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It is always weird for me when Peter and I are apart. We spend so much time together that doing even simple things (like cooking) alone, feel very strange. I know that it is good for us to be alone for a little while, because after long enough you really can forget what it is like. He is my best friend.
I also feel very alone in this house. In MY house. The subleasers (who are subleasing Peter and Nathan's rooms) are very shy and private and sometimes act like I don't even live here. It is weird. I spend most of my time in my room doing work, and leave almost every evening to go be with friends. I do really love my cat and chickens, though. They are all really awesome.
Peter is in S. Korea now. He left North Carolina yesterday and got to Seoul today. In a few days he leaves for Phuket, Thailand, where he is volunteering with habitat for humanity to help out families that live in poorly build, falling apart, or unfinished houses (some of them are missing walls and huge pieces of the ceiling). I am very proud of him.
It is hard that the time difference is so severe (it is almost 2 am there now), and I do hate that I get worried about him and can't hear from him but through email and the occasional skype chat. (He doesn't speak any Korean or Thai).
I am very excited about going to the Grand Canyon, Sedona, and Tucson this weekend (from the 1st to the 9th), for my Udall scholarship orientation weekend (tucson) and the extension (grand canyon and sedona) that a few of the other scholars and I arranged. I've never been to any of these places before AND the Udall foundation payed for my plane ticket (boo-yah). Camping out for a little while is just what I need. Though it will be hard that I can't talk to Peter at all while I am camping out and may be strange to share our small 2 person tent with a stranger.
I didn't sleep well last night because I couldn't help but feel so strangely that Peter would be on a plane the whole time I was asleep. It was the first night in as long as I can remember that we didn't speak to eachother.
Peter will be back from Phuket on the 15th and back home to me on the 18th. Mini-classes start on the 20th.
This summer went by tooooo fast.
I did finish my watercolor childrens activity book about lemurs/lemur reserves, finally. It is very cute and I hope to have it printed at some point. 
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| just turned into the most f*d up finals week (emotionally) ever |
[19 May 2009|04:37pm] |
so, first one of my best friends (Mike Dorris) got married on Friday, had to go back to the Navy on Sunday, and has a baby due in around 7 months.
second, one of my other bestt friends, Kristi, had her baby shower on Saturday (and had her baby almost two weeks ago, a little early)
third, Peter's grandma just died. She had brain and lung cancer, so it was sort-of expected, but still, very sad.
fourth, a lot of my dear college friends are graduating on Friday! and after tomorrow I will be considered a senior in college... when the fuck did that happen?
aaannnd Peter and I are gonna have to spend ANOTHER summer mostly apart. shitty.
ahhh! sometimes I just want to go crazy.
at least my chickens will be waiting for me when I return to Sarasota in July. love those little buggers. (right now the momma bantam has been tricked into raising a full-size hen chick.. too cute, can't wait til the baby grows up and momma is about half the size of her)
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[05 Nov 2008|10:35am] |
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...and the world let out a great sigh of relief.
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[27 Oct 2008|09:52pm] |
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sometimes it still doesn't feel like he is dead.
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[07 Oct 2008|07:36pm] |
my new neighbor, Walt, whom I only kind-of knew before he moved here, plays a number of instruments and when he's home I never have to turn music on.
it rules!
he's so good. damn. and we practice Portuguese togetha.
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| I really need a new bike |
[30 Sep 2008|08:52pm] |
I was just racing peter on my shitty beachcruiser and the chain pulled the rear sprocket out from the base of the frame. I can fix it, but what the fuck! that should not happen from just riding hard.
Also, now I have two toe nails fewer than I did just an hour ago.
and a few bruises in places that you don't even want to hear about.
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[09 Sep 2008|07:19pm] |
From the archives: Local reaction to students
Reprinted from the Bradenton Herald of May 26, 1965
IRKED BY THE STUDENTS
Editor:
At a recent meeting a group of so-called students from New College were in the audience. It was a shocking sight.
The contrast between these misfits and the neat, clean-cut young men and women at Manatee Junior College (now MCC) was striking. This gang looked like they had been imported from some far out beatnik joint in Greenwich Village.
