All good things must come to an end.  The same goes for unseemly beards.

In other news, there's yet another reason not to swim in the ocean.


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i've acquired a handful of new emotions, all running the gamut of respectability. there’s a bee in my bonnet, and who put it there? maturation? isolation? not sure.


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"Drinking too much alcohol -- or drinking too little
It's no accident that alcohol advice is following the bad news about stress. Putting your feet up and having a tall cold one is actually good for you. One or two drinks a day can lower the risk of dying from heart disease by a third or so, a study in the American Journal of Epidemiology found. ( Read more... )

"Witnesses on the Underground heard a pop like a bursting champagne cork. Others smelled an odor like burning rubber. At least one reported a minor explosion in a man's backpack, and then the man muttering that something had gone wrong."

The muttering would-be backpack bomber would have made me laugh

starting tomorrow, I'm looking at a little:

1 - Venezia (Venice)
2 - Firenze (Florence)
3 - Pisa (Pisa)
4 - Switzerland (anybody know a good city in Switzerland? Inform me.)
5 - Berlin
6 - Amsterdam
7 - Paris
8 - Home (Stati Uniti)

it seems to be go time

List five songs that you are currently digging… it doesn't matter what genre they are from, whether they have words or even if they're any good but they must be songs you're really enjoying right now. Post these instructions, the artist and the song in your blog along with your five songs. Then tag five other people to see what they're listening to ( Read more... )

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Culture shock is a shower in an Italian shower.

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this is where I'll be studying in a little over a month:


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