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My necklaces have a tendency to break. As I put my most recent necklace on this morning, I thought to myself, "today's the day it's going to break." The "clasp" of this necklack was a twine-like loop that wrapped around a metal disc. The loop was thinning and near frayed. I figured that soon it would just snap and the necklace would slide off my neck unharmed.

I was almost right. The necklace did break today. It was statistics, about halfway through. I sneezed and then heard the sound of a bunch of little beads falling. My first reaction was "holy crap, what just came out of my nose?" I looked at my hand and saw that I was holding on to about 40 little red and white beads. Still thinking they came out of my nose, I freaked, but then it hit me that my necklace snapped. It broke right in the middle, nowhere near the clasp, and fell all over the floor.

And then I found five dollars.

If you haven't seen Lazy Sunday, this won't make any sense.

The other day I had an interview and I needed to look up directions to the place, so I subconsciously went to Mapquest. Halfway through loading the page, I thought "wait, Google Maps is the best" and swear to God, I clicked the stop button, typed in maps.google.com, and looked up the directions from there instead.

Now that's advertising.

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This website is pretty cool. You upload songs from your computer, make a ringtone, send it to your phone, all completely free. It's better than buying them and you get to pick what part of the song you want. Check it out.

I am so furious, so outraged at something that doesn't even affect me. It has no bearing on me or anyone I know, but it's something so ridiculous that I'm personally offended that it's even allowed to happen. Today at a high school in St. Louis, two students were not allowed into their calculus class because the teacher decided that they weren't dressed nice enough. The teacher instructed his class to dress nice for today's lesson because they'd be having a "wedding". But when one boy showed up without a suit jacket, he was not allowed to partake in the lesson. A girl was prevented from participating in a later class because her pantsuit apparently didn't match.

The fact that a teacher, whose sole job is to teach, not make fashion decisions, can make a subjective call on a student's dress and use that to revoke their right to learn is unbelievable. These students were well within the school's dress code, yet it was decided that today they were unfit to learn the lesson (which, by the way, is one of the most important lessons in the class and missing it will no doubt hurt those students for the rest of the year). Not to mention the fact that this is a public school and it is well within reason to assume that at least a few students probably do not even own a suit or a pantsuit (no skirts says this teacher). Should those students be expected to go out and purchase an expensive outfit just so that they can attend class? These students had done nothing wrong, had not gotten into trouble, had not been suspended; all they had done was put clothes on.

And you know what the worst part is? This teacher has been doing this in years past and will continue to do this for years to come. Either the school is unaware of this or (even worse) sanctions this sort of behavior from their teachers but in both situations, nothing will be done about this atrocity. The teacher should be disciplined (or in my opinion, fired, this isn't the first injustice he's done toward his students), yet this will just be swept under the rug. Ahhh, I'm so mad.