Corn Porn

Alrighty then, finally something to giggle about. I'm required to read a book by Michael Pollan called The Omnivore's Dilemma. It's a very good book.
(Oh sure, the book goes on sale after I had to buy it for college. Naturally.)

I was pretty grumpy when I started reading it, however that changed when I got a giggle out of a passage. In mentioning America's past uses for corn cobs, he of course brought up using dry corn cobs in the privy. Giving us America's slang "corn hole".

LOL

Then he did indeed move onto "corn porn" and literally talked about "corn sex." And he mentioned how corn is backwards in its reproducing ways, in such that the female is phallic and the male organ is more "flowery".

Anywho. All giggles aside, this is a great book and very educational. Maybe it's because I'm human, maybe it's because I'm vegetarian, maybe it's because I have been wildly interested in "natural living", maybe it's because I married into a farming family but this is stuff I've been fascinated with for a long time.

It's pretty scary though. Scary what our world is coming to and even scarier to wonder how it can be ultimately fixed. I don't think I'll see any vast improvements in my lifetime. Things are starting to snowball a bit, such as more awareness in natural, non-antibiotic, non-GMO-grain fed beef and stuff like that. But the government, the Farm Bill and all that NAFTA stuff is just... well, it's not going so well at the moment.

But I'm not trying to start a riot with my little blog entry. I just wanted to make a comment about the book. Which all should read, I truly believe that. Being in college I see how education really is a major key for a better future.

BTW the movie/documentary "King Corn" is also quite worth a viewing with an open mind.

Now as for my other classes? *sigh* I'm totally inundated with projects and books to read. Tons and TONS of reading. It's killing me. I really hate this semester.

I had a nerd dream last night. I was explaining Hadley Cells to some people. See, that's what I'm more interested in, Physical Geography. Though geography tries to get humans and physical to correlate. But still, I'm more interested in the science part.

Anywho, here's hoping my future semesters will be better. I already know I'm going to take a physical meteorology class and I just found out about something I really would like to take: biopsychology. It's called Brain and Behavior. I already have my science requirements, more than I need actually, but I'll be taking it for an elective. It would be highly fascinating and very felicitous to me because of my husband's traumatic brain injury.