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Oct. 16th, 2022 09:15 pmOne more work of classes then hopefully a few weeks off. I didn't look at the academic calender. Two more replies and one more written thing this week. Definitely need to remember not to take two writing heavy classes at the same time, which I almost did. The particular way my writing suffers most is getting sarcastic and surly which I suspect is worse than how writing usually starts to fall apart. These tepid UN reports are pissing me off.
"The importance of water resources and problems of water quantity and quality may
be better perceived by analysing the economic importance of water and the new
opportunities in the water market."
"Elevated concentrations of trace metals can have negative
consequences for both wildlife and humans"
"Observed positive effects for poor and marginalized people ... include examples such as diversification of social networks and of agricultural practices"
This is corporate minimization. It's this kind of writing, glorifying horrors as "opportunities" while being extremely vague and non-committal about negatives, that leads to superfund sites, not to hitting sustainability goals. Combine that with drinking and I'm liable to both be in the dean's office in addition to being on the dean's list.
The actual chapter from a real science-y textbook, _Risk Analysis of Water Pollution: Second Edition_ Jacques Ganoulis (Wiley), on the other hand, was fantastic and didn't make me more stupid. Part of the topic for this week was water quantity interactions with quality and I can't help thinking about reading quality and quantity.
Beer booth at the mini farmer's market was Asian Brothers Brewing, which is just right up the road here in this tiny rural area. Saw them on the map before and wondered, and got to try the Thai IPA which was solidly good. Dry but delicious. By 3:30pm, all of the vendors and Asian Brothers and the taco stand were all packing up even though the event was supposed to go to 5pm. I was sadly down to $10 but managed to sneak out with two pears, two pomegranates, and a big fat beautiful tomato. The taco stand was care of the cafe in a similar community (but one with a Mexican cafe) on the other side of the island, and it looks and smells legit.
Talked to neighbor and got enough info from him to figure out that I'm getting very stale info from him. One guy he was saying did good work, when I inquired further, got an "oh, he's probably dead by now". Another place changed ownership and name and no longer has a yard.
"The importance of water resources and problems of water quantity and quality may
be better perceived by analysing the economic importance of water and the new
opportunities in the water market."
"Elevated concentrations of trace metals can have negative
consequences for both wildlife and humans"
"Observed positive effects for poor and marginalized people ... include examples such as diversification of social networks and of agricultural practices"
This is corporate minimization. It's this kind of writing, glorifying horrors as "opportunities" while being extremely vague and non-committal about negatives, that leads to superfund sites, not to hitting sustainability goals. Combine that with drinking and I'm liable to both be in the dean's office in addition to being on the dean's list.
The actual chapter from a real science-y textbook, _Risk Analysis of Water Pollution: Second Edition_ Jacques Ganoulis (Wiley), on the other hand, was fantastic and didn't make me more stupid. Part of the topic for this week was water quantity interactions with quality and I can't help thinking about reading quality and quantity.
Beer booth at the mini farmer's market was Asian Brothers Brewing, which is just right up the road here in this tiny rural area. Saw them on the map before and wondered, and got to try the Thai IPA which was solidly good. Dry but delicious. By 3:30pm, all of the vendors and Asian Brothers and the taco stand were all packing up even though the event was supposed to go to 5pm. I was sadly down to $10 but managed to sneak out with two pears, two pomegranates, and a big fat beautiful tomato. The taco stand was care of the cafe in a similar community (but one with a Mexican cafe) on the other side of the island, and it looks and smells legit.
Talked to neighbor and got enough info from him to figure out that I'm getting very stale info from him. One guy he was saying did good work, when I inquired further, got an "oh, he's probably dead by now". Another place changed ownership and name and no longer has a yard.
