I'm thinking maybe I should start taking Ritalin, just like UofT people do. I can't concentrate anymore. I find myself staring at my computer monitor after having written like, one sentence. Then I just get up and go do something else. I'd probably be done all my work by now if I could just fucking stay focused ( Read more... )

Okay, so the collection of framed grad school rejection letters does not have to become a triptych. I got accepted to the York/Ryerson Joint Programme in Communication and Culture with a $3000 scholarship and a not-insubstantial amount of guaranteed additional funding. I think pretty much everyone who is reading this (and would give a shit) ( Read more... )

here's a link i thought i'd share:

http://www.livingroomradio.org/its a thrice-weely radio show, i think from berkley, with each show exploring a different topic of social and political import. its something you can just put on while you're dicking around on your computer, or whatever. radical perspectives, semi-intellectual ( Read more... )

To whoever the hell this concerns:

Please remove me from this listserv, I am not in this group or class or whatever this is.

Thanks,

Stefan Santamaria,
Vice-President Academic and University Affairs
York Federation of Students
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Hi Stefan ( Read more... )

I've been thinking about the holographic universe theory/model/analogy, and considering some of the implications for social constructionism and epistemology in general. I think there's a good chance my mind is going to collapse in on itself, or I may slip into the two dimensional plane. If I do, its been good knowing you. Maybe someday I'll ( Read more... )

I made you a promise that my alarm clock didn't keep. In my tired stupor, I made the classic mistake: the dyslexic confusion of AM/PM. I was actually looking forward to our early-morning smig and coffee. Now I won't wake up until 8:30 this evening, but you will have been gone for 11 hours and 45 minutes ( Read more... )

So I called my grandparents yesterday. Telephone conversations with my grandparents are always structured as follows ( Read more... )

I have to present and critique an activist website in my Resistance and Subversion on the Internet course on Friday. I'm not sure what site I'm going to do. Does anyone know of any social change sites that make innovative/interesting use of the web?

Wow, the speed at which information travels from my livejournal. I posted that call for submissions for the zine on my lj Monday night, and by Tuesday it was posted on the Women's Studies listserv! I think I blame fur_is_murder. I just thought that was pretty cool.

I know that I have a lot of creative and politically-motivated people on my friends list, so:

The Ontario Public Interest Research Group at York University (Toronto) is looking for submissions for the latest issue of our zine, proPIRGanda.

Our theme for this issue is "Activism is for Everyone"We will be accepting poetry, fiction, articles, essays ( Read more... )