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My first week of classes went pretty well!
I really enjoy all of them and my professors are great.
I am totally looking forward to EVERYTHING.
One class I am really excited for is my IML class.
We are going to be taking a documentary about the conflict in Iraq and adding in our own research and input based on whatever issue we are interested in.
The actual description is:
This course centers on a core “text” from which you identify an issue particular to your academic or personal interests. During this year, that core text is a film, Iraqi Doctors: On the Front Lines of Medicine. You will select an area of interest early in the semester, working on it from multiple perspectives. The emphasis is on developing proficiency with various components of multimedia authorship—image manipulation, web work, interactivity—which will culminate in a larger project, bringing each segment together. Although specific authoring platforms will be taught, they will be approached as expressions with cultural, social and political significance.
I am just really excited.
This is like an opportunity to do work that really matters.
Like...we can totally raise awareness and have a positive impact and bring about change.
I just think that's really amazing.
Every moment that I'm here I realize how this school was the perfect choice for me.
Even though I had never actually seen it before I made my decision...it just felt right.
I'm glad I took that chance - it's turned out to be the best choice I've ever made.
I am just so inspired to do so many things.
I feel like I have the resources to do everything I have ever dreamed about.
The people I meet are just simply amazing and just...wow.
I am really happy to be here.
I am really pumped about the world right now.
So many things are happening!
Even this election - it's like this is a monumental moment in history.
I'm alive and I will get to be a part of it.
I can have a say in what happens.
Anyone can.
So I urge you all out there who are apathetic/uninterested to find something that inspires you.
It can be anything - just do something!
You can have an impact on the world around you.
You just need to act.
I don't mean to preach or anything but I just feel like if you don't do anything then you don't really have a right to complain about the things that happen.
If you don't vote, you don't count.
Then you really don't matter.
It's the people who don't do anything that make our situations worse.
You're allowing those things to happen by not speaking up or making a point.
Inaction is just as bad.
I don't know what it is...
I guess I just feel like I have found my calling.
I have found that thing that I am really striving for.
Each day I am finding out more about myself...who I am and who I want to be.
I'm ready for this.
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[28 Aug 2008|05:39pm] |
Thursday >> August 28, 2008
5:37 PM EST
bulgur burgers with grilled pineapple, lime "mayo," and tomato
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football football football
that's all I can think about.
football football football.
GO DEACS!
oh and Iceland I'm thinking about that too. Iceland and football. Football and iceland.
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I need your support!
I have registered for AIDS Walk Los Angeles and am very excited about the event. This is a very important issue to me so I have set an ambitious fundraising goal of $1000. I want to do as much as I can to make a difference in the lives of men, women, and children affected by HIV and AIDS. Even though there has been a lot of publicity about drug treatments which are prolonging some people's lives, they don't work for everyone and there is still no cure in sight. Moreover, young people are still getting infected at alarmingly high rates.
I want your help. Will you please sponsor me for the AIDS Walk? Just click on the website address below to enter my personalized web page and charge your donation.
http://aidswalklosangeles2008.kintera.org/moyru
Thanks so much guys! I really appreciate it!
meri
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| Snow Tires? |
[27 Aug 2008|11:21am] |
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Anyone here have decent snow tires they are willing to get rid of in the Burlington or Stowe areas for Free? I'm an Americorps VISTA and so I don't have all that much dough to spend on snow tires. If it helps, I drive a older 740 Volvo so tires that fit that model would be perfect.
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[24 Aug 2008|11:34pm] |
oh, i also was on the radio today
i requested hall and oates on WJRZ while i was at work and they put me on the air
and then i talked about greg egan for six hours
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| Hiking Camel's Hump? |
[22 Aug 2008|11:23pm] |
Some friends and I want to hike Camels Hump, however, I know that some of the trails mean an almost all-day hike. We're looking for a fairly moderate hike up the mountain that will allow for us to get up to the summit, have lunch, and hike back down before sunset.
Any suggestions? I noticed most trails are around 4 to 6 miles long.
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| August 21st 2008 |
[21 Aug 2008|09:39pm] |
All righty...My MRI's came back normal, which means I can skate again, if I ever get a day off/break/etc. I probably need x-rays again, but for now, no news is good news.
