Modern love is -

Casual.

Online.

Awkward.

Unattainable.

Attainable.

Intuitive.

Confusing.

Maddening.

Exhilarating.

A Taylor Swift song.

An uncensored Cee-Lo Green song.

A Facebook status.

A text message.

An ideal.

A commitment.

A hard lesson.

A leap of faith.

A stroke of luck.

(This "Modern Love" series on NYT inspired me to do this free-word association.)

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Quote of the Week

Went out last night and spent it in a way known to most single women: in the good company of female friends, with an open bar and rather charming bartenders, and much later in the night, with a plateful of Australian meat pies. (You Aussies are onto something with these baked goods for a late-night snack.)  An experience which ( Read more... )

The bad: Came home today to find the wireless internet down again. Spent an hour talking to tech service, but had a sinking feeling he only bought his Mac yesterday like me.

The good: After rebooting the router and tinkering with the network settings...Voila! Random button-pressing FTW.

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