March 28, 2007
I Know
that posting pictures and quotes is not actually blogging. Or up to my previous standard of confessional, possibly truly insightful writing. But it's something. Deal.
No, I am not making a deal with you. I mean for you to deal with it. =)
In four and a half more weeks classes will be over and I will have some more time. Or else I'm just going to start staying up later. (What's later than 2 am? 3 am!) To read and write.
It's Spring. Think about doing something to protect our world
"I want creation to penetrate you with so much admiration that everywhere, wherever you may be, the least plant may bring to you the clear remembrance of the Creator ... One blade of grass or one speck of dust is enough to occupy your entire mind in beholding the art with which it has been made"
For instance, think about buying an organic t shirt next time. Why?
Approximately 1/3 of a pound of pesticides are used in the production of just one cotton t-shirt.
Although cotton is regulated as a non-food agricultural product, in fact most of the cotton plant ends up in our food chain (as cottonseed oil and as feed for cattle). If it were regulated as a food product, many of the chemicals used currently would not be allowed.
Organic cotton is similar in quality to traditional cotton grown in the same area.(2)
Many of the pesticides used in cotton are known carcinogens.
In California, one of the top five cotton growing states, 200,000 pounds of Aldicarb is used each year despite being banned in some states for its danger to water sources.(3)
Endosulfan, a common pesticide used on cotton, washed off a cotton plantation into a waterway in 1995. “Within days 245,000 fish were killed over [a] 16 mile stretch. 142,000 pounds of Esolufan were used in California in 1994.”
Cover Revealed
You can find high res images of the US and UK covers here. Hey, there's that Slytherin locket. Cool.
March 26, 2007
March 6, 2007
Relationship
What a silence, when you are here. What
a hellish silence.
You sit and I sit.
You lose and I lose.
-Janos Pilinszky
(trans. Peter Jay)
March 5, 2007
I'm not trying to remind you that my birthday is pretty darn soon
| Karline and Lloyd are Proud to Announce the Birth of their Child, Michael Lloyd Hardie, on April 4, 1970. | |
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| Unfortunately, Michael Lloyd Hardie is the cutest baby ever and no-one can stop fussing. | |
| Karline and Lloyd are in stunned silence. | |
| What Did Your Birth Announcement Say? at QuizGalaxy.com | |
March 3, 2007
Ugh
Everyone keeps asking how I am. Or asking me to call them. And my answer is UGH. This week has just been ugh. Last week was ugh too. And ugh, I would really like to talk to you when I'm done feeling ugh. It's me not you.
No time for anything but reading for class and making up, as in fabricating, points A, B, and C for a research paper (hoping that I'll be able to find scholarly articles to support those points) and working. It's been a nine shift week at the restaurant, meaning three doubles. I'm kinda ticked off that the management gets more days off (two!) than I get this week (one!). It just kinda stinks, but it's almost over and that's what counts right? After all, this is what being an adult is--getting up in the morning and eating your Raisin Bran and facing what the day brings with as much courage as you can find in the early morning tired hours.
Yet more and more time passes silently.
Outside, the wind's incomplete unrest
Builds and disperses clouds about the sky,
And dark towns heap up on the horizon.
None of this cares for us. Nothing shows why
At this unique distance from isolation
It becomes still more difficult to find
Words at once true and kind,
Or not untrue and not unkind.
--Philip Larkin