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Sometime in 2001, I resolved to never again be het up about celebrating Valentines' day, whether I was single or attached. Occasionally I will slip and care a little, even though I know rationally that blah blah it is a made up holiday blah blah. But in general I will not support the Hallmark industrial complex. Since 2001, the day always came and went with little fanfare. And since I keep my girlish figure by eating chocolate every day, it's not all that different from any other day.

Each year I may or may not do stuff especially for the day (with significant others or single female friends or whatever), but it will with any luck be a day that I live and breathe, and so I will do stuff as a matter of course. So far, this year my plans are to go to my "urgent care" appointment, study at the library, go to my quantitative methods lab, have a homemade dinner and bake some cookies while listening to country music. That sounds like a good V-day to me.

But that doesn't mean I won't blog on the day! Here at Law and Letters, let's kick off a few days of V-Day blogging. I invite my co-bloggers to post conventional or antithetical Valentines day posts about love and/or loss. Don't be afraid to get personal. Although I'm not going to. But I am going to try to find the most depressing stuff ever for Thursday. Because I am awesome like that.

To kick things off, a collection of stuff from around the 'nets:

Scientific Valentines Day Cards. Hat tip to Tina of Scatterplot.

Over at Feminist Law Profs, Bridget Crawford asks what are you doing for Valentine's Day?

The Situationist Blog has multiple posts in honor of the complex social psychological day that is Valentine's:

Slate:

Muchas smooches, El Con-KISS-tador.