Plastic Box

Channeling Molly Ringwald

Perhaps it was the combination of the humidity and my general sassy attitude when I woke up this morning, but I decided to rock a side ponytail today.

 

I'm starting my own brat pack at work. Anyone angsty and/or have a tape deck? 

Can of worms

Meet Ida!  She's got me spinning and excited, reading reading reading.

I found this wonderfully unique article about the poetry of evolution and creationism; the way that poets have intertwined both theories (insert ironic DNA double-helix reference here) to show their common origin: that we are all just searching for an awakening. The article also shows how evolutionary scientists themselves weave biblical references into their impassioned writing about what they have discovered.

I won't go into my own views on the topic, I just wanted to share my fascination of Ida with you, as well as this stanza from a poem by Tennyson.

Behold, we know not anything;
I can but trust that good shall fall
At last -- far off -- at last, to all
And every winter change to spring.

-- Tennyson

Science is not without a touch of the magical, the serendipitous. As Darwin says in the final sentence of Origin of Species: "There is grandeur in this view of life."

In a nutshell

On PostSecret today, Frank included the commencement address that he gave this month at St. Mary's College of Maryland. As part of the message, he included "one-line commencement addresses" submitted by the students graduating that day. You can read them here, and the rest of his address to the college at the bottom of today's Sunday Secrets. 

Here are a few of my favorites, as I, too, begin to pass into a new life chapter. I guess we're never done learning, but never done searching either.

"you have brains in your head. you have feet in your shoes. you can steer yourself in any direction you choose. you're on your own. and you know what you know. you are the guy who'll decide where to go."
-- Dr. Seuss

"You will lose things you can't imagine losing, and you will find things you never thought you would find. No doubt the universe is unfolding exactly as it should, even if it is unclear to you at the time." -- unknown

"If there is ever a tomorrow when we are not together, there is something you must always remember: you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think, but most important of all, even if we are apart. I'll always be with you." -- Pooh

"You have five minutes to wallow in the delicious misery. Enjoy it, embrace it, discard it...and proceed."
--Elizabethtown

 

Even when I look at it through teary eyes, the sky is there every morning, reminding me to be thankful for my journey.

Muffin Tops?...really?!

 

Spotted at the Discount Drug Mart the other day (pic taken with my phone), NOT  in the diet section.

If you send in five proofs of purchase do you get a free low-rise, tight-fitting pair of jeans?!

Novelty

I did it! I think I made my summer reading list. Or, at least, my goals for summer reading. Currently almost done with Sloane Crosley's I Was Told There'd Be Cake, so not counting that one.

Anyone have other gems to add?

Marrying Anita: a quest for love in the new India, by Anita Jain

Flapper, by Joshua Zeitz

The Economist book of obituaries, edited by Keith Colquhoun and Ann Wroe

Mariana, by Monica Dickens

The Geography of Bliss, by Eric Weiner

The Monsters of Templeton, by Lauren Groff

Emily Post: daughter of the gilded age, mistress of manners, by Laura Claridge

Your Inner Fish: a journey into the 3.5-billion-year history of the human body, by Neil Shubin

My Mother's Wedding Dress: the life and afterlife of clothes, by Justine Picardie

Modoc: the true story of the greatest elephant that ever lived, by Ralph Helfer

Sing Them Home, by Stephanie Kallos

Long live the printed word! Though I was thinking about getting a Kindle. Yay or nay?

"Check your blood sugar, and check it often"

So... we found out last night that Kitty has

 

yes.... the 'beetus. SO now we get to buy him prescription food and give him insulin shots twice a day. I immediately texted Marti, knowing that she would understand, as her three cats each have their own unique maladies and prescription meds (at one point, we both had a cat on anti-depressants).

Oh Kitty, you've made it 11 years without really causing me much grief, so I suppose you have earned this new special treatment in your golden years (he's about 58 in human years). What can I do, I love the little bastard. He was with me through nearly my entire 20s, we've lived in 7 places together, and he's had 6 different human rommates and 2 animal ones. There have definitely been times when I don't know what I would have done without him, and then other times when I wanted to toss a ball out the door and shut it behind him. Such is the way of all relationships, right?

So I'll do what I need to do to make sure that he's with me a while longer. Who knows when I will need to lean on him as much as he leans on me.

Ahhhh.... jeans day

Feet on desk? Check.

Tea in funny editor mug? Check.

Kickin ass and takin' names on work projects? ...mostly Check.

But ahhhhhh...jeans day.