Right now I have the enormously fun task of reading books of "literary merit" for APLC, a class I'm taking this year, and writing three essays. Three books, three essays, three months... and I just finished my first book this morning. I stayed up until four in the morning to do it.

The only real shitty part about that, was that I had to get up at quarter to eight because we were going to the dome to see a game (Go Twins!).

So we went to Hy-Vee to pick up my allergy meds and while we were waiting I did something I rarely ever do: I got a Starbucks coffee.

As I sipped my Starbucks mocha latte, made by a company with over 7,000 stores worldwide, ironically wearing my "Art is Resistance" shirt, I read the cup:

60% of the little cardboard thingy there to prevent your dumbass from burning yourself and suing them is made from post-consumer recycled content, and the cup itself is made of 10% post-consumer recycled content.

So as I went about my day, sipping my latte, bitching about overpopulation while navigating through humongous crowds at the Metrodome, pointing out how expensive and wasteful it must be to heat a three-story tall restaurant in winter that only has patrons on the ground level, and generally ranting about how stupid people are, I had a small revelation: that cup's thingy was 60% recycled, the cup itself 10%... and how much of that cup and that thingy are going to be recycled once it's in the consumer's hands and after the coffee is gone?

I threw mine away and I bet most everyone else does too. The point? I think change of any kind happens on a personal level. Recycle your Starbucks cup. That, and support your local coffee shop instead. :-)