Those slovenly-dressed, stringy-haired, pipe-puffing girls were a travesty on decent American womanhood. And if their seedy-looking, bewhiskered and moth-eaten companions call themselves men it is a slap in the face of every male among us.
They had the unmitigated gall to laugh derisively while reading a great patriotic speech by Justice Millard Caldwell of the Florida Supreme Court. This speech had been printed in the Bradenton Herald by Mr. Robert Beall, one of Manatee County's most patriotic businessmen. Reprints were passed out at this meeting.
It was from New College that three students hitch-hiked to Alabama to participate in the recent civil rights disorder and got themselves thrown in jail for refusing to get up out of the street when ordered by a police officer.
Upon being released they came back to New College and bragged about how proud they were to be "jailbirds." Apparently they have not been expelled for their actions.
If that motley crowd represented the future leaders of our nation, may God hold up, for America is worse off, by far, than I ever imagined.
If these "students" represent the best New College can attract, then I, for one, suggest that Manatee and Sarasota Counties would be better off if the whole kit and caboodle were loaded onto an appropriate vehicle, in this case a garbage scow, and hauled to the middle of the Gulf of Mexico and sunk.
Ralph H. Morgan
2115 29th Ave. Dr., W.
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[04 Jun 2008|01:04pm] |
What a line-up, especially for 55 bucks.
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[18 Mar 2008|12:33pm] |
say hello to next year's bdorm RA.
woo!
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[03 Mar 2008|03:30pm] |
who would have thought that having health insurance would be more stressful than not having it?
well. it is.
fuck you, insurance companies. I fucking hate you all.
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[24 Dec 2007|03:56pm] |
my big brother is FINALLY out of Iraq, hopefully for good.
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[10 Dec 2007|02:43pm] |
I wish I could stop thinking about him.
Damn.
I miss you so much.
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[09 Dec 2007|11:05am] |
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I'm sorry if this is how you have to hear, but anyone who loved Nick is welcome to attend a brief viewing at Fuller Funeral Home(1625 Pine Ridge Road) tonight from 6-8.
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[02 Dec 2007|01:45pm] |
Kucinich hopes America will take a new direction
By GARRY RAYNO
New Hampshire Union Leader Staff
http://www.unionleader.com/pda-article.aspx?articleId=cb905e6f-45fe-47d5-b894-3b1ff1a873ad
MANCHESTER – The United States' role in the world is the key question facing Americans as they prepare to vote for the next President, says Democratic presidential contender Dennis Kucinich.
"The new model for the paradigm is cooperation, not aggression," the Ohio congressman said. "I want to start calling America home over a period of time in cooperation with other nations."
Although he declined to say what overseas bases he would close first, Kucinich, 61, said the closure plan would be done in consultation with military leaders and discussions with the countries where the bases are located.
With technology today, he said, there is no reason to have military bases in far-flung corners of the world. "I want to see America take a different role," he said.
He would like to see the U.S. work with Russian president Vladimir Putin to dismantle nuclear arsenals and to help the Russians destroy their chemical and other weapons instead of encouraging revolts by the countries along Russia's southern border.
"America works best when it works from (a platform) of moral credibility," Kucinich said. "When we act like 'do as I say, not as I do,' we undermine our credibility."
He said he would not be a pushover with other countries. "I'm a street kid out of Cleveland, but I don't mistake strength as just having weapons," he said.
Kucinich, who is making his second run for the Democratic presidential nomination, has consistently opposed the Iraq War and has made that opposition the centerpiece of his campaign, whose theme is "strength through peace."
In meeting with editors at the New Hampshire Union Leader this week, Kucinich, who is serving his sixth term in the U.S. House, emphasized his proposal for universal health care with a single-payer system. He says his plan is "Medicare for everyone."
"Health care I see as a basic right, not as a privilege based on ability to pay," he said. The costs of premiums, co-pays and deductibles have put health care out of reach for millions of Americans, not just the uninsured, he said.
The country currently pays $2.3 trillion for health care and that should be enough to provide health care to all Americans, just as other industrialized countries do for their citizens, Kucinich said.
He wants to eliminate the profits and administrative costs insurance companies add to the health cost picture. He said administrative costs should be in line with Medicare, 3 percent.
