Adbusters says it's International Slow Down Week. I've never heard of it before, but I think that like Buy Nothing Day, I don't need a week for it: it's a way of living I've already incorporated into my life.

Dear Jammers & Creatives,

Still feeling frazzled from the December whirlwind of holiday shopping,
gift giving, and parties? Already burned ( Read more... )

This morning it had snowed, so I took the bus to school instead of biking. While I was at school I finished my knitted headband (Caliometry from Knitty--I like it: it's a bit too wide but it's warm and it only took me about 6 hours to make, so I'm going to do a few more narrower ones in different yarn). When I finished school it was snowing again, ( Read more... )

Today was such a good day ( Read more... )

I have a huge bruise on my ass, about the size of a golf ball (a little bigger, actually) and I have no idea where it came from. It doesn't even hurt, but it looks painful, all green and purple. I wish I could say it came from doing something nasty, but sadly this is not the case.

Tonight was my night off, so I went to this. It was so fucking cool ( Read more... )

Some entries should be in point form, this one shouldn't, but I'm too tired to make the paragraphs flow together ( Read more... )

Tonight I went to see a preview showing of this:


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I really like being alive.

It had been far too long since I danced in the street.

I've been reading Fahrenheit 451 and I will have more time than usual this summer, so I've decided to memorize a bit of poetry every day. Today, the first stanza of "Mad Song" by William Blake (with cheating on the punctuation ( Read more... )