(1pm) There was a bit on "20/20" last nite about Shere Hite's new book "Women and love".
(Sounds interesting.) (According to it, 84% of the women in the U.S. are unhappy with
their mates, and 98% say lack of communication is the biggest problem. (That fits my
experience.))-(And, 77% of the women here say the thing that makes them maddest is their
mates not listening. (That fits too.))
They commented in the "20/20" piece on Byrysnokov that the art of dance was in making the technique invisible, and that struck me as being true of everything. (e.g., with someone who is an artist at seduction, the people they seduce never see the technique. (Carrie is good at that. (I would say that she could get about anybody into bed, once anyway. (e.g., Hunter started out with the attitude that he "wouldn't fuck her with someone else's dick.")))
Maybe I haven't missed my annual craving for a girlfriend this year? (It has been such a long summer; it may just be late this year.) (And, maybe it came, but at a diminished level? (e.g., I didn't go to a bar once from April 5 to Aug. 7, and then I went three times in about a month.))
Talking about all that reminds me of another story. (One day last winter I had lunch with the fellow who runs the County's data processing center. I commented about noticing that people tend to fuck around in the Spring and couple in the Fall, and he told me the story of how he met his wife. (He lives for hunting and fishing, and for a few years he lived in West Yellowstone. He worked just enough to survive and party a little, and spent most of his time and energy hunting and fishing. He said that each Fall, when he lived there, he would find someone to play "camp cook" for the winter; then, in the Spring, she would wander off to other men and him to other women. Then, finally one year, his "camp cook" lasted on through the Spring and on into a couple more years, so he married her.))
Maybe the tradition of June weddings grew out of all that? (People getting the urge to fuck around in March / April, pg by May, and married in June before it shows.) (I wonder if there are any differences (e.g., divorce rate.) between relationships that grew out of Spring flings as opposed to those formed in the Fall?)
(4pm) Another pattern I have run across was that the County welfare office had a surge in new claims resulting from divorce, in January. (I am sure there are lots of patterns, and lots of unique cases, to the relationship puzzles.)
(4pm) Nice walk.
(10pm) Quiet nite. (Nice.)