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	<title>Musings on Life and Love &#187; Dennis Hong</title>
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		<title>Can You &#8220;Hear&#8221; What You Read And Write?</title>
		<link>http://www.musingsonlifeandlove.com/2012/02/03/can-you-hear-what-you-read-and-write/</link>
		<comments>http://www.musingsonlifeandlove.com/2012/02/03/can-you-hear-what-you-read-and-write/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:49:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Hong</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[auditory learner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cadence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[learning styles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[melody]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rhythm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[visual learner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a fun little experiment. Read the passage below in your head and see if it makes sense to you. If it doesn&#8217;t, read it out loud to yourself. If it still doesn&#8217;t make sense, ask someone to recite it to you. Hopefully, then it should be obvious: Up led Joe legions tulip lag lovely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Okay, I&#8217;m A Doctor &#8212; It Says So Right Here On My&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.musingsonlifeandlove.com/2012/01/09/its-okay-im-a-doctor-it-says-so-right-here-on-my/</link>
		<comments>http://www.musingsonlifeandlove.com/2012/01/09/its-okay-im-a-doctor-it-says-so-right-here-on-my/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Hong</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[assumptions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bartender]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[credit card]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doctor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ego]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[integrity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medical advice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[respect]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-esteem]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.musingsonlifeandlove.com/?p=6168</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you remember learning about self-esteem in grade school? When they teach you to stand up for yourself in an assertive way? To speak up when someone doesn&#8217;t give you the respect that you deserve? As it turns out, that&#8217;s only half the lesson. Because they certainly don&#8217;t teach you how to respond when someone [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>When Ordinary People Turn Into Trolls</title>
		<link>http://www.musingsonlifeandlove.com/2011/11/29/when-ordinary-people-turn-into-trolls/</link>
		<comments>http://www.musingsonlifeandlove.com/2011/11/29/when-ordinary-people-turn-into-trolls/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Hong</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advice column]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arguing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dear Wendy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[debating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ego]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flame war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[helpfulness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[judging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tough love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trolling]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.musingsonlifeandlove.com/?p=6019</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For the past few months now, I’ve been contributing guest columns on Dear Wendy. By no means do I consider myself a relationship expert, but I do believe I’ve been through enough personal drama that I can offer some pretty good insights. Plus, helping people gives me a warm, gooey feeling that’s way more slimming [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>Losing My Motivation</title>
		<link>http://www.musingsonlifeandlove.com/2011/11/07/losing-my-motivation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.musingsonlifeandlove.com/2011/11/07/losing-my-motivation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Hong</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[attribution theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[determination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[motivation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[persistence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[running]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sympathy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[thalassemia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.musingsonlifeandlove.com/?p=5989</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I don’t do running. That is to say, I don’t do running when running is the only thing being done. Running in flag football, floor hockey, or settling of drunken bets? That, I can do. But&#8230; just running? Like, the ancient Greek death sentence known as a marathon? Crap, no. I’m decent at sports that [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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		<title>I Fell In Love Too Hard, Too Soon</title>
		<link>http://www.musingsonlifeandlove.com/2011/09/19/i-fell-in-love-too-hard-too-soon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.musingsonlifeandlove.com/2011/09/19/i-fell-in-love-too-hard-too-soon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 13:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Hong</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[effusiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[falling in love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feelings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[intensity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new relationships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[passion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[soulmates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stoicism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the One]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.musingsonlifeandlove.com/?p=5852</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am a stoic. In a new relationship, I tend to stay reserved and guarded. I hold back my feelings, and I definitely don’t let myself fall for someone very easily. At least not until I know for sure that the relationship means something. Some people, on the other hand, are effusive. In a new [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>26</slash:comments>
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		<title>My Not-Quite-So-World-Changing Dream</title>
		<link>http://www.musingsonlifeandlove.com/2011/09/04/my-not-quite-so-world-changing-dream/</link>
		<comments>http://www.musingsonlifeandlove.com/2011/09/04/my-not-quite-so-world-changing-dream/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2011 22:02:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Hong</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[best friends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dreams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mistakes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[relationships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[understanding]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.musingsonlifeandlove.com/?p=5800</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In my dream, she’s my best friend, and I am hers. Whenever I get a piece of great news in my life, she’s the first person I want to tell. Whenever something stressful happens, she’s the first person I think of who can comfort me. I hope to be the same for her. In my [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>25</slash:comments>
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		<title>To Be Strong Is To Show Our Weakness</title>
		<link>http://www.musingsonlifeandlove.com/2011/07/11/to-be-strong-is-to-show-our-weakness/</link>
