One funny thing about reading personal ads (hey, what else am I going to do all day?) is that you notice a tendency for a lot of people to talk about how happy they are in the ad. Now first of all, as a general rule, people who constantly tell you how happy they are usually aren't. It's the same thing about when people tell you how cool they are. And second of all, what else are they going to say? "I'm manic-depressant?" "When not at work, I like to sit at home in the dark, light candles, drink an entire bottle of wine and read Sylvia Plath poems?" "I haven't tried to cut myself since my doctor put me on lithium?" Or the perennial favorite, "I swear, I only have about ten cats because I really, really like cats?"