Hey there my fellow lunch grouper's.
Whats new you ask? Eh, nothing terribly new. I don't really have anything profound to say either.
New classes, which i'm digging. Its nice to take classes where the subject matter intertwines, like my Europe: ago of extremes class is related to my Age of Michelangelo Art class. I finally feel intellectually fulfilled, which is a nice feeling.
I'm roomate-less for the time being, but my room will be fair game in a couple of days for the room switch.
The clark Bars are heading back in full swing. Its a little different this semester, since we lost a couple people, but we'll manage. We'll be working on the album a lot more, hopefully get it out sooner than never. I'll be a recording artist. Haha. Ok.
Pretty broke, But i know how to live on a shoestring budget, so its not that bad.
And hey, thats the genuine college experience, right?
Peter, You have to give me your lj name so i can add you. And whats with this whole desert island thing? lol.I'm a little confused.
Thank you for your comments about my last post. It really makes me feel good.
You know what works for me when I can't pay attention? drawing a comic about why class is so boring. Seriously, some of my best ones have come out of sheer boredom.
Boredom is an issue though. Something I'm struggling with myself. Ah well, I guess there are worse problems in life.
I don't know though, do you ever wake up and feel like your life could be serving a better purpose? Like the whole world is going on around you, but you arn't really activly participating in it?
Well, thats all i've got for now. keep in touch guys.
:O)
t h e . l u n c h . g r o u p
Its 11:56 pm and in a matter of moments, Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial day will have come and gone.
I always feel unsatisfied with myself on this day every year. I try to spend some time thinking about him and all that he accomplished for this country, for the world really, for all people, but somehow it never feels like enough. I wish there was something more i could do to truly celebrate his memory.
I guess i'd just like to say that I love the life he's given me. I have enjoyed a series of rich experiences due to his activism. I have loved growing up in the ethnic and racial diversity of Broward County. I love that newtonne and Zay are part of my family. I can't imagine them not being accepted as part of our family, as my sister and my nefew just because we have different color skin. I can't imagine going through the last 8 years without knowing olivia, whom I met in seventh grade science and have formed an incredible bond with. I can't imagine the quality of my life being half of what its been because i have been blessed with these amazing people. If segregation were still around today, I would have never had the chance to know them, and what a tragedy that would have been.
I can't be more proud of olivia right now. She is defying every obstacle once placed in front of people of color. She made it through school with honors and earned herself a full scholarship in addition to several grants for UCF's highly selective engineering program, one of 15 woman in all four grades. She is defying gravity, living Dr. King's dream. We all are.
There. I feel better. Proud and thankful and better.
Happy Belated Martin Luther King Day guys. May we never forget the importance of his life.
t h e . l u n c h . g r o u p
***Warning: I'm on a rampage. Beware. I might use nice words.***
Is it too early to be writing on theoretical parenting? Is it too early to be giving my opinion on how things should be done? Well I don't give a damn. I have a lot to say about fathers and, expertise or no, I'm going to say it.
Now we'll move onto future fathers - boys in taking their first major steps towards paternity. Dare I even mention thier names? Dare I speculate on their ability to enter this life commitment? Well, with Scott {Last Name Deleted} - husband to my best friend, Tiffany {Her Maiden Name} {See Scott's Last Name}- I feel like its my moral obligation. After all, he eloped with a girl I consider my siter. It happened 5 poignant days BEFORE I wrote my poem "Maid of Honor." So being a chicken and not giving it to her had absolutely NO effect on history. They're married. For exactly one month and one day. I'm shell shocked. My theory is that they'll be expecting before the "real" wedding they want to have on their 1 year anniversary. I don't see how she can expect her parents to pay for it. I don't see how he can expect to have any respect from me. Eloping in a courthouse...honestly. They just got the lisence and did it. Dear God! I can't even imagine. Not yet. Not now. Maybe one day I'll want a courthouse wedding. Right now, I have too much to worry about - too much to ENJOY rather. He's so immature. If MY father can't manage himself, how will someone so dependent and baby-like have a child? How will he deal when he can't sleep at night because baby can't sleep? Hand the responsibility to Tiffany alone? Hand the fatherhood to the mother? That's what my dad did - does. Great running start. So to future Baby {Scott's Last Name Here} - my godchild? my neice/nephiew? - how will I welcome you? I'll love you endlessly, but your father will have a hell of a lot of asskissing to do before I pay him ten cents to start shining my shoes.
