Today I bought my plane ticket for Ireland! Whoohoo! I'm leaving March 7 at 8:30 AM (yuck - means I'll have to be up early early to get to the airport) and arriving in Cork at 11:25 PM. Then, on the way home, I'm leaving Cork on March 23 at 4:00 PM and arriving at JFK at 11:00 PM. And then there's another 2 hour drive home. So, apart from the annoying drive to and from the airport and the annoying long flight, it's all very nice. The nice part is the time in between the flights when I'm in Ireland with Andrew. He's my boyfriend. He's nice. So many nice things. Now that I've spent the majority of the money I saved in the fall on my plane ticket, I have to save some money to do things in Ireland, like see castles and drink beer. I'm working more hours this semester, so that should be helpful, at least. Plus it's my birthday soon and it's tax time (rebate! unless I've been screwed by The Man). I have to save lots of money. I put away about $50 every week or two this semester, so it should be easier now that I'm making more. I think once I'm done saving for the trip I'm going to keep up saving at this rate. It's a good habit to have, plus it'll come in handy next time I have to pay over $250 for books for one ONE of my classes.
I started second semester and all of my classes are going well. It's way nicer to have afternoon class as opposed to morning class. Less of an opportunity to sleep through it. Here's my schedule:
M: 1-6 work at the library
Tu: 9:25-11:15 Cinematic Spectacle, my Film class downtown
1-6 work at the library
7-9 Theology and Cinema
W: 1:30-3:20 Christianity and Culture
6-10 work at Holy Grounds
Th: 3:30-5:20 Reading the Visual Culture of American Religion
F: 9-12 work at the library
S: Nothing!
Su: Nothing!
I'm so excited not to have to work Saturday morning. I hate hate hated it last time. But now that Susan, my boss at the library, loves me, I don't have to worry about working crappy shifts anymore. Sunday I even got to train one of my friends and close the library. You know, the high rolling stakes of being a circulation desk employee.
My classes all look great. They're all about stuff I'm very much interested in and potentially classes I hope to teach at some point, so it's nice. Lots of reading for my Visual Culture class... although the "Reading" in the title kinda gave that one away. But I'm reading some pretty cool books, so no worries there. I don't know if I can read the pretty cool books at a rate of 2 per week though.... so I lied about the no worries. There are some worries. Small worries. I'm especially excited about my Christianity and Culture class. The professor is very cool and he's paired some really traditional theology of culture readings with pieces of literature, art and music. It's a pretty interesting way to do it.
I went to bed early last night (10:30 Mom, just like you) and slept until 10... it was great. I woke up a bit and rolled around, but I always got back to sleep right away. I had some crazy dreams, none of which I can really remember. I used to be really good at remembering my dreams. I need to start doing that again. I need to put more importance on writing my dreams down right away once I wake up. I have my journal by my bed, but I need to move it to a more prominent position, I think.
Ok. Goodbye.
January 23, 2008
January 22, 2008
35 years of Roe
Happy 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade! Happy day late MLK Jr. Day!
More later.
By the way... What the?
More later.
By the way... What the?
January 17, 2008
I popped the question!
I don't know where the concept came from, but someone somewhere at some point in time said that an engagement ring should roughly be one month's salary. I think it's way too much money to spend on a ring, but whatever. I just spent one month's salary on my school books for the semester. Going by that standard, does that mean that I'm engaged to school? Look for save the date cards in the mail.
I made a to-do list yesterday. Here it is:
End:
the legacy of White supremacy
global warming
conflict diamonds
sexism
hate
I canceled my iTunes subscription to The Colbert Report until the writer's strike is over. I figured if they're striking over online revenue, I might as well do my part and not give them any online revenue. This also includes watching on websites, so unfortunately I won't be watching at all.
Since I'm engaged (oooooh!) to my school work, I thought I should probably pick up some more hours at the library so I can afford that lovely dishwasher my beloved wants so badly. Not to mention the cost of the wedding! As I'll be living light and tight because of the new dishwasher and the wedding, it's just groceries and porn for me. No extra spending at all! I don't need the latest copy of Rolling Stone.
As my birthday is coming up soon, here are some suggestions for things you can get me:
Across The Universe (conveniently comes out the day before my birthday!)
