Day 6

Today I was thinking a lot about Tom (Jo-Go)'s long, depressing mourning period, and have been wondering if mine will be as long and twinkie-filled. I've decided to calculate exactly how long this mourning period lasted for Tom by using the movie's adorable date-tracking system. Maybe this will give me some estimate as to how long it will be before I can stop subsisting entirely on sugar and corn syrup.

Day 31: Tom and Summer's first kiss by the copy machine. Though it is never clear whether they are officially together or not at any point in their relationship, this is the clearest point of a real beginning that I can see.
Day 290: Tom is smashing plates in his kitchen on the day of the break-up, wondering where it all went wrong. I should remind my housemates how lucky they are to live with someone for whom breaking dishes creates more stress than it relieves.
Day 314: Tom sits alone in a movie theater, moping.
Day 321: Tom's boss suggests he start writing mourning cards because he is so depressed and lame all the time. Tom is lucky he wasn't slacking at his job in this modern economy, because he for sure would have gotten the boot.
Day 322: Tom declares all the things he hates about Summer. Are her knees really knobby? I don't get it.
Day 345: Tom goes out on a blind date with a girl that looks like the little mermaid, the entirety of which he spends ranting about Summer.
Day 402: Tom sees Summer again for the first time after their break-up on the way to a wedding, and is clearly still hopeful of reuniting with her. At this point, Summer is already engaged. This means that she got over Tom and then met, dated, and got engaged to her future husband all within 112 days (3 1/2 months). Crazy!

Day 408: Tom is heartbroken all over again when he finds out that Summer is engaged at her party. Poor, poor Tom.
Day 440: First clip of Tom being a twinkie-eating whisky-drinking bag of depression. Does this mean he has been doing this for an entire month already?? Can one man subsist solely on Twinkies and whisky for that long?
Day 442: Tom finally heads to the office, only to quit in a moment of depression-induced clarity.
Day 450: Tom is at his sister's soccer game "doodling" for the first time in months. This is the first time in 160 days that we see the slightest sign of happiness or productivity in Tom. This is not a good sign for me.
Days 456-476: Tom is FINALLY back on his feet.
Day 488: Tom sees Summer again at his special spot and doesn't freak out.
Day 500: Tom meets Autumn. Apparently meeting a new girl is the only way for Tom to really get over Summer. Doesn't he need some positive alone time? I don't know if another girl is really what he needs at this point.

So there you have it. Basically, it took Tom 210 days (7 months) to get over a 259 day (8 1/2 month) relationship. My relationship, from the day of our first kiss to the day of our break-up, was appx 305 days (10 months) long. Does this mean I am doomed to spend the next 8 1/2 months in a miserable whisky-soaked haze? I hope not.