Fall

I'm really glad that it went from being absolutely freezing with no winter to the best weather ever. I was wondering why I loved fall so much at the beginning of this season. I couldn't believe that a winter coat was necessary to go outside. This is much better. I just hope that it sticks around for this weekend. I love all of the beautiful trees and all the leaves on the ground. It smells so amazing, too. I can't wait for this weekend. I'm excited for the football game on Saturday and then going out that night. I just hope I get through tomorrow without keeling over.

All-nighter

So, it is 3:44 in the morning, and yes I'm still up working on homework. I decided I needed to take a break from studying to blog, because I know I'll probably forget to do it if I wait until tomorrow. I really don't know why I waited until the last minute to start this study guide when I knew I had other things that are due tomorrow. Silly me. I guess I'll just have to learn the hard way. It's not really that big of a deal, though. What is one night minus sleep? I guess I'll find out tomorrow, haha.

Global Warming causing fires?

Australian author, Andrew Bolt, from The Advertiser says they are crying ‘global warming’ to cover up their mistake of not warning people of the fires that could have, and did, come. In his article, “We Should Have Prepared for These Bushfires…shouting ‘global warming’ is just a ruse’, Bolt argues against this fight on global warming with the fires as evidence. Bolt doesn’t believe that global warming can be used as an argument right now, because it isn’t matching up or doing what it was supposed to be doing. Also, their facts were not correct, and all you need is an almanac to prove that wrong. He wants Bob Brown, who is a green advocate and a senator, to stop blaming these fires and deaths on global warming. Instead of preparing with fire safe houses, and taking care of the families and victims of these fires, they are taking advantage of the situation and asking for money. Trying to help out our environment may not be terrible, but Bolt doesn’t believe that this should be our main concern at this time.

Ecuador

Ecuador relies on oil as a source of income, but as we have all heard before, we are slowly destroying our planet by extracting this oil. The president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, has set up a unique proposal to European countries, including Great Britain as of this week. He wants someone to pay Ecuador $3 billion to not drill in the Yasani National Park, located in the Amazon. Correa says that would be half of what he would make by drilling, but that it would save our planet by decreasing the amount of carbon dioxide caused by drilling. According to Ecuador 410 million metric tons of carbon dioxide would be polluting our earth if we did not pay them off. Not only that, but there are Amazon Indian tribes still living in the forests, and they would be polluting them. It doesn’t stop them from drilling other parts of the Amazon, but it would save the national park from being destroyed.

Engler, Mark, and Nadia Martinez "PAY'EM NOT TO DRILL." Mother Jones 33.3 (2008): 40. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 27 Oct. 2009.

Weekend

So, this weekend I feel like I have a lot of loose ends to tie up. I need to go get contacts. I really need to put all of my clothes away. Does anyone else feel like laundry takes up soooo much time? I feel like it tires me out, then by the time it's done I don't feel like putting it all away. I also need to really study for my midterm I'm taking on Monday. Maybe posting this on here will remind me to do all of this. Hopeeffulllyyyyyy....

FARC

Not only in Africa are there guerilla groups starting a rebellious war against the government. In Colombia, South America and the surrounding countries of Latin America have also been dealing with this issue for the passed decade or so. Here, it is called the FARC, or the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. The main reason they want power is for drug trafficking. In 2008, the Colombian government discovered information on the FARC that links their money source back to Venezuela's president. The Colombian government has now cut off from Venezuala, and that is how the argument between the countries began. FARC still is a problem that Colombia is dealing with, though.

Colombia's justifiable raid

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Weighing out the pros and cons of a size 0

So, in Yahoo! News, it shows Jim Carrey gaining 50 pounds to play Curly in the "Three Stooges" movie. In my opinion, I think that the showing of gain weight and loss in the media has become so out of hand. I don't think it is good to portray how easy it is to change your self image. I'm a fashion merchandising major, and we talk about body types a lot. You are born with a body type, and you aren't supposed to be able to change it. People don't realize that the Ectomorph and Endomorphic body types are completely different, and that you don't choose if you are muscley or if you are rail thin. It's crazy to hear statistics about 8 year old girls wondering about their body image. I bet you didn't know that 50% of 10 year old girls are on diets. The saddest part about this is that sometimes it's not the children, it's the parents! I remember when I was younger that my sister was always a little on the chubbier side, and she did love to eat. They were always worried about cutting her back on food or putting her on a diet. As she grew up, though she grew taller and she still has a muscle build, but she's gorgeous and she isn't rail thin. I just wish that sometimes people would look passed the whole body image thing, and I wish that stars would help people to realize that not only is it a hard task to gain and lose all of that weight, but to promote that it's NOT HEALTHY!!

Homecoming Week

For some reason, I feel like I had so much to do last week! On top of feeling that way, I unfortunately was sick. For all of you who haven't had the joy of sitting in the health center for an hour waiting on just a nurse to come weigh you and take your blood pressure, I will tell you right now it is not fun. So on top of being stressed about all of the work I already knew I had to do, I was now missing classes on top of that. Not a fun feeling, but I feel better now, and all of the work is turned in. Of course, now there is this week's homework to fret over.