Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007
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7:32 pm - State of the Union
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A couple of random thoughts...
This will be the first state of the union address (in a long time) that does not involve good friends, plenty of sarcastic comments, and significant amount of alcohol. I'm not sure if I will be able to make it through the entire speech.
Costco Brownie mix is pretty darn awesome.
My office is too quiet.
I am rapidly realizing that I learned quite a bit of theory in college, but still have no idea how to get anything done.
I really like the students that are involved in environmetal programs.
I am trying to find a middle ground between idealism and pragmatism.
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Thursday, June 29th, 2006
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12:15 pm - The CD(Central District)
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I know I always talk about how gentrified my neighborhood has become over the last 7-8 years but I really have a hard time seeing it as the same neighborhood. My family seems to stay put while almost everything around us changes. There's an interesting article in The Stranger this week that talks about the role of crack in the CD (a neighborhood about 4-5 blocks away from my house but where I spent a ton of time as a kid (ie, where I had soccer practice, went swimming, to the library, took Drivers ed. etc)and how much the neighborhood has changed over the last 10 years. Sometimes I feel like I am just making up the stories that I remember as a kid but articles like this make me realize that the changes are concrete and being noted throughout the area. As I kid, I remember biking two block from my house with one of my friends and having over-protective (and perhaps racist) grownups tell me we shouldn't be biking around the neighborhood by ourselves because we were going to get beat up, or raped, or shot at. Which always bothered me because i knew that unless you looked like you had a lot of money on you or got in the way of other people's business that nobody would ever bother you except crack-heads who might yell random things, but I remember the fear of many white people that lived around my block. I miss many thing about the way my neighborhood was when I was a kid. Maybe because the CD wasn't as the papers often wanted to frame it, merely a place where crackheads and gang violence flourished, but a black cultural center with strong roots in the civil-rights and black-power movements. Further, everyone who I have talked to who has been moving off my block didn't really want to move; it seems that it's all about money--and who can afford to continue to live in a house once they realize the land itself is worth over 500,000. As hipsters flock to the new condos sprouting up around the area the important issues that the CD constantly forced the city to negotiate, police brutality and racism, urban poverty, and unequal resources and education opportunities seem to have a weaker and weaker voice in the major newspapers and the city itself. And the issue of urban poverty hasn't improved; the people that lived in the predominantly working class CD just have moved south of the city where the inequalities are just as real only less visible.
I'm still trying to work out how I feel about these changes and how I fit into them....
The Article:
<<http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/content?oid=40053>>
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Wednesday, June 28th, 2006
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10:38 pm
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It's Rebecca's birthday today and it makes me think about how glad I am that we became friends over this past year. Being at home, makes me realize just how lucky I have been over the last couple of years to have such amazing friends. Not only are they talented, hilarious, and just a ton of fun to hang out with but they care deeply about somehow doing their part to try and make the world a better place. Hanging out with friends from high school has made me realize how rare it is for people to have this amazing combo... being able to have fun and try not to take life too seriously while caring deeply about other people. Seriously, you guys amaze me. Thanks.
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Thursday, May 18th, 2006
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10:33 pm
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Too tired paper writing leads to obsessive live-journal updating:
So sleeeeeeeepyyyyyyyyyyyyy...........
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12:04 pm
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Thursday, April 27th, 2006
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6:19 pm
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Shit! I'm a good girl. I swear some day I'll be evil yet, and not on accident!
| You Are 20% Evil | 
You are good. So good, that you make evil people squirm.
Just remember, you may need to turn to the dark side to get what you want! |
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Tuesday, April 11th, 2006
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11:18 am - TECHNOLOGY
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Wednesday, March 29th, 2006
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12:04 am - travel plans
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Thursday, March 16th, 2006
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1:44 pm - ProCrasTinaTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Watching the crane from Burling third is FAR more interesting then my paper.
(just in case YOU were wondering)
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Wednesday, March 15th, 2006
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12:01 pm - Paper Procrastination
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Stolen from Rebecca. Maybe I should have stuck with the Bio major...
| You scored as Biology. You should be a Biology major! You are passionate about the sciences, and you enjoy studying cell growth and evolutionary concepts which enable living organisms to survive. Pursue that!
