It must be said... Cloverfield is one of the worst movies ever made. The end.
Books on tape! thumbs up. bedtime has never been more pleasant. Fountainhead rocks this time around. if only the soothing sound of Roark wouldn't put me to sleep so fast.
Pushing rocks of cliff. Fun. Not knowing how to turn video right side up on computer? priceless...
miércoles, 13 de agosto de 2008
lunes, 28 de julio de 2008
lunes, 21 de julio de 2008
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
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
lunes, 14 de julio de 2008
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.
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.
viernes, 9 de mayo de 2008
The family: (did i finally manage to put pics up? yes!)
General, the new horse
The dwelling
Toby: my first and only true love
Toby and Mitzy
baby rabbit - (R.I.P...)
baby lowline - check out my first website creation! (a work in progress) montanalowline.com any suggestions welcome
jueves, 24 de abril de 2008
humanities
I think i would like to attend the lectures of Sir Justman even after i finish school. If there was a person that could be bald, awkward, proud, boring, and dramatic all at the same time... I think that person has the potential to become the twin of Stewart Justman. a snippet from todays lecture: "Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky were like two bears in one den - the den of literature!"
the metaphorical genius lives to see another day
the metaphorical genius lives to see another day
domingo, 20 de abril de 2008
DPS
How exciting. A student sit-in that resulted in arrests on my very own home campus for the fist time since the Vietnam war. One of three around the country. I wrote a simple letter from a simple girl to the editor that most likely will not be printed since they tend not to like me very much. Although this one is not near as mean as the previous one listing all the countries the U.S had invaded in the past 100 yrs.... quite extensive.
"President George Dennison should sign the letter of intent for DPS, and the charges against the students should be dropped. DPS ensures that workers making university apparel have a livable wage, and are able to form legitimate unions. University officials site ‘legal ramifications’ for their unwavering support of sweatshop labor.
Former Assistant Attorney General, Donald Baker, gave legal advice to ‘Workers Rights Consortium’ stating, “if the Program were carried out as recommended by us, the Program would not be likely to conflict with U.S. anti-trust laws; and hence the University Licensors do not face a significant risk of anti-trust exposure for proceeding with the program” (Baker and Miller PLLC). However, UM students are not even asking that Dennison sign on –but rather he sign a letter of intent. The letter says that if DPS were to be approved by the department of Justice that the University will then comply with it. Yet Dennison and Foley have refused to do this. Provost Royce Engstrom says that he “hoped they [students] would pursue their interests without undertaking illegal activity” (missioulian 4/20). My hope is that the university would pursue its interests in accordance with the wishes of its students, that it would support workers rights, and that Dennison would sign the letter of intent for DPS."
"President George Dennison should sign the letter of intent for DPS, and the charges against the students should be dropped. DPS ensures that workers making university apparel have a livable wage, and are able to form legitimate unions. University officials site ‘legal ramifications’ for their unwavering support of sweatshop labor.
Former Assistant Attorney General, Donald Baker, gave legal advice to ‘Workers Rights Consortium’ stating, “if the Program were carried out as recommended by us, the Program would not be likely to conflict with U.S. anti-trust laws; and hence the University Licensors do not face a significant risk of anti-trust exposure for proceeding with the program” (Baker and Miller PLLC). However, UM students are not even asking that Dennison sign on –but rather he sign a letter of intent. The letter says that if DPS were to be approved by the department of Justice that the University will then comply with it. Yet Dennison and Foley have refused to do this. Provost Royce Engstrom says that he “hoped they [students] would pursue their interests without undertaking illegal activity” (missioulian 4/20). My hope is that the university would pursue its interests in accordance with the wishes of its students, that it would support workers rights, and that Dennison would sign the letter of intent for DPS."
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