Sunday in the Desert

Well folks, it's 9:30 am here in Las Cruces, NM and it is gray and wet outside. It's only around 68 degrees. 

It's weird. 

Yesterday I went to the farmers market (where, in addition to fruits, vegetables and a loaf of green chile bread, I got a plant...the first vegetation in my apartment), had a flipping awesome brunch, and got a lot of reading done. Today I have to apply that reading to actual work, but that's cool, I should be able to do that. 

I think I have some ideas about the kind of research I want to do. It has to do with the green movement and either looking at online communities working in the movement (like Tree Hugger or Ideal Bite) or looking at personal narrative and how it is taking the science and creating more accessible ways to become more environmentally friendly (see, "Living with Ed," Doug Fine, etc.) And of course, because I am who I am, anything I look at will be pop culture in nature. But of course, I've only been in school for a little over a week, so this all may change. But I like thinking.

It's been an oddly productive weekend.