a letter to my cable company about the environment and the future

Peace

To whom it may concern at Charter Communications:

I am a current customer (begrudgingly, but you're debatably the best option available to me in my area) contacting you not to complain or suggest, just to find out more about your practices in regards to the environment. I am curious what kind of material the cable you've spent the better part of two decades laying across the country as your cable infrastructure is made of, what kind of chemicals and pollution could be released in its creation, in its lifetime above and underground, as well as disposal? What kind of environmental cost has been paid for laying this infrastructure, and what kind will be paid in the future? In regards to your fleet vehicles and subcontractors, is anything being done to reduce, regulate or otherwise control their emissions or gas mileage?

Charter offers many services, and though the company may be going through some tough financial times, I am very curious about your practices and policies towards the environment and building a more sustainable future for your future customers.

I have had a difficult time finding an address to send this email to, if this is not the proper place to be sending such a request I would request that you in-turn pass this letter on to the proper place, inform me of where to send my request or some combination there-of.

thank you for your time,
Sam Osborne

Wednesday feels more like Monday than Monday did.

this week has been a blur so far, and today - I've got to knuckle down. I didn't get to do everything I wanted over spring break, so now I'm paying the price and playing catch-up. I want to read "Zeitoun" but instead I've got to bury my head in sociology. I want to write about how I saw one morbidly obese woman tell another morbidly obese woman that "the elevator is broke." To which the second morbidly obese woman replied, "awww, no shit? Fuck," kicked her sandal and slumped her shoulders. I want to sit back and enjoy the amazingness of spring and recall my dreams - both of life, and of the night before.

Even after my day is done, my test is over and I'm riding my bike home (ps, rode the bike in to school for the first time - morning ride, finally warm enough to make in street clothes with minimal protection), I'll be heading home to play cards - when what I really want to be doing is reading and what I really should be doing is working on my Lit assignment.

I love my life. =)

I really want to be be working on my "Urgent Evoke" account, like all day long. I'm freaking obsessed. It's not obsessed like with most online games, this is a game that keeps me in the real world. It's nuts - still takes a little too much of my day away from me to remain productive in other fields, but at least it's not a total waste of my time.