Those that know me know I love my mother very much, you also know that if you sent me an email like the one my mother just sent me I'd post it here and lovingly poke fun at you. :D
So it is with that I give you, "A Message From Mom."
Hey Sweetie!! Love from Boston. I couldn't open your blog. I'll try when I get home. We're presenting tomorrow morning so I had entirely too much to drink tonight. Oh well, presenting with a hangover will be a new experience. Talk to you soon!! Love Mom
Subject: New blog thing.
Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 21:29:04 -0700
From: leeaar17@evergreen.edu
To: annengerlee@hotmail.com; ryryryry@gmail.com
CC: clee@daverobinsonarchitects.com
http://musing-from-suck-town.blogspot.com
Love ya'll
Bear
So yeah chances are if you're reading this you more then likely saw my mom at my going away party, she was a little drunk then too. I'll tell you another story of when my mom was drunk...
But before I do that, I love this part, "We're presenting tomorrow morning so I had entirely too much to drink tonight. Oh well, presenting with a hangover will be a new experience."
The way she says, "We're presenting tomorrow morning so I had entirely too much to drink tonight." reads like every average person would think, "hmmm. I have something important to do tomorrow, what will help me perform better... I know, I'll get drunk tonight!" I love that
Now for the story... It was St. Patties day and Joyce my mothers business partner had invited my family as well as some of my friends over to her and her husbands house for their party. Well I played DD that night and sadly I did not drink right then. Chis did. Lacy did. Leigh did. Charlotte did. Collin did. Mandy did. MOM for sure did!
We, and by we I mean Charlotte, Lacy, Chris, Leigh and I, go back to my folks place because I wanted to drink. About five minutes after we walk in the door Mom, Dad, Collin and Mandy come home and Mom is more then a little gone, OK she's really fuckin' gone. Chris and I are doing beer bongs and Mom tries to show us how it's done. All she does is spray beer on her, the kitchen and Lacy. It was great. By this time I'm too drunk to drive any one home and so are the rest of my family. So what does Mom do? Like any good mom does, she drives them home! No just kidding, she calls them a cab and pays for it. The next day Chris and Lacy fly to San Fransisco still drunk and toting hang overs as well. Chris later told me that when he was packing the next morning (still drunk don't forget) that he leaned over to put something in the suitcase and then ran to the bathroom and tossed cookies. My mom didn't get out of bed till about four in the after noon that day.
Oh yeah and there's that whole thing where they (Mom and Dad) kept me out of jail at the going away party... Don't you wish your folks were like mine? Yeah I know you do. So who wants to get drunk with me, my Mom, Mandy, Collin and maybe Oliver if he's up for it when I come to visit this winter? Dad likes to be DD, and I'm not kidding so he may only get drunk if you really ask him to, but you gotta be really nice.
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Sunday, October 7, 2007
Homework is for suckers...
So, I read this book for class called The Woman Who Watches Over the World and I had to write a paper about it. Well I tried my damnedest to do so but I could not get more then one page out. The book is a memoir about the Author Lind Hogan and I can't for the life of me write about it in a critical fashion (I think I'm just being a fucking baby about the whole thing truthfully.) It's a persons feelings and I just do feel like I can do that. Oh well... So I got a single page of a 4 page paper that has a rough draft due in the morning and a final draft due Tuesday. So basically from the time I'm done with class until I go to bed I'll be doing nothing but writing that fucking paper...
Also the next book we're reading is The Arrivants: a New World Trilogy, Rights of Passage, Islands, Masks which is a collection of poetry form the Caribbean. I'm excited to read it. I'll tell ya'll about it when I'm done.
Oh yeah, mom I'm sending you Linda Hogans book as I think you'll really like it.
Also the next book we're reading is The Arrivants: a New World Trilogy, Rights of Passage, Islands, Masks which is a collection of poetry form the Caribbean. I'm excited to read it. I'll tell ya'll about it when I'm done.
