Hodgepodge

A series of quotes and links I’ve gathered over the past week or so…

"Thirty-five years ago, while I was in the midst of moving, my car and all my belongings were stolen. I took it as a sign to get out of town. I put a map of the United States on the wall and threw a dart at it. It landed on Carson City, Nevada, and I bought a one-way ticket there from Boston. Much to everyone’s surprise, I started a new life in a new place without a friend or a job and with just the $600 the insurance company gave me for my car. I spent 12 years there and got a teaching job, my master’s, and a husband. It was scary–but one of the best moves I’ve ever made."
– Pamela Pierson, Spokane, Washington
For a whole slew of tips on de-cluttering your living space, check out Marla Ciley, known on the web as FlyLady.
"I’m an office-supply nerd. I hyperventilate in Staples."
– actress Debra Messing (expressing the very thing I too feel about office supply stores!)
It was the middle of a busy day, in the middle of the atrium, when I was walking briskly from one class to another, when my water bottle tilted just slightly, and wound up dumping water all over the place. It was embarrassing and messy. Is the Camelbak water bottle, purportedly leakproof even when totally upsidedown, the answer to my water bottle woes?
"I would rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family, and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give."
–Thomas Jefferson, letter of February 1788
Ever wondered how bugs mate? (Oh come now, I know you have…) Check out this oddly engrossing site that depicts their mating rituals, and so much more.
"I wish I could be that size, but I can’t be. I enjoy food too much. In the end, I’m too hedonistic. I enjoy pleasures."
– Elizabeth Taylor, on why she couldn’t remain Hollywood’s ideal beauty
Any of you fellow yoga-ers out there have trouble, as I do, maintaining a downward dog position for the requisite three to five breath cycles because your hands refuse to stay put on the mat? I can’t wait to add the Skidless Yoga Towel to my holiday wish-list. It’s kinda pricey, but if it works, it’d be completely worth it!
"I don’t like going to clubs because the music is too loud. I sometimes feel like my grandfather–asing them to turn the music down!"
–hot young actor Brandon Routh, speakin’ the truth about the nightlife