Lakota Woman by Mary Crow Dog:

Wow! To anyone interested in modern U.S. history I would certainly advise this autobiography. It presents a biased, but very fair, opinion of certain events related to the American Indian Movement (AIM) and life for poor Native Americans living in South Dakota. Crow Dog rarely criticizes her own group directly in the ( Read more... )

I'm helping my sister pick out colleges, in an effort to get her to apply to a range of them. To do this, I'm reading descriptions in various books and it is making me somewhat sad, seeing the descriptions for colleges I didn't go to. On the other hand it is very exciting to vicariously contemplate my future again through my sister. Hopefully she ( Read more... )

Tuition: check. And oddly, unlike last year it seems like my father will pay for my full year of school rather than just the one semester. Whee ( Read more... )

I'm pretty excited that I started volunteering at the Food Bank today. I made sandwiches for kids, washed pans, moved some stuff off a truck, and bagged donated breads with a cool young woman whose name (of course) I cannot recall. So I shall be slightly embarrassed tomorrow when I see her again. I think I'm going to help a man named Larry do a ( Read more... )

In order to facilitate Family Bonding with Future Possible Family, I agreed to come up to Cheyenne this weekend and help my mother, her boyfriend, and his kids set up, run, and take down a triathalon that a friend of my mother's boyfriend decided he wants to do. We didn't think the set-up would take very long, but we were there for four hours and ( Read more... )

My New York trip was somewhat dampened by the fact that on or near the day we left, I developed mono. It is not so bad that I can't do anything at all, or that I sleep a ridiculous amount, but it did prevent me from being fully active and also enjoy swallowing New York pizza. My impression of the city is much improved over the last time I was there ( Read more... )

This shall be my last evening in Kansas. While here, I have assembled four puzzles, seen at least five Hollywood movies that did poorly in theatres for reasons that become clear after watching them, sunburned twice, sickened once, barbequed three times, and lost all my muscle due to not working out for two weeks from sickness/laziness while still ( Read more... )

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=B6bUr5ib3LgTPE7yS1p5bA%3d%3d

Same one that's in my note on Facebook, which I updated to reflect the direct link to the survey now. It is by NARAL Pro-Choice America on Colorado women's attitudes about birth control so they can try to see what women think and how to encourage birth control use. It's very ( Read more... )

I've been incredibly busy this week, getting up at eight each morning to babysit until the late afternoon. My charges are two little girls, one four years and one two years (she's very mellow, different than any two-year-old I've ever seen before, which is nice). There has been some drama: on Monday, the elder girl ran over to her house from the ( Read more... )

I have decided, after looking at the featured cake blog LJ has put up, that aesthetically I enjoy white roses and red roses on wedding cakes, but not pink roses. They look dumb ( Read more... )