6 am this morning, i awoke to a young child saying "im hungwy". immediately i regretted staying up all night to watch blown away, an interesting movie about an ex IRA bomber intent on killing as many english... er, boston cops possible. after pouring a bowl of cereal, my day was just nuts ( Read more... )

so if i decide to take 5 months off of "activism"

i get one solid month of "organizing".

chairman fred hampton way!
general strike march 10!
space opens march 15!
CIW in town mid march-april 1!

lets not forget the garden... oh geez!

4 basil
1 tomatillo
1 watermelon
2 lavender
10 zapotec tomato
8 san marzano tomato

...shoots appeared last night. looking quite successful thus far!

"if you gon' bang then bang fo' change
don't bang fo' crazy thangs
if not don't bang"

one basil shoot and five ropreco tomato shoots appeared today. trying to raise the temperature of the seedbeds over 70 degrees, however this requires a house temperature of 75 degrees and my family objects to such scalding heat. needless to say we are playing musical thermostats ( Read more... )

2/17 broccoli, chamomile, romaine shoots appearing ( Read more... )

66 degrees, 14% humidity
zito basement

yesterday i planted into flats (for germination):

4 week transplants
12 chamomile
12 basil
12 watermelon
12 purple de milpa tomatillos
12 broccli
12 romaine

8 week transplants 10 zapotec tomatoes ( Read more... )

my uncle died on friday. the poem i wrote in my last entry was about him taking us (my cousins, my brother, me) fishing when we were little. we saw the mighty ducks afterward ( Read more... )

a pond
hazed over with ice
an early spring
a crappie bite

the warmth
made it too late
to slip on our boots,
to tie on our skates

fighting with only
three years of strength
pulling the creature
up from the lake

mighty ducks
cried with a quack
the fish flailed,
but failed

to
get
back
.

so in the interest of constant change and learning, i have deleted most of my past livejournal entries. i found many of them immature and rambling, and even moreso embarassing. they also posed a potential for incrimination. i am excited to realize how much i have matured in five (read: FIVE!!!) years. i still have a long way to go ( Read more... )

so it looks like i am getting rid of the car for good, folks. i figured it out that my budget will not allow me to save and drive regularly. luckily i have a dope bike that i am looking forward to ride. once a girl called me a "fucken pussy" because i didnt ride my bike in the snow or rain. well, the way this winter is going with global warming and ( Read more... )