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Well, that’s done. For now. 15 May 2010 6:10 am

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Just emailed out my paper about how the rise of urban and metropolitan issues in food politics parallels food industrialization in the 20th century (as illustrated by examples from the class readings for my food systems class this term). Well, the first 12 or so pages of it, anyway, and kind of a mess in the middle there where I condensed two sections into a paragraph and a half and a few random references here and there. But I shuffled everything around to end on a strong note, so that’s good, or at least kind of satisfying. Not as satisfying, however, as it will be to sleep. Now. Yay!

Monkey Monday: I made this. 3 May 2010 11:43 pm

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I surprised myself today by producing not one but two diagrams for my final paper on food policy for urban and metropolitan regions. One of them even helped me organize a whole host of food policy issues according to a definition of sustainability based on health, the environment, and economics, like so:

MUSFModelcrop
Sustainable urban-metropolitan food policy, sort of.

The big breakthrough was the realization that sustainability and its environmental, economic, and health aspects are not food policy goals so much as they are common unifying themes shared across many food system goals and the policies and programs designed to pursue them, if that makes any sense. Anyway, that diagram helped me do a pretty decent presentation in class this afternoon, despite my weak chalkboard-fu and the fact that I hadn’t finished the paper yet. The first six pages are really solid, and I’m actually look forward to doing more on that project, even as I put it on hold to do the final for my food processing and industrialization class.

I’ll be fine if I just breathe.

Also, I had a fantastic sea scallop, fava bean, and rhubarb appetizer at Braeburn tonight. Nom.

Bed now! And way less coffee, iced or otherwise, for me tomorrow. G’night!