but oh boy would i love to do this. from http://kristof.page.nytimes.com (i highly recommend reading nicholas kristof's editorial's. it is really refreshing to see someone who holds some societal power caring about genocide (that fact that this is so refreshing is quite upsetting ( Read more... )

and while i do love the snow, boy oh boy did my toes miss their freedom.

now onto new york, hoorah hoorah. i promised roomie i would clean before i left, but i haven't really. good thing she loves me.

as of today, i am no longer eating chocolate unless it is fair-trade (or unless not eating it would create an exceedingly awkward and uncomfortable situation). i am no longer willing to be implicit in the child slave labor that hurts every time i think about it. i don't want to live in a way in which i must force myself to ignore the truth (though ( Read more... )

*it snowed yesterday! beautiful magical amazing no i am not over it yet. it is already melting today which is also somewhat magical and amazing. hopefully it will snow again soon because how can you be unhappy when it's snowing (unless you have to shovel it ( Read more... )

i don't know what i want, i only know that i want something ( Read more... )

No Justice, No Peace ( Read more... )

anyway ( Read more... )

lately, i have been especially open to emotional response ( Read more... )

first of all, i want to wish a very happy birthday to one of my favorite twins ( Read more... )

this is a section of my report on my time in the fourth grade class (seventeen pages and much more to say. talking about myself is somehow so much easier than talking about development strategies in subsaharan africa!)

( this part is not 17 pages )