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Sleep – How Much and How Tired
Nov 18th
I’m am tired every morning. When my alarm goes off at 6:45 AM, 5 days a week, I hit the snooze at least 4-5 times. I don’t get out of bed until 7:15 AM – 7:25 AM. Then I wash, then I talk with my father for about 15 minutes. Then I get dressed and I’m out the door every day at 8 AM. I end up sitting down at work at 8:45 AM and I pull up my blogs, and websites to see how things are going. I contemplate what I can blog about, and sometimes I bang out a quick post.
At night when I get done with work, I leave at 6 PM and get home by 6:45 PM. I am paid for 8 hours of work, but with the hour lunch break, the time I need to wake up and get dressed in the morning, and transportation time my day transalated to about 12 hours. I am tired when I get home from work, but my friend always wants to play some XBox 360 or something. I also like to sit down at my computer to attempt to do something productive for myself. I cannot fall asleep if I wanted to; I find myself tired, but I will not fall asleep. I en up passing out/falling asleep by 10:30 – 11:30. This translated to approximately ~7-8 hours of sleep a night. Clearly my physiology requires more. Why? I don’t know. I am tired. On Thursday, my day off, I end up sleeping 14 hours or so. I’ll wake up at 10 AM after going to sleep at midnight, and then I’ll go back to sleep at 12 or 1 in the afternoon till about 3 or 4. I guess sleep is cumulative? Am I catching up or something? I don’t know. It really feels good to sleep on my days off!
The Pacific Garbage Path – 2x the size of Texas
Nov 14th
Light bulbs, bottle caps, toothbrushes, Popsicle sticks and tiny pieces of plastic, each the size of a grain of rice, inhabit the Pacific garbage patch, an area of widely dispersed trash that doubles in size every decade and is now believed to be roughly twice the size of Texas.[Source]
The five garbage patches around the world are growing. Its quite a spectacle of humanilty that we consume so much that the waste needs to be burried in landfills and is left to float in the oceans. We as a species cannot deal with our own waste products. Clearly it is not a sustainable practice, and the great pacific garbage patch will continue to grow. Obviously nothing will be done about it; it will cost money to do something about it, and companies will not pay to throw away garbage. Hey its not our problem, its the oceans problem.
Humanity will have to change significantly, emotionally, to even consider cleaning up these natural habitats. Its garbage was 10 feet high in NYC, I’m pretty sure the government will pay to clean it up. But the emotions of spending money on something that does not directly effect us, and something that we do not see, is too difficult to overcome. The emotions of monetary loss, and not being able to spend the money on ourselves prevents anything from being done. Its really ugly, and its huge. The big one in the Pacific is twice the size of Texas. Garbage! Fish and other marine life use it as a habitat, but ultimately the vast majority of the trash produces toxic emissions, especially when broken down by the corosive salt water. Other material gets injested, contributing toxic pollutants to an important source of food.