A simple request

Jo? If you're reading? Please. Please write the final chapter soon. And please make it as perfect as the preceding six.

Distant Lover

So just what is the point of the fabled, celebrated and infamous Bachelor Party? Is the point of the bachelor (or bachelorette) party to participate in one last night of absolute, "single-styled" debauchery before committing oneself to one person for the rest of one's life? Or is the party supposed to be some glorious celebration of a person's passing from one stage of his or her life to the next?

The cynical view of the bachelor party is that it's supposed to be the man's last taste of freedom before he affixes the proverbial ball and chain. As if once he marries, he'll never be able to leave the house without permission or that his friends will be banished from the house.

-Editor's Note: At this point in reading the blog post, Jen is saying, "Damn right you gonna need my permission. Think you can leave the house? You best think again!" I love you, honey.

The somewhat more hippie interpretation is some sort of rite of passage, marking the end of a cycle of life or some such crap. I don't really buy it.

I think I'm somewhere in between. Do I want to catch me some herpes from some trashy, fake-breasted stripper who's shoving her crotch in my face? Mmmm... no. No I don't. Do I want to be so fall-down-drunk that I don't remember my actions the next day? No, no I don't. Do I want to celebrate as if my true, free life was shortly coming to an end? Not really. However, I do feel strongly that Jen should be nowhere near the party. It's not that I think this will be my last chance to hang out with the boys and it's not that I want to misbehave and wouldn't be able to with her there. It's that... I don't know why it is. I just don't. The title Bachelor's Party indicates that the bachelor is the focus of the party - not the couple, or the bachelorette. Just like the Bachelorette Party does not need to involve me, I feel that the Bachelor Party shouldn't involve her.

I just can't think of a better way to express this. Unfortunately.

This is my new truck. It rocks. And rolls. No really, it has a high center of gravity, so I need to be really careful when driving in crosswinds, up hills and generally at all other times.