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Just went to a bluegrass show down in DC to meet up with Josh and Layne and Anna and Salvador. What a great union of worlds. Someone new asked me what my plans were for after I graduate, and I said "...maybe an astronaut? or a cowgirl?" Man, I thought I needed direction before, and now whatever I did have has completely dissipated, and I don't ( Read more... )

I have a dumb crush on a guy from Santa Anna at work. Ah, cubicle love. I forget that everyone else in the office can hear me giggling and probably already knows ( Read more... )

Wrote letters to Dave Chapelle and Harry Belafonte and Barack Obama ( Read more... )

Today I went in to start my new internship at the Robert Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights in DC. I'm going to be working with the Coalition for Immokalee workers, the group of farmworkers that got Taco Bell to pay one more penny per pound of tomatoes they buy so that workers would recieve a living wage. It's pretty cool stuff, and the ( Read more... )

Ben came and played the banjo amid my wreckless piles of crap in this hilarious excuse for a dorm room. There is nothing better than a banjo and Ben. A Benjo, if you will. My roommate found evidence of my most recent addiction (Grape Nuts) in her printer. How has she put up with me all year ( Read more... )

I met this guy the other day named Mike, he's Irish, and owns a construction company and bartends downtown. Macalester students typically go to the Tap (the closest bar) on Wednesday nights, and I invited him along. I'd been hanging out with my friends, and when he showed up, they were intrigued by him until they found out that he didn't go to ( Read more... )

This is really unbelievable. I am writing a paper on how oil companies contribute to the Sudanese genocide. Basically, they ARE the Sudanese genocide. The country is beyond torn apart. How can I live in this society that gives money to these companies with every move it makes? I'm going to ride in a car tomorrow, I'm going to fly home in May... ( Read more... )

I am in love with everything ( Read more... )

Okay I have to get this settled once and for all in my head because I have to decide by Monday ( Read more... )