Tweets for Today

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Ingredients for a really bad morning

Ingredients for a really bad morning:

A teenager who has not had enough sleep.

A teenager who thinks she can finish her paper on the morning that it's due.

A subzero coldsnap.

A teenager who refuses to wear her gloves because they don't really keep her hands warm enough. (Oh, so like, bare skin is better?)

An orthodontist appointment at 7:30 a.m.

A cross-town highway that is crawling at 5 miles per hour when the speed limit is 55 miles per hour.

A car radio that no longer plays The Morning Show but instead news reports about the terrible economy.

A jeep that reeks from last week's electrical fire.

A school start time of 8:30 a.m.

A teenager's messenger bag that manages to insinuate the bag's strap into the mechanism of the jeep's hatch, thus rendering it unable to open.

When you're kicking the jeep and bawling out of sheer rage and frustration before 8:45 in the morning, you know it's probably not going to be a very good day.

Inauguration; National Day of Service on MLK Jr. Day

I think this is a terrific idea for how to celebrate the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day holiday, the day before the inauguration. Obama suggests checking out volunteer opportunitites at www.usaservice.org. I plan on signing myself and the girls up, and I'll see if Rob wants to participate, too. Decrease Worldsuck on a national level! Posting this video is my contribution to decreasing Worldsuck today.