Mission mountains - greywolf peak

Mitzi's first backpack trip. She's scared of bears, darkness, thoughts of bears, my cat, and small dogs

INTERNSHIP!!!!

I will be unleashed into the DC area come september. muawhawhaw! Promoting human rights propaganda.

took an internship position with Amnesty International - media relations. It sounds pretty sweet and needless to say i am hella excited. slave labor notwithstanding

DC! bring it

books

or my 'booklings' as I like to affectionately call them. I can't keep my focus and interest on just one book. and so i need to have about five different ones to keep me occupied for different moods. flavors of the week: I have gone on a gender issue streak lately.

Incite! The color of violence: fabulous book! a bunch of different essays with different authors about issues of violence concerning women of color. border patrol, palestine/isreal conflict, prision industrial complex etc. very excellent eye opening book.

Profit over People (Noam Chomsky): essays/talks about free trade, neo-liberal bullshit, corporatization etc. not very in-depth but makes you want to learn more about topics and can tear down other people's arguements so well!

Civil War, Insecurity, and Invervention: I really like this one. very informative, analyzes the civil wars of Rwanda, Somalia, Yugoslavia and Cambodia. With a little mix of India, Palestine, and Pakistan thrown in at the end.

Lucky (alice sebold): i don't know why i can't get through this one. perhaps the other books are just too interesting for me to sit down and read an easy one. autobiography of her rape and subsequent slide into drug use.

My bondage and my freedom (Frederick Douglass): my newest present to myself. can't wait to read more, but the first chapter seems promising. autobiography of the second half of his life.

rereading sporadically parts of the Fountain Head to see if I will like it more than the first time i read it.