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I haven’t been writing anything lately because I’ve been working on an upcoming art show.  I set up November 29th and I feel like nothing is ready.  I just spent nearly 72 hours in the studio.  I’ll get back to this in a week or so.

Day 11 – 11:58am

Woke up this morning and made a phone call on my Motorola Razr cellphone.  I had to use the Yellow Pages to look up the number for Lentz Automotive on Michigan Street.  My Dodge Dynasty broke down last week and was in the repair shop.  I walked to Martha’s Vineyard to get a pack of Marlboro Ultralights and a Vitamin Water.  Then I headed to the Lake Michigan Credit Union on Michigan Street to pull some money out to pay for my car.  I took the Rapid down to Lentz and got my car.  Drove out to campus to get some work done.  All before noon.

Day 9 – 12:46am

Its been a few days since I wrote on here.  I’ve been busy with school, work, and social life.  Jimmy Johns dinner delivered.  PBR drank over the weekend.  Facebook status updates.  Artbattle on Saturday.  Working at Founders Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday.  Played a show Friday night at Jukes.  I’m in CIRCUS PIG!.  Its pretty fun.  Pandora radio.  Microsoft Word to type a paper.  Western Digital hard-drive.  Using an iMac to access the internets.  Wearing my Budweiser pants I received when I worked for them.  Wearing my Dickies brand steel-toe boots.  Brand, image, lifestyle.

Day 6 – 3:19am

Last night and tonight were very long.  I worked last night and ended up drinking more than I wanted to.  I hung out with Rubblebucket Orchestra and had a fantastic time.  Woke up at 5pm today.  Took some Excedrin and drank a glass of water.  I really love headache medicine.  When my brain is hurting I beg for something to make it stop.  Today, after waking up at 5pm, I ate some Aunt Jemima pancakes, drank some Meijer brand orange juice, and made a pot of Maxwell House coffee.  At midnight the band that I am in played a show at a local bar.  The show went great.  I was drinking PBR most of the night.  PBR is the standard cheap beer in Grand Rapids.  Pints at the bar are only $1.50.  Now I am tired and trying to think of all the impact of these corporations is hurting my head.  It is like a bulldozer that doesn’t stop.

Day 4 – 1:26am

Paper towels.  I use a ton of these things here on campus.  they are brown, does that mean they are from recycled material?  Maybe.  It could just be cheaper to not bleach them.  Can’t find the manufactuer of these things.  Trees are a nice thing to have in the world.  Oxygen and clean air are nice things.

Day 3 – 11:31pm

I’m eating a 1.5oz bag of Ruffles Cheddar and Sour Cream chips and a 1.75oz bag of Doritos Nacho Cheese chips for dinner.  Back to the whole ‘college student with no time’ thing.  Actually those two bags of chips were given to me.  I hadn’t eaten anything but a bagel since breakfast.  These things – potato chips – are not the healthiest food to eat.  I am considering carrying around some kind of food bag thing that always contains fresh fruit, veggies, and bread.  Preferably locally grown goods.  So how much potato actually goes into these potato chips?  Well, Doritos are tortilla chips so no actual potatoes, whole corn is the first ingredient followed by various types of oils and then salt.  Healthy all the way.  Ruffles has potatoes listed first, then corn oil followed by whey protein.  What the fuck is whey protein?  After reading the Wikipedia article about whey protein I learned that whey is a by product of cheese production.  The whey is then processed, either dried out or filtered or both.  All the fat is removed from the whey.  In a powder form whey is used as a weight lifting supplement.  The protein in whey contains leucine, which is a chemical er some type of amino acid.  The leucine allows protein to be absorbed into muscles faster.  It is also a cheap product to add dried cheese flavoring onto tortilla chips.

Day 3 – 2:25pm

I just came across this useful site called Eat This, Not That.  It has made comparisons with different chain food places, explaining what the healthier choices out there are.  Its selfish to only think about yourself when consuming at a fast food restaurant.  The farming practices of these corporations seem to be pretty devastating to our world.  Maybe I’m just rambling now.  Anyways, everyone should check out the site I mentioned.

Day 3 – 1:42pm

So this morning er afternoon started off pretty nicely.  I woke up late after having drank a few bourbons last night.  Ezra Brooks is probably my favorite bourbon.  Its cheap and tastes good.  Now I am eating a turkey sandwich I made from work.  Founders is a great place to work at.  The people are amazing and my bosses actually treat me like a human being.  Not to mention that the beer is top notch and our sandwiches kick ass.  Most of our food products we get from Gordons, which seems to be a restaurant supply chain store.  All of our bread comes from a local bakery called Nantucket Bakery.  Now as for the bottles, hops, barley, malt, or other beer making necessities I have no idea where they come from, or who grows them.  Cascade hops is a type of hop we use, and all our fruit comes from local farms.  It seems only right that I should know these things concerning my place of employment.  I would like to think Founders is a socially responsible company.  We recycle everything we can – even spent grain goes to pig farmers.  There are two showers for employees to encourage use of bicycle riding.  I wonder how I would go about obtaining social impact information from the company I work for.

Day 2 – 6:19pm

Dinner tonight is two double cheeseburgers and a small onion ring from Burger King. I have a total love-hate relationship with fast food.  Being a poor college student with little to no free time, eating as fast as possible is a necessity.  How I wish I had time to prepare a healthier meal for myself and actually sit down and enjoy my food.  It’s not like I was raised on fast food.  My parents almost always cooked dinner for me and my sister.  Going off to school turned meal time into a necessity, not something to be enjoyed.  I have to eat as fast as possible so that I have more time to work on my projects, and if I can eat while working on a project that would be even better.  Fast Food might be a good first project for me.  I know there is lots of info out there concerning Burger King, McDonalds, Wendys, Arbys, Taco Bell, and all the other human troughs.

Day 2 – 11:41am

I’m photoshoping some images for use on my senior project.  I plan on printing these images on HP iron-on transfer paper.  My Western Digital 1 terabyte hard-drive is coming in pretty handy to save all my computer stuff on.  No idea where the t-shirts are going to come from for this project, or where the cotton comes from, or who grew the cotton, who made the shirts, who shipped them to the store I am going to buy them from.  I feel that the more I think about all the ’stuff’ in my life the more questions that arise.   People have been completely removed from the products I use.  I am tied to these things – the only people I communicate with concerning these products are sales people or tech support.