CURRENT FAVORITES:
James Vincent McMorrow, "We Don't Eat"
Light Asylum, "Shallow Tears"
Perfume Genius, "All Waters"
Perfume Genius, "Hood"
Future Islands, "The Happiness of Being Twice"
Sun Kil Moon, "Sunshine in Chicago"
Desireless, "Voyage Voyage"It's been a few weeks since my last entry, and I figured I might as well write in even though not ( Read more... )

This week, quite frankly, was horrible. Not in any big way, just a lot of small things that added up and not being able to handle all of it at once. I doubt my African Politics exam went all that well (even though it was rather short and easy), I missed my African Politics class again on Wednesday, I kinda made a fool of myself in Politics of ( Read more... )

1. I finally came back home this afternoon, and my stressful, draining semester from hell is over!  :D  I'd totally be celebrating harder if a.) I was the partying type, and b.) I wasn't so physically and mentally exhausted.  Oh yeah, and having a bit of a sore throat doesn't help either.  (I'm not sick, but that's usually a sign that I will get ( Read more... )

So this is a recap of what's been going on in my life lately:

LAST FRIDAY:
* I finally got to see Inception -- and I actually enjoyed it quite a bit!  Which is really surprising, since I don't really like Christopher Nolan all that much.  >_>;  Sure, it's got some parts that are pretty out-there, and it's nothing worth jumping in a new fandom for, ( Read more... )

Last night I went to a lecture by Peggy McIntosh; many of you probably recognize her as the one who wrote "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack," which is usually one of the first essays people learning about racism and privilege tend to read, and one that gets a lot of people thinking about racial issues in ways that are essential in ( Read more... )