Another one bites the dust...

The rock has been delivered.

Fast Food Nation

i've started reading fast food nation after it caught my eye at a bookstore in london...i dropped in that london bit just to show you how much of a world-traveler-snob i am...haha...anyway - it has some interesting stats that i wanted to mention...i'll post periodically with new factoids and such so that you lame-o's don't have to read the whole book...these facts are all based on the book and are dated as of 2001

Americans spend more on fast than on movies, books, magazines, newspapers, videos, and recorded music - combined.

1 in 8 workers in the US has been employed by McDonald's at some point in their life (i'm still waiting for my chance)

McD hires more than any public or private employer - 1mil+

McD earns more money from the rent its charges for its restaurants - not from the food itself (hmm...what kind of food has no profit margin)

McD is the nation's largest purchaser of potatoes, beef, and pork; second for chicken

the only group that earns less than restaurant workers are migrant farm workers

The US has more prison inmates than full-time farmers


more to come later...

Pasta on Boil

hey...so hema asked me to post...so i am...nothing really new to say here...oh yeah - going to india for a month this december...10 year reunion...should be pretty intense....probably visit some old places and find some new....i'm excited...

school's mundane as usual...nothing much going on...billy and i are starting a tutoring program for a local middle school...hopefully get to expand that to involve other students...right now we're waiting on the school to set it up so that we can start...also coming close to deciding where to work next year...decision should be out in a few weeks...doesn't look like my half-hearted attempt at a clerkship is having much luck...oh well - wasn't that gung-ho about it anyway...where does the word gung-ho come from...is it like kung fu? hmm...now kung pao is some good stuff...i'd like that right now...yum...oh yeah - pasta on boil...let me go check...

books wise...tried reading shalimar the clown by rushdie...couldn't get into it...he's got a weird writing style...then i thought i'd read the alchemist...well i got the wrong one! i read one by mark illis...which was actually not that bad...but anyway - i'm supposed to read the one by paulo coelho...so i'm reading that now cuz benovelent goose got it for me..haha...

movies - saw all the president's men...that was a sharp movie...now i know what deep throat means...hahaha...not what you thought...hahaha....gonna see raging bull later tonite...

getting cooler down here...its football season...went and saw UGA crush UAB...which was expected but it was still fun....gonna go to the Colorado game this weekend as well...falcons winning too...could this be the year? we'll see....

in other news...nothing..ha...will post again when something cool happens.

Nothing.

well...nothing much to write about these days...no cool pictures to post...school has started and is mundane...blah...missed the first football game - but caught the trouncing on TV....watched some good movies lately...lets see kiss kiss bang bang was fun...a dark comedy that had a contemporary filming style...then jarhead was good...a look into desert storm...how marines operate and stuff...it doesn't quite come off the way it was intended...but still worth watching...syriana was the best though...gives you a cross-section of the world oil business...how it operates at different levels...how life struggles all tie into it...how the gas at your pump is mixed in with corruption, terrorism, and high-powered politics...

went to tallulah gorge again this past weekend....took hema on an impromptu picnic...unfortunately they ran out of passes and we couldn't go to the gorge floor...so gotta do that some time...other than that nothing going on!!! bored!! thats why this post is boring!!!