Landfills...

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These landfill people came in when I took LMS this summer... that class affected my mind more than probably any other student. I think it was due to the different school, apparently full of idiots, preps, and skateboarders, all the scare-'em-straight guest speakers that made me cry, (oh, and that MADD woman and her poetry) and the videos and worksheets that told me all the ways I could suffer or die. I think of enough on my own. Back to the dump. It's a lot more organised than I'd previously thought. I pictured a big hole surrounded by a fence that a big tractor piles stuff into. However, it's a whole system of Waste Management beyond your wildest dreams. All these birds fly over it to eat stuff and drop presents to christen what we discard. They have an eternal blue flame on some to burn off the methane. Someday this gas might be useful for alternative energy, but for the time being, they don't have a practical use for it. So they burn it. Yeah! I want to be cremated, I think. haha. Up in flames... Yes the dump. Although not reputed for its smell, it's a staple of civilisation often overlooked. Most people stop at curbside, forgetting the destination of the detritus. The county is also planning to build a park on the site of the former dump. We made posters about pollution that day, and this girl in my group, Katie, added a picture of a sign that read "City Dump Park" and a parent saying "This looks like a good place for kids to play." Our poster also had some other fun mutations and stuff... I've been driven past that dump. It was near the Amish part of town I think. Plus, my room is full of piles of items and I don't like to part with much of them. And since I'll mostly be spouting crap... This reminds me of the sewer, and Ninja Turtles ( the kind not shaped like gymnosperms.) I saw this episode in which the Turtles talked to like, the mage of the Dump. This old philosopher guy who lived among heaps of rubbage.(Love sentence fragments!) He taught the young, uncaring children (even one of the Turtles didn't care)about the Big Bang Theory... he put it something like "Some think that we are all recycled"... he had a great dark beanie and big coat and gloves with the fingers only extending to the second knuckle.. the Turtles supplied him and his hobo friends with blankets and clothes to brave the cold night. Basically, this is called a landfill because none of this is exactly worthwhile. What the @ was I doing watching TMNT anyway?