Aaand we're done! No? We're not? Balls.

...And shaft.

I finished my hours! I was psyched about this for a day, until I realized I was still at work, and still had to be at work until the end of June.

The world is going crazy, work is going crazy, and the LSATs were on June 7th.

Additionally, there will be nothing alive in the Gulf of Mexico.  I feel as though the vast majority of people are having far less hysterical reactions to this as they should be...this is a story that's juicy for all types of people.  From a lefty perspective, you've got stuff for environmentalists and conservationists to get upset about, EJ folks, corporate responsibility, everything!  And on the other hand, why isn't the government taking a stronger stance, or if this was a Republican administration there would be so much more criticism on the way it's being handled etc. 

Regardless, it is clear that this disaster has had an ENORMOUS economic impact on everyone whose livelihood depends on fresh, oil-free product from the Gulf of Mexico.  And besides BP paying them, what else can be done to help shore up the economy in that region? I heard a fisherman saying, take a vacation down here and find that there's more to it than lying on the beach.  While I love the beach, I always thought it was kind of silly spending time and money to get to a beach if you had one at home.

I'm thinking I'll go.


After this year ends, I'm taking another AmeriCorps position as a National Teaching Fellow in Albuquerque, NM and will be roadtripping out.  Maybe I'll go by way of New Orleans.

At the beginning of this post I was complaining about how slow everything seems to be moving...but now it's June 14th and time seems to be flying by. 

UTEC is going to the US Social Forum in Detroit and I CANNOT wait. 

Also, last Sunday I made salad with apples and walnuts in a balsamic vinegar dressing (lots of garlic and brown sugar and brown mustard) followed by a cavatappi and cheese casserole (like mac and cheese only classy, not orange, with a pound of cheese in it) and a lemon and tarragon pan-fried trout. With a free-form apple and apricot tart for dessert.  Photos to come.