Last night I got to meet Patch Adams and presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich. It was really awesome and I got a really great pic. 
My sister is getting deployed to Iraq tonight. This happens a few days before an event I am organizing here in Tucson with Fernando Suarez, who's son was killed during the war in Iraq. He will be speaking to a large group of high school and college students about joining the military-telling them to think twice before they join-and to make a passionate argument for...
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goth_cowboy:
wish i could have heard this stuff before i joined the Army. i might be deployed within 2 months.
I love tormenting my virgin New York friend. She is an artist and I talked to her about body paint. I told her I could paint her body purple and her breasts green. (I wonder how that'd look on suicidegirls). It's so funny, she's too nervous to call me.... 
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olsen:
As for me......I'm in thesis hell now. The musical is due tomorrow. Is it done? No where near.
A foster dad? Really? That sounds wonderful. Tell me more about that?
Yes I like to draw, of course I do. Is that a nonsequiter or did I miss something?
A foster dad? Really? That sounds wonderful. Tell me more about that?
Yes I like to draw, of course I do. Is that a nonsequiter or did I miss something?
olsen:
My favourite color is rainbow.
I like cats.
I uploaded four pictures just for you. I don't have a lot of images of my art on the computer though sorry.
Ok, I have about 8 hours till my deadline to finish my musical. Stop giving me excuses to procrastinate!
I like cats.
I uploaded four pictures just for you. I don't have a lot of images of my art on the computer though sorry.
Ok, I have about 8 hours till my deadline to finish my musical. Stop giving me excuses to procrastinate!
Shit hit the fan yesteday at work. It turns out I made some assumptions about where money would be going and made some major communications blunders in the process. 
Now I have a major situation to defuse and a way of repairing my reputation. My internship may very well not get renewed because of this.
Now I have a major situation to defuse and a way of repairing my reputation. My internship may very well not get renewed because of this. Today was a good day. I went to this meeting for a group called WILPF (Women's international league for Peace and Freedom). It was basically a bunch of old ladies and a few old men who are involved in the local peace movement here in Tucson. I got to hand out a ton of flyers for the event I am organizing and we just found...
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olsen:
Make sure your images are about 500 pixels across and jpg format, and that should bring them well under the 100 kb limit.
Ask me later tonight what country I'm going to. I may be able to tell you then. ::crosses fingers::
Ask me later tonight what country I'm going to. I may be able to tell you then. ::crosses fingers::
olsen:
Australia and then New Zealand.
Today was another day of organizing work. I got to catch up a little bit on sleep and to recover before my 21592437593487594375943275903475947TH meeting in the last three weeks tommorow. Sunday I have a stargazing date with an astronomy major. I am feeling nervous about this because I am not only sick, but I tend to be enthusiastic, energetic, blunt, whereas she seems really sweet...
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olsen:
Sickness sucks. Were you in this building, I would take you as a cuddle buddy, with or without your permission. So There.
Today was a long day. First I got up to do more organizing work for the protest and speaking event. Then I had to run to class even though I am still sick. I sat through math class but hardly paid any attention to what he was saying, something about functions. I am thinking about relationships tonight. What is the best way I can show...
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olsen:
I swear I'm sleeping soon.
I did add a protest photo to my pictures. I participated in a lot of protests against the war on Iraq. I went to my first ever protest in San Fran on January 18th this year. Before that I had always wanted to, but said I was too busy. My best friend died in December, and suddenly I was desperate to stop putting important things on hold, and it seemed so much more horrible for anyone else to die. So I attended that protest with her mom and a bunch of friends from her memorial.
That was a huge protest, and I've been to so many different sized protests, to vigils, and die-ins. I caught pneumonia at the March 15th protest and couldn't go to the ones right as war broke out, and shouldn't have gone to any more, because every time I went, my pneumonia would get really aggravated again. But I still can't forgive myself for not putting myself on the line the night war began.
Causes I'd like to be involved in: Peace, always peace. Animal Rights and Environmentalism. Queer rights. I think that's most of what I'd stand up for. Oh, and art. Sleep.
