kyle and colleen on my porch

the english are cute

while reading the student housing guide for queen mary university of london, i have noticed the word "nuisance" used more than i have ever seen it.

how cute.

la la la

listening to the shins, back to high school, except that mindset is gone. good thing.

you can tell a lot about a person by watching them surf the channels of the television, noticing the pauses and the quick flips, which channels they linger on and for how long.

does everyone else have a love/hate relationship with technology? i mean i absolutely despise it most times. it is unfortunate my generation could not have lived in our parents' youth when people had to leave clever notes and trust people to be on time for a meeting. texting today provides the unconditional space for excuses. why bother hurrying a bit, when you can be fashionably late and just text someone to let them know? we still play the waiting game with telephones, but its less personal now. rather than talking to a person's face, you are sending them artificial waves of your voice through a cellphone signal. the thing i am most upset about in this rapidly increasing tech world is that books and paper periodicals will become obsolete someday, and it will be sooner rather than later. books will become antiques, they will all be made rare and we will carry our computers everywhere. i can't imagine what types of cancer we will get when not only our phones, but our computers are literally touching our bodies for most of the day. technological-tumors. yum. and, although i hate computers and their viruses and their connections and their convenience and their artificial everything, i find i need them to survive. i have to check my email to move on with my plans and life, and i use google maps almost daily to find out where in this city i am heading and what the best bike route is.

thus, we are living in a fake world. how much faker can it get?

sometimes

you choose one

because you have no
one else


then you fall.

smoooothie

Just made a suuper yummy smoothie:

2 bananas
cup of frozen berries
cup of water/crushed ice
splash of fruit juice
half teaspoon of bee pollen

=YUM.



On a different note, I've got way too much pride for mpls than I can explain.

Saw Atmosphere at the Taste of Minnesota Friday. And he is a genius man. (A man that is a genius). For a rapper to give me the chills from inspiration, that is something right there. He's great.

Also the 4th last evening was wondrous--tons of people gathered in father hennepin park and stone arch bridge to watch the fire works and celebrate. We watched from the crowded bridge lookin at the skyline :) Then Soap Factory had their 10-second film fest afterwards, which was silly and fun.

currently:

hot
muggy
buggy
hot
naked
july

well then

I believe

I have just

opened

a can

of worms.

how sad.

that we, as humans, feel differently. Not only do we look and see and sound different from each other, but we feel differently and we feel for each other in different ways, unpredictable, unexplainable ways. So that one may feel the passion, the attraction, the love for another, yet that other may not feel it as strongly or even at all.

How unfortunate that we can't love all the people who love us in the same way that they love us.



currently:

fried rice leftovers
finding myself
sunset
protest aipac
free palestine?
es un chiste?
NO.
an essay on why I want to join the Peace Corps
must be created tonight.

in the city

i have to be in a big place,

where i get a new zipcode when i move just across the river to the other side of the college campus,

cause its dreamy.

http://www.grassrootssolutions.com/what-we-do/organizing

wooof!

finally the plans for london are starting to flow..

going to be doing some WWOOFing somewhere in the UK for two weeks before going to london, BUT WHERE?!

12 farms/holdings got back to me with a "yes, please come visit/work with us in september!" hoorayyy

but how do i decide which one will be best?

do i want to go to the one that is in scotland, because its SCOTLAND!...?

or the hare krishna community because it will be hella cool?

or the one that has a recording studio based out of their home "the hatch"?

wahhhhhhh or the one i originally wanted that is really primitive, a community of 8 people who live in benders with no running water and compost toilets and are learning to become self-sufficient?

eeeeeeee

i don't know.

hopefully i will know soon.

consulting the village green preservation society is not helping me decide..

livin' in the dollhouse with the summer dolls

welcome to the dollhouse.

complete with one second edition doll, no original dolls, one third edition doll, and three summer edition dolls, complete wardrobes and hair accessories for all.

meet the dolls.

EVY studies dance, serves at a restaurant in the famed Guthrie Theater, is a member of 1419 local artist collective where she participates in projects and helps put on events by the artists and students.

BRENT studies theatre arts and collaborative arts, teaches tennis to adults, and is also a member of 1419 artist collective.

MELISSA studies visual art and cultural studies, works in a photography portrait studio, and participates in poetry slam competitions.

EMILY studies english and social justice, is a member of students for a democratic society, and enjoys writing poetry.

A new mystery summer doll will be available soon!


The dolls are all independent and are usually here and there and everywhere. There are times when they all watch movies together as a family, and there are times when they will not know where other dolls are for a couple days at a time. They get along well and are like-minded people, living in the seward neighborhood of minneapolis where there is much art, culture, progressive people, eco-friendly households, co-operative businesses.


This is my summer.



currently:

"god save the village green"
-kinks
solemn and sunny
melissa's sitting on the couch
limeade up for grabs in the kitchen
freshly baked french bread
gonna fix my bicycle

tell it to me, tell it to me,
drink that whiskey, let the cocaine be
cocaine's gonna kill my honey bee

-old crow medicine show.

dearest dad

Today people everywhere celebrate their fathers and father figures because fathers can be important mentors. I have seen a lot of really terrible fathers in the world, but I got one of the rare good ones, luckily. Some people rarely talk to their fathers about anything except the weather and the fact that the family dog had a seizure and died, but my dad and I, we talk about much more interesting things together--like the current economic trends and how silly consumerism can be, our disagreements about tactics for activism, and Ginger's newest fear of birds.

I'm not trying to brag about my dad, although he is worth bragging about. Without him I would be severely in debt at a young age, due to lack of money-management skills, and I would not yet have learned to see both sides of every situation. I think we have to notice those people in our lives who have such a positive impact on us and who we value so greatly for being a part of us. We have to take a moment, a breath, to think about those people and why we need them, why we have become who we are because of them, and who we might have become without them.

currently:
radiohead
couch-sitting
sunshine
making an agenda for SDS' first Zine meeting here at my place
funfetti cookies baked for my radical friends
coffee
sunday

X em