Joanna Buffum

It’s the first few weeks of school and your apartment is still completely empty, and you and your friends have no idea how to go about buying things to fill it. Sound familiar? Things can get tricky when it comes to mixing money with relationships, and each person’s budget can be a touchy subject.
Sorry to break it to you ladies, but the label “stage five clinger” tends to be applied to us. Admittedly, there are girls out there giving us a bad name: full-frontal text-a-holics who assault Facebook walls and don’t understand the meaning of a “casual hook-up.”
You make the decision to send him a text. You find the perfect witty excuse.  You re-write it…twice.  You spend three minutes deciding if an exclamation point is too eager.  You erase and re-enter a smiley face—too desperate? You consult with a girlfriend.  You take a deep breath.  You press ‘send.’  And then he doesn’t respond.
Everyone knows the classic debate constantly battled throughout male college dorm rooms: “Are you a boobs or butt guy?” Guys definitely have their preferences when it comes down to choosing between a woman with a Jennifer Lopez-sized backside or one with a Jessica Simpson-sized chest, but do girls have the same kind of passion for male body parts?  
Is it really true that all girls love a**holes?   I hope not, but it is safe to admit that we cringe when a guy is “too nice.” Remember that episode in the final season of Sex and the City when the Russian writes Carrie a song on the piano? Yeah, that episode was called “The Ick Factor.”