I did add a protest photo to my pictures. I participated in a lot of protests against the war on Iraq. I went to my first ever protest in San Fran on January 18th this year. Before that I had always wanted to, but said I was too busy. My best friend died in December, and suddenly I was desperate to stop putting important things on hold, and it seemed so much more horrible for anyone else to die. So I attended that protest with her mom and a bunch of friends from her memorial.
That was a huge protest, and I've been to so many different sized protests, to vigils, and die-ins. I caught pneumonia at the March 15th protest and couldn't go to the ones right as war broke out, and shouldn't have gone to any more, because every time I went, my pneumonia would get really aggravated again. But I still can't forgive myself for not putting myself on the line the night war began.
Causes I'd like to be involved in: Peace, always peace. Animal Rights and Environmentalism. Queer rights. I think that's most of what I'd stand up for. Oh, and art. Sleep.
olsen:
I'm sorry, what does ACORN stand for? That is a really roundabout way to get into peace action. I had almost joined the army twice, once as a linguist, because I thought it would be a really intense way to learn a language, and once on reserves because I needed money for college. On neither occasion did it occur to me that I might be asked to fight, to kill someone. They really underplay that when they're trying to recruit. I am so glad that I never signed on, and accidentally became an official part of something I so deeply stand against.
I'm a vegan too! (no surprise). I was into animal rights long before I was into human rights. I threatened to quit eating meat, I think before I even knew there was such a thing as a "vegetarian." I was in elementary school when I stopped eating it, and my parents used to be really cruel to me about that. On some level, I still feel like an animal is more worth saving than a human, animals are so pure in spirit. But losing Mer has really taught me how much one life is.
I hate this. I am getting sick. My whole body aches to the point that my eyes are tearing.
I'm a vegan too! (no surprise). I was into animal rights long before I was into human rights. I threatened to quit eating meat, I think before I even knew there was such a thing as a "vegetarian." I was in elementary school when I stopped eating it, and my parents used to be really cruel to me about that. On some level, I still feel like an animal is more worth saving than a human, animals are so pure in spirit. But losing Mer has really taught me how much one life is.
I hate this. I am getting sick. My whole body aches to the point that my eyes are tearing.
Up way past my bedtime for the fourth day in a row... I just sent an email to the Phoenix anarchists to see if they wanted to attend the speaking event I am organizing right now. I also sent it out to the SG Arizona group, but I'm not sure if anyone is even interested in political stuff. Maybe I should ask the group and...
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olsen:
If you go to bed, I'll go to bed.
olsen:
Oh, thank you. That's really a wonderful thing to hear. So many people, I think, just look at the images without trying to be stirred at all.
Man, I can't believe you would leave Portland. Though I'm a rain-lover, so maybe that's it. I like how green everything looks against the grey. And I hide from the sun. It always felt deceptively comforting to me.
Man, I can't believe you would leave Portland. Though I'm a rain-lover, so maybe that's it. I like how green everything looks against the grey. And I hide from the sun. It always felt deceptively comforting to me.
I have two meetings today for this event I am helping to organize. We are bringing a speaker in from San Diego who's son died in the war in Iraq. Basically we're trying to fill up the Sunnyside auditorium so they can hear his story and then get pissed off and help with the movement. It's hard to believe just how much work, coordinating, and...
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Another member things I look to old in my picture which still has yet to load. I am working on the damn pixel thing still. Inara rocks for having some mercy on my computer skills.... I am now curious about this age thing in my photos. When I get the thing on here I am going to ask just how old I look. 
I am still having a hard time trying to get my !$%@%@#%ING picture to load. This is likely to piss off the woman in charge of one of the groups I clicked on, who expressly mentioned that they won't allow people without pictures to join. If you are that woman, sorry, I am working on it!!!! *pulling hair out* 
inara:
Wow, you're one of the few who actually pays attention to what I say. You're in anyway. 
You're really dedicated to your convictions. I was never able to sacrifice my own goals and habits and comforts enough to do anything more than protest.