The Jen Diaries

This week I’d like to talk about: o    Bottled Water: How drinking tap water can help save you and the planet by Lucie Wanctin for Sustain: The Alliance for Better Food and Farming I received an email from IU’s Department of Sustainability (I am on their list-serve, hence get informed when anything sustain-related occurs on campus). I was notified that there would be a class/discussion taking place about bottled water! Unfortunately, I could not attend because of schedule conflicts but I downloaded the lecture and the 28 paged booklet as a substitution and dove into it… Let’s rewind. How did bottled water arise? And how did it develop into a $4 billion/year market? The trend started in the 16 th century FRANCE (of all places, of course) where “taking the cures”, aka bathing in spring and mineral waters was believed to have “curative” properties. This then, expanded to include drinking water which were drunk to supposedly provide medicinal or health properties and became ...

I chose to start this blog, to keep in touch with family and friends. It's hard to keep in touch when no one is in your line of sight. I hope you will enjoy reading my thoughts, grumpiness, adventures, random ideas and contemplations and jolly jives!   This month, I am applying for jobs in the environmental field while taking classes, working two jobs (that don’t pay mucho) and figuring out my life. IT SUCKS MONKEY A$$! Why have I not been hired yet? Maybe I am not applying to the right places, maybe I don’t know what I really want, or maybe I am not ready yet. I do have an advantage on my peers though: I have three times the cultural experiences than them (Thank you mom and daddy)! Don’t experiences make us who we are today? Who we are to become some day? Boy, I hope I like that person. My question is…Where do the roads we take lead us to? I have no flippin’ idea, although I have stopped to Frustratown a few times, they invited me back, and I wish not to go again… I...