return to the livejournal/no longer deadjournal
It's been nearly three years since I last used this journal. I had been thinking for the last little while about starting this thing up again and finally today decided that I would. I started using a journal recently which is something that I've done on and off again through-out my life, never very consistently though. I've really been enjoying using it this last while. I feel like I live a pretty exciting life and I enjoy being able to go back and look upon things. The reflection process is always a pretty interesting one too. Just looking back on these old livejournal entries I can see how much I've changed.
The issue about this being a public blog is one that I haven't really resolved. What does it mean for this to be public? For this to be an everlasting print of my life/words/thoughts that anyone can stumble upon. Why do I have this desire to publicly share the things I'm thinking about/the events I'm involved in/whatever else. This whole blog world is still a very foreign one to me.
Anyway, for now, this is what I've chosen to do. Again.
I feel like I have a lot of catching up to do in order to cover the last 2 years of non-journaling. Looking over my old posts there seem to be some consistent themes. Mostly involving critical mass court and copwatch.
An update on Critical Mass court: The verdict was given a couple months ago and three of the 5(?) folks were found guilty. Read my dear friend Nubule's post about this for more details. They have sentencing court sometime later this month.
(sidenote: an ant just crawled into my computer. Will this ruin everything?)
Update on Copwatch: I'm not really sure where to start on this one. I think that copwatch has become a really amazing and important part of winnipeg. It's a fantastic group of people doing a fantastic amount of fantastic work. Check out our website to find out more about what we've become in the past three years. http://winnipegcopwatch.org/
And now for a quick summary of my last two years:
2008: dear friend moves away, sister gets married in Texas, fun roadtrip to the wedding, soulja boy dance, caught train hopping to toronto -hitchhike out there instead with new friend, edmonton anarchist bookfair, swimming in the gravel pits, housing co-op dreams, no housing co-op, new neighbour
2009: dear friend returns to winnipeg, get really into gardening, puppet show birthday party, heartache, love, grandfather's alzheimers get worse moves into nursing home, hitchhike to minneapolis, chicago, and montreal, visit grassy narrows for my first time, inherit a cat from Grassy - Bouj, get collectively stuck in mud at gravel pits, copwatch does an awesome community BBQ at Nadinaway, Cousin gets married in California, after the wedding I go on my first ever solo adventure to santa cruz and the bay area, celebrate my first ever real christmas.
2010: road trip - arizona, grand canyons, california, yosemite, tree-nine, heartache, amazing urban exploration involving free beer, progress into a monogamous relationship with the Action House , no toast no masters, cover band off, montreal for copwatch workshop, beaten up by the po', pride subversion, toronto g20, stooges, burning cop cars, smashy-smash, amazing road trip back from toronto in Mariam Toews car with two new friends, 48-hour puppet project with new friends presented to Jim Henson's daughter, photography adventure with guy I work with, pool hopping every night with best friends, Calgary and Saskatoon copwatch workshops, train hopping to churchill, family roadtrip to california.
And that leaves us with where I am now...California. I am hanging out with my boobala and zaydala (grandparents) in San Pedro. I'm on a partial-family road trip (missing my sister and younger brother). We went to Yellowstone national park and saw heards of bison, elk and cayotes as well as sulphuric gysers. I debated about touching the water to see how warm it was and later discovered a sign that said the acid in it could eat through your shoes. We also went through this amazing fog in this park that I can't for the life of me remember the name of. It was a mix of desert and forest through hills of north-eastern california. Stayed outside of vegas two nights ago in a hotel that cost $30.00 for the four of us. It was pretty gross. The cultural appropriation was more extreme than I'd seen in a while (ex. buffalo wearing a headdress as the sign for this hotel). Maybe it's not more extreme, maybe I'm just more aware of it. I just finished reading Andrea Smith's "Conquest" about colonialism as sexual violence. I thought the book was incredible and recommend everyone read it.
