Once again, navigating out of hotmail through MSN, I see that something I've been yammering about for ten years has hit the very main stream: it turns out that processed foods aren't good for you. If you're shopping, choose foodstuffs with short ingredient lists that are entirely identifiable. For example, when purchasing applesauce, choose the one with this list: apples, water. Pithy.
Immediately after that little find, I came across this article in the Chronicle. (I hope the link stays live). It discusses the various ways that colleges and universities fall short, even in easily addressed physical plant issues. And that's before we get to issues of the switch to adjuncts, the killing of tenure lines, and the overwork and burnout that keep professors and grad students off-balance and exhausted enough not to summon the energy to demand changes.
Before I blow a gasket (I really should switch to decaf fair trade coffee), I'll post some pictures from out trip. This is the wine country outside St. Louis. On weekends, St. Louisians (?) get in vans, buses, cars and head out to the small but satisfying wineries in the area. You do a little tasting, buy a bottle and take it out to the lawns and decks and open your picnic basket for cheese and crackers and whatever other little knoshes you brought from the city (hint: there are at least two Trader Joe's in St. Louis). And you get to look at these things:
D and our hosts:
D feeling the effects:
Our hosts again, and a drunken bridal party in the background:
They had a band set up in the old barn:
Two last points: 1. we had a designated driver. 2. we were in a Prius. So there.
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