Girls

Discrimination

כ״ד בכסלו ה׳תש״ע (Friday 11 December 2009)

When I went to college years ago in America, I took a constitutional law class with a professor so fanatic and bloodthirsty that she made me feel uncomfortable as a male to attend the lectures (I passed it by cramming with the help of an arch-feminist who later became a lesbian – see, I don’t [...]

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Rules: Apartment Interviewing

י״ח בכסלו ה׳תש״ע (Saturday 5 December 2009)

My roommate moved out a couple weeks ago, so I’ve been compelled to advertise her room and interview candidates to replace her. It’s been a nightmare process and consequently I’m bringing you some guidelines for interviewing to move into an apartment as a new roommate: Don’t be proud to be unemployed. I don’t necessarily fault [...]

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Divorce

י״ז בכסלו ה׳תש״ע (Friday 4 December 2009)

It happened suddenly. I worked closely with a certain guy for a couple years. We were on the same team in a job with some customer service orientation. He was phenomenally good at dealing with the clients. He’s a problem-solver; he loves to help people. He is gentle, progressive and generous to a fault. He [...]

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Girl Profile: SK

ט׳ בכסלו ה׳תש״ע (Thursday 26 November 2009)

I met SK online. She is a few years older than I am. Notably, she’s past the important 30 mark. Though I’ve dated a bunch of older girls, that was when I was younger, and I’ve never before dated anyone over 30. We only exchanged very few messages before she just gave me her phone [...]

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My weekend agenda

ג׳ בכסלו ה׳תש״ע (Friday 20 November 2009)

Thursday: Get phone call from Girl One, announcing that her normal Thursday night class has been canceled. Tell her she’s joining me for burgers instead, at a place I love and she hates. While inhaling a delicious burger with Girl One, ignore text messages from Girl Two. Take Girl One back to my apartment. Yada [...]

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Game theory and the shidduch crisis

כ״ז במרחשון ה׳תש״ע (Saturday 14 November 2009)

Shomer Shekalim has a great post about the shidduch crisis and game theory on which I commented, but thought I’d continue writing here. He asks: “To be honest though, if we could figure out what really is behind the shiduch crisis, it probably would save people thousands of dollars in what is currently spent in [...]

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