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Don't ask me why I was thinking about this at all, but the other day, as I was driving home from work, I was thinking to myself, if I had a boyfriend, how often would I *need* to hear from him. This led me to wondering, how many units girlfriend would I be...

Odd, but nonetheless, I thought I'd share it with you all, for your own amusement, and perhaps to any potential boyfriends out there who may wander across my site. Yves apparently thinks there are something like 90,000 of you guys. hehe....riiiight....(a girl can dream!)

So, keep in mind that what I'm about to list below are minimums, and that as my relationship progresses, the minimum needs may change. And, these minimums only apply to someone I introduce to family and friends as my "boyfriend", people I'm dating don't count. And, what is listed here only applies to waking hours.

Here we go: I want to see my Boyfriend in person at least twice a week, or for a total of four to five hours, whichever works out, depending on travel schedules and/or work schedules. In addition to this "in person" time, two half-hour phone calls on two separate evenings are sufficient for real-time communication. The other three days, IMs and/or emails will sustain me. You know, just so I know that 1. you are alive, and 2. you have thought of me at some point in your day.

That's it, really. I would be quite pleased with that. I really don't feel like I'm all that demanding of a girlfriend. If you were a fuzzy at Stanford, you could probably classify me as a 2-3 unit girlfriend. If you were an engineer, I'd be more like a 0.5 unit girlfriend. =) Well, since you can't take a class for 0.5 units, I'd say I were a 1 unit P/NC girlfriend. hehe.

Can you tell I'm pretty amused by this?

When I was recounting this to a friend, he asked me about maximums. That was a whole 'nother scary can of worms I was not about to open. I love my go, go, go life. It is not yet clear to me how much time with one person is too much for me. I would imagine my threshold is a little lower than most people's, but then again, I just haven't met the right person, right? I keep telling myself that.

Since we're on the topic of dating, here's another amusing morsel for you. A few months back, one of my friends was telling me about this girl he was interested in. I asked him, well, on a scale of 1-10, _how_ interested was he? He said he didn't know, because he didn't know what the scaling factor was -- in other words, what each number meant. So, I went home, came up with a scale that I could see myself using, and shared it with him. Here it is, in case I ever ask you how interested you are in someone.

1: I mostly just think he's hot
2: I'm attracted to him, and he makes me laugh. I have a good time whenever we get together, but it's not all that often, and I'm ok with that
3: I'd like to go out on a fairly regular basis. By regular, I mean like once a month or once every two to three weeks.
4: He has my full attention. I'm not really looking to date anyone else
5: I see us in a 6 months - 1 year exclusive relationship
6: I'm comfortable saying "I Love You" to him
7: I'm comfortable spending a family holiday together at one or the other's family
8: I wonder to myself, is he THE one?
9: I'm looking for a wedding dress
10: I have absolutely no doubt that we're going to live happily together for the rest of our lives

Hehe. Ok, ok. Enough about boys and my pathetic dating life....

You and I
Travel to the beat of a different drum.
Oh, can't you tell by the way I run
Every time you make eyes at me.
Woh-oh

You cry
And always say it will work out;
But honey child I've got my doubts--
You can't see the forest for the trees.

Oh, don't get me wrong--
It's not that I knock it,
It's just that I
Am not in the market
For a boy who wants to love
Only meee-hee-ee.

Yes, and I ain't sayin' you ain't pretty,
I'm sayin' I'm not ready
For any person, place, or thing
To try and pull the reins in on me. So-oh

Goodbye,
I'll be leavin'. I see no sense
In this cryin' and grievin'.
We'll both live a lot longer
If you live without me

(musical interlude)

Oh, don't get me wrong--
It's not that I knock it,
It's just that I
Am not in the market
For a boy who wants to love
Only meee-hee-eee.

Yes, and I ain't sayin' you ain't pretty,
I'm sayin' I'm not ready
For any person, place, or thing
To try and pull the reins in on me. So-oh

Goodbye,
I'll be leavin'. I see no sense
In this cryin' and grievin'.
We'll both live a lot longer
If you live without me