This is getting long and I know that people don't read long posts. I'm gonna stop now and maybe elaborate on more things in future posts.
I'm glad to be back, I think. I missed you all. All of you who, likely, no longer use this.
p.s. there is a family of raccoons staring at me through this second floor window right now.
The issue about this being a public blog is one that I haven't really resolved. What does it mean for this to be public? For this to be an everlasting print of my life/words/thoughts that anyone can stumble upon. Why do I have this desire to publicly share the things I'm thinking about/the events I'm involved in/whatever else. This whole blog world is still a very foreign one to me.
Anyway, for now, this is what I've chosen to do. Again.
I feel like I have a lot of catching up to do in order to cover the last 2 years of non-journaling. Looking over my old posts there seem to be some consistent themes. Mostly involving critical mass court and copwatch.
An update on Critical Mass court: The verdict was given a couple months ago and three of the 5(?) folks were found guilty. Read my dear friend Nubule's post about this for more details. They have sentencing court sometime later this month.
(sidenote: an ant just crawled into my computer. Will this ruin everything?)
Update on Copwatch: I'm not really sure where to start on this one. I think that copwatch has become a really amazing and important part of winnipeg. It's a fantastic group of people doing a fantastic amount of fantastic work. Check out our website to find out more about what we've become in the past three years. http://winnipegcopwatch.org/
And now for a quick summary of my last two years:
2008: dear friend moves away, sister gets married in Texas, fun roadtrip to the wedding, soulja boy dance, caught train hopping to toronto -hitchhike out there instead with new friend, edmonton anarchist bookfair, swimming in the gravel pits, housing co-op dreams, no housing co-op, new neighbour
2009: dear friend returns to winnipeg, get really into gardening, puppet show birthday party, heartache, love, grandfather's alzheimers get worse moves into nursing home, hitchhike to minneapolis, chicago, and montreal, visit grassy narrows for my first time, inherit a cat from Grassy - Bouj, get collectively stuck in mud at gravel pits, copwatch does an awesome community BBQ at Nadinaway, Cousin gets married in California, after the wedding I go on my first ever solo adventure to santa cruz and the bay area, celebrate my first ever real christmas.
2010: road trip - arizona, grand canyons, california, yosemite, tree-nine, heartache, amazing urban exploration involving free beer, progress into a monogamous relationship with the Action House , no toast no masters, cover band off, montreal for copwatch workshop, beaten up by the po', pride subversion, toronto g20, stooges, burning cop cars, smashy-smash, amazing road trip back from toronto in Mariam Toews car with two new friends, 48-hour puppet project with new friends presented to Jim Henson's daughter, photography adventure with guy I work with, pool hopping every night with best friends, Calgary and Saskatoon copwatch workshops, train hopping to churchill, family roadtrip to california.
And that leaves us with where I am now...California. I am hanging out with my boobala and zaydala (grandparents) in San Pedro. I'm on a partial-family road trip (missing my sister and younger brother). We went to Yellowstone national park and saw heards of bison, elk and cayotes as well as sulphuric gysers. I debated about touching the water to see how warm it was and later discovered a sign that said the acid in it could eat through your shoes. We also went through this amazing fog in this park that I can't for the life of me remember the name of. It was a mix of desert and forest through hills of north-eastern california. Stayed outside of vegas two nights ago in a hotel that cost $30.00 for the four of us. It was pretty gross. The cultural appropriation was more extreme than I'd seen in a while (ex. buffalo wearing a headdress as the sign for this hotel). Maybe it's not more extreme, maybe I'm just more aware of it. I just finished reading Andrea Smith's "Conquest" about colonialism as sexual violence. I thought the book was incredible and recommend everyone read it.
This is getting long and I know that people don't read long posts. I'm gonna stop now and maybe elaborate on more things in future posts.
I'm glad to be back, I think. I missed you all. All of you who, likely, no longer use this.
p.s. there is a family of raccoons staring at me through this second floor window right now.