RED VELVET

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1263 - This American life has an episode on the US economy. It is interesting. I have been listening to it in segments at work, haven't finished it yet.

On BBC News:
US debt clock runs out of digits
Until last month, the clock had enough digits to measure US debt levels
The US government's debts have ballooned so badly the National Debt Clock in New York has run out of digits to record the spiralling figure.

Went to the farmers market on my break. I bought some Zucchini, tomatoes, broccoli, pears and apples. At one of the vendors I said "The pears are organic, are the apples?" She said we don't use any pesticides or sprays, but they are not "certified organic," because it is expensive to get the license.

If I were president I would provide a tax reimbursement to families that eat organically. If more people ate organically, the cost of organic food would decrease, the environment would be healthier, people would be healthier and government would be less involved in major conglomerate food production. If people were healthier it would cost less to insure them... and the list goes on and on. From King Corn it explained that during the Reagan Era government decided they wanted to make food cheaper by mass producing it so that Americans could spend more on other things. That is how large scale corn production came in to play. Corn is cheap and that is why everything has corn syrup in it.


Last night I went over to Melissa's house to have dinner with Melissa and Danny. Melissa planned the meal and I gorged myself on bread with brie, salad with apples, walnuts and lemon, pasta with pesto, ricotta cheese, zucchini and onion. Then we topped everything off with a red velvet cake that Danny made from scratch. The cake was fucking amazing. It had a cream cheese frosting. It was a nice way to spend a Wednesday night. I rode my bike home in a food comma.

Today I have to go back to the Dr. to follow up on my TB test for my Peace Corps stuff. Then I am going to try to make it to Bikram Yoga. :) Life is good today.