THE NOVEL

For the past year and a half my best friend from the earlier college years and I have been working on a novel. The novel is entitled 101 WAYS TO BREAK UP WITH A COUGAR. When he graduated and I finally decided to leave the Midwest and give up on my political science degree due to one Feminist Nazi type professor we both started dating older women. It was kind of ironic how both of our lives mirrored one another and the similar stories we shared about the older women we were dating. We also seemed to have random encounters with ladies in their early 30’s infrequently in the Midwest but it was kind of a drunken bar hookup instead of dating type of relationship.
So from the time period of 2005 to 2007 we kept notes on the Cougars that we were dating. The notes covered the different women through this period of time and what their statistics were. The statistics’ covered what type of job they had, what kind of money they were making and what their ranking was on the scale of 1-10 basically all of the shallow early adolescent guy non sense. It is important to note that all of this was taking place before the term Cougar was ever invented. We just thought it was cool thing to do. If a guy like Ashton Kutcher was dating a hot older lady like Demi why couldn’t we was the question that was being asked between the two of us.
Throughout the year of 2008 we asked several people how they would define a Cougar? The answer was never the same and each person had their own idea what a Cougar entitled. Many people would say a Cougar was in her 40’s that had allot of money, others would state that the female needs to be older than the guy. One constant disagreement from our sample was the age of the guy. Some people would say she needs to be ten plus years other would say five plus years. The constant disagreement of the people troubled us with how to truly define a Cougar!
The other day in my research studies course the Professor hit me with a bolt of lightning when she said every good thesis has a methodology. The meant we could combine all of the data that we had to make our own definition that we no longer needed to worry about what others thought or how they defined a Cougar. When I got out of class I dialed my best friend and told him of my recent stroke of genius, he too was stoked for this brilliant idea.
In the methodology that will be at the beginning of the book I will also use another definition that was recently brought into my vocabulary by Professor. The definition will be Rationalism. Rationalism needs no concrete finding but simply relays on reason to make a decision. Many times you need not listen to others or the little voice in your head to date an older lady but if you do there will be many fun times and some cool stories to tell your friends.

Definitions

Rationalism- Using reason to come to a decision
Methodology- Analyzes the methods used to find a discovery in a particular study