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Not a Player, I Just Crush A Lot

Apparently, you're never too young for your first crush.

Cupid has made an early visit to a certain four ("and a half!!") year old, which should give us an early start in bracing ourselves for the onslaught of teenage lust/angst that will hit our humble family like a maelstrom in just a couple handful of years. The Gov. apparently has the hots for one of his female classmates, and is happy just to be near her when she's using the computer in after care. He is reported to get perturbed when he cannot sit next to her at lunch. The boy does have good taste-the girl in question is quite cute and very sweet. I just wasn't prepared for affairs of the heart so early. But hey, if he's enjoying the tugs on his heartstrings, that's fine with me.

Also, you're never too old for crushes either. This is particularly evident if you work at a company whose office buildings are pretty much teeming with attractive twenty-ish/thirty-ish people. Some of these not-too-shabby folks happen to be my clients. One of my colleagues has actually commented on the various array of cute men that seem to visit my office for legal advice. I think really there are just a couple, but they do make the work environment quite, er, interesting.

I don't have a "work boyfriend" though. You know, that guy with whom you spend a substantial amount of your 8.76 workday hours. You have chemistry with this person, but would never admit it because you work with him/are married or in a relationship with someone else. But you would have to have chemistry, or you else wouldn't be able to spend the amount of time that you do with him without going absolutely bonkers. Your work worlds intersect frequently, and part of the reason that you accomplish a lot on those projects-is because you just plain like the guy.

I'm starting to think that folks who enjoy their work actually enjoy (in part) being around their co-workers. We value interaction and I think we as human hunger for relationships. Certainly, the work itself has to be fulfilling and enjoyable, but I'm not so sure that accomplishment by itself is enough to keep someone in the same job for over 10 years.