the "friend" who should have a blog

So i'm sitting here waiting for my friend Darcy to come pick me up and take me to some soccer dome or other where we are to begin our 15.5 hour frisbee marathon. I WAS texting with Heather, but I must have taken too long in the shower, because she seems to have given up on me. So I thought - why not fill this awkward chunk of time I have before me by writing for all the people I don't know who read Heather's blog!

Actually I DO know some of you now - hello. I will be back in your grid-shaped city sometime soon, so please do everything in your power to keep the crazy chinook weather I've been hearing about. Waterloo is full of snow and I think it would be hilarious to go to Calgary to get out of the cold. Random aside: FULL of snow. I was walking home today, just strolling along, humming some catchy tune, when all of a sudden I realized that the giant alien-shaped snow mound that seemed to be right in my way was NOT as I had assumed, a Friday-afternoon-exhaustion hallucination. Not only was it real, it was the height of three men. Three full-grown Shaqs. I had to climb it. If anyone from the Waterloo snow removal crew is reading this and having a good chuckle at my expense, I invite you to explain to me why you never fail to throw all my neighbour's snow, from the sidewalk I have never once seen him shovel, onto MY lawn. Now there is a mountain of snow impeding my view from the driveway, and one of these days I'm going to hit someone and THEN whose fault will it be?

I didn't really intend for this to be about snow... What I was GOING to talk about was some hip social psychology research I was reading about the other day, when I discovered I have to give a lecture on a topic I know nothing about next Monday. If you had to pick, would you prefer that your boyfriend/girlfriend/spouse/whatever you call that person, you know who I'm talking about a) have sex with someone else but not become emotionally involved with that other person, or b) fall in love with someone else but not do anything physical this person? Obviously neither of these prospects is all that appealing, but according to this research, the answer you pick will depend on whether you're a guy or a girl. Dudes in general prefer that their significant other fall in love with someone but not engage in any kind of nooky, but ladies tend to prefer to be cheated on in the physical, but non-emotional, kind of way. Something to keep in mind when you're contemplating your extramarrital options.