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I complain of the weather often.
And I’m sorry.
But seriously, Mid-West, warm temperatures + ice rain + below zero + 9 inches of snow over night?
C’mon!

Enough, enough. I resolve to complain of the weather no longer in this post although it did make walking to downtown a bit of an adventure this morning.

My Environment and Society classes headed down to the new headquarters of Beloit 2020, the civic committee who have been revamping Beloit for the past 19 years. We got to wander a bit through the fabulous displays of what has been changed and what is to come. I highly recommend getting a peak at it [even through the windows] if you’re visiting Beloit.

In Environment and Society class, at the moment, we are focusing on Beloit as an ecosystem. We’re all researching various topics of sustainability and human-environment interaction. Most of the presentation we saw was about what changes have happened and are going to happen. With this in mind, during the after-question-session many of us asked of specific green/sustainable plans being implemented in town.

Though the students are quite keen on these new technologies, current in-chargers [is that even a word?] don’t seem to have the background to want to use them. Sure, local small-city politics play a role but it’s about individual initiative!

There may be a local produce market coming in but, again, there is a lack of interdisciplinary-mediary types to move these sorts of small business along. Oh, and the whole “we-need-money-to-do-anything” aspect too…

This is a plea to you who read this; we need people well versed in multiple interpretative communities if anything is to get done!

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It may be Superbowl Sunday but that doesn’t mean I’m not snacking! The Admissions staff never fails on leaving left over snack food [which the SOIs then eat].

I really do love Bit-O-Honey, even if no one else does. And by the looks of the hidden candy stash, no one else does!

It was Presidential Scholarship weekend with great results. It wasn’t nearly as cold as last year [and managed to hold off on the snow until tonight]. We saw the magician Peter Boie. Being the skeptic I am, I saw right through his tricks [except for maybe one or two]. Those orange sneakers he wore were just to keep us from looking at his other hand!

We then ventured over to watch the student improv group Voodoo Barbie. Judging by their drawn on facial hair and plaid shirts, it was Lumberjack Night. As always, they were fabulous and Richardson Auditorium was packed way beyond the fire code limit. The stairs will filled, the window sills packed – but this made it all the better.

One of my prospies had an interview at 8:30 the next morning so we were up and breakfasted before I even get up for classes!

Well, by 3 PM, most prospective students were on their ways home and all those involved could relax.

I've got to finish up a presentation on Greenland's melting ice sheet for my Global Climate Change class tomorrow before I bundle back up and high-tail it back to my dorm.

Oh, and don't get scurvy.