Gigi Ibrahim, Consumerism. CC BY 2.0 image via Wikimedia Commons. In lieu of a real post this week, I’ll offer highlights from the past few days, which has involved attempting to keep up with class assignments while embarking on a work-related road trip. 1. Evidence of the fact that I’ve reached the end of my rope in said class: the narrative we were to have written about what happens at certain times of day when a jet streak crosses a dry line took the form of rhymed verse à la Dr. Seuss, with illustrations and characters included for dialogue purposes in the same weird-whimsical spirit. I may have earned my ticket out of class with this one—but I should at least get effort points for maintaining meter while rhyming “hodograph,” “radiational cooling,” “Coriolis,” and a number of other terms with surrounding words. 2. The Iowa 80 Truckstop just outside Walcott is evidence that we’re just plain doomed. Over 200 acres and 100,000 square feet of cheap and pointless crap: proof that…
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