I’m watching “How Stuff Works” on the Discover Channel. Apparently vegetables have secrets. We wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for corn. There is corn in 60% of everything. Everything of what? I’m not sure because they left it at that. Pound for pound corn packs more energy than dynamite. Corn in fact isn’t even a vegetable, it’s a grass. The corn we eat today has gone through 10,000 years of breeding and therefore is almost completely handmade. It’s all very exciting.
What’s more exciting is that I made my work schedule today. I met my work adviser at the nursing home for a tour and to chat with the scheduling director. My town is a small town. Population below 16,000 and I’m sure at least a third of that is university students who are forced to live here. From the parking lot of the nursing home it looks like it fits this small town, like a nice but small nursing home. I learned from my tour that it’s all an illusion. This place is huge! I can’t even explain how big it is. Maybe it only felt big because I got lost, twice. After the tour I met with the scheduling director would pretty much asked me “When do YOU want to work?” I told them I could work Monday through Thursday, but I really shouldn’t work all four of those days. I also wanted to work every other weekend, which is what full time employees do. I’m really really happy with my schedule and I can’t wait to start. When do I start? Saturday. Yea, that soon. I’m a little nervous but for the first two to three weeks I’ll be sort of shadowing another CNA. I can’t wait to blog about my new job. I’m sure I’ll have a lot to tell.
America uses 146 billion gallons of gas every year. Y’all, that’s sad. But more than half of that gas is made from corn. Just another thing I’ve learned from “How Stuff Works: Corn”.
I believe, since I didn’t finish the post about registering for classes, that I should post my class schedule for next semester.
Mon, Wed, Fri: 7:30-12:20 classes
Tues, Thurs: Not one class. Nothing. Yesssssssssss!
Of course I could be working in the afternoons but it won’t be that bad. I hope…
A corn DNA strained is more than twice as long as a human’s. I thought I should end it with that.
Emma
November 13, 2008 @ 9:28 PM
You are so silly. Thanks for all the corn facts, although I knew some of it from Terry at B’s. It’s sad that corn is no longer a vegetable, I used to like to feel good about eating it…
I’m excited about your schedule. But we may have to schedule a weekly date night so we can ever see each other.
<3
Erin
November 14, 2008 @ 7:26 PM
Ahh, working on a Saturday is no fun. I think I am probably going to go to Paducah for the day tomorrow and go spend my money. Miss you!
Pam
November 14, 2008 @ 9:03 PM
Good luck with the new job!
I love all the corn facts, those are great! A couple of months ago we were working on projects for a large agricultural equipment supplier so we had to watch a documentary about corn to get in the mindset. It was actually really interesting, but we were all a bit sad to hear that most corn farmers can’t even eat their own crop…it’s a special tasteless corn that goes into making high fructose corn syrup. It also made me NEVER want to eat beef again, but that’s a whole other story…
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