very special old product

today, i'm turning in the two week notice at leona's. :) it's such a suck-up little document, really, but i don't care...it's over. then again, i shouldn't be so nice, since they're morons and they screwed my over by giving me only three shifts this week...but oh well. no use causing that much trouble right before i get out of there. drawing up that notice feels good.

other than that, nothing else really going on. trivia was last night...i was an absolute moron, but one of the answers was rather silly and therefore awesome. the question was, what does VSOP stand for on a bottle of cognac? i never really knew...but for some reason, whenever i look at a bottle of cognac, what always ran through my head was...

"Very Special Old Product".

it's stupid, but we couldn't think of anything better. so, we put it. turns out...it wasn't far from true. it's "Very Superior Old Pale", or alternately "Very Special Old Pale". i like mine better, though...and i think i'm going to mentally continue to call VSOP cognac Very Special Old Product, because it's funnier.

tonight i'm going to play a little more poker and surf the web some more, maybe another hour...and then there are games at 6:30. i have been playing so many board games this summer...it's awesome. i hope i can find some geeky boardgaming buddies at wash u...although it won't be quite the same, still. it's little things like that that i'm really, really, really going to miss when i move.

interesting little study...

so, the new york times last week wrote an article about a recent study on the issue of bisexuality. basically, what they did, was show a group of men (1/3 of them identified as straight, 1/3 as gay, and 1/3 as bi) erotic movies, some of which had men in them, and some of which had women in them. their finding was that the bi men all reacted much more strongly to either the female erotica or the male erotica...based on studying their genital arousal patterns, 1/4 of them had patterns indistinguishable from the straight men,and 3/4 of them were indistinguishable from the gay men. thus, they think this casts doubt on the existence of bisexuality.

it's an interesting idea, but i don't really buy it. i think the methodology is flawed...it's an interesting attempt, using reactions to erotica, but i really don't think it's the same as studying real-life attraction patterns or responses to contact with members of one sex, the other, or both that they find attractive. i mean, if i had been a subject in a study of women that used that same methodology, they'd decide i was calling myself bi because i didn't want to come out as a lesbian. why? because i don't like men in my erotica...i like women in my erotica. but, that doesn't mean that i can't be attracted to men as well as women in real life. i think, before they can make blanket statements about bisexuality because of the results of a study like that, they need to do more research (or find studies, if they've been done) about people's reaction to different kinds of erotic material and how (if at all) it relates to their real-life sexual identifications and how it relates to what arouses them in real life.

i won't go so far as to say what some people are saying, that this study can only be a product of biphobic motives. i just think the methodology is flawed. it's an interesting question, and i think it's worth study...although i'm fully convinced that bisexuality exists, it would be nice to see extensive scientific study on the matter. still, i don't think any one study can "debunk" the "existence" of bisexuality...especially a study that doesn't take into account anything but the subjects' reaction to erotica.