Trip is over...adventure begins.

Blogs are kinda fun in that they can be excellent sounding boards for ideas, social update tools, sources of information, etc. It turns out for them to serve any of those functions, I have to write in them, and you all have to read them...

*crickets*

Well, I will write anyway, and who knows... perhaps someone floating around the depths of the internet will someday read it.

Job hunt is going well-ish. Have hopefully a job offer from Pioneer Hi-Bred later today. It would help if I were still secure in my ideas of what i would like to do with myself. My current ideas are:

I want to breed plants with a place in an over-arcing holistic approach to sustainable agriculture that focuses on the farm as an ecosystem with an inherent great complexity of interactions. The organic movement has claimed the "holistic" label for better or worse, which cracks me up or depresses me (depending on the day). Nothing is greater than hearing someone tell you all about how their dogmatic avoidance of specific technologies and tools, and dogmatic interference with natural systems is a "holistic" approach.

I do not think that a holistic approach has to be hostile to science and technology, which is how most who claim to be taking the "holistic approach" take it.

Just my 2 cents.

Additionally, I have a new wisdom tooth coming in where my old one was pulled, which is super cool, let me tell you. Who has teeth coming in at 25!?! Seriously!

~ matt