Kucinich also wants to be able to negotiate with the drug companies to reduce the cost of pharmaceuticals, which the Veterans Administration does not, but he notes negotiations were forbidden under the Medicare Part D subscription drug program.
"I want to revitalized American industry and if we can't change health then it can't be done," Kucinich said.
People are more receptive to his message about universal health care this time, he said, because people are in "real financial trouble." He said New Hampshire and its grass roots tradition is the place for him to make his case.
All the other Democratic candidates for President are capitulating to the insurance industry, he said. He admitted his proposal would never make it through the current Congress and said that is why he would take his plan directly to the American people.
He said he is truly the only Democratic presidential candidate not indebted to the special interests. "There is a real choice (among candidates) if voters decide health care is essential in their lives," Kucinich said.
Asked if government should also guarantee citizens food, clothes, shelter and a job, Kucinich said no one should starve today in this country. He said government should ensure there is full employment, which is not the case now.
"Government has the responsibility of being the employer of last resort, particularly when the private sector keeps cutting jobs," Kucinich said. Government can make sure the mechanisms are there, he said.
But he noted, "Government can't do everything in society, I understand that. ... I don't look at government as Big Daddy, and I certainly don't want government to be Big Brother, either."
Kucinich garnered attention for introducing an impeachment resolution against Vice President Dick Cheney. Recently he said he will expand another resolution to include the impeachment of President Bush.
He maintains the administration has lied about the reasons for going to war in Iraq and has trampled on the constitutional rights and civil liberties of the American people.
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[12 Apr 2007|12:12am] |
KURT VONNEGUT is DEAD.
That makes me pretty sad.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/11/books/11cnd-vonnegut.html?ex=1333944000&en=fa0903aa5312dc8b&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
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[21 Feb 2007|10:32am] |
oh yeah. so I bought my ticket to north carolina.
I don't remember if I've already written about this..
but Peter, John, Jess, and I are all going to North Carolina/Virginia for spring break.
Peter and I are flying, and we will either meet John and Jess in North Carolina and drive up to Peter's parents' river house in Virginia, or we will meet them at the virginia house. I am wicked excited. Should be a good time.
my final classes are
New College Landscaping Practicum
Sustainable Development
Confession, Consumerism, and Counterculture (A poetry class about 50's consumerism and confessional poets)
Nature and the Religious Imagination
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Coral Reef ecology
They are all pretty cool
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[04 Jan 2006|12:03am] |
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lonnie is gonna be billy joe, and im gonna be bobby sue, and were gonna take the money and run.
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| sneak preview into Sarahs dictionary AND my new title |
[01 Nov 2005|09:22pm] |
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first of all a big shout out to NICK because he made me feel better.
Cioce5656: if you need help taking care of this bitch murdock's revenge is all over it like white on rice
skapocalypse: see Murdock's Revenge
Murdock's Revenge: (1)A gang that poses as a band to get the ladies, (2) geniuses (copyright Murdock's Revenge and Sarah Burt)
Cioce5656: we just need sum fanatic followers
Lumberjack Nancy: youve got a few
Lumberjack Nancy: or
Lumberjack Nancy: me and alex
Lumberjack Nancy: haha
Cioce5656: u can b the leader
Cioce5656: your on A squad
Lumberjack Nancy: word
Cioce5656: alex can b B squad
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Lumberjack Nancy: but anyway, now that im the leader of A squad, do i get any advantaged?
Lumberjack Nancy: advantages
Cioce5656: umm ill give you massages when you come to our shows?
Cioce5656: free meals at my house?
Lumberjack Nancy: hah. thats the best advantage ever.
Cioce5656: brian can do your homework for you
Lumberjack Nancy: hahahah WOO
Cioce5656: james can sing you love songs
Cioce5656: and don can invite you to his church group
Lumberjack Nancy: hahahah
Lumberjack Nancy: and thats why you will always be my favorite local ska band
Cioce5656: i guess the perks are pretty good
Lumberjack Nancy: they always have been haha
Cioce5656: yea ska rules
http://www.myspace.com/murdocksrevenge
http://murdocksrevenge.8k.com/
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