Alrighty so May has been a busy month for me- I'm in a pretty hard math class and I'm volunteering at the NWS office like 3 times a week now, and I meant to be posting more, but I just haven't been :(.
Well to make up for lost blogs I'll try and talk about a couple of things-
1. I bought a book! ^^
I've been reading more this summer because I had a couple of fun books I was almost finished with when I got bogged down with homework in the Spring semester. I finished reading a Carol Higgins Clark book- Laced, and I finished up the Final Confessions of Georgia Nicholson by Louis Rennison- Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me? (Both fluff, but fun fluff ^^.) And from listening to Vegetarian Food for Thought (and checking through her website) I decided to get some new books- which are of more of a serious nature than the other ones I've been reading. I bought Mad Cowboy by Howard F Lyman and Diet For A New America by John Robbins (and I bought Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass for fun <3 for Whitman).
So far I've only read the first 3 chapters of Mad Cowboy (and I'm simultaneously reading Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series)), but so far it's really intriguing. It's written by a farmer who grew up on his family's organic farm, went to college for agriculture and was taught about chemical based agriculture, came home and took over is family farm with these new ideas (his dad was old and his brother had cancer), and basically killed his land and went from dairy farm to cow-mill on the animal front, and then got a paralyzing tumor on his spine from all the chemicals he had been using. Now he's pushing veganism and works as a Farmer Union worker pushing bills in DC to support organic family farms. It's a really interesting book and makes me a little worried about even my veggies from Walmart based on the way he says he and other farmers treated their farms.
2. Reading this book, along with watching the travesty that is the Gulf Coast Oil Spill has made me think about what I can do.
Obviously I can try (and am trying) to put my money with the better choices such as buying organic when I can afford to and not supporting BP, biking, walking, or carpooling when I can, but also by my political action. I'm registered with the green party (yes- crazy hippie, no-not a Ralph Nader supporter), but I regret to say that I haven't updated my address in a while, so I'm mailing that form in tomorrow (no post on Memorial Day) and looking at my state's Green Party website to see what I can do about the Oil Spill (they're trying to get the President and the Governor to declare a state of emergency, which between the spill being unstoppable/unclog-able and the hurricane season coming, I can't say is a bad idea).
I've also already signed a petition on CredoAction http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/epa_bp/?r_by=&rc=paste2 . Surprisingly, it's hard for me to support a lot of these petitions for stopping off-shore drilling though, because while I'm personally against it, I have family working for oil companies doing off-shore drilling (not with BP mind you) and I don't exactly want my family to be jobless. This particular petition is more aimed at BP and how it's financing it's actions to stop the leak.
3. Unrelated Stuff
Allie's going to New Zealand soon! :O
I got a Wii.
I'm seeing Sex and the City 2 in a little bit- I'll tell you if it's as bad as the reviews say.
YAY! :D
i miss you
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