( Oh, wait! New favorite Kate Nash song! )

Kate Nash is my new musical obsession. It took all of one song played on Caitlin's laptop while I made coffee.

Now I'm playing youtube video after youtube video while I compile data...

...and write in lj.

Some music for your entertainment:

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I also feel weird being the one eye-witness in this article. What was I thinking, I have no right to have a voice in this! It's not even called a Jersey barrier, it's a guardrail. Hmph.

Body recovered in search for missing student
By Nathaniel Weixel Senior Writer | April 30th, 2008Filed at 11:04 AM ( Read more... )

More proof that, according to human nature, each individual is the center of his or her own universe. I've witnessed a tragedy, and I can't help but piece it into my deepening layers of survivor's guilt--whether that guilt is self-imposed or real ( Read more... )

So, on the final day of the Witness for Peace conference, we spent the afternoon processing our experience and planning future projects. One of the processing activities was to have us shout out--popcorn-style--sights, sounds, smells or sensations from our week. Todd wrote them down in order, and they became a poem. (Which he finally sent via e- ( Read more... )

So, during Easter dinner some people were talking about work visas for Americans in the U.K. and New Zealand. I mused out loud that it's probably because of dropping fertility rates, and the need for young work (and the desire for young work that isn't from north or west Africa). People literally laughed at me ( Read more... )

Update:

Witness for Peace has whipped my passion back into shape.

I no longer want to join the Peace Corps.

I want to do solidarity work.

So far, it seems to be pulling me in the direction of D.C. or NYC. Not to mention Latin America.

Organization to remember for when I have more experience: Peace Brigades.