Claire Conger

It occurred to me this morning that anger is a lot like loneliness.

The difference between feeling lonely and simply being alone is that when you’re lonely you have the expectation and desire of not being by yourself—you expected that you would be sharing with someone.

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I didn’t go snowboarding this week because I didn’t like the weather report, which turned out to be too inaccurate for trip-planning purposes. Grr!

So instead, I went to yoga class. Riding my bike home, who should I encounter riding his bike to work? None other than Pseudo Boyfriend #2, the one whose calls this January I did not return.

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Stanford neurology professor Robert Sapolsky is one interesting guy. He’s studied baboons long enough to look like one! See him in action talking about stress and neurodegeneration. (This lecture has a section in which Dr Sapolsky explains the physiology of stress hormones that’s a little over the head of a layperson, but bear with it and you’ll be rewarded.)

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Neurology professor Robert Sapolsky writes about Britney Spears’s bad biology. “It’s not her fault that she’s bipolar . . .” in The San Francisco Chronicle’s Open Forum (Tuesday March 25, 2008).

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So my mother thinks I need help in the dating department—and after my fiasco with Manny the ski instructor (see How Not to Get a Date: Just Say No), who could disagree? She told me to read Love Smart by Dr Phil.

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