Our second feature future father (haha...alliterations are a bitch), Marco and his future bride Shanaza (also lovingly called "Naz"). After spending so much time thinking about Scott today, I couldn't help comparing how they'd handle fatherhood. I think Marco's MUCH more ready for it than Scott is. He's got a job. He's got money. He's almost 10 years older than Scotty (no one calls him "Scotty;" I just had to add it). Ok so he's living at home too. Okay so he doesn't want to stay with Publix, but he knows he wants his life to take a direction. Maybe that's something. Maybe it's not. I don't know. And through all our conversations, I realized that he's not the chauvanist he acted like. He's a shithead. He's an idiot. But he might make it. He might marry her, be faithful, and discover that being a father is all he needs. I really wish them the best. They don't have it, but they could get it. It's not really my issue. Just a thought.
To conclude, I've let my brain wander a ways down paths that I'm not supposed to be looking at just yet. I like them. I look forward to walking down them some day FAR FAR FAR in the future. (Ok, so a FEW of them aren't THAT beyond reach, but we won't go into that). I'm back to normal now though. I'll pick a good one. Future Babies of Mine, no worry. Your father won't be a shithead or selfish or immature enough to be your sibling. I won't make THEIR mistakes twice.
(NOTE: Full Journal Locked in LJ; Go see it there those of you with access...)
-
Oh My Goodness! When did you find out about this?
Oh I wish she hadn't of done it. Hindsight can be a real bitch. God help her if she wakes up in a few months and realizes where she is in life. I hope it can work out, but it probably won't. Are they really planning to have a baby soon? Is he living with her in her dorm?
Oy vey.
I'm sorry sweetheart. I know how much hope you had for her. Hey, all may not be lost. Sometimes you just can't have anyone tell you anything, like that conversation peter and I had with you the night at his house. And you know what, she'll do a lot of growing and maybe she will come back to you and your friendship will grow even stronger. I just hope she is happy with her decision after she's done some growing.
::hug::
t h e . l u n c h . g r o u p
The European union is going to hold a discussion on whether to ban the swatstika after Prince Harry's less than charming appearence at a party last week.
Granted it was foolish behavior on his part, but are they really going to ban the symbol from all 25 participating countries? Does this sound fishy to anyone besides me? What about freedom of expression? I don't understand. Yes, the nazi's commited many of the world's greatest atrocities, but I can't help but argue for the right of someone to wear a symbol. Its a symbol.
Here in the united States we have a little thing called the first amendment, and not that its recognised by the Bush administration all too often, but at least we have it, and when it applies, its a beautiful thing.
As the ingenious Aaron Sorkin wrote in my favorite scene of The American President (Michael Douglas's character is the president giving a kick butt national address):
"You want free speech? Let's see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil, who's standing center-stage and advocating at the top of his lungs that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours. You want to claim this land as the land of the free? Then the symbol of your country cannot just be a flag. The symbol also has to be one of its citizens exercising his right to burn that flag in protest. Now show me that, defend that, celebrate that in your classrooms. Then, you can stand up and sing about the land of the free." I couldn't agree more. Here's what one left wing part activist said of the ban:
"I understand how the burden of history weighs upon my German colleagues' view," he said. "However, banning symbols cannot ban evil and risks playing into the hands of those who would seek to subvert the very liberties we most champion."
