I want to be in a t-shirt and jeans and barefoot. With my pants rolled up, I want to walk in grass and mud and feel the squishiness between my toes. I want to walk along holding hands with my boy feeling the sun on our faces. I want to feel the blissfulness of doing absolutely nothing except relaxing and taking it all in.

Or at least it really feels that way. I just wrote all of my due dates and readings (for 3 out of 4 of my classes) all over my giantkiller desk calendar I hang on my wall above my desk. It's not even a pretty calendar. I need the huge, white generic one so that I can fit all of the stuff I need to do on it. And just by labeling it I feel exhausted ( Read more... )

"The Great Recession--which is technically over, economists insist--may be morphing into a broader epoch: the Great Humbling. Millions of Americans who felt prosperous just a few years ago are now coping with long-term unemployment, sharp cutbacks in living standards, foreclosure, bankruptcy, and a deep sense of failure. That could persist for ( Read more... )

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I don't think I'll ever understand why teachers and professors always talk about horrible things such as slavery like they are completely in the past. Slavery still exists today in many, many parts of the world!!

I saw it glitter as I grew
and love did what I never knew
I thought this place was heaven sent
but now it's just a monument
in my mind
in my mind
And I couldn't help but fall in love again
No I couldn't help but fall in love again

"When I was 5 years old, my mom always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy.' They told me I didn't understand the assignment and I told them they didn't understand life."

Congress may extend unemployment benefits: Reid
Reuters

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress will consider extending unemployment benefits when it returns to work in September, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said on Friday.

"Soon after Congress returns to Washington we'll need to address this matter," Reid said of workers who ( Read more... )

NEWARK, N.J. - Bernie Madoff once had the best that money could buy when it came to his many homes. For his latest accommodations, he sought out a different kind of broker: a type of prison consultant increasingly popular among white-collar wrongdoers ( Read more... )