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		<title>Duke It Out: Soul Mates</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauren H - The New School</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We've all killed a few hours (*cough*Calculus*cough*) <a href="http://collegecandy.com/2009/05/08/g-w-w-e-ryan-wrap-me-up-reynolds/">imagining that amazing guy</a> that would somehow walk into our lives - you know, the one with the suave of George Clooney, the charm of <a href="http://collegecandy.com/2009/07/17/g-w-w-e-joseph-indie-it-boy-gordon-levitt/">Joseph Gordon-Levitt</a> and the abs of Ryan Kwanten (hello, <a href="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktu9ftwZ9K1qzj1yko1_400.jpg">Jason Stackhouse</a>!) - and magically turn all those microwave-ramen-days into a romantic comedy dream.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=collegecandy.com&#038;blog=860993&#038;post=72016&#038;subd=collegecandy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright size-large wp-image-72078" title="soulmates copy" src="http://collegecandy.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/soulmates-copy.jpg?w=276&h=276" alt="" width="276" height="276" />[<em>It's pretty obvious that the average CollegeCandy reader has some very strong opinions. Opinions that she likes to share with everyone on the site.</em> <em>We love a strong woman (unless she happens to be charging at us with her fists raised), so we thought we'd give her a real forum to discuss her thoughts, feelings, and perspectives. Every Friday I'll be featuring a hot topic (<strong>like <a href="http://collegecandy.com/2010/09/03/duke-it-out-fandom/" target="_blank">fandom</a>!</strong>) and leaving it up to you, the readers, to duke it out. So, read it and <strong>get your debate on in the comments section below</strong>!]</em></p>
<p>We&#8217;ve all killed a few hours (*cough*Calculus*cough*) <a href="http://collegecandy.com/2009/05/08/g-w-w-e-ryan-wrap-me-up-reynolds/">imagining that amazing guy</a> that would somehow walk into our lives &#8211; you know, the one with the suave of George Clooney, the charm of <a href="http://collegecandy.com/2009/07/17/g-w-w-e-joseph-indie-it-boy-gordon-levitt/">Joseph Gordon-Levitt</a> and the abs of Ryan Kwanten (hello, <a href="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktu9ftwZ9K1qzj1yko1_400.jpg">Jason Stackhouse</a>!) &#8211; and magically turn all those microwave-ramen-days into a romantic comedy dream. Turns out though, most of us actually believe he exists.</p>
<p>OK, maybe not quite as awesome as we dreamed, but still, according to a new, poll <a href="http://www.lemondrop.com/2010/09/08/can-you-find-your-soulmate/" target="_blank">two-thirds of us believe</a> that our soul mate is out there and that we&#8217;ll find him some day.</p>
<p>On the one hand, I totally get that. Assuming that you didn&#8217;t spend your formative years as part of a remote tribe in the depths of the Amazon (and probably even if you did), you were probably <a href="http://collegecandy.com/2009/10/29/sexy-time-movie-myths-about-sex/">raised on movies</a>, TV shows and books filled with epic love stories. And if all of those quirky girls can find THE guy who will love them and make life a fairy tale, why shouldn&#8217;t someone nice and normal (mumbles) like me be able to do it too. Sure, we realize it&#8217;s not going to play out exactly like the movies, but it&#8217;s not really the big kiss-in-the-rain-to-the-tune-of-a-Top-4o-love-song scenes that matter, <a href="http://collegecandy.com/2008/05/27/and-im-going-on-a-love-free-diet/">it&#8217;s the love</a>. Moreover, those stories always make it seem like <a href="http://collegecandy.com/2010/02/23/tuffy-luv-sez-soulmate-or-just-some-guy/" target="_blank">the girl who &#8220;settles&#8221;</a> &#8211; who picks a nice, smart, handsome guy who loves her but isn&#8217;t &#8220;the one&#8221; &#8211; is making a huge mistake and ruining her happiness forever. No, we&#8217;re not all four years-old, we know that all of those tales aren&#8217;t real life, but they do on a subconscious level, form our ideas about what love should be.<span id="more-72016"></span></p>
