Skins

I've recently started watching a show called Skins which is from British channel E4. There's a group of high school kids and each episode focuses on one of them while still including story lines with the others. It's different from other shows with a similar cast in that there aren't really lessons being learned or ideals being preached. If someone has sex, they don't get pregnant or re-examine all their morals. They get drunk a lot but don't seem like complete idiots. Some of them take pills but don't seem like addicts. One girl has a known eating disorder but there's not a big intervention and she's not terribly depressed. They're just normal teenagers. The show has gotten praise for being fairly realistic concerning how teens, I'm assuming those in England, are today. If it's truly realistic than all English parents are kind of terrible.

Also, there's a clear difference between this show and American programming in that we can't say the F-word every 5 minutes or have nudity of the back and the front.

Edit: I realized that I didn't communicate that I love this show and think you should watch it. Sid is my favorite even though at times he's terribly pathetic. He steps up towards the end of the first season and thus maintains status as my favorite. I also love Anwar because he's played by Dev Patel from Slumdog Millionaire. You might recognize Tony from About A Boy with Hugh Grant.

Cyanide and Happiness

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NYR

I've decided my main New Year's resolution will be to try and not involve myself with gossip. This does not mean I have to stay away from Gossip Girl.

Job Opening: 850 FBI Agents

"Despite a bleak economic environment featuring wide-ranging layoffs and rising unemployment, the nation's premier law enforcement agency is touting "one of the largest hiring blitzes in our 100-year history."

"We're also looking for professionals in a wide variety of fields who have a deep desire to help protect our nation from terrorists, spies and others who wish us harm," Raucci said."

Awesome. What person doesn't want to protect the world from spies!!!! Whole article from CNN here

Who's Gonna Save My Soul

The more I watch this video the more I like it. Especially because it has Jorma Taccone from Lonely Island.

Art Appreciation

This is Tenth Street Studio by William Merritt Chase. I saw it at the St. Louis Art Museum the other day and really liked it. At age 23 I'm starting to appreciate art. Took me long enough.

Adult Day Care

Have you ever heard of Adult Day Care? I had not until I saw a sign for it while driving today. It is day care for the elderly. Geriatric day care. Then I came home and googled it and apparently this is not a lone business on Delmar but a nationwide thing.

"Adult day care centers, also known as adult day services, have been providing a form of respite for caregivers for more than twenty years. In 1978 there were only 300 centers nationwide. By the 1980s there were 2,100 centers, and today there are about 4,000 centers nationwide, according to the National Adult Day Services Association (NADSA)."

"Adult day care centers provide a break (respite) to the caregiver while providing health services, therapeutic services, and social activities for people with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia, chronic illnesses, traumatic brain injuries, developmental disabilities, and other problems that increase their care needs. Some adult day care centers are dementia specific, providing services exclusively to that population. Other centers serve the broader population."

Initially I thought it seemed so strange and almost sad. I still think that it seems strange but it seems well founded. It also makes me nervous about growing old.

MVP

Abby and I got these matching footie pajamas today at Target. Who needs the heat on when you have a fleece suit?

Wanted: New Year's Resolution...

...because I can't think of one.