I saw an article in the New Scientist that reminded me how much I mock admire people who succeed in getting paid to spend their lives doing pointless important research for the advancement of society.

Apparently, according to a study at Florida State University, for people who are settled in loving relationships, the sight of attractive members of the opposite sex tends to be more repellent than alluring. Which begs the question, how can they be categorised as attractive if they are repellant? Which also begs the question, how can a survey sample of 113 people prove anything other than the researcher is a lucky git who probably gets a grant for conducting research in the student union bar in love and therefore blind to reality?

Yes, well. A career in science became a firm no-no for me on the day I was asked to dissect a bull's eye in the science lab, so what do I know? Except I have a question for Florida State University. How is it - despite being extremely lucky to be in a loving relationship - that I can quite happily spend hours drooling over studying a picture of Johnny Depp for evidence that supports this theory. Or not.