Data!

Today to prepare for my census job, I read this article that my friend sent:

http://www.economist.com/world/unitedstates/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13145406

I had no idea there was so much political intrigue surrounding the census! I can't wait for my first day on the job. I hope they tell me I'm a spy.

Some additional data that I plan on collecting when I go door to door census taking:

if people are in a good, bad or so-so mood when I get there; if their mood has changed by the time I leave; greetings and closings; use of verbal crutches (like, or whatever, do you know what I mean, etc); what food I think has been most recently cooked in their house based on smell..

Day 8 of master cleanser! Piece of cake. It gets easier every day. Some people do this for 30 days at a time. Not me - two days left. Today I bought some mushrooms and ginger and so much garlic.

A friend is coming over to make and eat soup with me on Friday AM! Can you imagine anything better than a huge thing of vegetable soup with whole cloves of roasted garlic, pearl onions, whole little potatoes, roasted rosemary sweet potatoes, and ginger and mushrooms and collard greens?! I cannot.

Tomorrow it is supposed to rain, so I think I will scrub the bird poop off of my gazebo awning in it. I can hardly wait to sit on my swinging couch in my gazebo after a long day of census taking.
Tonight, I will watch the football movie I got from the library. I heart sports.