Oh yeah, mom I'm sending you Linda Hogans book as I think you'll really like it.
Saturday, October 6, 2007
First of many I hope...
So I decided that I wanted to post here rather then on myspace as I'm kinda sick of the way that one works. Enjoy.
Also I'm going to just copy and paste what I've done so far on myspace here so that I can delete that and just do it from here.
For those of you not in the know, which is none of you, I'm at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. Just look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evergreen_State_College, which does not say much about the reputation that Evergreen, has; that reputation is one of a "drug school", "hippie school" etc. In truth this is the hardest I've ever worked in school. Compared to other higher education intuitions Evergreen is considered "radical", and very left wing.
So this year I'm taking a program called Colonialism and Decolonization. This is a study of the European invasion of Africa, the Americas, and the Middle East and the damage that was done as a result there of. Just to make life easy I'll give you a rough definition of colonialism. Colonialism is the act of one nation forcefully occupying another sovereign nation or nations for the economic, political and military advantage of that occupying nation. Traditionally colonialism is thought to have ended with the removal of British governing over India. This might be thought because those nations that have the power to do so are "civilized" and recognize the right of other sovereign nations to exist with out the interference from other nations. (cough) Yeah, and I'm the Pope. This not academia and I am under no obligation to be "academic" with what I say here.
Jared introduced me to a wonderful musician name K'naan, and for those of you who have not heard what this man has to say listen to the song on mine and his profile then add K'naan as a friend because his is a first hand account of what colonialism has and IS doing to poor people around the world.
Colonialism is not a thing of the past; it is not something that happened a "long, long time ago" It is happening right now. You want to read about it in a historical context? Try Howard Zinns "A Peoples History of the United States" or David E. Stannards' "American Holocaust." I just finished Stannard's book which quotes HEAVILY from the first hand accounts of what white Europeans did in the Americas from 1492 until the early 1900's. First ask your self how many people do were in the western hemisphere prior to European invasion? Then ask your self how many different groups do you think there were prior to 1492. The answer to the first question is somewhere between 60,000,000 (that's sixty MILLION kids) and 100,000,000 (that's ONE HUNDRED MILLION) people prior to 1492. The reason that these are estimates is that we don't know how many people there were. Why don't we know? Well that's simple and it is spelled like this: G-E-N-O-C-I-D-E, now say it with me GENOCIDE (genocide: The systematic killing of all the people from a national, ethnic, or religious group, or an attempt to do this.) This JUST the Americas, there are hundreds of millions of people killed in other parts of the world for this same reason. Like I said the YEAR LONG focus of this program is about AFRICA, THE MIDDLE EAST, AND THE AMERICAS. This does not cover India, all of Asia, Eastern Europe, Scotland, Ireland, Australia and the rest of the world. In my mind colonialism is one of the biggest defining factors affecting the world today.
So yeah you can understand how I might be a little "cynical" right now. Please do me a favor and read Stannards book the title again is "American Holocaust". It's big, it's upsetting, it's TRUE, and it's more then likely something you've never heard before. So I'll say it again, READ AMERICAN HOLOCAUST BY DAVID E. STANNARD!
So I'm making this about school only from now on.
So, here I am... I was in the shower just now thinking about somethings, mostly the fact that I'm now getting 150.00 bucks a week from the state of Utah because I've been unable to find a job up here. So what do I do with 150.00 a week? well about the only things I have to do are pay the interest on my loan for school and buy food. I've yet to find out what the interest is on my loan, but I'll know soon enough. Food. Yeah that's an important thing to have. But the plus side to being on unemployment is I have no job. Meaning I can travel when ever I feel like it, save I don't impact the first two things I have to pay every month.
Another thing I've been thinking about is the fact I moved my self away from all my friends and my immediate family. So here I am 800 miles away from everything I've known since I was born and for the first time since I've been going to school, I mean ever so this includes k-12 and the last two years the SLCC, I've learned something I really wanted to learn about and in a way that makes sense to me. It sucks ass not having friends but I'm learning a lot and for once I find it useful. Unlike all but maybe two or three classes I took at SLCC.
