Claire Conger

Any book that gives me insight into why things are happening to me is priceless. Your Body Believes Every Work You Say by Barbara Hoberman Levine is just such a book.

I read Ms Levine’s section about patients anticipatory thoughts about radiation treatment for cancer predicting their results. The patient who thought of the radiation as “black and red arrows spraying his body” had a bad result while the patient who thought of the radiation as a “golden beam of energy” had a good result. (See page 164.)

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OK, because I have too many Pseudo Boyfriends and no Real Ones, I figure I’d better make a study of Dr Phil’s Love Smart.

First things first, Dr Phil tells us to figure out who we are and what we want, else we’ll be wasting our time barking up the wrong trees. Well, I’ve wasted my time plenty and I am not alone.

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Juno is a thoroughly delightful coming-of-age story about a smart and quirky teen, Juno played by Ellen Page, who seduces her geeky boyfriend and gets pregnant in that quintessentially innocent first fumbling experiment with sex. She does it with the right person, her best friend. Her offbeat family—especially the younger sister—is reminiscent of the characters in Little Miss Sunshine.

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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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Note to self: When a good looking and interesting guy asks you for a beer, say YES!

I decided to try skiing, so yesterday I did! It was so fun.

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