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This one goes out to my friend Desiree, who started a new blog about turning thirty, which she will be in a few weeks. Adding to her semi-panic is the fact that she'll be in two weddings the week of her birthday. If this doesn't sound like the high concept for a romantic comedy, you don't watch enough trashy movies. I'm not sure what her movie should be called but Des' blog is titled Exclusively Des. In a purely non-coincidental move, the sequel to EC will feature a girl named "Desiree."

"As a man I'm entitled to a certain idea in my head of the kind of woman I want to be with, and -- poof! -- I'm a romantic. As a woman in her 30s, S has a certain kind of idea in her head of the kind of man she wants, and -- voila! -- she's unreasonable.
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Perhaps S needs to 'put herself out there' more, as she's often told. Perhaps when push comes to shove she'll have to online date, or pick up some hobby that puts her in contact with different people, or learn how to animate yarn into a handsome prince. I really have no idea. All I know is she's great and she's single and, for the most part, she's happy. We all get lonely. People in couples are not immune. Some would argue there's nothing worse than being lonely in another person's company. Ask anyone who's ever dated someone they didn't really love or spent time on a New York subway.

The next time someone asks S why she's single, I hope she responds, 'Because I haven't been lobotomized yet, you miserable bastard.'"
-It's okay to be single in your thirties...unless you're a girl (June 2010)