Salt Lake City an't just the title of a Dwarves song anymore.

That's right kids, I'm flying home tomorrow night. I leave Sea-Tac airport at 4:50 PM and arrive in Shit Lick at 7:50. I'll be there until the 3rd when I drive back to Oly via Portland. Classes start on the 7th and much like last quarter I'm very much looking forward to next quarter. Also I've decided to go to Law School and will start to study for the LSAT this break which I will be taking in the spring.

The three schools I'm looking at are Fordam (thanks Scotty for giving me the idea), Loyola and Seattle University. Fordam and Loyola are both outside of Washington State, Fordam is in New York (Not too excited to go to New York), Loyola is in L.A. (another city I'm not too keen on), and as I'm sure you can tell where Seattle University is. All three are Jesuit schools with a strong social justice program. The really cool part about Evergreen is that 85-90% of the grads get in to their first choice for grad school. So no matter where I decide to go I've got a good chance to get in if I do well on the LSAT's. I'm not too worried about the LSAT because I know if I study for it and take a practice test I've gained a lot of the skills I need to do well on it already, it's just a matter of further developing those skills.

So here I sit for all intents and purpose, with my thumb up my ass.

That's right, I said it, I've got that wonderful digit that allowed us to use keyboards (see type type type type, I'm using them now) shoved up my ass. What does that mean? Well, now that the quarter has come to an end, I have nothing really to do between the hours of 8 AM, when I generally wake up, and twelve thirty when I go to work, and six PM and one AM when I get home and before I go to bed. Let us not even mention the weekends...

I've been reading On the Road, see, and diggin' it man, diggin' it hard. Damn beat writers. I've been thinking about a lot of things as of late, one of which is how fucking, sexist, racist, classiest, and heterocenterist that book is. Among other things, I've been thinking about growth. I had my Eval on Monday and my Faculty had only good things to say about me and how I did this quarter. My disability did show up to play a little but in the end it played nice and was able to get along well with others. I think the best thing I ever did was come here. I've grown a lot in the way I think about things and how my actions and the actions of other have played in to the condition of the world today.

I got my happy ass on face book and found some long lost friends (and ex's) and it got me thinking more and more about the above. The whole beautiful thing has me reeling and rocking in pure joy and punch drunk with hap-penis.

I'm getting more comfortable with English and I'm starting to play around with sounds a little bit.

Oh yeah, speaking of sounds I got the new Saul Williams album yesterday. For those of you that read this (Cassie) I down loaded it off his website for five bones. It's great and he's coming to Washington in February so Chris, Lacy and I are going to see him. It will be berry berry good.

Quarter is FUCKING OVER!!!!

So today marked the last day of classes for me for a month. That's right one whole friggin' month. So it looks like I'll be spending two weeks in Salt Lake. From the 17th of this month until just after the first of the new year. Such are the joys of being employed. But on the good side I'll be spending New Years with ya'll. So Now I get to write my self Eval a week from yesterday,then hang the fuck out for the rest week until my flight two weeks from yesterday and that's about it...

Oh yeah and I fucking hate all those god damn Christian $christmas$ movies that are all over the TV right now... FUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKK! I can't even tell you how much I hate them...

Who Said, You Said, I Said, We Said, Edward W. Said.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.-Oscar Wilde

I'm thinking about what I want to do for my spring quarter. Some of the students are writing papers this quarter with the intent of trying to get them published next year. I think that is a good idea so I'm thinking about doing an independent study contract along the lines of what we've been studying this year thus far. I'm thinking about maybe writing something about decolonizing the Euro-American mind. Freire said, I'm paraphrasing here so bare with me, that in liberating themselves the oppressed will have to liberate their oppressors along with them because the problem of colonialism, and thus oppression, lies in the fact that oppression happens as an result of a system. While there are very real people that oppress others to unjustly take what is not due them, they are in a way the victim of a parasitic way of thinking that in the end oppresses a very real person or group of people. It also in a way oppresses the oppressor to a degree. This is not to say that the oppressor is a victim the same way that the victim of colonialism or imperialism is because the oppressor does not experience the violence of that oppression. I believe that the best way to think about it is like an alcoholic that beats their family. The alcoholic while on one hand abuses their family members and beats them, they are in their own right the victim of a sickness. In the case of the colonizer, he is a victim of the sickness that is the colonial way of thinking. He is not a victim in the same right as the colonized.