The Keeper
A Cow
Money for Ireland
t minus 20 days until Kari comes to visit
t minus 50 days until I go to Ireland and see Andrew
t minus ?? days until I see Mom
I made a to-do list yesterday. Here it is:
End:
the legacy of White supremacy
global warming
conflict diamonds
sexism
hate
I canceled my iTunes subscription to The Colbert Report until the writer's strike is over. I figured if they're striking over online revenue, I might as well do my part and not give them any online revenue. This also includes watching on websites, so unfortunately I won't be watching at all.
Since I'm engaged (oooooh!) to my school work, I thought I should probably pick up some more hours at the library so I can afford that lovely dishwasher my beloved wants so badly. Not to mention the cost of the wedding! As I'll be living light and tight because of the new dishwasher and the wedding, it's just groceries and porn for me. No extra spending at all! I don't need the latest copy of Rolling Stone.
As my birthday is coming up soon, here are some suggestions for things you can get me:
Across The Universe (conveniently comes out the day before my birthday!)
The Keeper
A Cow
Money for Ireland
t minus 20 days until Kari comes to visit
t minus 50 days until I go to Ireland and see Andrew
t minus ?? days until I see Mom
January 15, 2008
Al Gore and his hurricane producing factories
I watched An Inconvenient Truth today for the first time, and let me just say that I learned a ton from Al Gore.
Did you know that Al Gore owns a factory at his childhood tobacco farm that can produce a hurricane? He's so smug about it he even put it on the movie poster. I say we vote against Al Gore and take away his hurricanes!
NO GORE IN 08 - DO IT FOR THE HURRICANES.
Love,
Lindsay
Did you know that Al Gore owns a factory at his childhood tobacco farm that can produce a hurricane? He's so smug about it he even put it on the movie poster. I say we vote against Al Gore and take away his hurricanes!
NO GORE IN 08 - DO IT FOR THE HURRICANES.
Love,
Lindsay
January 11, 2008
50% of the country has a vagina - get used to it
Anyone else mad at the sexism running rampant around the media coverage of Hilary Clinton's campaign? Anything think, in particular, Chris Matthews of MSNBC is ridiculous because he can't stop being amazed that a woman is running for president? Called her a she-devil and put up a graphic of Hilary with horns? Pinches the cheek of a presidential candidate?
Me too.
Media Matters put out a call to let MSNBC know that this isn't acceptable anymore, and I highly suggest you take the 2 minutes to e-mail MSNBC and Hardball to tell them Chris Matthews shouldn't be on television.
Maybe it's because it's late, and maybe it's because I'm tired, but I really feel like concerned people everywhere need to do something about this one. If you call yourself a feminist, write in. If you think that a woman should be paid the same rate as a man for the same job, write in. If you think everyone, regardless of chromosomes, should be able to vote, write in. If you think Matthews has a silly haircut, write in. Whatever you do, just write MSNBC.
The mere fact that this is a problem in the first place is utterly demoralizing and insulting. This is so important, because it sends the press the message that we don't want bullshit pundits who are more concerned about sound bites than about debating real issues.
Vote for who you want to vote for, but don't let the campaign become one where the press spends more time writing about a candidate's "cackle" or clothes. If she's going to lose, it had better be over issues and not over the fact that she's got a vagina.
And by the way, I'll let you know that Mitt Romney has cried three times during this election season, and YESTERDAY Bush had tears in his eyes at Israel's Holocaust Memorial. Where's the news coverage on that?
Me too.
Media Matters put out a call to let MSNBC know that this isn't acceptable anymore, and I highly suggest you take the 2 minutes to e-mail MSNBC and Hardball to tell them Chris Matthews shouldn't be on television.
I am just so sick of this. Stop pretending like it's not happening, because it is. Do something about it. If we let this slide, it'll get worse.MSNBC
letters@msnbc.com
Chris Matthews
hardball@msnbc.com
Maybe it's because it's late, and maybe it's because I'm tired, but I really feel like concerned people everywhere need to do something about this one. If you call yourself a feminist, write in. If you think that a woman should be paid the same rate as a man for the same job, write in. If you think everyone, regardless of chromosomes, should be able to vote, write in. If you think Matthews has a silly haircut, write in. Whatever you do, just write MSNBC.
The mere fact that this is a problem in the first place is utterly demoralizing and insulting. This is so important, because it sends the press the message that we don't want bullshit pundits who are more concerned about sound bites than about debating real issues.
Vote for who you want to vote for, but don't let the campaign become one where the press spends more time writing about a candidate's "cackle" or clothes. If she's going to lose, it had better be over issues and not over the fact that she's got a vagina.
