I am a big believer in figuring out the laziest way to do anything. Put another way, it means figuring out the "smartest, easiest most efficient way to do it”. And there are a lot of people like me. I mean seriously - why do you have to deliberately slow your minds down to do something in 10 steps when you can do it in 2. It takes talent to simplify things, whereas making things more difficult is easy.

I was sitting at the Starbucks on Dupont Circle sipping my usual skinny latte with no foam, and my mind drifted to the woman I had just bumped into minutes ago. We were friends (and I use that term loosely) at business school. We moved in the same social circles, got all dressed up and teetered off in our high heels to the same glam-nerd b-school parties, and had probably (if only I could remember) bonded over many a vodkatini.

Don't do it! Easier said than done of course. Its like we are programmed to say things like, "OMG - if I had her legs I would not wear that skirt!" or "she is so narrow minded when she walks her earrings knock together."

Thats two hours I am never going to get back. Last week a friend calls up and tells me about - lets call him - Mr. Rightish. Rightish moved to DC some months ago from Manhattan, to do some research for the Pentagon, and is looking to meet people, perhaps a nice girl etc. etc. Good looking guy, very well educated (PhD, teaching at NYU), 31, 5'11, dark hair, dark eyes.

Sometimes you get really lucky in life.. and find a great personal trainer.