Biology | | 100% | Anthropology | | 92% | Engineering | | 92% | Psychology | | 83% | Philosophy | | 83% | Art | | 83% | Sociology | | 75% | English | | 75% | Linguistics | | 75% | Mathematics | | 67% | Dance | | 67% | Theater | | 58% | Journalism | | 50% | Chemistry | | 50% | </td>
What is your Perfect Major? (PLEASE RATE ME!!<3)
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Sunday, February 12th, 2006
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11:01 pm - Sunday
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Thursday, April 28th, 2005
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5:27 pm - Soy Extranjera y.....sumamente perdida
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Being abroad makes me realize exactly how big the world is and how little I am. I thought being away from Grinnell would rejuvenate me. I thought i needed a break from cynicism and I found it. But I find myself scared. Like when I was five and would cry at night because i was so certain that THIS was the night that the vampires would come and get me. Not much has changed; I´m still scared. But this time I´m not crying and it´s people, not vampires, that haunt my nights.
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Monday, December 13th, 2004
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6:20 pm
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When I grow up, I too will go to faraway places, and when I grow old, I too will live beside the sea."
"That is all very well, little Alice, but there is a third thing you must do"
"What is is that?"
"You must do something to make the world more beautiful."
"All right" I say.
But I do not know yet what that can be.
-Miss Rumphius
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Monday, October 11th, 2004
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6:22 pm
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Sunday, September 26th, 2004
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8:57 pm - The battle of pretend
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Today I am pretending that my room is the world. The comfort of coffee, still warm in my hands,and the familiar spines of well-worn books hold out like sentinels defending off the "real world" outside. Dostoevsky, Whitman, Adrienne Rich;they guard off the newspaper in a flurried battle. My window is time. And I, the outsider, can peek through and observe the laughing kids racing on bikes called in for supper and put to bed as the moon rises over the trees. Dar Williams crackles--fuzzy through my goodwill speaker picking up the murmur of the local radio. I believe in Dar she can hold off the nightly report. I don't care about the weather. Here... in my room....in my world...it is safe. Except, for the telephone. Bloody line to the outside capable of bursting through Rich's tactical defenses. Telephone message. The real world returns, the newspaper wins, the radio static beats out Dar, and I listen to messages.
current mood: frustrated
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Monday, September 20th, 2004
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1:49 pm - This hour
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"When heat leaves the walls at last
and the breeze comes
or seems to come, off water
or off the half-finished moon
her silver roughened by a darkblue rag
this is the ancient hour
between light and dark, work and rest
earthly tracks and star-trails
the last willed act of day
and the night's first dream
If you could have this hour
for the last hour of your life."
--Adrienne Rich
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Wednesday, September 15th, 2004
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10:16 am
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The smell of rain makes me happy.
current mood: refreshed
current music: Brenda Weiler- In The Morning
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Monday, September 13th, 2004
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10:40 pm - "one more cup of coffee for the road"
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I wish I was an optimist. I wish I could believe in the meaning I try to construct for myself. I wish I could have faith in the good intentions and actions of the United States Government. I wish I believed in Democracy. I wish that I was actually intelligent. I wish that I was socially adept. I wish that I lived in a world with justice. I wish I had faith in something bigger than myself. I wish I could live up to my ideals. I wish the world could live up to my ideals. I wish that I could make a difference. I wish that I was not alone at 11:00 at night with a pile of reading I need to finish by tomorrow morning. I wish I didn't relate to Dostoevskian characters. I wish that I could actually communicate with another human being. I wish that Emily was here this semester. I wish that I didn't feel so damn invisible. I wish that I wasn't so vain as to care about being invisible. But mostly, I just wish that I could stop wishing and accept thing the way they are. I wish I could give up.
current mood: pessimistic
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Thursday, October 30th, 2003
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10:18 am - Oh NO!!!!!!!
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So now I have a live journal: BEWARE! DANGER! And yes, I did just write this so I can see what happens when I update my journal.
current mood: chipper
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