The thing I'm most affraid of is censorship because once one thing is taken away, what next? Banning the enire mention of naziism in conversation, books, television? Not that any of that is going to happen, it isn't probable, but baning the symbol is just one step in that direction.
i sort of feel this way about guns too. i don't think the solution to our crime problem is to ban weapons. I don't like them, and wish that people didn't own them (of feel they need to own them), but i do believe it is within everyone's right to own one. However, I don't think anyone needs an AK47, or other such weapons. If you hunt or want something for protection, then you should need weapons sufficient for just that. I think the government should ban large scale killing machines, yes. The things that no one needs for any practical use. And put together a tougher screening process.
What do you think?
-
First of all, Aaron Sorkin (sp?) is a god.
Secondly, you know me and my thoughts. Blood-boiling at how ready everyone is to ban things lately and how easy the EU seems to scare...
Can we ban bad grammar? Can we ban faux mexican food? Those are USEFUL bans. Banning a symbol of someone's political views is not a power we should hold.
t h e . l u n c h . g r o u p
Read this first:
"Capitalism in its death throes wants to accustom us to horror"
Are you as mad as I am? There are a million and one things wrong with this article. Misconstrued political theory has become an epidemic.
Can we do something about this? Can we figure out a better way? A better system? Then write up a handbook so perfect no one will be able to mistake our meaning, ever? Pretty please???!!!??? I think I'm going to go...kick a pillow...then I'll write up a treatise on something and send it to a senator.
Argh...
-
You go with your bad self. If you want to start any sort of petitions or rallies i'm in. While we're at it, can we throw in the mercury in fish thing, oh, and green house gases, and the lack of separation between church and state, and the left behind no child left behind act, and medicare, and social security, and progressive taxes...
wait. we need a treatise in preparation for the treatise.
::kicks pillow::
that feels good.
t h e . l u n c h . g r o u p
I should probably be physically exhausted. I worked out for an hour and a half today (45 min cardio, about 25 on the resistance training, and the rest stretching in the dance room) and did quite a thorough job of pushing myself.
But instead, I find myself hitting 9:30 and being mentally drained. It's been a long week of hopping between HTML and 18th Century Literature and General Logic homework and a panicked Spanish boy and my own life. Now that I think the blogs are fairly error free and I've written 20 pages of notes on John Dryden, I only have 40 pages of Logic to read (including 5 pages of problems) and the better part of Tom Jones to finish (which means a heck of a lot...). As we all know, the panicked Spanish boy is living his own life again instead of trying to invade mine and I'm sure his fiancee is at least slightly grateful.
Josh Groban is helping. Brian is, too. Brian always helps. *sigh* And chocolate...*munches on a cappuchino-liqour filled Ferrero chocolate*...Now if i had something fuzzy and soft to hug I might be okay...
*sees first teddy bear, Bear Spot, poking his head out of a still unpacked suitcase*
0.0 hehehehe 0.o
I'll survive.
t h e . l u n c h . g r o u p
I hope at least one of you is watching cspan2 Book TV right now.
Mark Danner, author of "Torture and trust: America, Abu Ghraib, and the war on terror" Is talking about his book, and the newly relaesed documents secured by the ACLU, memos form the administration debating what to do about the abuse,etc...
What does America mean today? Certainly not what it was intended to stand for. Now we stand for evangelical ignorance and prejudice, cruelty, greed, materialism, suffering, self love.
I hope I graduate with top honors from clark. I want to be armed with the best education possible when i go up against this crap. its going to be tough.
it makes me think of Green Day's lyrics from American idiot.
"don't want to be an american idiot
don't want a nation under new mania
Can you hear the sound of hysteria?
The subliminal mind Fuck AMerica.
Welcome to a new kind of tension
all across the alienation
Where everything isn't meant to be okay
Television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones meant to follow
For that's enough to argue
Maybe I'm the Fagot America
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda
Now everybody do the propaganda
And sing along to the age of paranoia
Don't want to be an american idiot
One nation controlled by the media
Information age of Hysteria
Calling out to idiot america"
What do you think?
t h e . l u n c h . g r o u p
Comming back feels like comming for the first time.
I arrived early, just as i did for orientation( the perks of comming from 1500 miles away... and not being able to rearrange me flight). Everyone else will be here tomorrow.
