Mmm, mindless blogging after a long night of the 5-page essay from Hades...
So I was researching SDS (Students for a Democratic Society, a totally bid student movement organization in the 60s) and somewhere, somebody mentioned the Free University Movement. We have a Free School in Halifax but the time and location are inconvenient and I never have any idea what's going on, or when. But at Williams College they have Free University during their Winter Study (the extra mini-semester between Fall and Spring Semester - basically, for the month of January they do an independednt study or whatever floats their boat).
So people who know about fun stuff like astrology or skateboarding or UFOs or stickin' it to the Man put on free courses and you can sign up for them and learn about fun stuff. For free. I think the people teaching the courses get credit for them or something, but Keith showed me the listing of courses when I was down there last winter and the idea of it just rocked my world. I don't have time to push for it at the Mount but maybe that'sll be my project in law school (haha like I'll have time for anything then).
Know what else rocks this girl's world? The worl "loquatious." Hermione Granger is my hero. And the people who produced The Goblet of Fire would also be my heroes IF they had tacked 3 more minutes onto the running time of the movie to actually insert jsut a little bit of quidditch into the QUIDDITCH WORLD CUP SCENE. Because without seeing Viktor Krum actually play, I found it very difficult to buy everybody's fascination with him. Just because a character SAYS that he's cool doesn't make it so. Show me the damn quidditch!!!
Tuesday, November 22, 2005
Thursday, November 10, 2005
What about the voice of Geddy Lee? How did it get so high?
There's a tribute to The Pixies and Pavement at the Attic tonight. Which is awesome, I love Pavement and I wish I could go. But it seems to me a very odd thing to do a tribute to bands that so many people have never heard of. Tributes are usually for legends: Pink Floyd, Zepelin, the Stones...and the Pixies and Pavement? Oh well it's cool.
So I presented my funding proposal to Society Affairs today and they're generously provinding nearly a third of the funding for twelve of us to go to Montreal to do Poli-Sci nerdy things and be all chill in Montreal. And that'll be awesome because our first night there is TOTALLY by birthday. So having that over with and that funding secured is a huge weight off a lot of our backs. Now I can focus some more on essays (mountains of 'em) and, more immediately, FANTOGA!!!!
If anybody has ideas about a possibility for a prize for the best toga, please let me know. I'm trying to think of something iexpensive, fun, toga-related and not made by little children in Bangladesh.
And of course, I expect everyone to be at the party in your best sheets!
So I presented my funding proposal to Society Affairs today and they're generously provinding nearly a third of the funding for twelve of us to go to Montreal to do Poli-Sci nerdy things and be all chill in Montreal. And that'll be awesome because our first night there is TOTALLY by birthday. So having that over with and that funding secured is a huge weight off a lot of our backs. Now I can focus some more on essays (mountains of 'em) and, more immediately, FANTOGA!!!!
If anybody has ideas about a possibility for a prize for the best toga, please let me know. I'm trying to think of something iexpensive, fun, toga-related and not made by little children in Bangladesh.
And of course, I expect everyone to be at the party in your best sheets!
Friday, November 04, 2005
Curses! My brain is so very mushy...I have this weekend to get a million things done, a 10-page collaborative essay not the least among them. I'm currently in the Cornerstore, 3.5 hours through a 9.2-hour shift and my cognitive functions are no longer functioning. Perhaps i need coffee. Or, as is more likely the case, that would only make me feel duller.
The Globe and Mail from Wednesday-ish is currently splayed across my floor...I bought it to read about the results of the Gomery Report but my progress has so far been agonizingly slow. The Coles-notes version, as far as I can tell, is: Chretien is partially responsible for keeping control of the program within the PMO, which was not the proper procedure, but now Chretien's threatening to appeal that in court to clear his name, and Martin's been absolved of all responsibility because there's no evidence saying that he knew anything about how the money was being spent (or misspent). If I'd been following the procedures more closely and if my brain weren't feeling so gelationous I might feel like commenting on that. As it stands, however, I'm just trying to kill time without actually engaging any grey matter.
In fluffier news, my room just got 34.6% prettier yesterday...Bruno gave me a nicee poster in exchange for me helping him out with his anti-clearcutting campaign, so now there's something on my walls besides a calendar.
The Globe and Mail from Wednesday-ish is currently splayed across my floor...I bought it to read about the results of the Gomery Report but my progress has so far been agonizingly slow. The Coles-notes version, as far as I can tell, is: Chretien is partially responsible for keeping control of the program within the PMO, which was not the proper procedure, but now Chretien's threatening to appeal that in court to clear his name, and Martin's been absolved of all responsibility because there's no evidence saying that he knew anything about how the money was being spent (or misspent). If I'd been following the procedures more closely and if my brain weren't feeling so gelationous I might feel like commenting on that. As it stands, however, I'm just trying to kill time without actually engaging any grey matter.
In fluffier news, my room just got 34.6% prettier yesterday...Bruno gave me a nicee poster in exchange for me helping him out with his anti-clearcutting campaign, so now there's something on my walls besides a calendar.
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