I'm housesitting again. Luckily this means I have a little time to use a
computer that isn't
school property. Most of the time I spend on
E2 these days is wedged in between printing out
papers and requesting
arcane research studies from even more questionable
sociology departments. It's relaxing to just sit down and
write directly into the
enter your write box. Yeah. I guess that's my idea of big fun.
The last couple of weeks have been hectic but for reasons largely outside of school. My girlfriend's band opened for Fugazi so there was the usual running around and nonsense involved when someone you know and love is soon to play into front of a sold out crowd at a +1300 capacity venue. The people from Fugazi are nice almost to a fault. Yoon actually ended up driving up to Laramie, Wyoming earlier this week to see their show there. It coincided with Ian from Fugazi turning 39. It's a strange little world.
It is a nice change of pace to be the boyfriend who hangs out at shows. I've played in crappy and not-so-crappy unk and hardcore bands since junior high and have dragged many significant others to a myriad of bad shows. It is cool to be introduced as a boyfriend.
I'll be turning 29 next Thursday. I'd thought that there would be some anxiety involved but I was wrong. Hey I've been losing hair and all of that for years now. I'm more than ready to kiss my 20's goodbye. They have been nothing but trouble.
Still trying to put together a proposal for an ally program at the high school where Yoon teaches. We want to assemble a summer program for creating allies across racial and sexual orientation lines. My idea is to deal mostly with white kids and try to make them understand that they need to actively oppose racist and sexist shit that goes on around them. The basic idea is to make a few more of us that benefit from racism to take a couple of active steps to fight it. We're talking about high school kids here so I'm not sure how far to take it or how critical to be about it. If anyone here has dealt with these issues on an institutional level and have any suggestions or whatnot please drop me an email.