<p>But then there&#8217;s that pesky little reality problem we all have to live with. See, it turns out that people who believe in the soulmate thing and apply that to their relationships are 150% more likely to get divorced. Ouch! The problem is, in a world with roughly 6.5 billion people, even if we all really do have a soul mate, the odds of finding that person would be crazy small (I&#8217;d do the math, but like I said before, I had other abs on my mind during those classes). It also inherently means that most people who get married are probably married to someone who&#8217;s not &#8220;the one&#8221; &#8211; and by that virtue, are taking up someone else&#8217;s &#8220;one&#8221; &#8211; and that those marriages are somehow less meaningful. The soul mate<em> seems</em> like a romantic idea, but when you put it into perspective, it&#8217;s actually just heart-crushingly depressing.</p>
<p>What say ye, ladies? (Why did that go all medieval? I have no idea) <em><strong>Do you believe that someday your prince will come? Or is that rom-com stuff all a little blown out of proportion?</strong></em> Duke it out!</p>
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		<title>Girl Crush: Chelsea Handler</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 18:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauren - University of Michigan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I'm having a tough time admitting this, mostly because I think she stole my life, but I have a huge crush on Chelsea Handler. I was introduced to Ms. Handler a few years back when my friend shoved her first book, "My Horizontal Life" in my hands and screamed, "this was your idea!"<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=collegecandy.com&#038;blog=860993&#038;post=30272&#038;subd=collegecandy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-30274" title="chelsea-handler-4" src="http://collegecandy.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/chelsea-handler-4.jpg" alt="chelsea-handler-4" width="300" height="432" /><em>[There are some women out there that we just can’t get out of our minds. No, we aren’t switching teams - yet - but we do have some serious crushes on some<a href="http://collegecandy.com/2009/05/14/girl-crush-beyonce/"> pretty fierce females</a>. These ladies are all special in their own right and we aren’t ashamed to tell the world we love them.]</em></p>
<p><em></em>I&#8217;m having a tough time admitting this, mostly because I think she stole my life, but I have a huge crush on Chelsea Handler. I was introduced to Ms. Handler a few years back when my friend shoved her first book, &#8220;<a href="http://collegecandy.com/2008/04/26/not-for-your-moms-book-club/">My Horizontal Life</a>&#8221; in my hands and screamed, &#8220;this was your idea!&#8221;</p>
<p>Yes, it&#8217;s true. I had always planned on compiling my one night stand stories into a book, but I needed a few more hump sessions to complete it and Chelsea beat me to it.</p>
<p>I wanted to so badly to hate what I read, but I couldn&#8217;t. The book was laugh out loud funny, and I&#8217;m pretty sure I bothered everyone else in Starbucks when I read the entire thing in one day. When I finally reached the end, I determined that Chelsea and I were soul mates.</p>
<p>Since then, Chelsea has written another <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Are-You-There-Vodka-Chelsea/dp/product-description/1416954120">NY Times Bestseller </a>and got her very own show,<a href="http://www.eonline.com/on/shows/chelsea/index.jsp"> Chelsea Lately</a>, on E! Some people think she slept her way into that late night slot (her BF just <em>happens</em> to be in charge of the network), but I don&#8217;t care. If it took a little pork-sesh to bring this woman to TV, then so be it. If anything, it only proves that the woman is as good between the sheets as she is behind the round table.</p>
<p>Chelsea Handler is hilarious, beautiful, witty and has a killer sense of style. When I tune into her show nightly (I haven&#8217;t missed an episode in months), I am as entertained by what she says and does as I am by the gorgeous and drool-worthy stilettos on her feet. Stilettos that she uses to effectively stomp on the hopes, dreams and careers of Hollywood&#8217;s most ridiculous characters.</p>
<p>And even <em>they</em> find her funny.<span id="more-30272"></span></p>
<p>Chelsea Handler proves that comedy isn&#8217;t just for the boys/ugly women. She&#8217;s the total package and if it takes sleeping with her to become her full-sized sidekick (she&#8217;s already got <a href="http://pictures.thaindian.com/d/2149-2/Chuy-Bravo-82395059.jpg">a mini-friend)</a>, I&#8217;ll do it. Maybe we could pen that story into a book together.</p>
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