The halls are calm, but filled with the ghost of so many stories. My room smells exactly the way it did when i walked in for the first time. I recall taking it all in and feeling slighly excited. I was on the edge of something completely new and huge. What is this whole college thing going to be like? what are the people going to be like? what is my roomate going to be like?
I wonder how my friends are, since i have been cut off from them for the past few weeks.
I almost feel relieved after being home. Life picked up where it left aff in all the right ways. We've all grown and its wonderful that our friendships have grown with us. Thats a rare thing and I am very gratious to providence for that.
There are a few differences this time. This time, the wrong side of the room is vacant. this time i have to clean my room before i can unpack. This time, I rather like the quiet solitude. There is an air of peace over wright hall. I do find myself wondering what this semester is going to be like. new teachers, new subjects, new people. I like a fresh start. This time i don't need reminders that my old life is not lost. This time I don't need to use it as a crutch. This time "i'm sitting in the same seat, but i'm not in the same place"( as carrie bradshaw on sex and the city so eloquently put it).
the boys arn't even here yet and their hallway smells like them. The air is ladden with the equal parts axe spray deoderant, dirty laundry, and take out food.
Maybe thats the sort of stuff thats just too hard to fade. The walls and the carpet suck it up, reluctant to give up the reminder of who has come and gone. Like chineese food or fish. that stuff never seems to disapate.
I miss my parents. :O) "not a girl, not yet a woman".
[ Just a note: My conolences to The family of Jerry Orbach and all of his enlightened fans. He was the core of the big apple, the heart and soul of new york city. His legacy will live on in reruns of Law and Order. If you guys havn't seen this show, sit down and catch an episode. its something i've been watching with my mom for the past 13 years.]
-
Thank you sweetie. Big hug right back at ya.
On the new layout: Like Peter, i'm a little bit confused, lol, but i'll get it. And i havn't decided whether i am comfortable with the lj listing... i'll get back to you on that.
While I understand your openness, i rather like it being the three of us quietly. I do like your new blog though. Its a neat idea. -
As always, we'll be the only three posting. People may wander in from time to time, but most of the traffic will be on Blue-Stockings and G.I.T (the useful acronym for the new blog). I'll disable the link to your lj if you want. Not a problem at all. And if it gets to be too busy around here, I'll let you know. *muah*
t h e . l u n c h . g r o u p
I've done it again! My new blog is called Get It Together and I love it already. I'm going from site to site trying to connect bloggers and putting any good blogs I find back on the page. Hopefully (in the process) I'll create a mini community w/i Blogger and also (*crossing fingers*) Blue-Stockings will get some new readers. Again, let me know what you do/don't want me to put up as links. And send me ideas if you see a good blog! (Just hit, BlogThis! by the search on the Blogger Header and leave a note w/ the link on here. It'll be groovy.) Love you all!
t h e . l u n c h . g r o u p
I'm upset. I'm reading John Dryden's "Mac Flecknoe" when I find out that the word "punk" in 18th century English means "prostitute." I know you don't mean it that way, Gato; I'm not upset at you. I'm upset that I didn't know it before. I could have used it in so many delicious ways...*sigh*
t h e . l u n c h . g r o u p
Driver's Seat
A great little entry that I found and quite agree with. I'm planning on taking a little while, gathering my super energy, and listing my super powers. Do the same, you guys. See what ya come up with.
t h e . l u n c h . g r o u p
Some say it's found in finding a pencil, pizza with sausage, telling the time...(Okay no more of You're a Good Man Charlie Brown lyrics). I say, it's finding out that people will actually read your blog! Not to mention an awesome new template complete with good entries! Go visit it! If it loads as the old one, just hit F5 on your compy. It'll work ^.^ Tori's Blog. Go hither and enjoy my friends! I love blogging...*sigh* And let me know if you want me to add any extra links to your stuff (Top 5, LJ's, etc.) or if you DON'T want me to. Either way.
t h e . l u n c h . g r o u p
AIU Online
At 9:00 PM,
Gato said…
You guys suck.
Mhm.
Yep.
Post a Comment
<< Home