Ten Day's meme
Day 01: Ten things you want to say to ten different people right now.
Day 02: Nine things about yourself.
Day 03: Eight ways to win your heart.
Day 04: Seven things that cross your mind a lot.
Day 05: Six things you wish you'd never done.
Day 06: Five people who mean a lot (in no order whatsoever)
Day 07: Four turn offs.
Day 08: Three turn ons.
Day 09: Two smileys that describe your life right now.
Day 10: One confession
1) I have been vegan for six years, vegetarian for ten, and straight edge for seven. Time well spent.
2) I feel myself losing "anarchism" as central to my identity as I get older. I have taken to identifying myself as a sympathizer, rather than an out and out anarchist. There's no program to replace what so many want to see destroyed. "Smash the State", right? yeah, but who's going to sweep it up? Whoever has the most guns. If you can accept that we will not likely live in a stateless society, if you can accept our transigent failure, than you can accept the responsibility to try anyway. I am no defender of the state, but I fear that many self-proclaimed anarchists that I know are more interested in drinking alcohol and/or stealing than actually putting in the sacrificial work it will take to affect some kind of long-term change. I am exceptionally turned off by messages like "Fuck the Troops", or "Voting is Complicity in Murder", and other kinds of capricious nonsense. The fact is that I know many "troops" and I am related to more than a few. I don't hope any harm for them, then or now, and I have little patience to reason with those that do. I see that our alienation breeds only alienation. What are effective strategies? Petty shock value? Spare me. I think you can (and should) protest the war and recruitment while respecting the people that are still caught in the middle. Today's veterans are tomorrow's I.V.A.W and A.V.A.W. activists. Repeating the worst mistakes of the radical left is not what I'm about. If you hate war, take it up with a president or a congressional representative. Don't spit on a soldier, you fucking ingrate. Do you only want the armchair of the moral highground, or do you want to make a true difference? "Fuck the Troops"? What a disgrace.
3) I like stage-diving, even though it might not be the right thing to do, if we are to believe Ian MacKaye of Fugazi.
4) I love bicycles. I have never bought a car, and I don't think I ever will. I want to learn how to be a frame builder and then build at least one bicycle every year or two.
5) I like tech. I am fascinated by new gadgets, but I am not nerdy enough to know enough about them to take them apart and put them back together again. I like things like iPads, iPods, and various laptops. A goal is to have digitally scanned copies of my textbooks available on a shared virtual cloud drive that I can use in class as a searchable PDF, rife with annotations, or as a specifically formatted ePUB. That sounds completely ideal. I think technology will be able to answer to the problems posed by technology when further synthesized with stewardship ethics. We're not there yet, but tech is part of the answer to get there.
6) I don't want to die. I want to live. I feel like death is snuffing out the flame of a candle in a cave without the light ever traveling back to the stars from which it came. I am not satisfied with death until I have homesteaded on a few different planets for a couple hundred years. Sorry, wrong millennium. Try me again in a thousand years, death.
7) I am studying for law school. I want to try my hand at some appellate criminal defense and some public defender action as well.
8) I intensely dislike religion, even as my base of friends and colleagues expands with more religious people than ever before.
9) I am married to a lovely man, although I don't think I am a very good husband. In time, perhaps.... I care enough to try.
Day 02: Nine things about yourself.
Day 03: Eight ways to win your heart.
Day 04: Seven things that cross your mind a lot.
Day 05: Six things you wish you'd never done.
Day 06: Five people who mean a lot (in no order whatsoever)
Day 07: Four turn offs.
Day 08: Three turn ons.
Day 09: Two smileys that describe your life right now.
Day 10: One confession
1) I have been vegan for six years, vegetarian for ten, and straight edge for seven. Time well spent.
2) I feel myself losing "anarchism" as central to my identity as I get older. I have taken to identifying myself as a sympathizer, rather than an out and out anarchist. There's no program to replace what so many want to see destroyed. "Smash the State", right? yeah, but who's going to sweep it up? Whoever has the most guns. If you can accept that we will not likely live in a stateless society, if you can accept our transigent failure, than you can accept the responsibility to try anyway. I am no defender of the state, but I fear that many self-proclaimed anarchists that I know are more interested in drinking alcohol and/or stealing than actually putting in the sacrificial work it will take to affect some kind of long-term change. I am exceptionally turned off by messages like "Fuck the Troops", or "Voting is Complicity in Murder", and other kinds of capricious nonsense. The fact is that I know many "troops" and I am related to more than a few. I don't hope any harm for them, then or now, and I have little patience to reason with those that do. I see that our alienation breeds only alienation. What are effective strategies? Petty shock value? Spare me. I think you can (and should) protest the war and recruitment while respecting the people that are still caught in the middle. Today's veterans are tomorrow's I.V.A.W and A.V.A.W. activists. Repeating the worst mistakes of the radical left is not what I'm about. If you hate war, take it up with a president or a congressional representative. Don't spit on a soldier, you fucking ingrate. Do you only want the armchair of the moral highground, or do you want to make a true difference? "Fuck the Troops"? What a disgrace.
3) I like stage-diving, even though it might not be the right thing to do, if we are to believe Ian MacKaye of Fugazi.
4) I love bicycles. I have never bought a car, and I don't think I ever will. I want to learn how to be a frame builder and then build at least one bicycle every year or two.
5) I like tech. I am fascinated by new gadgets, but I am not nerdy enough to know enough about them to take them apart and put them back together again. I like things like iPads, iPods, and various laptops. A goal is to have digitally scanned copies of my textbooks available on a shared virtual cloud drive that I can use in class as a searchable PDF, rife with annotations, or as a specifically formatted ePUB. That sounds completely ideal. I think technology will be able to answer to the problems posed by technology when further synthesized with stewardship ethics. We're not there yet, but tech is part of the answer to get there.
6) I don't want to die. I want to live. I feel like death is snuffing out the flame of a candle in a cave without the light ever traveling back to the stars from which it came. I am not satisfied with death until I have homesteaded on a few different planets for a couple hundred years. Sorry, wrong millennium. Try me again in a thousand years, death.
7) I am studying for law school. I want to try my hand at some appellate criminal defense and some public defender action as well.
8) I intensely dislike religion, even as my base of friends and colleagues expands with more religious people than ever before.
9) I am married to a lovely man, although I don't think I am a very good husband. In time, perhaps.... I care enough to try.