Apr 13, 2004 20:30
Ain't nobody in the hood got no hope in this fucked up system and that's why we don't vote.
My father was sitting at the table when I arrived from my ethnolinguistic exam around noon-he was wathcing the noon news and so appared the results of polls they made about the vote intentions for the Federal elections in Canada.
Surprisingly, -because of the last night argument we had about my 'messy room' (sometimes I hear words like, "you're not my child, get out of my house, you're the most shameful person of the family!' and I wonder if he was drunk or totally honest when he says things like that)- he talked to me like nothing happened and he asked me what were my impressions on that poll. I simply said that I was not going to vote because voting for the "least of the worse" politician was not normal and it was not for me. We should take the boycott of the vote as the symbol of our resistance of our "I don't want it to be like that anymore" I was amazed when my father said in a very genuine-angry way; "Yes, thats why for the first time in my life I won't vote and probably won't ever vote again."
On a unrelated note, I changed my availibilities at work starting next Sunday. I will be available for full weeks of work until June. I took the decision of working more before I leave for CA simply to put a little bit of money aside for the many roadtrips I plan to do in the USA this summer / taking it the easy way when its going to be the real summer and anyway, most of my friends are still in school till the end of May. Of course I took my day off for April's Critical Mass and I will for all the upcoming events I don't want to miss.
Gab, as soon as you're seeing that I want to know when you are free next week to go at Tattoomania studios because I want to meet Guillaume which is the artist I want for my upcoming ink... and I don't want to go there alone, and since I went with you last summer for yours, I think its important you come with me, lets preserve the tradition!
Lets go, lets go, a prehistory exam tomorrow, still have to manage how to learn by heart all the Oldowan / Acheulian differences. Dear Homo Erectus and Ergaster... I have over 300 pages to learn by heart and I can't wait to be done with that mess!
Its a bit odd but... I really feel like taking breakdancing courses now! Hrmm.