What did your mother teach you? Did she teach you how to whistle? How to sing? How to hate people based on their race? How to steal soaps from hotel rooms ( Read more... )

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Happy Easter. It's like a holiday, isn't it? Is it more of a pagan festival or a religious one, because I know many families who exchange gifts for Easter. My mom gave me some jellybeans today and I have her a Cadbury Creme Egg, and I'm pretty sure none of these tokens have any Christian correlation other than they're signs of our affection for one ( Read more... )

• 4:45: I think I will step out of the writing lab for 15 minutes to get my squeaky car belt checked. It can't take that long
  
• 5:00: waiting in a bay at Jiffy Lube while mechanic jokes with his boss, who is one bay over, finishing an oil change on a large truck. He uses a hose marked "Penzoil" suspended from the ceiling to reach the truck. The ( Read more... )