		<comments>http://www.musingsonlifeandlove.com/2011/07/11/to-be-strong-is-to-show-our-weakness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 13:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Hong</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[balance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emotional control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emotional strength]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emotional weakness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emotions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stoicism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teen angst]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vulnerability]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.musingsonlifeandlove.com/?p=5513</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Being a guy sucks sometimes. I mean, aside from having to constantly monitor all these fragile dangly parts that we absolutely positively must keep out of the way of zippers, rogue knees, and hand rails (although that last one really only applies if we’re doing rail slides on a skateboard), we’re also trained from an [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>29</slash:comments>
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		<title>When Did &#8220;Trying Too Hard&#8221; Become A Bad Thing?</title>
		<link>http://www.musingsonlifeandlove.com/2011/06/27/when-did-trying-too-hard-become-a-bad-thing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.musingsonlifeandlove.com/2011/06/27/when-did-trying-too-hard-become-a-bad-thing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Hong</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[attraction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cliches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[effort]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[meeting people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seagulls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trying too hard]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.musingsonlifeandlove.com/?p=5425</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ladies, meet Scott. That’s him in the middle in the photo. Yes, the one with the mane of hair and the pager clipped to his jeans. Scott and I were fraternity brothers at UCLA, and for as long as I’ve known him, he has epitomized the term “chick magnet.” Within the fraternity, there was a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>52</slash:comments>
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		<title>Standardized Testing, Merit Pay, And Misaligned Incentives In The American Education System</title>
		<link>http://www.musingsonlifeandlove.com/2011/05/30/standardized-testing-merit-pay-and-misaligned-incentives-in-the-american-education-system/</link>
		<comments>http://www.musingsonlifeandlove.com/2011/05/30/standardized-testing-merit-pay-and-misaligned-incentives-in-the-american-education-system/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 13:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Hong</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Career]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[merit pay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[misaligned incentives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[standardized testing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teachers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teaching]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.musingsonlifeandlove.com/?p=5311</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Two rhetorical questions: When you pay a loan broker based on the total number of loans he doles out, without considering whether or not the borrowers will actually be able to repay these loans, what happens? When you pay a CEO based on the short-term profits he generates, rather than the long-term stability of the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>We Weren&#8217;t Having Sex, But I Was Still Getting Screwed</title>
		<link>http://www.musingsonlifeandlove.com/2011/03/14/we-werent-having-sex-but-i-was-still-getting-screwed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.musingsonlifeandlove.com/2011/03/14/we-werent-having-sex-but-i-was-still-getting-screwed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Hong</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[attachment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[breakups]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emotions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[intimacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oxytocin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vasopressin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.musingsonlifeandlove.com/?p=4320</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For months after Julie and I broke up, we chose to remain friends. Yes, it was a mutual decision. No, really. Stop rolling your eyes. This is not another rant about being stuck in the Friend Zone. We still cared about each other, and we still enjoyed each other’s company. We just realized that, romantically, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>44</slash:comments>
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		<title>Mathematical Proof That Women Are Just As Promiscuous As Men</title>
		<link>http://www.musingsonlifeandlove.com/2011/01/03/mathematical-proof-that-women-are-just-as-promiscuous-as-men/</link>
		<comments>http://www.musingsonlifeandlove.com/2011/01/03/mathematical-proof-that-women-are-just-as-promiscuous-as-men/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 14:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Hong</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[females]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lying]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[males]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[promiscuity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sex survey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sexual partners]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.musingsonlifeandlove.com/?p=3854</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There’s a perception floating around that men are more promiscuous than women and, hence, have more sexual partners during their lifetimes. Well, I call bullshit. And I’m bringing my army of math to back me up. In a survey taken by ABC News, men reported a lifetime average of 20 partners, while women reported a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>71</slash:comments>
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		<title>Wasting Away In The Friend Zone</title>
		<link>http://www.musingsonlifeandlove.com/2010/12/06/wasting-away-in-the-friend-zone/</link>
		<comments>http://www.musingsonlifeandlove.com/2010/12/06/wasting-away-in-the-friend-zone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 14:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Hong</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[friend zone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[friendship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[persistence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[platonic friends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[regret]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rejection]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.musingsonlifeandlove.com/?p=3682</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have no problem with the Friend Zone. The Friend Box. Friendship Island. The Vortex of Platonic Optimism&#8230;. Whatever you want to call it, I think opposite-sex friends are splendid. They can be an arsenal of insight when we need help understanding, well, the opposite sex. What’s not so splendid is the opposite-sex friend who [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>68</slash:comments>
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		<title>Monogamy Is A Load Of Crap</title>
		<link>http://www.musingsonlifeandlove.com/2010/10/04/monogamy-is-a-load-of-crap/</link>
		<comments>http://www.musingsonlifeandlove.com/2010/10/04/monogamy-is-a-load-of-crap/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 13:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Hong</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adultery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[animals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[beauty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cheating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[competition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[female choice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[instincts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[male aggression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[monogamy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[natural selection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[polygamy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[relationships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[serial monogamy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sexual selection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wealth]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://musingsonlifeandlove.com/?p=2841</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to sexuality, many people believe that humans are unique in the animal kingdom: we feel love, we&#8217;re psychologically complex, we form long-term monogamous bonds. Well, science calls shenanigans. According to scientists, the similarities we find between animals and humans actually reveal some of our most basic instincts, and monogamy isn&#8217;t necessarily one [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>53</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Hardest Job Everyone Thinks They Can Do</title>
