"development, sexual rights and global governance", edited amy hunt, 2010
anthology: some good stuff, some whatever stuff, as you'd expect. an interesting article about ngos as erotic sites (ara wilson), two articles that worked well set against each other- one about ways a world bank-funded project in the flower industry in ecuador enforced certain ( Read more... )

to start listening to music more, and to create a set-up in my bedroom that facilitates that. if anyone has a recent favorite album they can easily copy for me (on a cd or a flash drive to my computer or whatever the kids are using these days), i would be super into that.

this evening, cold, on the way to the bus stop and carrying bags of groceries, i was trying to buy chanuka candles. the coop was out: i paged and asked, and while the woman who responded recommended somewhere i could buy them, it was in the wrong direction. i kept stopping into delis, where men with many different accents repeated "hanaka candles ( Read more... )

wearing lizxnn's old turquoise slip and my new short hair, listening to freewheel (team dresch on youtube!), drinking iced coffee with chocolate soy milk out of a jar, cleaning my room. amazing. in the hot summer heat, 12:46 pm on a thursday.

school is going to be an adjustment, i think. but there is still summer.

chelsea girls, eileen myles (2 bucks at goodwill yesterday ( Read more... )

sometimes i am very bad at relaxing. it is saturday and things are wide open except i am still trying to get a ton and a half of shit done (mostly around garden creation, which is super awesome), and i am feeling stressed about it all ( Read more... )

-the toaster is electric! (boogie woogie woogie woogie.) you program the length of time it toasts, in minutes, and the particular intensity of toasting. too many choices: i just pressed buttons until it seemed to start ( Read more... )

having a dog means having to put your pants back on for the last walk of the evening, when you've already settled into a comfortable at-home pantsless existence. alas ( Read more... )

weekends working are intense, especially the "both days start at 830 in yonkers" version of that. it's good money, but i forget how tired it makes me, and how unable to partake in weekend events. enjoying being at home now; braising brussels sprouts in cream and having a beer ( Read more... )

remember a few entries ago where i wondered about my ability to do unassisted chin-ups? i did three on my first try on my roommate's chin-up bar (aka loft bed.)

also also: look at this. things inside other things! click on the link about the pierogis. and then read everything else she's written lately.