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| Since I'm horrible at updating these things,
An update:
1) I transfered schools (now at USM). No more schools of 1,600 students. More like 15,000. No more cold winters--thank God.
2) No more admissions work--Go local coffee shop, go. (Javawerks).
3) Biking--lots of it. My new roadbike takes my just about anywhere I want to go.
4) Coke--not soda or pop.
5) Free football games with student ID.
6) "In Our Bedrooms After the War" by Stars is awesome. Go buy it.
7) "A Picture of Dorian Gray" is mind-blowing. Go read it. You can find it under Wilde.
8) My songwriting has gotten better. . .
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| To those of you who remember my red shoes:
You may have noticed that they were getting a little shoddy. After all, I bought them at a thrift store 3 years ago for eight dollars and they've lasted till now. While the little red pumas were well made, they were beginning to get huge holes in them. I had recently put them aside in storage and started using them as yard work shoes.
Today we went to the coast. I wanted bubble tea and there isn't any around hattiesburg, but there is a cool little bubble tea cafe in Ocean Springs. After my tea, we went to a thrift store. Lo and behold, I found a brand new pair of red shoes. They are nearly identical to my last. While not pumas, the make is the exact same and they feel the exact same.
To those of you who remember my red shoes, make sure to greet my new ones.
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| I have decided that I love slam poetry. I knew I liked it after I went to see the world qualifiers in Boston, but only in the last few weeks have I truly began to love it.
I subscribed to indiefeed's performance poetry podcast, and have since fallen in love with the art form. I've liked poetry for several years, but haven't been to truely enjoy some of the "classics" because of this rigid feeling I get reading it. Slam breaks out of mold while still retaining the beauty of well chosen words.
Check out a few lines by poet Derrik Brown:
"Corn was a maze his family had been lost in for generations--some years it was beans."
or,
"he woke in the "L" shape of California and began to pack."
Or these few lines by a poet named Chesko:
"He said that there was a train that rides this track big enough for only one passenger powered by the energy of the rider and painted by their feelings. He tells me that it falls apart after one ride and takes a lifetime to re-build. I ask him "did you ever ride it?" and he just looked out the window.
or,
"He just looked down at his hands, leaned in, kissed my forehead, put his hands on my chest and told me he's still trying to find something beautiful that won't fall apart when he touches it."
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So here's some thoughts on some issues:
Environment:
You know what's interesting about tips to lessen your carbon footprint?
Half of the things on there save you money. I find it humorous that eco-awareness is very equitable to thriftiness. I'm finding that many of the suggestions by the eco left are practical--whether you believe in global warming or not. After all, if I can save money while (perhaps) helping the environment. . .
Fair Trade:
So about fairtrade coffee. . .I'm still not sure if it actually helps the workers. I did some research, and I'm just not convinced. I know the econ department up here doesn't like the idea, and apparently the logic behind looks good, but other factors play into it. It splits the market or something.
Apparently the whole idea of "fair trade" (not coffee) is a form of economics I don't particularly like. Government enforced tarriffs and the like play a huge role into fair trade--I don't like a government market. Let's be free. . .
I don't know if you particularly care, but for some reason I thought I should share what I had been looking into.
P.S.
I'm a vegan now.
NOT
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| So, I slept in a cardboard box last night.
We went to Displace Me for the night and slept outside to raise awareness for the Invisible Children. We filmed videos for congress, watched videos, etc. The chapel office paid for gas, so I spent less than $10 on the whole excursion. It was a good experience.
Finals next week. Intermural Soccer Playoffs Tuesday (I've had 2-3 goals and 1-2 assist pretty consistantly--maybe it'll keep up). Ben Gibbard and David Bazan on the 7th. Home on the 18th.
I'm a Resident Advisor next year...I was asked and accepted within a week.
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