So, when you’re on vacation, as I was for about three weeks, you lose touch. I barely kept up with any news. And so, here are some of today’s links. Stuff I found interesting. Stuff I can’t believe I missed. Etc.
The Star Trek movie opened! And I was somewhere in Italy drinking Limoncino and Sciacchetra in Cinque Terre and completely forgot about it! And it got great reviews, and it looks like it will be this summer’s blockbuster, and this means millions of new Trek fans, I hope, and I couldn’t be happier…and now I need to go see this movie!!! AND I discovered it opened here in Israel at the same time, so no worries for me!!!
A song called “I kissed a girl and I liked it” is now playing on the army radio station, and I’ve never heard of it before, but I like it…let’s google, shall we?
Ah, here ’tis:
And so much more exciting, devastating, embarrassing schtuff…involving beauty queens, politicians, Afghanistan, comedians, wild fires, and much, much more…check out the Huffington Post for the most entertaining way to become informed.
It’s 12:18 am, and I’m nearing being done with the packing and cleaning and bill paying…but not quite enough to feel comfortable. Why am I blogging, might you ask? Well, I’ve decided not to sleep, what with a cab coming in 2.5 hours, and I’ve got much on my mind.
First off, some articles really worth taking a look at. Important and interesting stuff that I’ve not noticed on the big radar:
Keith Olbermann: “President Obama, You Are Wrong” – A very powerful video, well written, moving rebuke on the president’s decision not to prosecute CIA interrogators for torture. Want a very compelling argument on learning from our mistakes lest we be doomed to repeat history? Watch this!
Modern life’s pressures are hastening human evolution – That’s right, we’re not done evolving. We’re actually speeding up. So much so, that in 10,000 years or less, the then-humans may not even be “Homo Sapien” any longer and could not interbreed with current-day humans. Read this article. Very cool. Very intriguing.
OK, now I really have to get back to doing things other than blogging, listening to Susan Boyle for the umpteenth time, and get on with the packing, bill paying, Italian train time table finding, airline ticket confirming business I really should be up to. I fly in less than 6 hours! But the thought of being away from a computer for three weeks…well, except for internet cafes, and the like, is kind of daunting…no, it’s also liberating. The 100-day marker is coming very soon for me. 100 days until my 30th birthday. The more I blog, the more I live, really, and spend time with good people, the more I understand how silly and pathetic this countdown is. Right now, it’s a great device. I would be lying if I said I was cool as a cucumber about this birthday, but I’m much better about it. I’m working on me, and that’s all that counts. I’m doing OK. More than OK, really, depending on the day and how I look at it, really. And enough with this pep talk! Tomorrow night, with any luck, I will be sleeping in some gorgeous little B&B on the Amalfi Coast. Aren’t I a lucky duck. So what if my savings will be blown to high hell, soon. How many people go to the places they want to go? Not enough, that’s for certain.
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