Sunday Dec 07, 2003

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ok... so much for schedules.

I'm going to be Uber-capitalist this week and wear ties and leather shoes to the office Monday through Thursday of my own choosing.

It's fun to pretend sometimes... keeps your co-workers guessing.
politrix:
went to a "Move On" party or something last night.

For those "not in the know" these are events where middle-aged folks who don't review much real reporting hang out at one of their co-workers or associates houses and watch a movie that is essentially geared to present the current administration in an unfavorable light. (how much talent that must take... no?) They then sit around after the movie talking a lot in an incredibly unstructured, and disorganized way--tangents leading to tangents mostly-- and somehow advance their own understanding of things... although to some, they might appear to be making themselves even dizzier.

The most troubling comment I heard was from a forty-ish I.T. guy for a large railroad corporation in attendance.

"I've never been a part of anything this radical before."

To recap: it's folks watching a film. I didn't want to be rude, but that was just ludicrous. He wasn't even saying it in a way that was lamentable, it was like he was excited to be part of the Vanguard Party or something... which just kind of made me (fill in blank here.)

I'm totally cool with folks not caring about certain things, politics among them... people's interests vary. What DOES bug me is the degree to which their ideas of potential are limited. This was radical to the guy... there just wasn't much at all that he could fathom in the way of dealing with the current situation beyond watching this film and talking about politics in a non-goose-stepping way within the posh confines of a friend's house behind locked doors.

Just thought that was noteworthy. I am not a centrist on any level, and as such kind of rely on encounters like this to take the pulse of Joe and Jane Q. Public.

What are you into to a radical degree?


[Edited on Dec 08, 2003 1:54PM]

Saturday Dec 06, 2003

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Sunday:

Food Not Bombs: 11am -1pm
Pretensious Book Club: 2pm -4pm
Laundry: 4:30-5:45
Research: 6pm til g/f shows up.
Dinner: ???

Today, I returned 15 unread library books, every one of them at least 5 days late and a few that were apparantly due back in October.

This would be a bad thing, except I know that it's not a stretch to imagine that if...
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olly:
in school? i'm a social work major, women's studies minor. i want to make the world a better place and all that jazz......

and i'm ok. thanks for asking

5 days late? due in october? pfft. i can't check out books at all because i somehow ran up over $50 in fines. makes research papers a bitch.

sounds like you have a busy day tomorrow. have fun. i'll be having fun, 'cause it's my birthday and you have to have fun on your birthday, right?

Wednesday Dec 03, 2003

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Bought a book tonight for some reading group thing hosted by my over-literary friends... Elizabeth Connoley is the title. It's fiction. I read that as "it's fake" or "it's bullshit" although some bullshit is really well done and I like it.

$23 and change for this fucking book. Makes me wonder why they picked it... if it was off of Harvard Press or something that...
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franandzooey:
I have read it before but just couldn't pass up a copy of 'catcher in the rye' for a quarter at a yard sale.

so yeah i am a salinger fan everyone knows that.

the last book i finished was 'demian' by hermann heese.

'wanna explain it to me.

i only get like 75% of it.

i love sidhartha though.
ivy:
Live author? That's usually the issue. Dead authors don't need the money as bad. tongue

Tuesday Dec 02, 2003

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Gregory L. Gostlin ~ best friend I ever had, best person I ever knew, God's greatest prototype.


6/17/74 - 12/2/00
kurtz:
R.I.P. ...... is it already that itme of year? i remember you reminiscing about him last year...... if i prayed, i'd say 2 prayers right now..... may he rest in peace..... and the same for you, sir.....
complainey:
we've been friends for a while. i just rejoined. don't you remember me??????????

Saturday Nov 29, 2003

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Apnea, Flux, Fractal and Eva...

Whoever lined the sets up like that did a really great job. I rarely get wow-ed four times in a row.

(because i'm so crusty and jaded)

Wednesday Nov 26, 2003

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I found out what I want to do... not what I want to do from the list of available options. And more importantly I now feel like I can do it.

It's a really good thing.



Wednesday Nov 19, 2003

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I have to find a new research topic and write 35 pages on it by the second. The title will be something like -

________________: The Role of Ideology in the Implementation of the _____________ in the United States.

Any ideas on what i should fill those in with?

Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?
ARRR!!!
kurtz:
Bullshit!!! ............. Republican Party..........

Saturday Nov 01, 2003

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two things:
1) I love the BBC.

2) If you had one-million dollars, what would you do?
chiquita:
if i had one MEEL-lion dollars, i would....

hey man...wait a minute...in today's global economy, that really is piddly shit.

nonetheless, i would pay off my formidable student loans, invest a bit, and then have nothin but fun with the rest...traveling and such.

peace and good stuff to you, steve...my subscription is about over. it is time.

now, go save the world, you!

Wednesday Oct 29, 2003

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I've really not done a whole lot so far this week. Done a lot at work and things there are going pretty well, but I just kind of look at my job as something I do to allow me to do what I really want to do. Lately, all I've wanted to do is kind of Veg out.

What's Playing: Rid of Me by PJ...
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winter_____:
Librarian? LOL!

That'll work too.
kristy_lyn:
montreal, baby, montreal
*kisses*
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