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How To Spend Valentine’s Day If You’re Single
(Answer: Go Get Drunk.)

Our beloved sex columnist Julieanne Smolinski on the right way to tackle this holiday if you don’t have anyone to tackle it with. Click here for the full piece. A sample below:

While all holidays have their detractors, nobody quite wigs out over the others like they do for Valentine’s Day. In fact, people seem to like Thanksgiving (except for the travel), Halloween (except for having to be nice to children and hos), the Fourth of July (except for dogs), St. Patrick’s Day, New Year’s, Labor Day, and so on. I think the thing that they all have in common is booze.

This is why I’ve learned to treat Valentine’s as an unofficial drinking holiday.

Think about it for a second.

People love drinking holidays because your only obligations are to make sure you eat enough dip and don’t take your top off. The best drinking holidays are the ones where you don’t have to see your parents, and are instead encouraged to parade around with other drunk people in some kind of dumb hat. There’s no anxiety about being alone, because you’re not alone, you’re with that guy in the oversized sunglasses and the Dr. Seuss hat. He’s fun, and you think his name is Greg. Single people have known this for years, but it goes double for you couples, whether your relationship is fresh or comfortably shopworn. 

I know lots of women and men who agonize over Valentine’s Day, when they should just be celebrating the gropiest part of their relationship. You don’t need to come up with some elaborate homespun craft or suspendered crotchless number—just go to a dark hotel bar and drink martinis until you do things you tell stories about at brunch.

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Tree of Life by Heather Watts

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Terres Compromises by Matthieu Gafsou

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the sky is the limit

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The Art of Street Artist Pavel 183, Known as the Russian Banksy

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Now that I am old enough to make my dreams a reality, I strive to make my realities a dream. The unconscious mind is a free mind.

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Admit It Again by Say Anything

Ahhh I cant wait to get my hands on this FUCKING ALBUM!!!!!! Say Anything= The one band I can truly relate too with every song

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Recovery part 3: Yikes; we’re sunk!

from Matt’s February 3rd update (e-mailed to us Friday 3:46 a.m.) Matt is in Antarctica recovering an instrument that collects data about cosmic rays. May the force be with him.

We sent a few things over to the smaller plane, then loaded everything … and tried to taxi over to the ski-way. That’s right, tried. Turns out the snow where we were was about 6 inches of hard crust and powder underneath, so with the plane loaded down, it just sank, and we couldn’t move. So we had to dig the plane out. Just like digging out a car but harder. And a lot more snow—the back wheel had sunk in up to the fuselage.

Now, while we were out digging, we got word over radio that there were 40 mph winds back at McMurdo, so we couldn’t go back anyway. That meant camping, which was not at all on the plan. After digging out the plane once, we tried to taxi again and it sank again, so we had to unload about 1/3 of the stuff and dig it out again. Finally we were able to get the plane to the ski-way (a good 2 miles from the instrument site). The rest of the stuff we had to ferry over to the plane by loading down a sled and pulling it with a snowmobile. It took 4 or 5 trips, though it was just one guy doing it; by going alone it went faster because he could load the sled up more.

Matt Geske, Penn State Physics Graduate Student

More about Matt’s adventure to come. Follow us as we follow him!

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For more about Matt’s supervisor Stéphane Coutu, his research and teaching: http://goo.gl/LPbcN

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