How I spent someone else's honeymoon

My old friend quility and her new husband jdoggiedogg were joined together in wedded bliss a few months back, and finally got to take their honeymoon: a week-long visit to New York City, where quility lived for most of the 1990s and into the 00s.

jdoggiedogg has recently posted a very detailed and photo-filled trip report, in which I (and the rest of my household and, it seems, half of my flist) make several appearances of varying lengths. It is in two parts, here and here. It's a great advertisement for the city.

I do wish I had been able to spend more time with them; I hate being a grownup. It seems like half my life is spent counting down the few minutes I have available until I have to leave to do the next thing.

Civics quiz

Here's a surprisingly tough quiz about American history, governance, and economic theory which was designed to test the knowledge of high school college seniors. Sixty questions.

By "surprisingly tough", I mean, "there are actually questions on it which I wouldn't expect a high school student to be able to answer"--for instance, questions about Federal Reserve policies, the Federalist Papers, and public good theory. I got a 95%.

(via sarah_ovenall)

Correction from dhole. I would expect a college senior to know almost all of this.