That time of year…

And I don’t mean the winter holidays (although I so wish I was talking about that!). In just under a week, I’ll be writing my first final exam for the term (for my ecology course). At this point, I’m usually in some kind of weird head space, just trying to go over everything and remember […]

Whoosh!

I made the decision to go private on Twitter recently (erm, today) after getting more and more spammy-types of accounts following me and then sending me messages with spammy-type of messages. I could go through and block ’em all, but it was just so much easier to just go private all in one fell swoop […]

What’s the size of your footprint?

In my ecology class, we talked about ecological footprint. It’s the number of ‘earths’ you’d need to support everyone on the planet if everyone lived the same sort of lifestyle as you. The size of my footprint? 2.67 Earths to support my lifestyle for the total human population on the planet, if everyone lived like […]