Also I'm going to just copy and paste what I've done so far on myspace here so that I can delete that and just do it from here.
For those of you not in the know, which is none of you, I'm at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. Just look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evergreen_State_College, which does not say much about the reputation that Evergreen, has; that reputation is one of a "drug school", "hippie school" etc. In truth this is the hardest I've ever worked in school. Compared to other higher education intuitions Evergreen is considered "radical", and very left wing.
So this year I'm taking a program called Colonialism and Decolonization. This is a study of the European invasion of Africa, the Americas, and the Middle East and the damage that was done as a result there of. Just to make life easy I'll give you a rough definition of colonialism. Colonialism is the act of one nation forcefully occupying another sovereign nation or nations for the economic, political and military advantage of that occupying nation. Traditionally colonialism is thought to have ended with the removal of British governing over India. This might be thought because those nations that have the power to do so are "civilized" and recognize the right of other sovereign nations to exist with out the interference from other nations. (cough) Yeah, and I'm the Pope. This not academia and I am under no obligation to be "academic" with what I say here.
Jared introduced me to a wonderful musician name K'naan, and for those of you who have not heard what this man has to say listen to the song on mine and his profile then add K'naan as a friend because his is a first hand account of what colonialism has and IS doing to poor people around the world.
Colonialism is not a thing of the past; it is not something that happened a "long, long time ago" It is happening right now. You want to read about it in a historical context? Try Howard Zinns "A Peoples History of the United States" or David E. Stannards' "American Holocaust." I just finished Stannard's book which quotes HEAVILY from the first hand accounts of what white Europeans did in the Americas from 1492 until the early 1900's. First ask your self how many people do were in the western hemisphere prior to European invasion? Then ask your self how many different groups do you think there were prior to 1492. The answer to the first question is somewhere between 60,000,000 (that's sixty MILLION kids) and 100,000,000 (that's ONE HUNDRED MILLION) people prior to 1492. The reason that these are estimates is that we don't know how many people there were. Why don't we know? Well that's simple and it is spelled like this: G-E-N-O-C-I-D-E, now say it with me GENOCIDE (genocide: The systematic killing of all the people from a national, ethnic, or religious group, or an attempt to do this.) This JUST the Americas, there are hundreds of millions of people killed in other parts of the world for this same reason. Like I said the YEAR LONG focus of this program is about AFRICA, THE MIDDLE EAST, AND THE AMERICAS. This does not cover India, all of Asia, Eastern Europe, Scotland, Ireland, Australia and the rest of the world. In my mind colonialism is one of the biggest defining factors affecting the world today.
So yeah you can understand how I might be a little "cynical" right now. Please do me a favor and read Stannards book the title again is "American Holocaust". It's big, it's upsetting, it's TRUE, and it's more then likely something you've never heard before. So I'll say it again, READ AMERICAN HOLOCAUST BY DAVID E. STANNARD!
So I'm making this about school only from now on.
So, here I am... I was in the shower just now thinking about somethings, mostly the fact that I'm now getting 150.00 bucks a week from the state of Utah because I've been unable to find a job up here. So what do I do with 150.00 a week? well about the only things I have to do are pay the interest on my loan for school and buy food. I've yet to find out what the interest is on my loan, but I'll know soon enough. Food. Yeah that's an important thing to have. But the plus side to being on unemployment is I have no job. Meaning I can travel when ever I feel like it, save I don't impact the first two things I have to pay every month.
Another thing I've been thinking about is the fact I moved my self away from all my friends and my immediate family. So here I am 800 miles away from everything I've known since I was born and for the first time since I've been going to school, I mean ever so this includes k-12 and the last two years the SLCC, I've learned something I really wanted to learn about and in a way that makes sense to me. It sucks ass not having friends but I'm learning a lot and for once I find it useful. Unlike all but maybe two or three classes I took at SLCC.
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