Yes. I’m married and have a polyamorous girlfriend, with no intention of reproducing. The relationships are fulfilling and provide social stability. And sex with a partner improves over time, so even if that were your only goal long term relationships might be worth pursuing.
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At least it’s an interesting post. There are so few of those these days.
Thanks, doing so.
I already am published. When we got the paper accepted, instead of congratulating me, he said “Now you need to get another one before you graduate.”
Repost due to lack of reply: I’m a fourth year PhD student in the life sciences, and I need mentorship, preferably from a Slytherin, or at least someone with a Slytherin hat. My advisor doesn’t want me doing “mercenary collaborations”, or quick experiments with researchers outside my field in exchange for secondary authorships. He says I need to focus on my thesis research in the next year so as to publish and graduate. Are there any academics in the LW readership who have the insight to tell me whether this is good advice or whether he just wants me pumping out papers with his name on them so he can get tenure?
I’m a fourth year PhD student in the life sciences, and I need mentorship, preferably from a Slytherin, or at least someone with a Slytherin hat. My advisor doesn’t want me doing “mercenary collaborations”, or quick experiments with researchers outside my field in exchange for secondary authorships. He says I need to focus on my thesis research in the next year so as to publish and graduate. Are there any academics in the LW readership who have the insight to tell me whether this is good advice or whether he just wants me pumping out papers with his name on them so he can get tenure?
Ki (chi, qi) exercises such as “unbendable arm” from aikido and other martial arts seem to actually have an effect on effective strength. My best guess is that this is a result of altered muscle firing patterns.
WTF was Harry forgetting when he grabbed the Remembrall?
Transfiguration requires the caster’s wand to touch the target. However, Harry’s understanding of partial transfiguration was based on his understanding of the underlying quantum field nature of reality. This means that Harry’s wand is touching everything all at once. He should be able to Transfigure anything in the area that he wants, and based on the Azkaban sequence, he could think or speak while doing so.
My experience of ADHD includes a tendency to become distracted by thought while moving between tasks or places. I have found that headphones with an audiobook help lock my attention down to two tracks instead of half a dozen: I’m either thinking about my task, or the words in my ear. Obviously your mileage may vary, but ADHD people develop all sorts of coping methods, so my broad advice is “experiment with lots of things to help get things done, even if other people are skeptical of their effectiveness.”
I’m being targeted for mass down-voting. Thanks for caring!
People tend to see relationships as more than contractual exchanges of favors. In this case it seems like gothgirl defines some of his self-worth from his ability to gain/keep partners, or at least draws some utility from having as many as his primary partner does.
People are complicated and get a lot of different things out of their relationships.
I think you’re oversimplifying feelings a bit.
OK, fair point.
Sharp knives are safer than dull ones.
“Polygamy” involves marriage.
Are one or both of them still practicing polyamorists with other partners?
I get the impression that the quality/dressiness hierarchy goes jeans < cheap slacks < nice (dark wash) jeans < nice slacks. That is, you are better dressed in nice jeans than crummy slacks, even if crummy slacks are acceptable at work and nice jeans are not. And nice jeans are “cooler” than slacks. But this may all be colored by my opinion.
I wonder if that would work. Also, where is the compelling internal dialogue about the value of being bisexual?
Lots of talking with my wife to establish boundaries and make sure everyone was comfortable. A year or so of frustration at the lack of appeal in a married man. A few okcupid girlfriends that didn’t work out, and eventually one that has.