2 - THE FREE PRESS - Valentine's Day, 1995 auditor's Comment Yuck! I am celebrating my 19th single Valentine's Day this year. Bleah. Understandable why I hate it, I'm sure. So it's over a week before press date, and already I'm going into sugar shock from all you super saccarine lovers out there who are desperately trying to woo your secret and not so secret lovers. And for all you gooey schmoozy lovers out there who insist on kissing in front of me, this is the time of year to stop. Usually I am very easy to please, but I get slightly insanely jealous of people with signifigant others right about now. If I ain't gettin' none, you shouldn't be either. One of the other press writers wants to open up a sex club for singles. Blindfolds and a dark room will be provided. I won't be there. Seems to me, that logically, the single folk are going to be the lousy ones in bed!!! So I'll be celibate for a few more years. Whine, bitch, complain. There is, however, someone I would like to throw down and ravage, but I am too genteel a lady to be so.. .lucky. So for all of you secretly admiring a gorgeous man, or woman, you're not alone. But those of you who have your partner, drop dead!! Those of you who are erm, how can I say this discreetly, uh, wearing a lot of green lately, interspersed with purple spurts, (translation: you're horny and desperate), I hate to be the one to tell you, but you may just be S.O.L. But come be miserable, single and celibate for a few days. We can drink ourselves senseless and bitch about ex's who were so inconsiderate that they dumped you the day before Valentine's Day, or on the big day itself. We can comiserate on the way we only ever attract SCUM, or how the nice guys (and girls) you secretly lust after only see you as insignifigant ants, or even worse, the F word. Friends. We'll have our own Valentine's Day party. We'll call it a Valentine's Day Bawl! On a happier note, think of all the fun stuff you could do to your friends who are ditching you on the 14th for some serious bonking. T. P. thier homes. Poke holes in their condoms. Answer the phone when the lover calls and call himher THE WRONG NAME!!!! Perhaps the best 'whoops' you can do to a friend of the opposite sex is to answer his phone and if it's his girlfirend act like the two of you are just a bit on the busy side (plenty of moaning and heavy breathing should accompany this type of conversation.) I guarantee your guy friend will be sitting in your living room miserable with you on the big day if you can pull this one off. My Valentine's Day plans consist of watching TV. while devouring a bag of cheezdoodles and a half sack of beer, but I think I like it that way. Cpmmitments have a way of being so...commiting. As an example, you have a boyfriend. You go out to the bar together. You see a hot guy. Kiss the night good-bye. Your boyfriend will be all over you, asserting his territorial rights, and the hot guy will be thinking "poor girl. Stuck with a loser. Then again, she's probably a loser too, if she puts up with that crap." What the hot guy doesn't see is the car trip home. "Get your paws off me you sick neanderthal!" "oh, baby, come on, why are you mad?" "If you don't know why I'm mad, then never mind." "What? It wasn't when I clubbed you on the head and dragged you off, was it? I thought you liked that!" "Moron." Maybe the reason I want to be single come Valentine's Day is because I have a nasty habit of attracting total scum. I can't actually think of a nice boyfriend I have ever had. They are either totally possesive, obsessed or complete sluts. I don't find any of that particularly attractive in a man. I know, I'm out of touch. Everyone tells me all men are scum, but I don't totally buy that, all the time. You know damn well that there are guys out there who are totally great guys before you start dating. Suddenly, they ask you out, and instantaneously become the boyfriend from hell! What is with that? He's the nicest guy, your parents love him and hound you to get your claws into him before he is snatched up by anyone else. That should be the first clue. If he's so wonderful, why doesn't he already have a girlfriend? But anyhow, he must be getting the same lecture from his family because suddenly he's at your door, with a lost puppy look and flowers, confessing his love. What the hell, you say, and go out. This is the Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde part. He becomes obsessed with your whereabouts, he's possesive to the point of getting mad if you go see an instructor for help on an assignment, and jealous?! Should I even go into that terrain? If your phone happens to be busy when he actually bothers to phone, he thinks you're seeing someone else, when actually, you were taking a call from your grandma about International Tap Dancing Day being tomorrow. Suddenly we know why he doesn't have a girlfriend. And yes, that should be doesn't because you just dumped him on his ass. I guess that sums up my singularity, and why, although I hate Valentine's Day single, I wouldn't have it any other way. Till next time, J. Cole, Editor THIS STUDENT NEWSPAPER IS 100 CANADIAN Count the Maple leaves and win!!! If you correctly count the number of Maple Leaves in this issue of the Free jJLt Press you could win a prize! Free Press Staff Editor: Joanna Cole Layout Assistant: Stacey Rousell Writers: Joanna Cole, Stacey Rousell, Vicky Page, Christina Solmonson, John Verheul, John Verheul, Phil Campbell, Marc Girard, Laurie Raho, Demian Young Delivery Boy: Bruce Muir The Articles contained in the CNC Free Press do not neccesarily reflect the opinions of the CNC Free Press, the staff of the CNC Free Press, the Student Association or The College of New Caledonia