2 Cents on Defining Sanity?

They, who are often liars, say that doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results is the definition of insanity. Hopefully, this only applies if you are expecting different results. So ... surely that can't apply to watching the same movies over and over again, or can it? I'm not really expecting different results, am I? And I'm not really insane because I watch the same movie over and over again, or could I be?

6 Cents on Speed Dating

Back in my day, speed dating was really speed dating. The girls parked their cars in the corner of the McDonald's parking lot and tried to get the guys who sped around the parking lot to stop. Big smiles, bright-eyes, and of course cute clothing accentuating all the right body parts sure did help with the effort. Now that was speed dating. But what has really changed from speed dating back in my day to speed dating now? Other than a change in venue ... nothing. Seems to me regardless of where, when, or how - in the boy-meets-girl effort it is all about the flirt.

4 Cents on Speed Dating

I had wanted to try speed dating ever since I saw Hitch, the Will Smith vehicle in which he helps the shy and socially awkward to be cooler and find love.  Speed dating looked fun and easy and breezy: the ladies sit while the men rotate (a plus for allowing me to be sedentary); you only have to talk for 10 minutes; then Will Smith swoops in and pushes your date out of the way because he likes you.

2 Cents on Speed Dating

I think it’s no secret that my sister and I have similar facial features.  In most lighting, we tend to look alike, but there is no lighting that would help us pass for twins (at least, we think).  And because we are sisters, we do things together.  One activity that we tried very recently was speed dating.  VanillaBean and I were wishfully thinking it would be right from the Sex and the City script; however this particular installment happened somewhere on the spectrum between the investigative NCIS episode (“Singled Out”) and the sophisticated-dramatic Hitch scene. (Think more like the awkward Monk moment in “Mr. Monk Goes to the Theatre.”)