For the past year of so I've been reading about, cooking, and slowly changing the way I think and eat food. Primarily I've been reading about vegetarian and raw food cooking. I'm not quite ready to completly give up on meat, however I have been slowly changing my diet to include more veggie-type recipes and less meat heavy dishes. Anyway, I got this book for Christmas called Student's Vegetarian Cookbook and was impressed with it's quick and easy recipes and good information on why eating and living vegetarian is a more sustainable and widely accepted lifestyle than most people think.

Here's two things I found interesting about the sustainability of vegetarian lifestyles:
one acre of land can produce:
30,000 lbs of apples,
40,000 lbs of potatoes,
50,000 lbs of tomatoes,
or 250 lbs of beef

Livestock consume 70 percent of the US grain production. 20million people die each year from malnutrition and starvation. Americans could feed 100,000,000 people by reducing their meat intake by just 10 percent

Okay, so I'm not gonna be one of those radical people who are insisting that all the world's problems could be solved by becoming vegetarians..but it really makes you think

twitter

So everyone should now go and sign up for Twitter. I did, and that makes it cool.

Still blogging and becoming Militant

Despite the fact that I don't think anyone (besides Elissa) actually reads my blog, I still enjoy writing on it. It's the part of me that really wants to keep a journal, but is way too lazy...or the fact that I'd love to pick up the phone and talk to my friends far away, but, again, I'm too lazy. Have I mentioned my hate of telephones yet?



So, this week began my reign as the militant and negative music teacher. On Monday I ditched the school staff meeting because they were talking about PLC's (professional Learning Communites) and trying to convince us that it's a good thing and not a waste of time. Then on Wed and Thurs we were supposed to work on our PLC goals with our "team". Again, I choose to stay in my room and do some actual work. Then I found myself at a Union meeting on Thursday after school!! Who'd of thought I'd be an active Union member. Whoa, it's kinda scary.

Cool Little Mac app

I am a very visual person. In fact my computer desktop is completly free of any icons or toolbars except for the one or two files that I work on every day that I need to keep at my fingertips. I use my computer daily and I have been looking for a way to put notes on my desktop. I could use the stickies, but this is a fun little program that lets me type and draw on my desktop. Check it out: Desktastic