Let's just say October 1st is my bday

This is a good article about the economy

And this is a great song

ARGHHH I was supposed to start out my 20th birthday with a REAL stance against sweets. Or at least, against unhealthy eating. Unfortunately, the past three days have consisted of McDonalds Egg Mcmuffin, Tofutti ice cream sandwiches, and a giant slice of cake that Kristen baked for me. Delicious. BUT TERRIBLE FOR ME!

My only comfort is that I swam 100 laps today. The water was disgustingly opaque. On a good day, you can see across the entire pool. Today, I couldn't really see past 1/6 of the pool, and the water was salty. VERY yuck. But at least I had a huge space to myself, so I did not care much.

I get very annoyed with my ESPM class. I told myself after taking that tree class in freshman year that I would never take another ESPM class again. But when you need a breadth course, taking a class about the environment seems a lot more interesting than the other choices out there. But there's just something about the department that annoys me. It's a little ironic that an environmental classs uses SO MUCH paper. The readers are huge and lately, the professor will print out handouts for the class that are just charts of environmental laws. I think that's pretty arrogant of them, to think "this chart is worth printing out." COME ON. Even the ESPM majors are not going to treasure your handout. Looking at my business classes, all of our readings are now electroinc, the presentation slides are posted online, and few teachers ever have handouts. So that's one of the reasons. The other may be that I'm just a pretentious business major.

I am probably going to quit crew. The three practices I skipped because I went home kind of threw me off. I feel kind of awkward returning. I wonder if you are supposed to continue doing something that you don't want to do 75% of the time. Today I was like "Caroline, I'm going to quit crew. I'm just going to run outside and be fit from that" and she was like "You don't even like to run outside!" which is unfortunately true. :( She also said that she had the same love/hate relationship with Cross Country in high school, but she did it anyway. I don't know. The longer I blog, the less likely I will actually wake up at 4:30 tomorrow.

I have been trying to read the news for the past few months, which is daunting since I was the kind of person who NEVER read the news. Even though the news is written for people that aren't that educated, it's still kind of hard to just jump in and suddenly get all the terms. But I'm glad I started before all of this Wall St. craziness happened because I kind of get what's going on! I like being informed about the world. Yesterday for some reason I made jokes about the economy and China's tainted milk and afterwards I was like "wow! I wouldn't have known about usch things before." I also got my voter's ballot today, which was exciting. There's only three things I know on it though - the presidential candidates, prop 8 for gay marriage, and some vote about the ac transit.

My stomach hurts. Is it from the huge amount of cake I just consumed? It was such an unhealthy cake.

So TOMORROW. THE EATING STOPS HERE. HAHA