but it’s MIT! why aren’t you proud?
time and time again, i’m reminded that people think the world of the ridiculous institution at which i am currently residing. no one seems to get why i refuse to attend graduation or why i’m embarrassed by our stupidity and our cultural imperialism.
more and more, i realize how much my undergraduate institution was just outright me.
aside from my initial wearables and geeky reaction, i have to admit that i would not be so very surprised to see dynamically colored optical fabric as a up-and-coming raver fashion. and i’m quite curious how related this type of stuff is to rehmi and maggie’s work
as we’ve mentioned before, i’m addicted to surveys. outright addicted. but even with said addiction, i get overjoyed when every month or so, i get a check from one of the survey companies because i’ve sold my opinion to them to fulfill my survey addiction and get a few dollars. anyhow, everyone who hears about my addictions asks where they can sign up… so now i have a link (that also makes me a teensy bit of money if you sign up). enjoy!
::gulp:: well, it seems as though i might have endometriosis. i can’t really think about that right now (damn bloody law paper is very overdue) but it would make a lot of the really annoying pain, crampiness, problems with painful arousal make a lot more sense. the question is where to go from here. i think that first, i need to graduate. then i need to get myself to a calmer state fast. then think.
Flirting is most definitely one of my favorite pasttimes, and now there’s a guide to it. I long for the friends that i can flirt with, with no expectation or assumptions. I miss the games that we would play, teasing one another until it hurt. It’s actually one of the reasons that i adore my gayboy friends – flirtation without assumption. Mmm… summer flirtation.
But flirtation is like all social interaction – it’s a learned ability and not everyone gets it… likewise, not everyone gets the nuanced styles of flirtation, when they are meant to be fun and when they are meant to be serious. I wish more people could read between the lines, but then again, that’s something we Americans don’t do so very well…
ooh oooh ooh ooh. so i am going to work for V-Day in the fall!! 20 hours a week for what amounts to a barely livable full-time salary!! i think my title will be “online organizer” or something to that effect… basically doing what i did this year and then some… this means that i will be able to get by, travel some, see my family and friends. yippeee!!!
i guess you can say that we’re coming along when colleges are trying to explicitly appeal to / recruit gay high school students to fill the diversity quotient in colleges… i do think it’s great that colleges are seeing these kids as special, odd as it is…
if you happen to be in D.C. June 3, check out the Observing Surveillance event. regardless, the website is fascinating…
i actually went offline for the most part this week (gasp!) to get the art installation up . it looks great, so if you are down there, go check it out.
i finally got around to taking a look at a graphical search engine and i’m not too thrilled with it. it looks really cool, but the links are meaningless and the search results are really inaccurate. of course, i always test all search engines with ‘ani difranco’ because i know the results in all other search engines.
this morning, i also got a transcript of a chomsky vs. bill bennett debate with paula zahn on CNN. problem is that i don’t know how to read these things anymore. i know my government is lying to me (with help from the media) but i can’t say that i automatically trust the uber-left either, cause it’s so easy to be a paranoid in this current culture. how do you fight misinformation when all you have is misinformation?
i was psyched to see fake banner ads (#1, #2, #3) in my inbox – i love sarcastic cuts at corporations…
In less than a week, a collaborative piece that i have been working on will be going up at the Artists Space in NYC (feel free to join me at the opening May 30 6-8PM). I’m quite psyched, actually – it’s going to be absolutely gorgeous… I don’t have actual screenshots from my work quite yet, but as i was websearching, i found the most intriguing image that shows the kind of thing that we’re showing: clusters of people, partially colorcoded, interacting with other people:
(only ours is all text representations of people instead of actual people.. although it would be absolutely fun to have real people)