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i haven't put words to these pages (or any pages) in so long. but sometimes it doesn't feel like so long, because it feels like so little has changed.
these days i mostly work on school work or on my project to help people see whats around them so they'll learn about the world and science. i think a lot of bad can happen when people can't directly see the results of the things they do -- this was a big realization for me when i learned its connection to animal rights, and that so many people don't go veg*n on their own, they don't realize or connect what they're doing until they see those terrible factory farming videos or whatever that suddenly make them realize what they're doing and supporting and feeding. i think the same story is probably true of a lot of things, even pollution or hurting the planet. this one's a bit different, because with hurting animals it's a very physical thing that's very graphic and horrible and potentially very visible, it's just also very hidden so that people don't ever have to think about it or see it. with hurting the planet, sometimes you can directly observe the results, but often times it either takes a lot of time to see the damage, or bad things (like pollutants) are almost indetectable to our senses. it's not easy to look outside and compare what's in the air to someplace 100km out of a city, because (unless there's a ton of smog), it just looks like air... while our senses let us see a beautiful and amazing assortment of things, there's a whole beautiful unbelievably large universe full of things we can't directly observe. my project is about helping change that. helping people see more, so that they can learn more about science through direct observation, and through that learn all sorts of things about the planet and universe (including lots of good and amazing things, but also bad stuff like pollution).
i wish i saw my friends a lot more these days, it feels like i so rarely see them. ian and i went to a nine inch nails concert (the first inside concert i've ever been to), and it was really fun, and very nice of him since he had a spare ticket for me. there were lots of neat looking gothy people, including one girl who had neat hair that was like ghost white with black roots and flat ironed... it looked really really neat, really 'ghostly', if that makes any sense. my blue is starting to wash out again (actually its pretty washed out), and people often ask if i'd try a different colour, but i really like blue... it makes me happy. but this ghostly hair is the first thing i've seen that makes me think 'oooh i'd like to try that!', so maybe i will! the only thing is i'd probably have to dye my roots black for it to look okay since i'm pretty medium/dark brown these days, which would probably look very odd and not so cool with the ghost white!
I also really would love to bounce around on a big trampoline. In high school abel, alex and i used to always bounce around on the big trampoline at abel's farm... sometimes for hours, and it was always awesome fun (though we've all been pretty hurt from it at one point or another :) ). i miss that bouncing...
the place i live has no dirt (its an attic apartment), but it does have a pretty big deck. i really like plants and always have quite a few interesting ones going, but i would love a garden, so this year my dad made one for me out of wood planks -- its almost like a big sandbox filled with soil, three stories up. it's doing really well, aside from how many times the squirrels that live a few feet away from it have torn the plants up and eaten them. i'm really excited about the watermelons, and a week or so ago they finally flowered and started to grow a tiny little watermellon! sooooooon... :)
these days i mostly work on school work or on my project to help people see whats around them so they'll learn about the world and science. i think a lot of bad can happen when people can't directly see the results of the things they do -- this was a big realization for me when i learned its connection to animal rights, and that so many people don't go veg*n on their own, they don't realize or connect what they're doing until they see those terrible factory farming videos or whatever that suddenly make them realize what they're doing and supporting and feeding. i think the same story is probably true of a lot of things, even pollution or hurting the planet. this one's a bit different, because with hurting animals it's a very physical thing that's very graphic and horrible and potentially very visible, it's just also very hidden so that people don't ever have to think about it or see it. with hurting the planet, sometimes you can directly observe the results, but often times it either takes a lot of time to see the damage, or bad things (like pollutants) are almost indetectable to our senses. it's not easy to look outside and compare what's in the air to someplace 100km out of a city, because (unless there's a ton of smog), it just looks like air... while our senses let us see a beautiful and amazing assortment of things, there's a whole beautiful unbelievably large universe full of things we can't directly observe. my project is about helping change that. helping people see more, so that they can learn more about science through direct observation, and through that learn all sorts of things about the planet and universe (including lots of good and amazing things, but also bad stuff like pollution).
i wish i saw my friends a lot more these days, it feels like i so rarely see them. ian and i went to a nine inch nails concert (the first inside concert i've ever been to), and it was really fun, and very nice of him since he had a spare ticket for me. there were lots of neat looking gothy people, including one girl who had neat hair that was like ghost white with black roots and flat ironed... it looked really really neat, really 'ghostly', if that makes any sense. my blue is starting to wash out again (actually its pretty washed out), and people often ask if i'd try a different colour, but i really like blue... it makes me happy. but this ghostly hair is the first thing i've seen that makes me think 'oooh i'd like to try that!', so maybe i will! the only thing is i'd probably have to dye my roots black for it to look okay since i'm pretty medium/dark brown these days, which would probably look very odd and not so cool with the ghost white!
I also really would love to bounce around on a big trampoline. In high school abel, alex and i used to always bounce around on the big trampoline at abel's farm... sometimes for hours, and it was always awesome fun (though we've all been pretty hurt from it at one point or another :) ). i miss that bouncing...
the place i live has no dirt (its an attic apartment), but it does have a pretty big deck. i really like plants and always have quite a few interesting ones going, but i would love a garden, so this year my dad made one for me out of wood planks -- its almost like a big sandbox filled with soil, three stories up. it's doing really well, aside from how many times the squirrels that live a few feet away from it have torn the plants up and eaten them. i'm really excited about the watermelons, and a week or so ago they finally flowered and started to grow a tiny little watermellon! sooooooon... :)