Bachelorhood
Feb. 28th, 2025 01:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ndrosenWednesday’s comic pages in the Washington Post included a Sherman’s Lagoon strip that hit home to me: Fillmore, a turtle nerd who is not a success with the the lady turtles, is talking with Meghan, the lady shark. Meghan says, “Alright! Your total makeover begins today.”
“I’m ready,” says Fillmore.
“Women like to know a guy’s interests.”
“Uh-huh.”
Meghan asks, “What are some of your hobbies? What gets you excited?”
Fillmore answers, “Math . . . any kind of math . . . poetry . . . Baroque music . . . Ooh! Norse mythology!”
Meghan, looking downcast: “Wow. I got nothing to work with here.”
I am rather mathematical (I was the principal author of a paper, “Correction in the Equation for the Third Order Kroener Bound on the Shear Modulus of a Polycrystalline Aggregate of Randomly Oriented Cubic Crystallites”), I am, in a very minor way, a published poet, I enjoy Baroque music, especially J.S. Bach, and I have something of a taste for Norse mythology, as well as history and saga literature. No wonder I couldn’t get a girl.
“I’m ready,” says Fillmore.
“Women like to know a guy’s interests.”
“Uh-huh.”
Meghan asks, “What are some of your hobbies? What gets you excited?”
Fillmore answers, “Math . . . any kind of math . . . poetry . . . Baroque music . . . Ooh! Norse mythology!”
Meghan, looking downcast: “Wow. I got nothing to work with here.”
I am rather mathematical (I was the principal author of a paper, “Correction in the Equation for the Third Order Kroener Bound on the Shear Modulus of a Polycrystalline Aggregate of Randomly Oriented Cubic Crystallites”), I am, in a very minor way, a published poet, I enjoy Baroque music, especially J.S. Bach, and I have something of a taste for Norse mythology, as well as history and saga literature. No wonder I couldn’t get a girl.
