http://www.xxeo.com/archives/2007/08/23/this-is-so-true.html 20 minutes into the future... Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:57:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://www.xxeo.com/archives/2007/08/23/this-is-so-true.html#comment-52077 lispy Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:45:56 +0000 http://www.xxeo.com/archives/2007/08/23/this-is-so-true.html#comment-52077 <p>I have some of these qualities to a frightening extent. As with Arthur C. Clarke, it is not the best thing for a marriage-- though mine's lasted a bit longer than his single year flame out (but you'd think women would know what they're getting into when they marry a Mad Genius type....) I wish I'd known what to expect in terms of the friction that can be generated on this point so that I could have laid down some ground rules: "Look, I'm a Geek. At some point in this relationship I'm going to get obsessed with a pet project and procrastinate on your "honey do" list and just generally be oblivious to everything else for a while. If you don't let these things run their course, you will make me bitterly unhappy and ruin our relationship. Take me or leave me, but this is part of the deal."</p> I have some of these qualities to a frightening extent. As with Arthur C. Clarke, it is not the best thing for a marriage– though mine’s lasted a bit longer than his single year flame out (but you’d think women would know what they’re getting into when they marry a Mad Genius type….) I wish I’d known what to expect in terms of the friction that can be generated on this point so that I could have laid down some ground rules: “Look, I’m a Geek. At some point in this relationship I’m going to get obsessed with a pet project and procrastinate on your “honey do” list and just generally be oblivious to everything else for a while. If you don’t let these things run their course, you will make me bitterly unhappy and ruin our relationship. Take me or leave me, but this is part of the deal.”

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