Girls like this make me want to move out of the country.

This article was posted on cnn.com this morning:
TEEN GIRLS REPORTEDLY MAKE PREGNANCY PACT
"GLOUCESTER, Massachusetts (AP) -- A pact made by a group of teens to get pregnant and raise their babies together is at least partly behind a sudden spike in pregnancies at Gloucester High School, school officials said.
Principal Joseph Sullivan told Time magazine in a story published Wednesday that the girls confessed to making the pact after the school began investigating a rise in pregnancies that has left 17 girls at the school carrying a child. Normally, there are about four pregnancies a year at the school.
Sullivan told Time that nearly half of the expecting students, none over 16, were involved. Sullivan said students were coming to the school clinic multiple times to get pregnancy tests, and "seemed more upset when they weren't pregnant than when they were."
Some of the girls reacted to the news they were pregnant with high fives and plans for baby showers, Sullivan said. One of the fathers "is a 24-year-old homeless guy," Sullivan told the magazine.
Superintendent Christopher Farmer confirmed the deal to WBZ-TV, saying the girls had "an agreement to get pregnant."
He said the girls are generally "girls who lack self-esteem and have a lack of love in their life."
The first reports of the students' apparent plan to get pregnant were in the Gloucester Daily Times in March, when Sullivan said students were reporting that the girls were getting pregnant on purpose.
The rash of pregnancies has shaken the seaside city about 30 miles north of Boston. Last month, two officials at the high school health center resigned to protest the resistance from the local hospital to the confidential distribution of contraceptives. The hospital administers the state money that funds the clinic."

I [almost] have no words for how idiotic these children [all under the age of 16??] are. You are proliferating every stereotype about ignorant teenage American girls and adding offspring to the world population, that frankly, does not need more of you. If anything speaks for natural selection, it is people like this. End rant.

Things that I've recently (and not so recently) fallen in love with.

I have far too much time to read and spend money on unnecessary products now that school is over! I forget every year but my university is 84,000 times more amazing in the summer.

1. The book Submarine by Joe Dunthorne. New author to me but incredibly witty and fun. Sarcasm and inanity always win me over. An added bonus: he likes to amp-up your vocab, starting off each chapter with a new word and incorporating the definition in... somehow. (Example: apothegm- a blunt remark, conveying some important truth). Also, as it takes place in Wales, there are people with names like Arwen, Chips, and Rhian.2. Mochi ice cream in all forms. If you're Asian or know anyone even remotely Asian, you've probably already had mochi ice cream. BUT WAIT! This week I (we) discovered 2 new varieties that make me love that little continent even more.

• Mini mochi's: indvidually wrapped, about the size of a Ferro Rocher, delightful! Came in green tea, vanilla, and "pink" flavors... which I can only assume is red bean.
  
• Mochi ice cream TO GO: Comes with 2 good-sized ice-cream balls (that actually, do in fact look like testicles when left in the car for too long) and a teensy tiny spoon/fork/chopstick to eat them with. While the utensil is in no way helpful, they are also, delicious.

3. Films by Pedro Almodovar. Not new in my life but I was reminded how much I love his films while watching Todo sobre mi madre. I love fairly everything this man produces but my favorite has been La mala educacion so far. Note: don't watch unless you are comfortable with death and transvestites and can handle reading subtitles if you don't speak Spanish. This is the original cover, not the lame version (despite Gael's face gracing the cover) that came out in America.
[Additional side note: while trying to take Todo sobre mi madre out of the library, I was given a comically condescending lecture on the use of a "VHS tape" and was told (reminded?) that it would not, in fact, work in a dvd player. Thank you $80,000 education].