The My-Life-Is-Still-Crazy-Busy Roundup.

• Parent objects to Perks of Being a Wallflower, doesn't want it on Commack High School's summer reading list.  (Yes, there are other reading options.)
• Shel Silverstein's travel pieces have been collected.  (via Idiosyncratic Mind)
• I want to be Kirsten Miller's BFF:

Were you ever a Girl Scout? (this question was suggested by a 12-year-old friend) If so, were you a rebellious Girl Scout?

Heehee. Yes, I was a Girl Scout. But I’ve always had problems with authority, (a trait I inherited from my mother, who shares much in common with Luz Lopez), so I didn’t last very long. I remember feeling quite disappointed that we were making (and selling) cookies instead of learning how to rock climb, survive in the woods, or track dangerous animals. (Which makes me sound like a tomboy, I guess. I really wasn’t. I’d have been the one doing all of that in lip gloss and fancy shoes.)

• Don't miss this:  The Dangers of Stock Photography.
• "Yes, that distant era shrouded in mist and legend, "the mid-1970s"!" 

Comments

[Erin]

These kids get to read The Princess Bride in ninth grade, Into Thin Air for sophmore year, and Prep as a junior for high school? Are you kidding me? Those lucky bastards. I had A Separate Peace, A Tale of Two Cities, and Arrowsmith.

[Jen Robinson]

Kirsten and I joked about starting some kind of adult band of former (not quite successful) girl scouts. Consider this your official invite.

[Lisa]

Re: the 1970s American Girl, looks like there's one called "Julie and the Eagles." I hope they don't mean the band.