I figure that every girl has two types of exes in her life. There is the ex whom you’re still in love with and hope that you will one day be reunited with by romantically running into him on a busy street in New York after years of not seeing one another. In this scenario, you are just breaking up with another dude only to discover that you and your ex are perfect for one another.

And you’re Gwyneth Paltrow.

He’s a dreamboat: yacht-owning and Armani-clad. Sweet, wonderful, kind, rich — sigh.

And then there’s what I like to call the Funk-Master-Sketch-Ex. Funk Master (for short) is that dude in high school who really screwed you over and left you an emotional wreck. Funk Master Sketch also applies to the dudes (notice the plural) who screw you over in college. Funk Master Sketch always has a way of re-entering your life whether it’s in person or in the form of a bill from your psychiatrist.

- Natalie Krinsky, Yale Daily News

Hahha extremely vivid and accurate description. Unfortunately most of mine fall into the latter category.

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She gives a jaundiced look. “There’s no way,” she says. She thinks he made a choice long ago between doing the right thing and getting rich, and when you make those choices, you foreclose other ones. “He could have been president. But when you try and change your history too much, and try and recolor it because you don’t like the way it was or you want it to be different to prove something new … you lose touch with who you really are. You lose your way.”

- Marianne Gingrich on her ex-husband, in Esquire

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Carpet of frogs cancel Greek road trips!

Silly NY Times blog post about frogs overtaking roads near Thessaloniki, where thankfully, we’re not going. Hope the frogs aren’t in France (haha, silly OE).

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Only the good die young...

So apparently my lack of sleep will eventually do me in… I knew this was coming someday. James Dean would be proud though, no?

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Fascinating, isn’t it? Long live California!

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Nice Guys Finish Fast

Rick Reilly’s commentary on Phil Mickelson winning the Masters today:

“Also winning Sunday: karma, which proved to be alive and well. And guys who never had a temper in the first place. And endings that make you wipe your tears on the couch pillows.”

Lots of exaggerations and strange metaphors, but the gist of the article is this: Phil is a good guy, Tiger is not. Today, nice guys didn’t finish last and the winner was truly deserving of the title, both on the green and off.

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Finally... Paid Internships?

“With job openings scarce for young people, the number of unpaid internships has climbed in recent years, leading federal and state regulators to worry that more employers are illegally using such internships for free labor.

Convinced that many unpaid internships violate minimum wage laws, officials in Oregon, California and other states have begun investigations and fined employers. Last year, M. Patricia Smith, then New York’s labor commissioner, ordered investigations into several firms’ internships. Now, as the federal Labor Department’s top law enforcement official, she and the wage and hour division are stepping up enforcement nationwide.

Many regulators say that violations are widespread, but that it is unusually hard to mount a major enforcement effort because interns are often afraid to file complaints. Many fear they will become known as troublemakers in their chosen field, endangering their chances with a potential future employer.

The Labor Department says it is cracking down on firms that fail to pay interns properly and expanding efforts to educate companies, colleges and students on the law regarding internships”

Great news for graduating seniors — none of this “unpaid internship” business after college. But don’t get me wrong, I loved all of my unpaid internships throughout high school and college. You have to pay your dues, but eventually you have to start paying your rent, too.

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Tom Friedman is Pro-immigration

“Went to a big Washington dinner last week. You know the kind: Large hall; black ties; long dresses. But this was no ordinary dinner. There were 40 guests of honor. So here’s my Sunday news quiz: I’ll give you the names of most of the honorees, and you tell me what dinner I was at. Ready?

Linda Zhou, Alice Wei Zhao, Lori Ying, Angela Yu-Yun Yeung, Lynnelle Lin Ye, Kevin Young Xu, Benjamin Chang Sun, Jane Yoonhae Suh, Katheryn Cheng Shi, Sunanda Sharma, Sarine Gayaneh Shahmirian, Arjun Ranganath Puranik, Raman Venkat Nelakant, Akhil Mathew, Paul Masih Das, David Chienyun Liu, Elisa Bisi Lin, Yifan Li, Lanair Amaad Lett, Ruoyi Jiang, Otana Agape Jakpor, Peter Danming Hu, Yale Wang Fan, Yuval Yaacov Calev, Levent Alpoge, John Vincenzo Capodilupo and Namrata Anand.”

Guess who?

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Is the female glass ceiling still there?

An interesting read from the inner workings of Newsweek, describing the struggle of females to rise the ranks of a previously testosterone-fueled news magazine. Have things changed? Or have men merely succumbed to the demands of women, erstwhile holding onto their chauvinistic tendencies. I’ve definitely dealt with interviews where I felt objectified by the male boss, and I’ve felt uncomfortable in certain situations where I reported to a man. And I must note, when I visited Newsweek’s offices this summer with my friend who was an intern, all the other interns I met were guys… The numbers add up, but something still doesn’t feel right.

Excerpt:

But consider this: U.S. Department of Education data show that a year out of school, despite having earned higher college GPAs in every subject, young women will take home, on average across all professions, just 80 percent of what their male colleagues do. Even at the top end, female M.B.A.s make $4,600 less per year in their first job out of business school, according to a new Catalyst study. Motherhood has long been the explanation for the persistent pay gap, yet a decade out of college, full-time working women who haven’t had children still make 77 cents on the male dollar. As women increasingly become the breadwinners in this recession, bringing home 23 percent less bacon hurts families more deeply than ever before. “The last decade was supposed to be the ‘promised one,’ and it turns out it wasn’t,” says James Turley, the CEO of Ernst & Young, a funder of the recent M.B.A. study. “This is a wake-up call.”

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Sleepyhead

The Economist says I need sleep. Add that to the growing list:

1) My mother

2) My roommate

3) My big sis

4) My throbbing head

5) Ben Hwung

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