Gencon ran us out of beer, which kept me at the brewery till past 7 most nights this week and we brew again tomorrow. I've missed so much derby practice I think I've forgotten how to skate. I've had my gear sitting here by the door waiting for me and now that I know I can skate again, it sucks that I've missed it.
That being said..Stuff with the band is going pretty well, though we keep changing members, which seems to be happening to a lot of bands in the area. As long as they like me and aren't mean to me, I'll stick around.
I ended up having to postpone the meeting with the lady from Cafe Patachou because of various things going on last week that kept me super busy.
The second shot seems to be helping my hips, but the inside of my hips hurt now, and my back, so I'm still taking pain killers. They want me to start physical therapy.
There's a show tomorrow night if anyone is interested in coming out.
Common Ground =)
August, 22 2008 at Hilltop Tavern
6500 East 10th Street, Indianapolis, Indiana 46219
9:30 to 1:30
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More serious stuff, sorry I'm not trying to bitch:
I really hate it here. I have so many panic attacks now, I just think about having panic attacks, and start having one, just from thinking about wanting to leave to eat or worrying about going to the doctor/etc. Then if I take an ativan I feel like I can't drive, so I'm still stuck. my aunt is nice enough, but it's hard for me to talk to her, because her advice is usually to take a sedative, or go to midtown, but midtown won't see me unless I'm at the point where I can't work or something. Wishard docs pretty much ignore me and pass me around like a lab rat.
I feel like I'm trapped in this room, in this bed, sitting behind a screen, and all the things I try to do to make my life better and more fufilling/etc are only distracting me for a while, because I still come back to this. I feel alone, and helpless most of the time, it doesn't help that I'm in pain a lot and isolated from people that I care a lot about.
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[20 Aug 2008|11:25pm] |
Wednesday >> August 20, 2008
11:27 PM EST
( my bedroom so far )
Four days of packing, lugging, unpacking, organizing, alphabetizing, folding, and moving related frustration is officially behind me. I have a two-day orientation for school tomorrow and Friday, as well as all the intentions in the world of seeing the Cirque de Soleil film in the IMAX theater. It plays Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights only.
I moved into a housing co-op. I've heard it called a commune, so I may refer to it that way for clarification's sake. The first Nickel City Housing Cooperative in Buffalo is called Ol' Wondermoth. My house is a two year old protégé named Plankton. The house where I live is a 100+ year old Victorian with eleven bedrooms, a large kitchen, and spacious common areas. The original woodwork and fireplaces remain, and the house is chock full of character. It smells and acts like an old house, which is new for me. There is a cooking schedule and chores are split among housemates. House meetings are held every Wednesday. An agenda is assembled throughout the course of the week leading up to the meeting, and house decisions are made by consensus. There is an emphasis on buying local and organic, green energy, and self-sufficiency. Meals are vegan and vegetarian. Members are voted in based on a lengthy (but fun!) application.
I am excited because this part of the city is vibrant and there are a lot of businesses and parks within walking distance. Also this is my first time [besides the dorms] living in a place where other people lived before. My parents' last two houses -- the one I grew up in and their empty nest -- were new construction. Yeah, I've stayed in hotels, but it's exciting for me to sleep in a room where other people have slept and relax in a living room that was previously inhabited and plant my feet in a tub where . . . okay, you get the picture.
Now that I'm finished moving in, I feel relaxed and relieved.
… not so fast, because I still need to: mop the floor, hang the mirror that John gave me, get my new door knob and lighting fixture installed …
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[20 Aug 2008|10:39am] |
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[20 Aug 2008|10:09am] |
god dammit i hate hermit crabs. i almost lost my patience for like the first time ever yesterday at the races at work i was ready to start punching little kids. then after i went to the boardwalk with mozzarella stix for date #2 and i had another very good time and again didn't want it to ever end.
i'm feeling pretty positive lately! summer is almost over! summer classes are over! soon it will be autumn and i can wear jackets and sweaters again and then i will be ~21~! and i am going to a great many awesome rock n roll concerts (MBV!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! but also cake & a new found glory & nofx & panic at the disco --yes really-- and weezer?? im not sure if emma got tickets...) but things are good! maybe cj will hang out with me again one day? i don't know i have not seen him since adriana's birthday. we still talk every day at least a lil bit and i do kind of miss him.
life is funny.~
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