So I was watching Scrubs last night, enjoying myself and Elliot's engagement-neuroticism, when something inevitable happened: a commercial break. I part watched, part spaced as a car commercial (blah), Comcast commercial (you're practically a monopoly now, you don't need to advertise so much!), a Target commercial (okay, I like Target, that one's permissible) and a Burger King commercial were all aired. It was that last one that irked me.

In the commercial, a mom is trying to get her daughter to eat an apple. The girl, whiny, cries, "No!" in such a pleasant way. The mom offers to slice it for her so she won't have to strain herself ("No!"), bites out of it to show her how good it is ("No!"), and even begs a little ("NO!"). Then the Burger King comes out of nowhere to save the day. How? He offers her what appear to be French Fries, but alas, they are really apples just sliced to look as such. The girl, of course thinking that they really are French Fries, takes the oddly sliced apples without complaint.

Um. Seriously?

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Ever wondered how on Earth vegetarians survive? Dum, dum dum dum! (fanfare...kind of hard to tell online, I know) Look no further, SuperVeg is here!

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Any Southeasterners have opinions on that fancy new Steinway you're getting?

When I picture the board's meeting in which they decided to buy a $97,000 piano, it goes a little something like this...

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What do you usually do during your summer vacation from school?

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Before Christmas, I had the easiest time finding books ever. You could ship me away to a bookstore for five hours and I'd be Okay. And let me peruse the shelves, pulling out this book or wishing I had enough money for this book. The people at the library started to know me by the armful of books I kept dropping over everybody. I was looking forward to when school let out so I could read into the wee hours of the morning.

Well this summer, the time when I usually read until 2 AM every night, I've stopped reading. Whenever I go to the library, I'm suddenly overwhelmed at what to get. Recently I've stayed with the English-course classics and stuff my friends kept ordering me to read until I caved in: The Grapes of Wrath, Catcher in the Rye, Twilight. I'm reading all the books from the Wrinkle In Time series now. Then I tried political thrillers, but when the guy sits there in THE suspicious airplane or helicopter that makes no noise, talking about the different versions of guns in Algeria, I snore. I'm not quite sure what I'm supposed to read, which drives me crazy because I used to love to read. But all the 'Meet Kit Kittredge!' American Girl books and petty thief-mysteries just ain't doing it. Do you have any reccomendations for good books that are out there?

Since age 13 I think I have been hooked on the show Sex and the City.The big city and frivoulous lifestyles initially drew me in. When I heard there was a movie coming out, I was hesitant.... I mean, did you see the Brady Bunch movie? Eekks! So on opening day, my 3 friends and I went and got pedicured and manicured then packed into the loaded theater to enjoy our girls night out.

To tell you this was a good movie, I would have had to see it once, but to tell you it was excellent, I'd have to tell you I saw it twice...and I did.

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Is anyone else really sick of the dreary weather?

A couple musical groups were supposed to sing at Cherry Lane today as a field trip, but it was cancelled due to the rain. Needless to say, we were all pretty irked about it.

Come on - where's spring!?

My friends and I decided to hang out tonight, and our plan was to go ice skating and then watch a movie at someone's house. The skating was fun, and then we went to their house and got the movie out, which they told me was a Disney movie.
But they lied.

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I might go get my permit this week and I'm stressing because I really don't know what the questions are going to be like. I keep putting it off because I don't know if I know everything I need to know. Like I read the book a year ago(That's some serious putting off), so I guess I should read it again. I kinda jumped the gun and drove home from Lancaster once and I need help with turning lol. Does anybody have any advice for me?

The question was do teens have short attention spans? Why do they have these short attention spans? Many of us responded with similar answers--we don't have enough time; we have too much to do; the technological age has pushed us to do many tasks in a short amount of time. Today, I witnessed firsthand teenagers inability to stay attentive in a formal setting.

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