Love is in the air!

No Valentine's Day tradition here...

I'm still rather traumatized by that Valentine's where an acquaintance got a bouquet of flowers from her BF who was at the time abroad. A common friend of ours became very upset that her boyfriend, who was also abroad, didn't send anything. So she called me in tears, then asked to speak to my boyfriend and somehow persuaded my boyfriend to call her boyfriend and ask what was happening. Said boyfriend (hers, not mine) said that V Day was a huge commercial ploy and that he refused to be obliged to buy something on a made-up day to show what he felt for his girlfriend. Sigh. (In the meantime, it hadn't even registered for us that it was V Day. We'd both forgotten, shrugged our shoulders when we saw signs of V Day and just proceeded as normal - until our friend called in tears.)

People ought to also remember that there are beings out there who just aren't very romantic and/or who don't have any ideas on what to do with Valentine's Day. You can use me as Exhibit A.

I think the hardest for me was breaking up with a long-term SO three weeks before a friend's wedding. Ugh. That was tough on the self-esteem and self-confidence.

Then... I saw that one of the invitees was a very cute Mexican post-doc student!