This documentary about the food industry in America was not surprising to Phil or I, as he'd read "Fast Food Nation" and we'd both talked at length with his sister, and then done some research about how food is produced in America today. However, seeing it first hand was alarming for sure.

We already did what we could to buy organically, but are making even more of an effort to do so. We eat minimal processed foods. The bigger step we're going to try to take now is to buy more locally grown produce - time to hit Farmer's Markets.

For all of us.

After being surprised that the girls DIDN'T have school on Monday, they've been back for a few days. Today I go up to campus for my one seminar class.

I've been working on my research proposal, and it looks like I've got a good start on it. My advisor has looked it over and just sent it back with some suggestions for edits and additions. I'll hit that one tomorrow.

"Just keep swimming, just keep swimming, just keep swimming, swimming, swimming...."