Clareified

So two years ago, I swore I would only take nonstop flights, but now it turns out I am also willing to change planes in Canada. Twice.

When we were interning for law firms during our second year of law school, my friend Pi and I had this theory that now that we were making so much money, $100 was now the equivalent of what $20 was to us during college and $500 was the new $100. As we ascended through the firms, we got to the point were $1000 was the new $500. We were former living on a budget kids who were now flush with disposable income and we LOVED it! I remember the two of us laughing about how we once had to split a Godiva chocolate because we couldn’t afford to buy two. Alas, now that she has two mortgages and a wedding to pay for and I am ungainfully unemployed, we are back to the stage where $5 is the equivalent of $20. I only mention this because I very well may be sleeping at an airport in the near future to save $200 AND I’m okay with that.

Expedia sucks. Please standby for views on Orbitz.

MRIs reveal source of woman’s super memory

Seriously.

Before I left, I sent out a million resumes, I have returned to a million interview requests, yet I have no desire to either call any of these people or go on any interviews. Is this a problem? Yawn. I need a nap.

So we asked him why he colored in Abraham Lincoln brown. He could have said a number of things, like “he’s on a penny, and a penny is brown,” or he “looked brown in the picture.” And it’s unlikely he’s read Leroy Vaughn¹s book, Black People and Their Place In World History, which asserts that Lincoln indeed had African ancestry. So why did he do it?

“He was a president and the President is brown.”

Wow. Wherever you stand on the debate of Barack¹s race and its relevance to us, the impact has been made and it is undeniable. Of course we corrected him and told him that not every president is brown by default, but dangit if I didn¹t smile on the inside. His mind is open to possibilities that we never imagined at his age, and that is change I can believe in.

The rest is not any more plausible.

In my experience children just don’t think this way. I would believe this story a million times faster if the kid had said that it was because Lincoln was on the penny and the penny is brown…though, I don’t think I’d believe that a six year old knows all the Presidents on money.

Of course, that this story appears on a website with the article “Four Women Men Should Avoid” shoulda tipped me off…

Obama’s only been President for one week and already he’s cut my unemployment benefits. What up wit dat? Getting a job was not the hope and change I voted for.

CK is soo jealous.

We went through the other alternatives, and she finally decided that she wanted to go back to Wynn (she’s staying at Encore). I decided that driving over to Wynn would be the best course of action because the parking garage is so close to the poker room. The problem? When we got to the escalators that go up to the parking garage, we discovered that the up escalator was broken.

“I guess we just take the stairs.”

Dawn Summers didn’t want any part of that. I’m not sure if it was due to her thorough exhaustion after *trying* to walk from Encore to the Liberace Museum or because she didn’t want to get her new Liberace sneakers dirty. (Yes, she attempted to walk to the Liberace Museum to buy a pair of pink sparkly sneakers with pianos on them. I felt like I was hanging out with a 7-year old girl. Well, not just because of the sneakers.)

If I didn’t implement a ban on buying T-shirts five years ago (you get them free everywhere and really, once one leaves the campus, there’s not the pressing t-shirt need there once was), I would so buy most of these.

I mean, seriously, EVERY baby should have one of these:

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