oops! i forgot my mom's birthday! BIG oops! :/ so i'm going to take her out tomorrow, uyensday, for fun and joy! and i'm going to be the happy daughter she hasn't had so far. that should be more than sufficient! good food doesn't hurt either!

we talked about ecology today. in preparation for next week's final lecture on population ecology and conservation. i am looking forward to what my professor has to say then. but after class i talked to him. and he was saying that plane travel will change drastically in the decades to come because there will not be enough petroleum. and then it got me worried about the future. when i was going to ask him what he thought about the 2% initiative, he said that things aren't going to change until we see real problems and by then, "it'll be too late." so i left class feeling hopeless and scared. so much needs to be done but there is not enough support. after this past weekend's record temperatures, i don't want to know what it'll be like with a global temperature increase of 2 degrees. it doesn't sound like a lot but it'll be gross. [sigh]

speaking of records, one of the things i am trying to do is shorten my shower times. here are the times for the past days: sunday: 7 minutes. monday: 6 minutes. tuesday: 5 minutes. yay! i also have one of those shower heads that has a low-water setting!

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