Goodbye, Paper.

I've spent the past two days slaving away over the computer working on my ten page research paper. I did on something about which I'm pretty passionate, and that is alternative energy, more specifically hydrogen power. I had been sort of procrastinating on it, as I do for most things, so I really just had to go to town on it and get it done. It is finally ten pages, with but three lines on the tenth page. The requirement was 2 lines on the tenth page, so I basically just barely made it. After the finish I had to move a few things around and for a few horrible minutes I thought I had to write more, but then I fixed it and life was good again.

I went in to work for one measly hour tonight because the scheduled night shift called in sick. It was good to get more money, but with a grand total of under $9, was it really worth the gas? Probably not. But still, my college account is going to enjoy the almost imperceptible boost I'm sure.

In the garden I'm still waiting for the carrots and lettuce to sprout. And the peas. I realize it is supposed to take about a week, but I wish the seeds would understand my desire for them to grow and just shoot up a bit faster. The potatoes are growing as fast as can be, which is pretty exciting. I'm sure having a bit of energy stored up really helps them grow fast, but no matter how it works I'm grateful that someone around here understands my impatience for green.

Despite the fact that the Solid Waste Agency warned against it, our 100% compost garden seems to be doing alright. None of the seedlings have keeled over yet so that's at least a plus. Speaking of seedlings, some of the lettuces seem to have grown an inch overnight. It is, of course, not fast enough for me. I want to try homegrown lettuce so bad! I think the day is quickly approaching in which I begin thinning and having a super-mini salad. Tomorrow after school and before work I'll go out and take a few pictures of it all, and I'll try extra hard to put up some of the pictures of our flowers that I got. We currently have snapdragons, violas, a really shnazzy gerbera daisy, and some purple shamrock thing. Oh and a coleus that I overwintered. It is super cool how you can just overwinter one of those. I live in Iowa so it sometimes gets to around -50 in the winter, but if you just pull of a stem with a few sets of leaves, pull of the bottom set of leaves, and stick it in a pot somewhere inside the thing will grow and become a brand new plant. I just reversed that process and stuck a new stem back outside, and it's looking pretty sad right now. I'm hoping it will be alright, but if not I'll try again and maybe let it adjust before sticking it in full sun. The very topmost leaves haven't wilted much though so I'm thinking maybe they'll weather it out and grow up nice and big.

Well I think that's all for now guys. I'll hopefully post up some pictures of everything tomorrow for y'all to admire.

Peace