, we usually mean our mind is tired.” Often, though, we fail to listen up and give it a rest. Instead, we hunker down on the couch with the remote in hand. “With TV, you’re adding input rather than clearing out or cleansing. In a way, your mind is going to be even more tired when you’re done.” Liz Newby-Fraser, academic dean at the California Institute for Human Science, explains this in physiological terms. “Watching two hours of television is not relaxation. With TV, there are stimuli that activate the sympathetic nervous system, rather than the parasympathetic, which is associated with real rest.”

It really makes you think…what am I doing to my body? But then I don’t worry because I have a VCR and I tape my shows all week and then sit there on Friday nights watching TV before going to bed early. Can I just say I can’t wait for the NEW CW! Fall Season starts Sunday Sept 24! Ok and I’m done. Back to work with me.

Now this is one of the most revolutionary things I have ever seen in my life! Teaching men how to be charming. I didn’t know it could be taught I thought it was an innate skill available to only a select few men so that women would be able to tell which ones are the real catch and which ones are the dreadful posers with tight shirts and chest hair peaking out the top. Sigh. I would like to be charmed. To all of my readers: please go sign up for class and then take me out to practice your charm skills. I must say I do like that idea.

The unions are once again attempting to do the true work of unions. The new unfortunate and under represented lot are Reality TV workers who claim they should be classified as writers. I am sure you didn’t know that there could be writers for Reality TV. But alas, you would be sadly mistaken. Reality TV is like a documentary, a very sensational documentary with lots of sex appeal (unlike Michael Moore). As any true student of film would know, even a documentary has directoral bias. They tell the story that the director wants you to know. So the argument that these Reality TV workers who are editing and forming the show should be classified as writers holds a lot of weight in my book. Which of course only counts if anyone is reading it…

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