Soaked In SinSoaked In Sin - LiveJournal.comI read this yesterday and I can't stop thinking about it.- July 10, 2008 Hunger exacts a social cost. Hungry adults miss more work and consume more health care. Hungry children tend to be sicker, absent from school more often and more prone to getting into more trouble. Larry Brown of the Harvard School of Public Health calculates that the total price tag of hunger to American society is about $90 billion a year. In contrast, Brown estimates it would only cost about $10 billion to $12 billion a year to "virtually end hunger in our nation." I am crushed by the...http://soakedinsin.livejournal.com/1022818.html Calling all readers...- July 9, 2008 It's become cult time for me...I am absolutely obsessed with Good Reads, and it doesn't help that I have a teacherex-bookstore employee that is on there with me ranking books like mad. I have chronicled all the books that are on my shelves and read through pages of reviews stocking up on my to-read list. I even uploaded a picture, which is when I knew that I was in it for the long haul. But now I am devouring reviews and rankings like mad and I need more book lovers to feed my appetite. Are.http://soakedinsin.livejournal.com/1022630.html Yay Freedom.- July 5, 2008 I had a great 4th. With a full morning under my belt, by 2pm, I finally had my playa bike lubricated and my backpack and cooler packed up and ready for a good day. Without a bike pump and no neighbors home, I had to push my bike up to the gas station up the hill to put air in the tires since I forgot when it was in my car that morning. Dammit. A long bike ride rocking out to my favorite tunes led me remembering how much harder a cruiser is than my geared bike, but still successfully...http://soakedinsin.livejournal.com/1021807.html Stop Bitching, Start a Revolution- July 4, 2008 He said this whole worlds full of chancesAnd this is one I gotta take... I'm starting my own personal emotional revolution. Yesterday, I went to pout into my beer and my book, and got perfectly turned around into laughs and friendship with my playa sister. Damn, I really love that girl. This morning, I got up early and went for a drive with my two favorite men - Hayes Carll and Ryan Adams - without even brushing my teeth - and yelled and screamed out lyrics for over an hour, unembarassed and.http://soakedinsin.livejournal.com/1021350.html Fires, Camping and Sadness- July 3, 2008 I finally found a place that I could camp a billion times in Kirk Creek, and now a mile up the road, people are fleeing. I said I would jump in the ocean, I joked it couldn't possibly grow that big. I mean, how could this beautiful coast just get all black and smokey:Damn. We were on voluntary evacuation notice on Saturday, I thought they would have gotten it under control. But today I read that now up through Limekiln is a mandatory out. We hiked there on Friday:I have so much more to say.http://soakedinsin.livejournal.com/1021123.html |