so much fun you will piss your pants
rnn preview:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-xZFRohIu0#
Afghan drugs, Insider's perspective:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=469983&in_page_id=1770&in_page_id=1770&expand=true
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In other news, I never sent out invites to my birthday party and I'm still unsure as to whether I should try and have one or not. In theory, it could be good fun. Might be lots of work, too, though, and if I invite too many people they may not fit, and not enough and maybe barely anyone would show. Not sure what to do to entertain people, either.
There's bigger news than that, of course. A friend in my DnD gaming group has had his Leukemia come back. He already had a bone marrow transplant. So they're looking at other options now. Wow, I'm not sure I can bitch at him the same anymore for pissing me off in the dnd game when I don't get my way. :/ My other friend with type one and two diabetes is running out of saved up money that's he's living on, and trying to get a place with his money, so he can actually apply for social assistance and stuff. If he runs out of money, before he can get some sort of assistance so he can afford his very expensive insulin and so on medication, he may not have long to worry about not being able to get a job and so forth, and how crappy his memory is getting, and sleeping all day, etc. Having his last taxes done in the US doesn't help things much. I hope red tape doesn't kill him. He's got other problems too, though, that I won't go into here.
There's a lot of other serious shit going down, like the security and prosperity partnership meeting, going on in Montebello Aug 19-23 or there abouts, the council of Canadians were going to try and hold a demo, information meetings, but the Harper gov't, the RCMP, the american military (why the fuck are they on Canadian soil) seem to be working to stop this. Maybe if they knew the stakes, they wouldn't be pawns working for those sell-outs and elitist, self-serving criminals. Well, Harper seems almost criminal on the environment...
The activism course might be happening in SOME form in the fall... but I don't know now... I've been neglecting to follow all the emails... I don't know if I'm burning out or not...I don't feel like I've been 'working that hard' at things... but I've been missing meetings and not keeping up on emails etc for all these things that I thought were so important. Add to that, I got kicked out of english class awhile back for missing to many classes, so now I'm just doing math... I wonder if I should take some time off, and focus on things I need to get done... I let myself get distracted by games and such, parties, wanting to roleplay... I guess there can be time and place for that, but... I really think my priorities are in limbo. I should get back into volunteering at the perc regularly too. Why I don't? I donno... lost momentum. It seems I get a little motivation, try and start stuff, then just totally drop the ball, forget everything, etc.
I wanted to do meditation, take some cooking classes, do community shared agriculture, work on my story, set up an appointment to learn about the cog sci program at Carleton, start reading regularly every day, get back to watching the documentaries I've got regularly... I've gotten back into watching the dailyshow and Colbert Report a bit.
I hope I know about the Real News Network when it comes out, cause that will be a must-see. It makes me so excited! Despite all the shit.
It's like all the negative stuff is helping people to get stronger, and start standing up for what they believe and stuff... hmm I shouldn't go into that too much...
yeah ok enough ranting.
m_G
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-xZFRohIu0#
Afghan drugs, Insider's perspective:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=469983&in_page_id=1770&in_page_id=1770&expand=true
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In other news, I never sent out invites to my birthday party and I'm still unsure as to whether I should try and have one or not. In theory, it could be good fun. Might be lots of work, too, though, and if I invite too many people they may not fit, and not enough and maybe barely anyone would show. Not sure what to do to entertain people, either.
There's bigger news than that, of course. A friend in my DnD gaming group has had his Leukemia come back. He already had a bone marrow transplant. So they're looking at other options now. Wow, I'm not sure I can bitch at him the same anymore for pissing me off in the dnd game when I don't get my way. :/ My other friend with type one and two diabetes is running out of saved up money that's he's living on, and trying to get a place with his money, so he can actually apply for social assistance and stuff. If he runs out of money, before he can get some sort of assistance so he can afford his very expensive insulin and so on medication, he may not have long to worry about not being able to get a job and so forth, and how crappy his memory is getting, and sleeping all day, etc. Having his last taxes done in the US doesn't help things much. I hope red tape doesn't kill him. He's got other problems too, though, that I won't go into here.
There's a lot of other serious shit going down, like the security and prosperity partnership meeting, going on in Montebello Aug 19-23 or there abouts, the council of Canadians were going to try and hold a demo, information meetings, but the Harper gov't, the RCMP, the american military (why the fuck are they on Canadian soil) seem to be working to stop this. Maybe if they knew the stakes, they wouldn't be pawns working for those sell-outs and elitist, self-serving criminals. Well, Harper seems almost criminal on the environment...
The activism course might be happening in SOME form in the fall... but I don't know now... I've been neglecting to follow all the emails... I don't know if I'm burning out or not...I don't feel like I've been 'working that hard' at things... but I've been missing meetings and not keeping up on emails etc for all these things that I thought were so important. Add to that, I got kicked out of english class awhile back for missing to many classes, so now I'm just doing math... I wonder if I should take some time off, and focus on things I need to get done... I let myself get distracted by games and such, parties, wanting to roleplay... I guess there can be time and place for that, but... I really think my priorities are in limbo. I should get back into volunteering at the perc regularly too. Why I don't? I donno... lost momentum. It seems I get a little motivation, try and start stuff, then just totally drop the ball, forget everything, etc.
I wanted to do meditation, take some cooking classes, do community shared agriculture, work on my story, set up an appointment to learn about the cog sci program at Carleton, start reading regularly every day, get back to watching the documentaries I've got regularly... I've gotten back into watching the dailyshow and Colbert Report a bit.
I hope I know about the Real News Network when it comes out, cause that will be a must-see. It makes me so excited! Despite all the shit.
It's like all the negative stuff is helping people to get stronger, and start standing up for what they believe and stuff... hmm I shouldn't go into that too much...
yeah ok enough ranting.
m_G