This past week was a pretty crazy week at work for me. I did better with some of my goals than I did with others, but I have four more weeks to work on them.
- Goal 1: Naught new except food and gas
- Yes
- Goal 2: Grow okra
- One of the two seeds sprouted, so I may plant another one
- Goal 3: Eat a pescatarian diet
- Seafood 3/7 days, vegetarian 4/7 days
- Goal 4: No chains/fast food restaurants
- No, I bought cookies from Subway at work, but I resisted Wawa when I got gas!
- Goal 5: Computer off by 10pm
- No, I was often on my computer until 10:30 or 11pm, but I’ll work on it
- Goal 6: Avoid disposable plastic
- Yes, except for what my food comes in
- Goal 7: Continue to attempt to compost
- Still working on it
- Goal 8: Track taking the train
- I’ve taken the train to work for the past four weeks, and I didn’t have to get gas this month until yesterday.
- Additional goals: work on my college thesis for publishing, look into new jobs, climate action
It turns out I don’t miss chicken as much as I thought I would, so contrary to my expectations, Goal 3 has not been my most difficult. I think my most difficult goals so far have been Goals 4 and 5 because Subway cookies are really good and I didn’t have to wake up as early last week as I will have to during this next week. However, it has been nice to have a consistent schedule that allows me to take the train everyday, which is not something I could say before the summer.
I don’t really have any sustainability stories, so I figured I would share a few quotes by children I’ve instructed at camp over the past few weeks that made me laugh.
“Look, my dad left me a note!” “What does it say?” “I don’t know, I can’t read.” -first grader
“I love dumb things.” “I love stupid people.” -third grade boys
“How do you know we’re going to learn physics? We’re like, eight or nine.” -third grade boy five minutes after I told him to use physics instead of tape to build a tower out of index cards
“Shortage of fresh water will lead to the extinction of humans…(five minutes later) what if we built our tower out of poop?” -another third grader during the same tower activity as the last quote
“It’s not fair. Adults have more energy than kids.” -fourth grader who lost in a jumping jack competition between my campers and me
“The only place you can make jelly out of a house is Antarctica.” -exact quote by a third grader
“I have a question. I think I know how we got dragons. Someone found dinosaur bones and thought they were dragons.” -third grader not actually asking a question
“Are you cheating on Justin Bieber?” -fifth grader asked me with no context whatsoever
Do your best in these trying times and may thee use naught new.
Naught New 