When eHarmony Starts Sounding Like the Generic Women's Magazine

On top of receiving emails notifying me of potential matches, I have the joy of slogging through emails from eHarmony with articles about "3 Reasons Men Leave Women They Love" and what I can do about it. Here are some more: "The Top Kissing Complaints," "Dating Style: Casual Cool or Polished Sophisticate?" "Single Women: 7 Strategies for Meeting Mr. Right," etc. (All these cam be found at advice.eharmony.com.)

I admit I am torn. Part of me resents the fact that, according to the first article I mention, if a Man leaves a relationship, it was because of something I could control and a result of something I did or did not do. (Which I don't always believe is the problem.) (Unless this happens more than once, then it might very well be the type of man I am picking ... or something like that.)

As for the Dating style piece - shouldn't I dress the way I want too - whatever I'm comfortable with? Sometimes that's jeans and a sweater - sometimes that's a dress and heels?

On the other hand, I can see that perhaps the reason someone has signed up with eHarmony is, for whatever reason, they haven't found a partner yet. And maybe some of the reasons for this is that ... there are some things they can do differently.

But I have to say, my initial reaction whenever I get a "helpful" email from eHarmony with their advice is impatience and disgust. If I want to read one of those stupid articles where the answer to my relationship problems can be summed up and fixed in 5 paragraphs, I'll pick up one of this stupid Women's magazines like Glamour. At least eHarmony hasn't sent me any emails about sex - then I would have to turn to Cosmo for the magazine equivalent.

1 Down, 3 to Go

A week and a half ago (that's about the lag of when I think to post something, and then remember it again) I finished MBA 530 on Human Resource Management. I got a B minus which I'm very happy with considering I handed in a few assignments late. I'm now into the second week of the next course MBA 590 Project Management. I gotta say, I liked the HR course better, and the PM stuff is kind of boring - but that might the book.

The middle of July can't come fast enough!

Wait, Wait ... Don't Tell Me in DC!

Just bought my tickets for the NPR show Wait, Wait ... Don't Tell Me for May 14. I always enjoy the show when I catch on my local NPR station, but their following tag announcing the upcoming show was what convinced me to buy tickets:

"The last time we came to DC, we swore we wouldn't come back until there were different people to make fun of. DC - you heard our call!" Then they went on with the details of the show at George Washington University.

Pretty darn cool!

To see if the show is coming near you - look here.