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ROMANCE MATHEMATICS
Smart man + smart woman = romance
Smart man + dumb woman = affair
Dumb man + smart woman = marriage

OFFICE ARITHMETIC
Smart boss + smart employee = profit
Smart boss + dumb employee = production
Dumb boss + smart employee = pro motion
Dumb boss + dumb employee = overtime

SHOPPING MATH
A man will pay £2 for a £1 item he needs.
A woman will pay £1 for a £2 item that she doesn't need.

GENERAL EQUATIONS
A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband.
A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend.
A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

HAPPINESS
To be happy with a man, you must understand him a lot and love him a little.
To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.

LONGEVITY STATISTICS
Married men live longer than single men, but married men are a lot more willing to die.

PROPENSITY TO CHANGE
A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he
doesn't.
A man marries a woman expecting that she won't change, but she does.

DISCUSSION TECHNIQUE
A woman has the last word in any argument.
Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.

HOW TO STOP PEOPLE FROM BUGGING YOU ABOUT GETTING MARRIED
Old aunts used to come up to me at weddings, poking me in the ribs and cackling, telling me, "You're next."
They stopped after I started doing the same thing to them at funerals.

besmirching a cirrus-strewn sky
six rings chosen to deny
silence suffocates like cumulus in the ascendency
splitting the day, extremes in residency

what sounds now for the mind on tenter-hooks?
rumble of passing cars to be read like books?
as light touches ark turning blue
midday's port-of-call affords renew

familiarity override alienates isolation
the feelings a causeway and heart a tide,
emotional dam plugging away energy like sap
thirsting for you to bridge the widening gap

You know, sometimes goodbye is easier than hello...
and tonight, likewise, I cannot sleep, for the events of this afternoon, and the fears of the upcoming days. The progress is slight, if negligable. The spinal root nerve injection has now passed into it's second week, with no obvious benefits, though I have found some sleeping positions tolerable, for which I am grateful.

However, all these jabs and 'quick-fix' solutions have put more pressure on something of greater importance; the heart, which today seemed to do the pole-vault, (speeded-up), several times in one minute. (At one stage I feared the worst, but called the nurse, just in time, though my weekend is now totally accounted for.)

I'm typing here, for my sanity and with a belief that somewhere down this lonely line, fresh, vigourous Oaks, bathed in summer sun will once more be found, housing a dozen birds, illuminated by the brilliant power of reflection, nurtured by nature's unending cycle of life, from which we all spring.

My days are no longer free, nor easy, and I hesitate to detail the extent of what I'm presently enduring, as it may be tedious, boring and a little morbid.

I'm weakening by the week, but remain hopeful, though my view of the world, and my own place within it, has changed enormously these past weeks in particular, there is so much to appreciate around us all...and that is enjoyment we can all share with equal appreciation, in great quantities.

All the best everyone.
lauren6

PS: Noted that Liverpool have once again been paired with Chelsea, who are noticeably feeble of late. With 15 goals in our last 3 games, we have a good chance indeed.

A book should be an ice-axe to break the frozen sea within us.

-Kafka