yay Vancouver!
*squee* A girl just came to look at the flat (we have a free bed right now, in my room in fact...) and she's from Vancouver! And she decided to move in! Yay. :) I know, I'm supposed to be meeting people from other cultures around the world and learning from them, and I am doing that and I WANT to do that, but... it's still nice to meet someone from my hometown, ya'know?
And I just realized that it's 4:00 and I haven't had LUNCH yet. Wtf. Got up at 9:30 or so, but got embroiled in reading some very interesting and useful articles online about race/privilege/etc, thanks to a recent minor incident in one of my comms and an ensuing mod post about racial issues/etc. Finally got off my ass and read the oft-recommended "Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" by Peggy McIntosh, which is considered to be one of the main writings on white privilege... definitely worth reading. But first off this should definitely be read by all. It's a bit of a more accessible/beginner's look at the issue than McIntosh's essay, good though that is, and should be read by, well... everyone, really. :) It certainly makes one take a step back and really think about things.
Anyway, brief foray into srs bzns there. ;) The POINT is, I looked up awhile later and realized it was 12:30 and I hadn't had a shower or breakfast. Proceeded to do so. Then watched an ep of The West Wing and finished drawing Anderson from peapods42's "The Man in Question" (AU where Anderson's a spy and he and James Bond (Daniel Craig version) have lots of hot sex. And, uh, other stuff happens. ^^). Will post it later. Also going to work on a Anderson/Bond drawing which she is convincing me to draw. ;) Anyway, after that... talked to Mom on Skype a bit, then finally turned off the computer and prepared to go to the library to use the free wireless to job search. What did I do instead? Cleaned out my dresser and reorganized all my stuff/papers/etc... well, it was a terrible mess. Read through some of the various brochures on tours/etc I'd picked up, read some job search stuff that IEP provided, then pulled out my computer to transfer some reference photos of Craig/Bond to my iPod so I can go have lunch and sit on the beach drawing or something. Then was interrupted by the girl coming to check out the place. Then decided to come post about it here. Which leads us to me sitting on my bed typing this up. :) OKAY, leaving now, for real. Getting hungry. o.o
Also noticed I don't have a tag for race issues, probably because I... never really talk about it. Have my gay rights and my politics tags and that's it. Most of the rest are fandom-related. o.o Fixing that now. Hopefully will have more to put under this tag eventually... I'm steadily trying to educate myself, as should we all, and have amassed a nice little pile of articles to read through later.
And I just realized that it's 4:00 and I haven't had LUNCH yet. Wtf. Got up at 9:30 or so, but got embroiled in reading some very interesting and useful articles online about race/privilege/etc, thanks to a recent minor incident in one of my comms and an ensuing mod post about racial issues/etc. Finally got off my ass and read the oft-recommended "Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" by Peggy McIntosh, which is considered to be one of the main writings on white privilege... definitely worth reading. But first off this should definitely be read by all. It's a bit of a more accessible/beginner's look at the issue than McIntosh's essay, good though that is, and should be read by, well... everyone, really. :) It certainly makes one take a step back and really think about things.
Anyway, brief foray into srs bzns there. ;) The POINT is, I looked up awhile later and realized it was 12:30 and I hadn't had a shower or breakfast. Proceeded to do so. Then watched an ep of The West Wing and finished drawing Anderson from peapods42's "The Man in Question" (AU where Anderson's a spy and he and James Bond (Daniel Craig version) have lots of hot sex. And, uh, other stuff happens. ^^). Will post it later. Also going to work on a Anderson/Bond drawing which she is convincing me to draw. ;) Anyway, after that... talked to Mom on Skype a bit, then finally turned off the computer and prepared to go to the library to use the free wireless to job search. What did I do instead? Cleaned out my dresser and reorganized all my stuff/papers/etc... well, it was a terrible mess. Read through some of the various brochures on tours/etc I'd picked up, read some job search stuff that IEP provided, then pulled out my computer to transfer some reference photos of Craig/Bond to my iPod so I can go have lunch and sit on the beach drawing or something. Then was interrupted by the girl coming to check out the place. Then decided to come post about it here. Which leads us to me sitting on my bed typing this up. :) OKAY, leaving now, for real. Getting hungry. o.o
Also noticed I don't have a tag for race issues, probably because I... never really talk about it. Have my gay rights and my politics tags and that's it. Most of the rest are fandom-related. o.o Fixing that now. Hopefully will have more to put under this tag eventually... I'm steadily trying to educate myself, as should we all, and have amassed a nice little pile of articles to read through later.