		<link>http://www.musingsonlifeandlove.com/2010/09/13/the-hardest-job-everyone-thinks-they-can-do/</link>
		<comments>http://www.musingsonlifeandlove.com/2010/09/13/the-hardest-job-everyone-thinks-they-can-do/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 13:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Hong</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Career]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adolescents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[child psychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inspiration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[microbiologists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[respect]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[skill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[talent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teachers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teaching credential]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teaching credential programs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teenagers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://musingsonlifeandlove.com/?p=2733</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This piece was inspired by a heated discussion I had recently with a man who believes that teachers have an easy job. Please feel free to share it with others if you agree with the message. I used to be a molecular biologist. I spent my days culturing viruses. Sometimes, my experiments would fail miserably, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>35</slash:comments>
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		<title>I Date Outside My Race Because My Race Won’t Date Me</title>
		<link>http://www.musingsonlifeandlove.com/2010/08/09/i-date-outside-my-race-because-my-race-wont-date-me/</link>
		<comments>http://www.musingsonlifeandlove.com/2010/08/09/i-date-outside-my-race-because-my-race-wont-date-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Hong</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asian man]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asian stereotypes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asian woman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interracial dating]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whether or not I really am made up of a gooey white cream center and can now be found in heart-wrenching deep-fried form at the county fair, the truth is that I rarely meet Asian women who are interested in me. For years now, I’ve wondered if all is not harmonious in the land of Rice Rocketry. For years now, I’ve suspected that a disproportionate number of Asian women here in San Diego only want to date non-Asian men.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>97</slash:comments>
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		<title>There&#8217;s A Fine Line Between Smart And Ass</title>
		<link>http://www.musingsonlifeandlove.com/2010/07/05/theres-a-fine-line-between-smart-and-ass/</link>
		<comments>http://www.musingsonlifeandlove.com/2010/07/05/theres-a-fine-line-between-smart-and-ass/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 15:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Hong</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[online dating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sarcasm]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You see, there’s a fine line between sarcastic and insulting. Being sarcastic takes intelligence, a quick wit, and some amount of lucky timing. Being insulting is just the clueless person’s substitute for true sarcasm.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>My Absolute Dealbreaker</title>
		<link>http://www.musingsonlifeandlove.com/2010/06/14/my-absolute-dealbreaker/</link>
		<comments>http://www.musingsonlifeandlove.com/2010/06/14/my-absolute-dealbreaker/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:52:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Hong</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[absolutism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[camping]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dealbreakers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://musingsonlifeandlove.com/?p=2132</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that I’m single again, I’m trying to retrain myself to do the dating dance. I went on a first date recently, and the evening was pretty much a conversational ballet, the two of us daintily tiptoeing around each other with loaded questions and politically correct answers in an effort to figure out if we might actually like the other person. That night, I stumbled upon a Mega-Dealbreaker. One that superseded all the lesser, mere mortal dealbreakers. Within the rabid pack of dealbreakers frothing in my head, this one quickly established itself as the Alpha:]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<title>How I Get A Girl To Break Up With Me</title>
		<link>http://www.musingsonlifeandlove.com/2010/06/04/how-i-get-a-girl-to-break-up-with-me/</link>
		<comments>http://www.musingsonlifeandlove.com/2010/06/04/how-i-get-a-girl-to-break-up-with-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 15:04:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Hong</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[breakups]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[getting dumped]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[passive-aggressive behavior]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I hate breaking up with someone. I really do. Call me spineless, tell me to grow a pair, I get it. I just have this need to be the “good guy” (or at least deceive myself that I am). I feel better when I’m the poor sap who gets broken up with, rather than the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>48</slash:comments>
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		<title>In Search Of Certainty</title>
		<link>http://www.musingsonlifeandlove.com/2010/04/25/in-search-of-certainty/</link>
		<comments>http://www.musingsonlifeandlove.com/2010/04/25/in-search-of-certainty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 02:42:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Hong</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[breakups]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[idealism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[perfectionism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[relationships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[uncertainty]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As the cliché generalizes so succinctly, breaking up is hard to do. Especially when you don’t know if it’s the right decision&#8230;. I would like to announce that I just experienced the most civil breakup in the annals of breakups. Seriously, if Gandhi and Mother Theresa had been an estranged couple, they wouldn’t have done [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Bane Of Friendship</title>
		<link>http://www.musingsonlifeandlove.com/2010/03/18/the-bane-of-friendship/</link>
		<comments>http://www.musingsonlifeandlove.com/2010/03/18/the-bane-of-friendship/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Hong</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[attachment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[breakups]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[friendship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[getting dumped]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[neurotransmitters]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Friendship. It’s so many wonderful things. It’s caring. It’s affection. It’s laughter and inside jokes. It&#8217;s also the last bastion of the freshly dumped. After all, how many breakup conversations include the phrase, “can we just be friends?&#8221; So why do we go along with such a “request”? Are we that desperate? Do we get [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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