Gold Days

Today was good. It wasn't a marvelous/excellent/superb day or anything. But it definitely wasn't bad. It's the kind of day I like because it's just normal and productive and pretty. Maybe with some extra perks along the way.

Today's perks included:

-Finally deciding on some names for my hamsters. Herpetron and Cupid. Herpetron is the bigger one who has a gnawed area on her butt from their fights. The name Herpetron came from a pet directory. Some crazy person actually named their business this. I'm stealing the name because it's funny...like a robot with herpes. Or a hamster with a chewed butt. Cupid is the smaller one. There was an allusion to "Cupido" today in one of the poems we read in HispAmn Lit class. I liked it. The hamster's kinda small and round and cute. I can imagine it flying around with a bow and arrow pretty easily. Cupid fits. Except I guess Cupid is a male name, but that hasn't stopped me in the past.

-I cooked good food! It was tasty and I did it myself. I made a pot of pinto/black beans and added slight meat for flavor and spices. I heated up some tortillas and put on some Mexican cheese blend and avocado. Then I added the beans. I liked it. I ate three. I hadn't eaten since my bowl of cereal at breakfast. It was filling. I think I'm done eating for the day. How simple.

-I had a good hair day. My physician asked if it was natural. She said the "Chinese ladies" were talking about a new type of perm that would make her hair look like mine, haha. I told her on humid days no one would wish to have my hair. But today it was nice. :)

-I ran into a friend who decided to sit in on my enviro seminar class. The good part was seeing her after being gone for so long. The bad part (not a perk of my day) was the guest speaker we had in the class. It was a high power official at UT who we had both dealt with in the past through the Environmental Center. The topic of her talk was Campus Sustainability. I worked on getting a sustainability policy passed and task force established for three years, along with other students involved in this committee of the CEC, my friend Lucia included. We helped write the policy. In her speech, this official never even mentioned students. All of the work we did to get this happening at UT was glossed over. She talked about the policy that SHE was drafting with HER colleagues. It's pretty much the same thing we'd already given to them when they would barely listen to us. Now they're flaunting it like it's their own. I probably shouldn't shoot my mouth off too much since I've been gone for a semester and am not totally up to speed, but her talk was irritating in more than a few ways. Again, not a perk, but at least I had someone there who could share my frustrations.


I feel like I am rejecting environmental stuff more and more...I'm not even sure why. It just bugs me in a nostalgic way. But also in a depressing way because I know "environmentalists" have an annoying image and that it's so hard to make people care about certain stuff. Especially when it's long term. Despite it all I want to go CAMPING. It's been so long. My tent is in the closet crying.

keep all your crows away
hold skinny wolves at bay
in silver piles of smiles
may all your days be gold my child

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