This journal, which was created 2002-10-16 20:43:01 (nearly five years ago) is now officially closed, but will, for archival purposes, not be deleted. The next five years, culminating with 2012, will be chronicled in a different journal with a different purpose: http:// ( Read more... )

I'm starting to get really nervous/excited, as I always do just before I travel. My study abroad classes start today at the university (I'm studying Spanish language and Latin American history and culture) and we fly out this Saturday. I have a feeling that this trip will be quite a challange, as I'm staying with a family (which I still know ( Read more... )

Tonight I'm looking through the LJ archive, thinking about things. This is the second entry I wrote on LJ, five years ago when I was 16. It was a stream of consciousness piece, which I was doing a lot of back then. Makes me think that people have only one idea, really, and that everything they say is a rearticulation of that one thing, in any ( Read more... )

Can anyone identify this beautiful baby whom I almost stepped on (barefoot)just now at my back door? I actually touched its tail, too, because I'm fucking insane. It then slithered underneath a tool rack.


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The more perceptive members of the present generation exhibit a higher degree of freedom from the sense of shame and guilt that taints the sexual experience, particularly in old aeon mentalities. Original thinking and a spirit of genuine scientific enquiry is beginning to emerge, viz. the experimental use of drugs, and other modes of self-analysis ( Read more... )

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Alienation and Anomie are important concepts in the work of Marx and Durkheim. What did these authors mean by these terms? What are the sources of Alienation and/or Anomie for each theorist? How are Alienation and Anomie manifested in society, according to Marx and Durkheim? What solutions to these problems did each theorist suggest? Do you see ( Read more... )