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02 Jun 2010

In the News…

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley will be replacing Megan Fox in the Transformers franchise.

Miley Cyrus has apparently split with her boyfriend Liam Hemsworth.

Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon may or may not be expecting.

The Ataris is going on tour? When did they last put out a hit song? [source]

Degrassi’s season 9 will be released on DVD and Bluray on July 20

Today, Seattle’s beloved athlete Ken Griffey Jr. has retired from the Seattle Mariners. Sad day.

Drunk History featuring Will Ferrell, Don Cheadle and Zooey Deschanel

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Revlon’s new collection of nail polishes are scented. [yeah, no thanks]

Glee actress Jane Lynch recently married her longtime girlfriend Lara Embry in Massachusetts.

Celine Dion is pregnant with twins.

The Welsh government has released this new PSA warning men about sexual harassment.

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George Bush has joined Facebook [source]

Urban Outfitters has now launched their own beauty shop on their website which features over 50 brands and 1,000 colors. [source]

Italy is offering pregnant women 4500 Euros to not have an abortion. Payments will be separated into 18 months. This is a controversial issue so I don’t want to get into it on its own post. [source]

19 Apr 2010

The world ahead of us…

I just made the swift decision that I would not be doing my theology reading for tomorrow. This is not because I am a student that slacks off. I don’t. It isn’t really because I have anything else more important to do (but I do)

For the first three weeks of my quarter, I’ve been sticking to my syllabus in my classes. I stayed in all weekend and did homework while swooning over actor Matthew Gray Gubler on Criminal Minds. I felt much older than I really was. I should probably have been out w/ my friends like every other college student in the country on a weekend. Also Matthew Gray Gubler is 30 years old. (sidenote)

So being the age that I am – and a college student, I feel old. I no longer I have that energy that I used to have. I have no desire to pack on those numbers (or the pounds) that come with age, but why does it seem like the rest of the world is? There are the child stars, the infamous bloggers that have become household names at the age of 13, (Yep, I’m talkin’ about you Tavi!) and the ones in grade school, junior high, and high school that cannot wait to get older. They do the things that make us cringe and confuse us. Our society has come to terms with the idea that with age comes privileges and independence. This idea is stomping on our youth. Hard. There are some decisions that we think we are ready to make when we are younger, but there’s a reason why people warn us about them. I believe that making mistakes are lessons to be learned, but some lessons do not need to be learned until later.

I decided to ask some of my friends the question:

Are we growing up too fast?

“High school is our only time that mistakes are acceptable. Then we get into college and we are automatically thrown into this world of “what do you want to do with your life” and honestly, we are in our twenties. No one should want to know what they want to do with their 60 + years yet. i think that our generation needs more time for self discovery and exploration.”

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