While many of you (and this writer, too) are still trying to shovel away all the leftovers from Easter, I just had a crazy thought about something that just happened in one of the vacation towns I recently visited. Just a few leftover thoughts from the tail end of a great road trip on U.S. Highway 281 in Texas. Maybe my timing's better this time. Funny how weather works in Texas, right? Well, stay with me on this one.

Two weeks ago last night (as of Tuesday the...

This song still holds true til this day.
No, I didn't get it from the show Weeds, which I tried to watch, but the main character was just too trashy of a selfish deadbeat mom to stomach. If they had put more Doug Wilson in the script, I may have watched.
Anyway, crazy individuality over blind conformity ANY DAY!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_2lGkEU4Xs

--LYRICS--

Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes made of ticky tacky,...

Kim and Kyle: Sisters

Kyle: KIM! KIM! Where are you?
Kim: What? What Kyle ...
Kyle: KIM, oh, Kim, I was so afraid that you were going to ... sniff sniff .. oh Kim, I am always so worried about you and you know how that makes me feel.
Kim: Oh Kyle, I'm okayyyyyyyy, you know ... I'm Okayyyyyyyyy.
Kyle: If you ever do that again, Kim, you know how that would make me feel? I am always just so worried. I'm so afraid that I'm going to get a phone call, on my...

Well, for today, anyway -- possibly for longer. (One can only hope!)

Yesterday, I left the office where I've been working since early February because I had absolutely NO work available to me. Frustrating, because there is plenty of work to do, but the Project Manager I am reporting to is -- well, disorganized. So, I am taking a break.

And there's the phone....

I just talked with my "handler" and it looks like I can take a couple of weeks...

[FONT=&quot]In its year 2007 report, the Institute for International Education of Students (IES) declared that the number of American students studying abroad has heightened in the last decade with an increase of 150%. This does not imply that the educational institutions in the US are not good enough. The reason is that studying abroad has various benefits some of which are listed below. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] “The Cider House Rules” author John Irving states the...