Finally! The long composition is over!
It was about selfishness and how a character whose pride and selfishness gets in the way of blah blah blah. Yeah, I think my hand will never be able to write again, but luckily typing is pretty easy. So I wrote about: Jack from Lord of the Flies. That was actually a good book.
But I’m not going to shove literature down your throats or anything; not cool, folks. Let people read what they want
To Kill a Mockingbird (via yosisoycool)
Sorry, but I’ve never been able to get behind silly stunts like Earth Hour, so we didn’t participate. Turning our lights off for an hour does nothing but tell all the people who are already on board with the concept that… you, too, are on board with the concept. Congratulations.
For the last few years, Jessi and I have been working towards the goal of developing a lifestyle that is overall less wasteful. Like Marco says, we have been “voting with our actions and our money,” because at the end of the day, that’s what anyone in actual positions of power to do or change things will give a crap about. Not a few light bulbs that were shut off for a fraction of our destructive time on this earth or a bunch of high-fiving on social networks.
Here’s a quick summary of what we have managed so far for the inevitable questions and accusations. We are far from perfect, but who isn’t? I got rid of my car in Denver in 2006—a town that really cannot be called “mass-transit friendly” unless you live in a couple of specific areas. We replaced Jessi’s clunky old Mazda that same year with new gas-conservative Toyota Matrix. We buy the cleanest paper towels we can afford, or at least the “select-a-size” kind so we are not throwing out nearly as much trash. We buy compact florescent bulbs, and I walk, train, or bus it for about 95 percent of my business and pleasure (also, I work at home). Jessi unfortunately has to drive to her job, but as soon as she lands a long-term position somewhere farther outside the city, we’ll move to give her a shorter drive (or even put her on a bus route), but stay close to a train line so I can still get around and downtown when needed. We turn our heat down at night, we insulated the dreadful doors in the last few apartments we’ve lived in, and we try to cut down on running heat and AC as much as possible.
If you really want to help make a difference, turn your lights on and look around (and outside) your house to find all the ways that you can actually improve your lifestyle. One-time stunts are easy. The only way the businesses and governments of the world are going to listen is if we start speaking through real actions and decisions that require long-term sacrifice and change.
I was at Chili’s during “Earth Hour” and if anyone was even the slightest bit worried about our planet, they could have dimmed the lights a little.
MCAS offically starts tomorrow, I think I might want to shoot myself in the face. This won’t be fun. On a good note: Twitter and Tumblr are avaibale at school. Wow, I just sounded like a spokesperson with a stick up her butt, oh well though. So, there is this wicked cool game on coolmath-games.com called Gem Twist. That was probably one of the geekiest things I have ever said, I think that deserves a round of applause. (So doesn’t that.) The lunch bell needs to ring, now. It’s cheesburger/buffalo patty day and I don’t think that they use real meat. Well, why should they? We’re just going to either a) puke it up b) work it off or c) pick at it until the bell rings and not actually eat anything. (I happen to fall under the b catagoery, but I’m not that self-motivated.) The school needs to install Mozilla Firefox so I can have spell check, I never proof read, and I’m still half asleep. 11:03, seven more minutes. Well, stupid math games need my attention. Tomorrow, is going to suck. It’s Long Comp day.
