I'm in the mood for matrices.

There's some things in life that you don't necessarily appreciate when they're there, but that you miss when they're gone. Then there's the things that you enjoy when available, but don't bother you by their absence. And there's the ones whose presence cause pain, and whose absence delight.

And so on and so forth...until you do the only sensible thing - decide to draw up a matrix.

Here's how it works: the rows represent how a phenomenon affects you in its precence, while the collumns represent how it affects you in its absence.

My problem is, i'm having difficulty thinking of items for some of the cells. Perhaps some of you in the blogosphere will have some ideas? Where for example should I place sex?

Perhaps I could turn this into a blog meme. It's the kind of thing that is going to vary from person to person, and so, has self-expression potential. Download the matrix as a word file, and fill it in for yourself. Then send it on to 10,000 of your closest friends in the next 5mins, and 7 of your wishes will come true...and then perhaps Charlie won't die this time.