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links for 2008-03-30
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At a March 19, 2001, board meeting the Village of Skokie mayor and trustees voted overwhelmingly to approve a plan by a local developer to move and restore the historic Dempster Street station. The developer is the Taxman Corporation which restored the 40
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Dempster station was established as part of the Chicago, North Shore & Milwaukee Railroad’s Skokie Valley Route, a high-speed bypass for the interurban around the more congested North Shore suburbs on which the Chicago rapid transit had trackage rights as
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The most fascinating reading EVER.
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Also fascinating
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links for 2008-03-29
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Dear Body, Look, I’m just going to start with the elephant in the room (no pun intended) and say it….you’re fat. I’m sorry that I’ve treated you so poorly over the years and want you to know that above all else, I need to be kinder to you. Here’s the th
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Two more YA and a Printz update
I accidentally finished two more YA books last night which means two more books from my Printz Award Challenge are complete. Cool. I’m betting 2001 was a tough year to pick the winner. These books were good.
We started listening to The Body of Christopher Creed on audio and got about halfway through it and cassette number four wouldn’t play properly. That was frustrating. The story was really getting going. I kept forgetting to reserve the print version and was pleasantly surprised when I found it on the shelf during our Wednesday trip to the library.
So I picked it up and started in on Chapter 13 and before I knew it, it was 11pm and I’d finished it. It was good. Very good. Loved the characters. Loved the setting. Loved the storyline. Is he dead or is he hiding – building a new life somewhere?
Before that, I read Many Stones which was also good but incredibly depressing. Super short book, very quick read and very depressing. But I said that, right? I guess the murder of your sister when you’re a 16 year old and then facing apartheid can’t really be anything BUT depressing, right?
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Fringe Benefits
So yea, Michelle all grown up yesterday, lots of people asked if she was going for an interview or something. Not an interview but it is election mania at the community college and she’s really hot for student government. In fact she’s running for some office or another.
Cool right?
Student government is giving her the chance to focus her dramatic energy on good causes rather than the latest who is sleeping with who drama that teens and young adults and well, let’s face it, old adults can get wrapped up in.
She’s putting herself out there in new ways and learning how to do “real public speaking” and how to network (she’s at Lobby Day in Tallahassee right now.)
If she actually gets this student government position she’ll be doing even more of this sort of thing and there’s an actual scholarship involved, which is also nice.
But you want to know the best thing of all? She’s really very excited about this part…
She’ll have free access to the official student government sticky notes. (She gets that from her mother, not me – from TW who has a serious sticky note fetish. TW could not be more proud.)
Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging
I didn’t expect to enjoy Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging but I did. I enjoyed it very much and I laughed out loud a lot. Now that I’m finished, I’m also anxious to know what happened with the Sex God.
I’m so glad that the books on my Printz challenge have been really good, not like a lot of books that make the adult awards short lists (or long lists, for that matter.)
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Back Up Your Birth Control, Damn It
I made it! I am here to remind you that Emergency Contraception is available to YOU, over the counter, if you need it – or when you need it. Do NOT hesitate to go to your pharmacy if the condom breaks, if you forget to put your diaphragm in, if you are forced to have unprotected sex. In fact, I would urge you to do what I’ve done – buy a box right now. You can order it from Drugstore.com if you like. Have it in your medicine cabinet and tell your friends that you have a box if they ever need it.
I bought a box one year ago. So far, nobody around here has needed it and it will expire in six months or so – and then I’ll throw it out and buy another box. Just in case.
And even if you don’t order your own box right now, you should make sure every woman of childbearing age knows that emergency contraception is available – over the counter. Spread the word. There are still many, many women who don’t know it is available. There are many, many women who don’t know what emergency contraception is. There are many, many women who are afraid to use emergency contraception. Reassure them. Help them find information. Support them as they learn more about their reproductive rights and options.
Back Up Your Birth Control – it’s your right and your responsibility – do it.
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links for 2008-03-25
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I don’t often vent like this. It’s just that I have been so excited about this Disney trip and the Johnson’s Baby Camp trip which is ALSO a heated subject right now. It’s about time that those of us spoke up who are appreciative of what is handed to us. I
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My boss paid me to go see Lisa Stone (founder of BlogHer) speak at Harvard last week and she gave a great presentation. I think I want to talk more about this later, so stay tuned.
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But like flirting, networking isn’t just learning to be social. A good networker builds her career, meets new friends, finds a decent caterer, via networking. Networking isn’t a social skill, it’s a life skill.
(remind me to blog about flirting/network
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