Dear John...

Apparently I'm meant to get the full military experience: Today, or in the last week, or in the last month (it was a bit of a drawn out process, complicated by various of my travels), my girlfriend and I broke up. There was no Dear John letter, fortunately, or even a Dear John email. To add a 21st century spin to things, however, a fair bit of our breakup-related communications took place over instant-messaging. That may seem cold, but it's actually appropriate; we're better together on paper than in real life. [insert winky emoticon here]