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Try fitting this on a t-shirt: "Congress went to Washington for a lame duck session and all I got were these lousy environmental budget cuts." Last week the 108th came back to town for some drive-by budgeting and passed a 2005 spending plan that slashed several important environmental programs. Funding for research and science at EPA was reduced. ( Read more... )

Angel was supposed to pick me up in Greenville, SC today. No sign as of yet, with the possibility of tomorrow. I should have taken Greyhound yesterday, when I had the chance. Blah.

Happy Thanksgiving.

On November 17, Representatives Rob Portman (R-OH) and William Jefferson (D-LA) introduced the Community Restoration and Revitalization Act, which would make much-needed improvements to the historic rehabilitation tax credit. The Historic Rehabilitation Tax Incentives Program can be strengthened to realize its full potential ( Read more... )

One final left at 9am tomorrow. Meeting with academic advisor to complete paperwork for graduation at 12pm. Leave for Greenville, SC with mom, aunt, and grandparents at 2pm. Return to Savannah on Saturday?

December 6 - arrive in Philadelphia at 8:47pm
January 3 - depart from Philadelphia at 6:40am

I'm much less anxious today. Most likely because I didn't have my environmental science class, rather my preservation construction class. Instead of listening to little girls' opinions on how the US should start population control in other countries by disguising the birth control shot as a flu vaccination, I helped frame, raise, and apply ( Read more... )

So maybe I just need to give up. Stop reading. Stop listening. Stop watching. Stop preventing myself from being blissfully ignorant. I won't throw myself at the world, and let them pick me apart piece by piece. Instead, just become the woman I always thought I would be... a hermit. Then I can hate humanity in peace, until I forget that it ( Read more... )

Well, I've decided to come home during the first or second week in December, depending on the kiln schedule. I'm still debating on whether or not to stay for New Years, as I don't really have options in either place that seem enticing. I'll be back for a month, so who knows what could happen. Terri is supposed to visiting her parents at their ( Read more... )

At 11pm on Sunday, I arrived at the ceramics lab. At 5:45pm on Monday, I left to go to my Environmental Science class. After almost 19hrs of wheel throwing, I was covered in clay head to toe, and the world was spinning. Always clockwise, of course, which is the way I prefer to throw. My final project didn't really turn out the way I wanted it ( Read more... )