September 2009
125 posts
“Not to get too deep here, but the most valuable thing I can think of is to be grateful for suffering. That is a sublime feeling, and completely inexplicable and illogical, but no one doesn’t suffer. So the degree to which you can be aware of your own humanity is the degree to which you can accept, with open eyes, your suffering. To be grateful for your suffering is to be grateful for your humanity, because what else are you going to do - say “No thanks”? It’s there. “Smile and accept,” said Mother Teresa. And she was talking to people who had it rough.”
—Stephen Colbert, Rolling Stone Issue 1087
Of course this would happen to me ...
Wearing a towel-turban, body towel and bathrobe, I head to my room after taking a shower. Smack-dab in the middle of my bedroom floor is a fat, round gray mouse moving ever so slightly. My first, second, and third reaction is to scream.
“There is a mouse dying in the middle of my bedroom!”
I tell my sister she has to take care of the problem. My excuse is, “I’m naked!” She gets a broom and a dustpan. Her plan is to sweep him up, but she just can’t do it. Yes, this hamburger guzzling leather-wearer doesn’t want to hurt the poor wittle mouse.
Of course, being the brilliant adults that we are, we call in our mom to take care of the problem. She sweeps him up, carries him outside (to die in nature - the humane way, obviously). She screams a few times, but her bravery was commendable.
While I’m glad that the mouse is no longer writhing on my carpet, I can’t help but wonder what killed him. I hope it wasn’t a heart attack induced by a snake sighting.
Kill me now.
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cover letter truths
I know no one wants to hear it, especially HR, but really, at this point, in addition to my skills and experience, each cover letter should say “I am sorry, I do not mean to ask for your pity, but I really, really need a job. I will do this job well because I have to, quite frankly. Please at least give me an interview; it is serious stakes here.”
Sex Degrees of Separation Calculator →
calculators.lloydspharmacy.com
Pharmacy launches sexual partners ‘calculator’
By Jane Kirby, Press Association
The average British man or woman has indirectly slept with 2.8 million people, according to figures published today.
An online calculator allows people to work out how many indirect sexual partners they have had based on the “six degrees of separation” theory.
The calculator, which uses data collected from more than 6,000 British adults, is being dubbed Sex Degrees of Separation by Lloydspharmacy, which developed it to raise awareness of sexually-transmitted infections.
People enter the age range of each partner and the calculator works out how many previous sexual partners people in that age range have had on average.
It then repeats the process for five further “generations” of partner to given an overall total.
Clare Kerr, head of sexual health at Lloydspharmacy, said: “When we sleep with someone, we are, in effect, not only sleeping with them, but also their previous partners and their partners’ previous partners, and so on.
“It’s important that people understand how exposed they are to STIs and take appropriate precautions including using condoms and getting themselves checked out where appropriate.
“A simple sexual health check will give both partners in a relationship peace of mind.
“The majority of STIs are easy to rectify, but if left untreated, the long term implications can be very serious.”
On average, British men claim to have directly slept with nine partners each while women say they have had 6.3 partners, giving an overall average of 7.65, the pharmacy chain said.
The calculator is at www.lloydspharmacy.com/sexdegrees
“You’re not drunk until you have to grab the grass to keep from falling off the earth.”
—Doug Benson, “Comedy Central Presents”
Cheap Wine Pairings for Cheap Foods You Actually Eat →
lemondrop.com
Finally I know what to drink with my boxed macaroni and cheese! No more blue-box blues for me.