I'm not sure where this line of thought is going so I'll leave it here.

Puntin' bitchs and cuttin' pimps.

That's right mother fucker, I gots me a J-O-B, job.

Staple Food for the "Holidays"

OK so my folks are quasi-Christian and my family celebrates Godless Christian Holiday #1 (that's Christmas kids) and every year with out fail my mom makes a Breakfast Casserole that is amazing. Up until the last seven or so years it's not even been vegetarian and only with in the last three almost four it's been vegan. With out further a due, here is the BEST breakfast you'll ever have. I plan on having it for the rest of my life on Godless Christian Holiday #1 even though I don't celebrate that holiday and my folks do. As such until the day, I hate thinking about this 'cuse I love them both dearly, they both die I'll be spending that day with them. After that very sad day when they are no longer with me I'll still make this dish on Godless Christian Holiday #1 as a way to remember my mom and the warm feeling that I get on this day even though I'm a godless heathen.

Vegan Breakfast Casserole.

1 & 1/2 LB. Vegan Soy Ground sausage cooked (Spicy Soysage is best but Smart ground works too)
10-12 slices Vegan Sourdough bread, cubed
5-6 eggs worth Energy Egg replacer
2 & 1.2 cups unsweetened Soy or Rice Milk
1 teaspoon dry mustard
1 & 1/2 pound Vegan Cheddar Soy Cheese grated (Follow Your Heart Vegan Gourmet or Vegan brand work best)
1 & 1/2 Cups Vegan Cream of Mushroom Soup* recipe follows at end*
Earth Balance Margarine enough to grease large baking dish

Mix together the "eggs," mustard and "milk" and set to the side.

Use vegan margarine to grease large oblong baking dish. Put one layer of cubed bread in pan. Crumble over top half of the cooked "sausage." sprinkle over that half of the "cheese." Repeat a second layer using the rest of the bread, "sausage," and "cheese."

Pour the "egg" replacer mixture evenly over the layers. Let it sit until the next morning.

Next morning:

Preheat oven to 300 degrees F.

Take Vegan Cream of Mushroom soup and evenly pour over the casserole. Bake covered at 300 degrees F. for one hour. Uncover and cook for 30 minutes more or until crust is crisp on top.

Vegan cream of Mushroom Soup.

one 1/2 lb mushrooms (any kind you like) chopped
4 Cups vegan veggie broth
1 tub Tofutti "Better Then Cream Cheese"
one 1/2 large onion chopped
3 cloves garlic minced
one 1/2 tablespoon olive oil

Saute onions, garlic and mushrooms in oil until onions are translucent. Add veggie stock and bring to a boil while stirring occasionally for 20 minutes. Reduce heat and add cream cheese. Mix on medium low heat until the cream cheese is combined. Blend in blender or food processor and return to pot, add corn starch if needed to thicken.

Two Weeks Left of Class and Three Weeks Left of School for the Quarter.

That's right, I've got two weeks of class left, that means I have four class meetings left, then one week for evaluations and I'm dun. Yep it's been an intents ten weeks of my first quarter at Evergreen and I'm happy it's over. So for those of you in Salt Lake, you've got three weeks from tomorrow till I'm back for a visit at which point I will expect you all to get me drunk, because I'm broke and you love me.

I'll post again after I have my Eval and tell you all how it went and what the hell that is anyway. I should tell you I DON'T HAVE FINALS... EVER!!!!! hehehehehehehehehehehehe.