The Cult of Veganism; or, Sit Down & Shut Up, Little Brown Girl
My friend Lenah has been going through a similar situation. There are no winners in the Oppression Olympics. All struggles are interconnected. Get over yourself.
Dammit.
Force of Nature – Same Ol' Thing
While I’m taking notes, I need to type the kanji for “person”, so I hit the familiar command:
⌘+space, to switch into kotoeri (Japanese typing) mode.
But instead of typing “hito” for 人 (ã²ã¨-Person).
I keep typing “ppl” (PeoPLe).
How silly. The mind is so strange sometimes…
Hey folks. I’m back here in SD, where things have cooled down considerably. The Harris & Witch fires are 90% and 97% contained respectively, and the air doesn’t taste or look ashy anymore. Our home was unaffected, save for some ash on the windowsill, truly a blessing considering that the cities and towns all around us have been scorched in some way.
School has also restarted—and its kicking my ass. Losing 5 days doesn’t seem like much, but when you’re on the dreaded quarter system, you’re losing 10% of your classes. Nothing CRAZY, but combined with hard-ass professors eager teachers, this spells trouble for the average student. You know, the ones who weren’t using the week off as an extended study hall (hey, I was evacuated. I have an excuse. Kinda.)
Anyway, to my fellow peoples living in San Diego (I am not a “San Diegan”) I hope you and yours are all good. Thanks to Mr. Fisher for offering your place to me, and to Tyrone, who kept lookin’ out for me (I’ll pay ya a visit tomorrow). In parting, here’s a tune that I’m sure many here resonate with.
Bob Marley – No More Trouble
Catch A Fire indeed.
wow… I was just thinking about how different people think and see the world differently. I’ve been thinking that I’ve been liking a lot of chants, and tribal beats recently (my newest is OOIOO’s – Uma), and how some cultures do not think linearly per se, but in cyclically, or in cycles (IE “History repeats itself”)
and what do we talk about today in class? Western culture and thought processes.
