July 2011
“One out of every 25 women aged 15 to 19 will become pregnant, according to BC...”
– Teen pregnancy rate sky high in Cranbrook | Local News | Cranbrook Daily Townsman, Cranbrook, BC
Fifth-Year Senior: Why Making High School Longer... →
infoneer-pulse:
After four years of high school, you were probably pretty ready to graduate. But what if you could have earned college credit if you stayed for a fifth year? Students in Maine might soon get the option to do just that. In order to ensure that the state is truly preparing the workforce of the future, governor Paul LePage followed up on a campaign promise this week and issued an...
I just had the most epic dream that i was at the last Jeff Buckley concert before he died. I was the only one who knew that he was going to die and I knew when and where. The last part of my dream was me saying let’s go to the bus - I don’t think I was trying to tell him, I just think that I wanted more time.
“At 2:30 a.m., chasing a burglar down the hallway of my San Francisco hotel until...”
– - ‘Jeopardy’ host Alex Trebek, age 71, tells an audience at Google about an injury he recently received while FIGHTING CRIME. (via thevancouversun)
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Now I know...
Now imagine that you are the President of the United States. Instead of ordering from a local eatery, you call up your Executive Chef. Instead of running your own errands, White House staff does it for you. The salaries of all of these people are covered by the government. But the items themselves? The meals, the dry cleaning, the toothpaste, and the snacks? What is true for the rest of us is...
“The small space gives my barber husband excuses to “bump” into me or...”
– Elizabeth’s Bold, Under-$500 Kitchen Makeover | Small Cool Kitchens 2011 | Apartment Therapy
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Open Yale Courses →
mildlyannoyedrabbit:
Open Yale Courses provides free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by teachers and scholars at Yale University.
Yale has recently added more classes - including HIST 116 American Revolution and PSYC 123 - The Psychology, Biology and Politics of Food. I would never normally recommend a course in the ‘soft sciences’ and I hate psychology in...
“In 2010, the television series Psych paid tribute to the series by reuniting...”
– Twin Peaks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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last night...
I was climbing the walls with this headache and so we went to the hospital where I got all cranky because the doctor proceeded to give me a whole whack of fluids and gravol… which because I am the most sensitive person on the planet made me start vomiting violently, the poor nurse was totally freaked out and people ran into the room, and he was all “IT’S GRAVOL”…...
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“Are you fucking kidding me? You think I’m going to spend 10 years sitting on a...”
– Connie Britton, before accepting the role of Tami Taylor on Friday Night Lights
From a really interesting and sentimental oral history of FNL here. Do check it out if you’re a fan of the show at all, or thinking about watching it (because the first few seasons are on Netflix and you should and...
Those mornings
nashvilleneedsmoremetaphors:
when you wake up at 9:30, stagger into the bathroom wondering if a gorilla with a 2x4 sneaked into your bedroom and slapped you around a bit, brush your teeth, and drive like a maniac into work thinking you’re late for something, then realize you’re not late for anything other than your morning pot of coffee and a lesson in proper sentence construction.
Rest of the...
“The Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation paid its 156 full-time workers and 30...”
– Goodwill means good wages for Canadian charity employees - CityNews
“Keep in mind: the above-mentioned high-earners are 6,000 employees out of a...”
– Nonprofit Salaries: It SHOULD Be A Living
“July’s film fits no genre, fulfills no expectations, creates its own rules and...”
– Miranda July, The Make-Believer - NYTimes.com
Marriage.
knowwhatsfuckingcrazy:
Picking one other inhabitant out of the 7 billion+ inhabitants on earth and spending the rest of your life chained to this person is pretty nuts— living with them, sleeping with them, eating with them, having sex with them, going on vacation with them, to parties, on dates, changing with them, growing old with them, creating and raising little mixture inhabitants with...
“By contracting with home owners who are willing to turn over their garden plots...”
– The Cranbrook Guardian: 3 Crows Farm - Cranbrook’s Own Curtis Stone
“Let her be bored. Let her have long afternoons with absolutely nothing to do....”
– Make Your Kid A Writer (via Ta-Nehisi Coates:kateoplis:georgiaisyourfriend)
12 hours a day, multiple day road trips do the trick, too.
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