According to Time on CNN.com, texting while driving is bad. DUH! 

“All of my friends do it,” says Sonalie Patel, 17, who lives in Elk Grove Village, Ill., and admits that she too occasionally sends texts despite a ban on cell phone use for drivers under 19 and adults with learners permits. “It’s like an epidemic.”

Why does Illinois think blowing out 19 birthday candles makes you a suitable candidate to chat on the cell while driving? What’s with the age/multi-tasking correlation?

To score my own island in THE WORLD? 

If you don’t know, this photo is of 300 manmade islands off of Dubai in the Middle East. If you click that link, it’ll take you to the wikipedia article about it. This thing cost 14 billion dollars to make. It’s going to be lots of hotels and resorts. It’s (obviously) in the shape of earth (an oblate spheroid?) and you (ha! like “you” will ever go) can swim from country to country to continent. Unfortunately, I don’t think the islands’ millionaire/billionaire owners have the hots for me. There’s a rumor Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are buying Ethiopia. HA!