Relationships are blog killers

As I was looking down my list of blogs I read, I noticed that there are a lot of people who don't blog anymore. A few of them were short lived; they got excited and wrote 5 posts and they were done. But some of them were uber bloggers. The ones who posted almost every day and sometimes twice a day. Nothing could stop them. And now... silence.

Well, I noticed a trend. Their blogging petered off right around the time they started DATING. Relationships are blog killers! I guess once you have someone of your own to tell all your stories to, you don't need to retell it to the rest of the world. They also use the "B" word ("Busy"). They're too busy to blog now.

Well it seems that all blogs eventually get past the honeymoon stage and either the blog gets maintained at regular intervals or it drops off to nothing. The maintained blogs belong to those who have chosen to make blogging a hobby, OR they need to keep people up to date and the blog is the easiest format to use. The rest have changed their priorities and are now too busy.

Then there's me. I'm just lazy... I mean busy.

Teachers and Nurses

Ok, so I'll admit that I dabble in the online dating websites. I've paid some bucks here and there to get an account so I can send an email to a girl. It's not all it's cracked up to be. I would say it has the success rate of regular blind dates, except in this case a computer is trying to play matchmaker. But maybe I'll blog about my issues with it another day.

Today I just wanted to point out an interesting trend. I've noticed that the vast majority of single girls on any given online dating website (who are in their mid-late 20s) are either teachers or nurses. What's up with that? Then I started looking around at the single girls I know personally, and guess what? A noteworthy number of them are teachers or nurses, or training to be.

It seems like those two career paths are giving hundreds of girls an unfair disadvantage to finding true love in their younger years. Has anyone studied this? Is anyone warning young girls of the romantic dangers of these careers choices?

Warning: A career in Teaching or Nursing is known to cause extended singleness in women.

There, that should do it.

On a related note, one of my single female friends, who has tried the dating websites from the other side, says that a lot of the guys are engineers. Hmmm. And I am a.... statistic. Go figure.