School Books

i recently ordered most of my books for school from bookbyte. i ordered them monday afternoon, and i've already received one of them. yay! i had also ordered ball blue book of preserving yesterday from amazon. i'm really hoping it gets here by saturday so i have it when my mom comes here to help me can my tomatoes. i need to find a recipe for canning mangoes without them being too saturated in sugar. mangoes are probably one of my favorite fruits (aside from green bananas), but they're so darn expensive in the winter. fifty cents a piece during the summer hiked up to $1.50 in the winter. guh!

i think madison's already missing adam. everytime she's heard the gate in the front yard shut today, she runs up to the door. poor thing. maybe i'll do something fun with her this week if the weather permits.

sometimes, i really wish i didn't have the usgs earthquakes feed saved in my bookmarks on firefox. for the past week i've seen a dozen or so earthquakes off of the coast of honshu (japan), which is where adam is right now.

i made a comment last week in a comments section of the local paper. it was a discussion on emergency contraception and how it should be spoken about in local hospitals here. a man actually had the gull to compare women's rights to the americans "imposing" on the germans during ww2. i made a kind of inappropriate comment, and thus it was never added. i playfully said that "perhaps you have basic biology confused with a progressed case of syphillis". i'm not sure if the writer of the article has control over what comments are added, but that initial comment was taken away, and mine was never posted. it's just as well, but the guy is still pissing me off saying that pro-choice people shouldn't push their morals off on those who are anti-choice. i hate this state, and i can't believe the women who actually commented to that article could be so insincere about their reproductive rights. then again, maybe i'm just getting entirely too worked up from reading the war on choice: the right-wing attack on women's rights and how to fight back. this is an issue i'm very compassionate about. i try to do what i can in regards of keeping reproductive rights and family planning alive in indianapolis, but i have a feeling just signing petitions just isn't helping.