Food. It's Complicated.

Blah Blah Blah, think you’ll be getting this? Na Na Na, Not in the back of my Car ar ar, if you keep talkin’ that blah blah blah…

Oh Ke$ha. If you’re songs weren’t so catchy and fun to dance to and if your style wasn’t so amazing, you’re lyrics would be driving me insane. I’m currently jamming to “Tik Tok”, “Blah Blah Blah (featuring 3oh!3…gag)”, and my favorite “Your Love Is My Drug”. Jess, you should download that last one.

I just finished watching the documentary “Food Inc.” which is obviously made to unveil what goes on behind the scenes in food production. This is what I got from it.

-Everything is a lie.

-A handful of companies control EVERYTHING from what every farmer does to the laws that pass or don’t pass about food safety.

-Corn is bad. And there is a crap load of it. Seriously, there was a mountain of corn. I want to go to that mountain of corn.

-A lady’s son died from eating a hamburger. Pretty tragic stuff but she said something that made me think she was a bitch.

-You might think that you’re buying a product that is organic that some happy family grew in their backyard, but it is probably owned by Pepsi.

-It is cheap to buy McDonalds and it is expensive to buy carrots.

-I’ve always wanted to be a factory worker and now I know that I don’t want to be a food factory worker. Unless it is in Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. No chickens there.

-And finally everything is unsafe, deceitful, and unhealthy for humans, animals and the planet. You should probably just grow everything you eat in your backyard.

This food movie did not really persuade me to change my eating habits. I don’t eat meat much anyway and I have very little control of what my parents buy as well so it doesn’t matter. It basically persuaded me to never become a farmer or meat factory worker. Now there was a movie made a while back called “Fast Food Nation” that is not a documentary but it’s a movie looking at the fast food industry from the perspectives of a college student who protests it, a teen working at McDonalds, a CEO for some fast food company, and illegal immigrants who work in the slaughterhouses. The whole movie is more tragic than gross with very disturbing images of what the immigrants have to go through. Then the last ten minutes is a very graphic step by step process of how the cow turns into packaged beef. It makes me sad thinking about this movie.

I told all of this to Mikey but he wasn’t comprehending. He never listens to me!

Lauren Is Tired.

I'm tired of Facebook. I'm trained to check this dumb thing multiple times every day and I hate it. I really love it when I see something my friends posted but not when it's bombarded by everyone else's crap. Fan pages are becoming ridiculous. I swear there is a fan page created for everything possible. I hate getting event/group invites for dumb things. I get really excited that I'm being invited to something cool and fun and then when I see I've been invited to "I droPped my phooOone in the toillletttt OH my Gawdddd..." my dreams are crushed. I hate statuses. Whenever I want to update my status with something, I just think "No, no one will care, I could just post that on twitter." Then I do. And only good people see it.

I'm tired of money. I have $150 for books (which will buy...a book), $35 for forever21, $35 for a fish store, some borders and panera money, and a $5 visa card. I need a job. But my stomach just churns at the thought of getting one. Because of my last job, I have nightmares of selling things, crazy moms, and retail. I like to think that the situation I was in was not how jobs are supposed to be, and that it will be different, but that is really all I know. I have wonderful dreams about having money in my bank account and it seems so easy and so hard at the same time. Jobs scare me and I can't live without one much longer. I quit Penneys in March 2009, and If I don't have a job by that time 2010, I'll feel like a failure.

I'm tired of living at home. I'm good at not spending money when I REALLY want something. If I ever get a job, I want to use the money for living in a dorm, or maybe getting a small place to share with someone/some people. I told my mom the other day I didn't want to be living here by this time next year. She didn't believe me. She wants me to live here forever.

Here's a picture:

Things I've Done A Lot Lately

1.

Pomplamoose! I discovered these guys (Jack & Natalie) about a year ago and thought they were boring and not my style at all. But I gave them a second chance and subscribed to them recently because of their "Single Ladies" cover. It's so happy and fun, and I love it. Natalie has a very unique voice and it is hard not to laugh when she is singing "Single Ladies" with a serious face and her style of singing. Jack has a beard (sometimes) and is a musical genius. Their harmonies make me melt. I like his accordion and baby piano. I downloaded all their free MP3s and have been listening to them on repeat for the past month. My day is so much better when they post a new song, like today.

2.

Memoirs of a Geisha. I haven't watched this movie or picked up the book in TOO LONG. Why haven't I watched this movie sooner? It is so good...oh my goodness. I'm having a hard time trying to find words that describe how much I love this movie and all the emotions and memories I have when I watch it. It's so sad, and mysterious, and beautiful. There are a lot of scenes where they show Hatsumomo or Sayuri standing in the rain/on a cliff/walking down the street, and the look on their face just scares the shit out of me. They look dead, or like aliens, or dead aliens.

3.

Knitting. I think I've made about ten hats since August. Barely any of them are wearable because it's been taking me a while to adjust things so they look nice/fit. I also run out of yarn easily. I had a thing of black yarn that was as big as a watermelon seriously. Now the end of it is dangling off of an unfinished hat I started last night. And it will never be done :( But I do have a blue hat and a black scarf that are wearable. Maybe I will make a yellow hat next because that is the only color I have left...

4.

Video games. I haven't played the Sims in a long long long long time. I don't miss it very much (GASP). I have been playing Mario Kart between classes and it's probably a bad idea because I get so stressed out playing it. The worst thing is when you're on the last course, the last lap, and there are five other guys behind you and you can see the finish line, you're almost there...and then that damn blue shell comes flying through the air and blows you up just one second away from the finish line and all the people behind you pass you and finish the race so you now come in eighth place when you should be in first. It gets intense. I also made a character on WoW. Don't judge me...I only play for like ten minutes a day and have no desire to reach some ridiculous level. It was just inevitable that this would happen.

And here is a picture I don't think I've posted anywhere yet because I like having things besides words on here:

Bullets.

• Wednesdays are now the best days of the week.
• My stomach is full of artificial cheese and low grade beef.
• Jessica is studying for her social problems class.
• I am sitting in the basement of the student center blogging about nothing. It's very awkward because there are a lot of people around. Like, someone could be reading this from behind me. If you are...stop.
• The definition of social conflict is when one person benifits at the expense of someone else. For example, the greasers benefited from the broken beer bottles on the ground at the expense of the socs.
• My new favorite hobby is skipping class and making really bad excuses for missing class. Today's excuse was that I already went to two and the third was just too much. So I went home.
• Parking is still a nightmare. For Christmas, everyone can give me quarters. If I am lucky, there will be one parking meter available in the whole city of Akron that I can use for an hour at a time.
• I have decided in the past few weeks that I will not be going to the University of Akron next year. It's official.
• Iin other news, fall is here and I can wear fall clothes!

Okay, Bye.

A Love Story continued...

To Be Continued...

LOL.

Flattering Pictures Of My Friends:

Jess in mid sentence. (RIP Awesome Sunglasses)

Sarah and Max looking cute and Dan doing what he does best.

Hayley at a weird angle and too much flash goin on.

So I was going to take a shower, but my nose started bleeding so now I’m going to blog.

I don’t know what happened, but unfortunately, these three pictures were the only ones that weren’t black on the first roll I shot. There are also two thai gourmet pictures that worked really well but I'll add those later. I’m very disappointed and I don’t know what I did wrong. Oh well, I guess I’m just experimenting. Hopefully I won't screw up the next two rolls. I also bought a frame to put them in which added to the disappointment of receiving like 30 black negatives.

Sigh.

A Love Story.

...to be continued...

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