the ones that can be recycled. We know that plastics, glass, and paper are the most common renewable resources. Even oil, to some extent, can be considered renewable...although it's going to take millions of years to replenish the supply that we've used in just over one hundred years.

Something that you might now know is that there are some resources, one that I can think of in particular, that is neither renewable or nonrenewable. The resource that I happen to be referring to is energy. Somewhere from back in physics class in high school, I remember learning about the fact that energy can neither be created nor destroyed. It's a constant. That's a pretty neat fact for all of us, most of whom can always stand to have a little bit more energy as we go throughout the day. I personally tend to conk out around five o'clock in the afternoon, and I need a recharge if I'm going to get anything accomplished for the rest of the evening.

But, now on to my main topic...a nonrenewable resource. Stepping away from things that we're actually taking from the Earth that can't be recycled, the nonrenewable resource that I'm talking about is time. Time is the one thing that we tend to waste but that we never can get back. I'm sure that this is why humans have been fascinated by the idea of traveling back in times for decades or even centuries. We always seem to be wanting to head back and correct or re-live the time that we've spent or wasted in the past. Sometimes, we just want more time. I mean seriously, would it really have been that difficult to make the day twenty-six hours long, rather than twenty-four. I surely would appreciate that, especially during weeks like this one. I know that it's only Monday, but I've already set my sights on the weekend ahead. There is just simply too much to do to be crammed into a single week. You might notice that my blog posts this week will be a little behind on account of this fact. It's mostly because I will be at school all day every day, or perhaps because when I finally do make it home, I'm just too exhausted to even use my brain for anything more than necessary. That will probably get me into a little trouble when it comes down to the inevitable homework that will rear it's ugly head during the week.

I know that I won't personally be wasting very much time this week, mostly because I won't really have any of my own to waste. In a typical week though, I probably do my fair share of time wasting, but I'm pretty sure that I do a lot less of that than most people. You would think that after as many years as we've been alive and as many days worth of time that we waste each year, we might learn from our mistakes. Rather than learning, we continue to enjoy wasting time lounging around, watching television, or even staring into space. Forget those productive types of time wasting like reading a book or keeping a blog (wink wink!). We like to sit down with a can of soda and watch the latest America's Next Top Model Marathon or reruns of the Golden Girls on Lifetime for the fiftieth time. I'll admit it...I love that kind of wasting time, but with weeks like the one I'm already having, I'll be spending every moment engaged in one thing or another.