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  1. OMG!! - The Horror, The Horror!

    I just came across this sidebar in an old issue of Men's Health magazine:

    Is Your Hair Hung Over?

    Instead of buying Just For Men, try cutting your alcohol intake to put the color back into your gray hair. In a new study in the Archives of Dermatology, people with drinking problems had twice as much prematurely gray hair as those who didn't overimbibe. Alcohol halts the production of melanocytes, stem celss that give hair its pigment, says Stuart Reece, M.D., the study
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  2. My first ever movie review (please don't expect much)

    by , 12-21-2009 at 09:19 PM (Nostalgia)
    I don't generally write about movies, much less rave about them. On the occasion I'll recommend it to a few people, give my opinion on it, etc etc. Anyway, VERY few movies have held my rapt attention start to finish since I was a young(er) child. I could at the moment count on one hand the films that managed that. Anyway, last night I went to see Avatar, expecting some pretty cool CG and not much else. The preview looked good, but I was a little leery about the fact that there was one sentence ...
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  3. placement

    I have been placed for my student teaching. I will be in a second grade class and the teacher is a friend of mine. I did not request her, but I was praying that I would be placed with her. She's very knowledgeable and I believe that I will learn a lot from her.

    I start three weeks from today.

    The week before I begin I plan to get some help making a making a resume. I have such limited work experience so I don't know what to do with it. I've had one job ...
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  4. Lit Net Monthly News December 09- Cancelled

    by , 12-21-2009 at 05:57 AM (The Lit Net Monthly News)
    Due to very limited internet access, there will be no litnet news for the month of December. I would like to wish you all a merry christmas and a happy new year. I'll have a special Edition next month for the Month of December and January.
    Yours
    The Litnetter
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  5. Mad Friday

    by , 12-21-2009 at 04:35 AM (Life in a small town.)
    Mad Friday! The last Friday before Christmas, when all the local workers have their Christmas "do". All the pubs and restaurants of our little town are full of chrismas parties. The celebrants spill over onto the street and mingle with the local youth. A general pub crawl ensues. There is fighting, dancing, singing, fancy dress, snogging, throwing up and passing out. The girls from the Co-op hurl insults at the hairdressers from the high street, egged on by the lads from the tyre fitters. ...
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