Since it's the season to be lovey;

I present to you...

Barack & Michelle's epic romance - thanks to work

The workplace is one of the top three places to meet someone, and that one-third of these relationships lead to marriage. Well, as we just watched history being made when Barack and Michelle Obama walked into the White House, we are also watching what may be called the ultimate workplace romance.

The story of the Obama's meeting in the Chase Tower office of prestigious Chicago law firm Sidley & Austin sounds a bit like a movie script. According to Liza Munday, author of Michelle: A Biography and a Washington Post reporter, in 1989 Michelle Robinson was assigned to mentor summer intern “prodigy” Barack Obama because she was making a name for herself as an associate and because she, too, had interned at the firm when she attended Harvard Law School .

Obama had been recommended for the internship by a Harvard Law professor whose father was a partner in the firm. Michelle was skeptical about this summer associate, saying he sounded “overly intellectual” and “just too good to be true,” according to Mundy. And when he showed up for their initial lunch in a sport jacket, not a suit, and smoking a cigarette, the impeccable Michelle was not impressed, she has told David Mendell, author of Obama: From Promise to Power.

She also didn't regard him as a potential date because of her position as his adviser and because she thought office romances were “tacky,” according to an article on Slate.com. So when sparks did fly, she was a little reluctant to pursue the relationship, John Levi, the partner who hired both Obamas, told Slate. Mundy reports that the budding relationship made Michelle feel self-conscious. But Barack Obama says in The Audacity of Hope that he was smitten from the moment she started explaining billable hours!

Of course, as the summer progressed, they realized that they had more in common than Harvard Law School in their drive for achievement and desire to help others through the law. Their famous date at a church, where Barack had worked as a community organizer and where Michelle first heard him speak about community needs for the first time, cemented the relationship.

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Really awwwsome stuff adapted from HR.BLR and so I thought it'll just be nice to share! If you want to know more about the couple's romance, click here to read.

So you see, if you're single, and miserable, just keep working. Or find a new job. With new people. It'll increase your chances of meeting someone - close proximities, a lot of time spent together (in close proximities, again)... you get the idea. Hey that was what I intended to do. I thought I'd try workplace romance, seems fun, right? But... broccolee brought me someone better.

Friday's a little slower around here. Mmmm goody. Have a great weekend ahead. And just don't think about Monday. Oooops, look, i mentioned Monday. One day at a time. That's it...