Got approval for a student loan for the Fall semester, four months late, but was denied for the winter semester, because I haven't been able to register for my Winter classes so there's no "proof" that I'll be a full-time student then, because I CAN'T register for my winter classes until I pay my Fall tuition, which I haven't been able to pay all ( Read more... )

I don't know, the whole idea of livejournal bores and frustrates me lately. Obviously I haven't been posting much of anything. I've been thinking of things I could turn this thing into and I don't know. Maybe I'll just write about activism and use this space to pass along info about missing women and such. Maybe I can make it a blog where I put ( Read more... )

Imogen: i am trying to draw you a picture
which draws on the similiarities between the words "voltairine" and "voltron"
Laura: that's the best thing I've ever heard in my life
Imogen: it involves voltarine de cleyre actually being made up of four cat-robots
who respond to "voltairine, assemble!"

Now I am on the board of directors of the 2110 Centre for Gender Advocacy. You know - the non-profit from the Special General Meeting From Hell last year ( Read more... )

So, we got dicked over by the people whose couch we were keeping at our place - they flaked and left it here for two months, promised us some cash to keep it, and then came with almost no notice, didn't give us the cash, and aren't returning phone calls. Hooray. Now we are couchless and cashless and don't have any money for a new couch. In addition ( Read more... )

Well, I just had a meeting from activist hell in my living room.

Whee.

In the end, it’s about how we see the world. It’s about a vision of society. I’m clear on the kind of world that the leaders of the G20 are steering us toward, and on the interests that they are representing. I’m clear that they are utterly failing to tackle the environmental crisis, have no clear plan for our economies in crisis that will help ( Read more... )

Making lino prints is so much fun.

I wish I could do it all day.

We have a new kitten. He is a tuxedo cat, black with white on his nose, mouth, chest and feet. He is tentatively named President Elect Jimksy H. Dokes, PhD, C.C. He is tiny and has a squeaky meow, big ears, and HUGE paws. The woman we adopted him from thinks perhaps he is part Maine Coon. (She had named him Cole, which will remain his secondary ( Read more... )

Yesterday I bought some pottery from Meldorf and ate delicious and cheap Indian food with her and Jesse. Today I am unpacking and then I'm going to go meet some kittens, one of whom I may take home to be Callalloo's new sibling ( Read more... )