FACT: A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
FACT: 99% of all "mazes" can be solved if you walk to the right every time you have to choose between left and right.
FACT: Total asphyxiations attributed to rice cake eating since 1965: 1,601.
– FINAL EXITS by Michael Largo
FACT: Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
FACT: Deaths attributed to “loud sounds” since 1970: 34,831.
- FINAL EXITS by Michael Largo
FACT: Poets have a life span fifteen years below average.
– FINAL EXITS by Michael Largo
FACT: Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
FACT: Halogen floor lamps caused approximately 270 fires and 19 deaths per year.
– FINAL EXITS by Michael Largo
FACT: One of the largest carriers of hepatitis B is dinner mints.
FACT: Three people die each year testing if a 9V battery works on their tongue.
FACT: Since 2001, 987 children have been killed while buying ice cream.
– FINAL EXITS by Michael Largo
FACT: In 2003, 24 people died from inhaling popcorn fumes.
– FINAL EXITS by Michael Largo
FACT: More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
Career Goals
Okay. A quick story.
My daughter, Eliza, announced, at age 8, that she was going to grow up to be a television “show runner." (I didn't know what a show runner was until I was 30, but she has had a different life experience than I did.)
Hitherto “show runner," Eliza's professional goal had been to open a restaurant called "The Unicorn Cafe." Just for context.
She is now a freshman in high school. (Whatever that means, during quarantine.) Last semester she had a required class - on life skills. When my mother took it, it was called "home ec." When I took it, it was all about how to balance a checkbook. These days, it's about how to manage social media and get into college.
Eliza had an assignment. She was supposed to write about her career goals. The assignment specifically asked students to outline two professional aspirations. Then present them to the class.
Eliza could only come up with the one.
Show runner.
We live in Portland, Oregon. So show runner is not at the front of everybody's minds. The teacher reminded Eliza of the assignment. Eliza is an A-student; she always does the assignment. So this was a conundrum for her. Because it seemed entirely unnecessary. Eliza explained that she didn't need to come up with a second option, because she knew what she wanted to do, for a fact.
Her teacher, patient as a Buddha, suggested that Eliza might come up with a Plan B, you know, just in case the whole television show runner thing didn't work out, ultimately.
Eliza gave it some thought.
A Plan B?
A fallback. If all else failed.
Basically her version of digging ditches?
I guess I could be a "television executive," she said.
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