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This entry is being made possible by Nat. She told me I had to start posting again, and she's right (duh).
For the past six months or so I've been volunteering/donating to the campaign to get pot legalized in Colorado. It started off as a petition drive to get the measure on the ballot, which was successful. Today was the first big post-getting on the ballot meeting at CSU. The guys who are running it are just amazing... there are only two of them, both about my age, who have been busting their ass all year and have managed to get everything done for extremely little money. Last year they got Denver to be the first city in the country to eliminate its marijuana possesion laws, and now they're doing it for the whole state. The campaign has pretty much zero money and yet they manage to drum up publicity and get volunteers (mostly potheads, mind you) pumped up enough to get shit done. I don't honestly think it wall pass statewide (it passed by 52% in Denver), but I can't wait to spend the next two months flyering and staging publicity stunts and registering students to vote and all of that jazz. Anyway, the meeting was a joint effort with the group looking to get domestic partnerships recognized in Colorado, along with the CSU chapters of the Libertarian Party and Students for a Sensible Drug Policy. After the main meeting, the libertarians had a little mini-meeting, consisting of whoever wanted to stick around. There were 5 of us, and one is a really cute girl. I've only met two female libertarian sympathizers in my life, so this is pretty exciting. I haven't had a crush in a while.
Another first-in-a-while happened tonight... I did math homework. I haven't done math homework since I was seventeen. It's actually economics homework, but it involved math. I'm actually excited over it - I was a mini-whiz kid with numbers in high school until I severely went off it right afterwards and decided I just wanted to read about history and philosophy and art and such. Now I've crossed back over (a bit - economics is still in the department of liberal arts) and it's actually fun and comforting, like I'm reclaiming a lost piece of my past.
On a less exciting note, I've been getting more down on Fort Collins every time I return from somewhere else. This summer I went to England, which was wonderful, but when I came home I was bored and a bit lonely. While I was gone, two of my best friends, who were also neighbors that I hung out with all the time, moved to California. So I spent the next few weeks doing not a whole lot of anything besides smoking pot and listening to music. Then I went to Tulsa this past weekend and got to see a bunch of people who I love (hi Nat!), and then I came back home and felt even more bored. No pot smoking this time; I've "quit" for school purposes because I can't read or write if I'm stoned. I put quit in quotations because I'll still smoke other people's weed if I'm out somewhere. But anyway, I'm down to one super close friend and about three close friends in town. I used to feel really attached to Fort Collins based on my friends, but now that they're slowly going away I'm feeling more ready to leave. Of course, I have two more years here because of school, but I get the feeling that once school is done I'll be ready to split.
And now for the really trivial stuff... the Carolina Gamecocks won their season opener tonight, which made me happy as I have a mild-to-medium vicarious living arrangement with football. Belle and Sebastian's "The Life Pursuit" is the album of the year, followed closely by Cat Power's "The Greatest" and Neko Case's "Fox Confessor Brings the Flood". I got a new computer recently and immediately downloaded seasons two and three of the Upright Citizen's Brigade, and now I get Maggie's old dorkboard sig about always calling her bitches "Homas". I've recently fallen in love with Ingmar Bergman, and I'd advise you all to do the same. "Shame" is the greatest war movie ever made, due in no small part to the fact that it focuses on the unwilling victims of war - regular people who don't really know what's going on, don't support either side, and who are terrorized equally by revolutionary and government fighters. It isn't graphic or gratuitous at all, yet it is more terrifying and moving than any movie I've seen.
That's it for now. I just read through my friends page before typing this and there are so many people I miss. You all rock.
For the past six months or so I've been volunteering/donating to the campaign to get pot legalized in Colorado. It started off as a petition drive to get the measure on the ballot, which was successful. Today was the first big post-getting on the ballot meeting at CSU. The guys who are running it are just amazing... there are only two of them, both about my age, who have been busting their ass all year and have managed to get everything done for extremely little money. Last year they got Denver to be the first city in the country to eliminate its marijuana possesion laws, and now they're doing it for the whole state. The campaign has pretty much zero money and yet they manage to drum up publicity and get volunteers (mostly potheads, mind you) pumped up enough to get shit done. I don't honestly think it wall pass statewide (it passed by 52% in Denver), but I can't wait to spend the next two months flyering and staging publicity stunts and registering students to vote and all of that jazz. Anyway, the meeting was a joint effort with the group looking to get domestic partnerships recognized in Colorado, along with the CSU chapters of the Libertarian Party and Students for a Sensible Drug Policy. After the main meeting, the libertarians had a little mini-meeting, consisting of whoever wanted to stick around. There were 5 of us, and one is a really cute girl. I've only met two female libertarian sympathizers in my life, so this is pretty exciting. I haven't had a crush in a while.
Another first-in-a-while happened tonight... I did math homework. I haven't done math homework since I was seventeen. It's actually economics homework, but it involved math. I'm actually excited over it - I was a mini-whiz kid with numbers in high school until I severely went off it right afterwards and decided I just wanted to read about history and philosophy and art and such. Now I've crossed back over (a bit - economics is still in the department of liberal arts) and it's actually fun and comforting, like I'm reclaiming a lost piece of my past.
On a less exciting note, I've been getting more down on Fort Collins every time I return from somewhere else. This summer I went to England, which was wonderful, but when I came home I was bored and a bit lonely. While I was gone, two of my best friends, who were also neighbors that I hung out with all the time, moved to California. So I spent the next few weeks doing not a whole lot of anything besides smoking pot and listening to music. Then I went to Tulsa this past weekend and got to see a bunch of people who I love (hi Nat!), and then I came back home and felt even more bored. No pot smoking this time; I've "quit" for school purposes because I can't read or write if I'm stoned. I put quit in quotations because I'll still smoke other people's weed if I'm out somewhere. But anyway, I'm down to one super close friend and about three close friends in town. I used to feel really attached to Fort Collins based on my friends, but now that they're slowly going away I'm feeling more ready to leave. Of course, I have two more years here because of school, but I get the feeling that once school is done I'll be ready to split.
And now for the really trivial stuff... the Carolina Gamecocks won their season opener tonight, which made me happy as I have a mild-to-medium vicarious living arrangement with football. Belle and Sebastian's "The Life Pursuit" is the album of the year, followed closely by Cat Power's "The Greatest" and Neko Case's "Fox Confessor Brings the Flood". I got a new computer recently and immediately downloaded seasons two and three of the Upright Citizen's Brigade, and now I get Maggie's old dorkboard sig about always calling her bitches "Homas". I've recently fallen in love with Ingmar Bergman, and I'd advise you all to do the same. "Shame" is the greatest war movie ever made, due in no small part to the fact that it focuses on the unwilling victims of war - regular people who don't really know what's going on, don't support either side, and who are terrorized equally by revolutionary and government fighters. It isn't graphic or gratuitous at all, yet it is more terrifying and moving than any movie I've seen.
That's it for now. I just read through my friends page before typing this and there are so many people I miss. You all rock.