TAKE OUT THE TRASH!

This is a story

After a relaxing five days of Thanksgiving break, today I had to returned to university. I was so anxious to get to my dorm, put away my laundry, and then work on my final essay for class. To my dismay, after setting down my 10lbs bag of laundry (no joke! I think that's actually how much it probably weighted..I'd been saving for weeks), and turing on the light, I witnessed my entire room swarming with fruit flies! I immediately tied up the trash bags, which were engulfed with insects, opened the window, so the survivors could escape, and took the trash outside. When looking at the (clear) bag I could see hundred of flies crawing about inside of the trash bag, and their eggs cluthing to the lining. EWWW!!! When I came back, the room was still buzzing with fruit flies. Lukily I am obsessed with vinaigrette, and cracked open my bottle to make homemade fly traps. I combined vinegar with oil in several containers and placed them around the room, in hopes of capturing these pests. So far it has been about two hours since I set the traps. They seem to have dispursed, but every now and then when I bump something, a few dozen fly into the air. Lesson to be learned from this story? Don't leave trash with fruit remains unattended for several days, or you could be greeted by some unexpected guests when you return. Take out the trash and remember to compost!

With Thanksgiving just a few days away, I can only find myself to be a bit pessimistic about the upcoming holiday. The supporting morals are to come together and give thanks to celebrate the remembrance of the pilgrims who feasted with the natives on our very land. Uhh, okay. Well first off, I'm sure the Native Americans weren't too happy to be eating a meal with the people who slaughtered and conquered their civilization, and secondly do Native Americans even celebrate Thanksgiving?
America is the fattest nation in the world, so why are we promoting a holiday encouraging people to eat more? The common household joke during Thanksgiving is "I've got to go get on my turkey-eatin' pants." Why do we feel (as a society) that this holiday is about engulfing as much food as possible in one single sitting? Not to mention the week of leftovers! This is one of the main problems with our society; we take for granted our privileges, like food, and disregard the amount of waste it causes. I would like to see how much Thanksgiving food ends up in the landfill after one week. The main purpose of this holiday, to come together and appreciate good company, turns into another corporate aspect of American culture.

So, I've been really lazy recently and haven't been posting anything. It also didn't help that I forgot the e-mail address and password that this blog was created under. So I'm going to change it up a little bit. It's too hard for me to pick favorites for each week...so this blog, I'm thinking, is going to go in a different direction. I'll still be posting my favorite things, but I think I'll do more random posts as well. bye.