Men seldom makes passes at women who wear glasses

Mood: party time!
If his fiancee continues to insist on uglifying herself, Mr. Outside may encourage her to keep smoking and take up drinking again. If you're going to be an aesthetic nightmare, why be half-assed about it? See "Barfly" To know her is to loathe her. Focusing on her inner beauty rather than externals would make sense if there were any inner beauty to focus on. Instead, there's a thin veneer of pseudo-Rilkean Snow Patrol lyrics covering a seething and inchoate mass of malice, jealousy, greediness, neediness, insecurity, insensitivity, and self-absorption AND self-loathing. What passes for empathy is really a desire to manipulate people and make them scurry about doing her bidding like an eight-year-old with a stick and anthill. I almost feel sorry for the woman because she doesn't know how to love anyone, even herself.

Having sat with people who died of lung cancer and liver cirrhosis, I'm already looking forward to witnessing her slow and painful death from either (or both, please God please), not mention inheriting her estate and using the proceeds to buy a meatpacking plant that exploits animals and immigrants, and burying her in a J. Crew outfit with George Bush buttons (Jr. and Sr.) pinned to it.

Snow Patrol, "Run":
Light up, light up
As if you have a choice
Even if you cannot hear my voice
I'll be right beside you dear

If I can't hear your voice, it's all rather pointless, ennit? Yes, you'll be right beside me, dear, along with Harvey the rabbit, and making snide and hateful comments, no doubt. In any case, she's never there.

Again, "Snow Patrol":
All I want is to find an easier way
To get out of our little heads.

There is an easier way, my dear, a time-tested way, and the sooner you return to it, the better: "The Bottle".

Sometimes I get the weird feeling that on some level Ms. Giraffe is convinced that we are already
married so what I see as invasions of privacy are to her merely the normal perks, privileges, and rights associated with marital intimacy.