Let me down real slow

Carrie Bradshaw got broken up with on a Post-It note. I got broken up with in an e-mail.

Advantage: Carrie.

But, Carrie Bradshaw didn't receive news of the break-up while innocently checking her e-mail at work, causing her to blurt out "I just got broken up with" to the gasps and surprise of the other interns. (Sex and the Street? I don't think so.) But thanks to the miracles of technology, a girl can get broken up with in an e-mail and then broadcast the news in her blog!

The part of me that wanted this to happen doesn't even have the energy to be relieved. It's all just another notch in my very consistent pattern: Become so emotionally distant in a relationship that the guy finally gets fed up. I know I always complained that I would die alone; I just didn't realize that some demonic part of my inner psyche would prefer it that way.

On the bright side, this pattern is at least slightly healthier than: "Be a ho." With -- another plus -- a much lower risk of STDs!