The shift of societal focus from an agrarian model to an urban one has had undeniable impact on the role that gender plays within our culture. Whereas men were traditionally in the breadwinner role and women adopted that of the homemaker, there is a significant shift in focus that I feel (KNOW) has blurred the gender lines.

Many of my friends have heard me state my firm belief that someone has, without a doubt, peed in the dating pool here in Vegas. Since flinging myself back into the single life in December of 2005, I’ve been stuck in a scene from Caddyshack where someone is screaming “Poooooooooooop!”

On my way to the climbing gym this evening, I did something that I do often: I picked up my cell phone, sported my headset in order to be much less of a threat to those on the road around me, and called my friend Melanie. She mentioned to me that, in an email with an ex-boyfriend of hers earlier today, he had written to her that yeah, yeah — one door closes, another one opens…but sometimes, you’re in the hallway.