30 Days Meme [23-28/30]: quadruplify

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30 Days Meme [23-28/30]

Feb 19, 2010 01:18

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Pretty amazing, huh? It's a fairly unique art form, used to make something powerful. Thanks to edge_chan for the link. ;-)

Day 24 | Whatever tickles your fancy

Ugh, this is a tough one.....

I've probably mentioned before how much I love The Soup. I forgot mentioning it when I did the "favorite TV show" part of this meme, which is a shame because Joel McHale is absolutely hilarious, and I don't get to watch it enough:

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Day 25 | Your day, in great detail

Since I was supposed to do this Wednesday, that's what I'm going to describe. And I'm not going to do it in "great detail," because that would just be boring.

I was up that night until about 2 AM, trying to write my last entry about Peggy McIntosh, while giving my rename token to heavenvhellvus, trying to finish my weekly response paper for AFP (which I ended up handing in about an hour late O_O;), looking over stuff I got from a volunteer fair Tuesday evening, and checking my LJ f-list and college e-mail inbox incessantly like I usually do. 8D; I finally called it quits and went to bed. I got back up at around 9 or so, where I finished writing the entry and posted it at about 11. (I hope people liked it, even though I realized after I wrote it that most people on the f-list were aware of those things anyway. ^_^; I really wrote most of it more for my own benefit, though, and trying to parse and make sense of what she said.) I started browsing the Internet during and after I did, losing track of time in the process -- I realized as I was replying to some comments that I missed breakfast in the dining halls, so after a while I pulled myself away from the computer, got dressed, had a few breakfast bars, and headed out to the library to do the reading for my environmental policy seminar that afternoon. My class and discussion for AFP was cancelled, so I could get away with it.

I didn't finish the reading, mostly because I had trouble focusing as I usually do, but I read most of it (it wasn't all that long anyway), and it was pretty much a summary of the environmental policy class I took sophomore year, so it wasn't all that important anyway. The class was from 2:50-4:05 PM, and was mainly about why there has been so much "gridlock" in Congress regarding environmental issues since the 1990s, and what other ways environmental policy is being created since then. I was able to get away with not participating again, but there was a palpable air of cynicism in the class, especially from the hardcore activists in the group who probably have a little too much invested in this -- I completely understand their reasons for feeling the way they do and I respect that, but I still didn't need to hear it.

I went to the science building right afterward to finish up on the first GIS lab exercise due today. There are three rooms on the third floor that have computers with GIS software: the GIS lab, which was currently occupied by a lab section, the cartography lab next door, and a research room across the hall for the geography department called "the Sandbox" (I don't know why it's called the Sandbox, but there you go XD). The two labs are for when you need to get work done, whereas the Sandbox is a more social space where you can get more easily distracted. :P Since I was almost done with mine anyway, I went into the Sandbox to finish it up, which took about two hours. Then I went back to my room to drop stuff off, had dinner at the dining hall in my dorm building, went down to the Grille at the student center a little after 7 PM to have a short interview with students responsible for Sweatervest, one of my college's literary magazines, about possibly being on the magazine's reading board. Then at 7:30 I went to see The Devil Came on Horseback, a documentary about a Marine who went into Darfur in 2004 to monitor the ceasefire that ended the 20-year-long civil war in Sudan for the African Union, only to end up observing the genocide that began, and his frustrations when he came back to the U.S. and tried to spearhead a movement to encourage humanitarian intervention there, which fizzled out. It was very interesting to hear the story of this one man involved in the conflict and doing the best he could to get the word out, as well as how the genocide started in the first place, but it was also horribly depressing because of all the pictures of dead/burned/mutilated bodies he took, as well as the fact that is basically turned into a repeat of Rwanda in 1994, where the international community sat back and did nothing. It was still an important movie to see, though, and I don't regret going.

Afterward I went back to my dorm room and spent the rest of the night online. After realizing that ontd_political is not a good place to visit after seeing a depressing documentary on Darfur, I went on AIM and tried the TF chat room. It was all right, but I wasn't too keen on the randomness and silliness going on there (it's fine if it's your thing, but that's just not how I roll ^_^;), and I'll be honest here, I felt like I couldn't get close with anyone unless I acted a certain way, that a few people were dominating the conversation, that nothing being said was all that funny, that I was being talked down to at times, etc. Though I was amused when people were discussing the worst TF fic ever (Child cum as delicacy. That's all you need to know. DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDX). It wasn't bad though, but while I was chatting I got an e-mail saying I didn't get on the Sweatervest reading board. Wednesday was not a good day. >_<

Day 26 | Your week, in great detail
Day 27 | This month, in great detail
Day 28 | This year, in great detail

I'm not doing these. I'll be picking this meme back up on the 21st.

Day 29 | Hopes, dreams and plans for the next 365 days
Day 30 | Whatever tickles your fancy

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I've been sort of falling behind on replying to comments and keeping up with LJ lately, as well as, y'know, reading for classes and not being such a procrastinating lazybones all the time. :P I'll try to keep up with stuff within the next few days, though. meaisin_caoin and twilit_wanderer, I'll get to the memes I owe you either later today or Saturday.

Thursdays are my big GIS days: class in the morning, lab in the afternoon. As you can guess, it was fairly boring and tedious, since it's basically something like a research methods class (at least at this point). We're focusing a lot on database management right now, and while I didn't know much about it going in and it seems pretty easy to understand, it's still excruciatingly uninteresting, and the prof doesn't help matters much. >_> And the program we use involves so much pre-processing just so you can get all the data lined up and just make it work that it's frustrating. It's not hard to understand (yet), just really tedious. -_-

Tonight I went to a lecture by Gershom Gorenberg, a historian and journalist who runs the blog South Jerusalem and writes about Israel and the history of conflicts there, and is also a big advocate of a two-state solution. His lecture was basically a condensed version of his book The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-1977, which is a history of Zionism and Israel and an argument for the two-state solution; I felt like I started to get a better grasp of the historical context of the conflict and the arguments for a peace solution I agree with, but he wasn't a great public speaker and I really wasn't all that engaged. :(

There was also another big event that happened today (yesterday?) that I want to talk about at length, but it'll have to wait, because I'm too tired to write anything more, plus I have an appointment at 10 AM, so I need to go to bed soon. And by "soon" I mean "in another two hours or so." XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

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