I mailed this to some of you, but I'm going to post it because I love it. Researching the 1913 Garment workers' strike here in Rochester this summer, I found this beautiful print of the the 1910 Rochester Socialist Sunday School holiday greeting. It was in the Socialist Scrapbooks at UR. Even though I didn't really have time, I transcribed it ( Read more... )

If you send me your address I will send you a copy of something I found while doing my research this summer.

I will screen comments so, in the words of Karee, "I'm the only one who can stalk you."

I <3 New York.

and for some reason I really love this map. I think it is the bright colors and acknowledgement that Rochester is not part of Buffalo.


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my head is like a balloon filled with snot.

I got too much shit to do.
I don't have time for getting sick.

I've been really busy working on thesis research and being sick and stuff.

I have a job interview on Tuesday. I'm really excited/nervous.

I really, really, really need a job and this one sounds incredibly awesome.

I'll give y'all the details after the interview. I am a stupid paranoid superstitious nimrod.

I'm vacillating between paralyzing depression and blood vessel bursting outrage so much that it hurts ( Read more... )

It's Labor Day.
I will spend at least some of it thinking and learning about the workers who fought for things like weekends and minimum wages and workers' compensation and overtime and have to fucking continue this fight because the assholes who run this country don't care about working people.

Kanye West was right. Bush doesn't care about black ( Read more... )

I was holding on to this one little glimmer of hope that out of this horrible horrible tragedy, we might at least get a real dialogue on race and poverty going on in the US. But silly me, I forgot about the inevitable backlash, the blinde defensiveness of white folks. It seems now that to even mention issues of race and class in regards to the ( Read more... )

+ saw some old friends, including a former professor I really really have been wanting to see and we made plans to get together soon ( Read more... )

last night alex asked me "know what tomorrow is ( Read more... )