So I get high. I’m hungry! I’ll have a snack. I want something sweet, but healthy. Strawberries! Perfect solution. Oh, wow. These strawberries are yummy, my goodness. I look to the cabinet for further munchie inspiration and I see a plastic bottle of chocolate ice-cream-topping. Then I start to think about chocolate, it’s origins, it’s market demand, it’s effect on the history of the global web of trade. To YouTube! Search query: where does chocolate come from? Oh, perfect. A video directed at children looks like the most promising result. I think at first, No, Sarah, you will not sit here, alone and higher than a kite, watching children’s educational television. That is just too absurd. Don’t be that weird. But I do it anyway. I went in for a strawberry and came out with a deep knowledge of the cacao plant and its cultivation and economical effects.
New day, new high, eating a bagel. It’s a beautiful cloudy day outside, so I open the blinds. I see my garden of wildflowers that I planted with the seeds from a birthday card from my friends Kayla and Lisa. I think, Oh yeah. I planted flowers. So I decide that maybe it’d be cool if I watered them. I go out and realize it just rained this morning, so I probably shouldn’t drown the little guys. I observe them. They are juvenile and hopeful. Tiny little seedling babies with no knowledge of the real world. I start to get attached to the little guys and decide that I really do want to help them. I will give them fertilizer! To Google! “Natural home-made fertilizers.” Oh wow it’s a bunch of websites for farmers. No, that’s not what I want. I am not growing crops for nourishment. I am growing flowers. Aha! Compost as fertilizer. I scan the article and I see a general list of ingredients in your typical healthy compost pile: egg shell, coffee grounds, orange peels, animal product. Slow down. I do not have the time and materials to create an entire compost pile, so I decide yeah it’d be cool and normal for me to make a tiny amount. With like, three pieces of eggshell and half an orange peel and a tiny bit of chicken poop. Wait. That is the stupidest idea I’ve ever had. What the fuck. So then I start to think about fertilizer alternatives and I realize that what helps plants grow is essentially the rotting of other things. I think about the beauty of the biosphere and I wonder about the chemical reactions that take place when living things decay. So I went to Google again and read the entire Wikipedia article on “Decomposition.”
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Friday, February 25, 2011
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Library Poem 1 (Rough Draft)
200J
I'm here to stay
Group study room like a view to my doom
And the bride to my groom
And those Middle Eastern boys with their designer glasses
Are talking about me, am I in any of their classes?
Cause my purse reeks of weed
And my cleavage may mislead
Them into thinking that 200J
Is my only way
I'm here to stay
Group study room like a view to my doom
And the bride to my groom
And those Middle Eastern boys with their designer glasses
Are talking about me, am I in any of their classes?
Cause my purse reeks of weed
And my cleavage may mislead
Them into thinking that 200J
Is my only way
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