And by the way, I'll let you know that Mitt Romney has cried three times during this election season, and YESTERDAY Bush had tears in his eyes at Israel's Holocaust Memorial. Where's the news coverage on that?
January 9, 2008
books, bookcase, beer - my break!
I've finished the first 5 books out of my 50 books to read in 2008, which is a vast improvement over last year. Although, last year I was back at Hamline for J-Term by this time taking my Disability studies course with Reynolds - good class, got an A. I really enjoyed that class and studying disability. I wrote my final paper proposal on the way (dis)ability is constructed in the X-Men movies, a paper I still kind of want to write at some point. Anyway, that's a bit off my original thought process. Here are the five books I've read up to this point:
1. Democracy Matters, Cornel West
2. I am America, Steven Colbert
3. Candy Girl, Diablo Cody
4. Atonement, Ian McEwan
5. Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert
Democracy Matters - Pretty interesting, a book I've wanted to read since I accidentally bought it for my Political Economy of Misery class. It was ok, but I might have gotten more out of it if I was reading closely for a class, as opposed to pleasure reading.
I Am America - I like Steven Colbert and the character he plays on tv, which comes through brilliantly in his book. Quick read.
Candy Girl - As it was set in the Twin Cities, I know most of the places she references (which is nice), and the writing style is easy to read. I thought she could have included more about why she got out of stripping, but that's the feminist in me wanting to highlight the mere paragraph where she talks about how sleezy strip clubs influence the way women are viewed by the patrons and by themselves.
Atonement - I'm excited to see the movie and see how Hollywood butchers the story. I liked it overall, although the writing style isn't too much my thing.
Eat Pray Love - Interesting travel book. Her section on India was fascinating, just because I'm not familiar with meditation.
Now I'm going to go stain my bookcase. My grandpa built me a bookcase for Christmas last year, and I finally have the time to sand and stain it this break. I picked a nice antique walnut stain, so it's nice and dark. I'll take a picture when I'm done with it, but it looks nice. It's relaxing to be completing something that's done with my hands, not just my head.
Thursday I'm going to Milwaukee to see Uncle Matt. I'm excited. There will be beer drinking.
Bacher, out!
1. Democracy Matters, Cornel West
2. I am America, Steven Colbert
3. Candy Girl, Diablo Cody
4. Atonement, Ian McEwan
5. Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert
Democracy Matters - Pretty interesting, a book I've wanted to read since I accidentally bought it for my Political Economy of Misery class. It was ok, but I might have gotten more out of it if I was reading closely for a class, as opposed to pleasure reading.
I Am America - I like Steven Colbert and the character he plays on tv, which comes through brilliantly in his book. Quick read.
Candy Girl - As it was set in the Twin Cities, I know most of the places she references (which is nice), and the writing style is easy to read. I thought she could have included more about why she got out of stripping, but that's the feminist in me wanting to highlight the mere paragraph where she talks about how sleezy strip clubs influence the way women are viewed by the patrons and by themselves.
Atonement - I'm excited to see the movie and see how Hollywood butchers the story. I liked it overall, although the writing style isn't too much my thing.
Eat Pray Love - Interesting travel book. Her section on India was fascinating, just because I'm not familiar with meditation.
Now I'm going to go stain my bookcase. My grandpa built me a bookcase for Christmas last year, and I finally have the time to sand and stain it this break. I picked a nice antique walnut stain, so it's nice and dark. I'll take a picture when I'm done with it, but it looks nice. It's relaxing to be completing something that's done with my hands, not just my head.
Thursday I'm going to Milwaukee to see Uncle Matt. I'm excited. There will be beer drinking.
Bacher, out!
January 2, 2008
Winter break, numbers style
Number of...
Times told by my dentist my teeth looked perfect: 1
Political Mario/Luigi '08 t-shirts received: 1
Sizes too big of said t-shirt: 2
Days of Bush left in office: 383
New Presidents to elect this year: 1(!!!)
New digital cameras bought: 1
Best Buy camera salesmen who hit on me while buying camera: 1
Boyfriends in vicinity while being hit on by Best Buy employees: 1
Instances of sushi eating: 4
Instances of making sushi at home: 2
Times I myself have driven between Minneapolis and Green Bay: 3
Times driven through a snow storm/falling snow: 3
Forays into the ditch on the side of highway 29 because of said snow: 1
Cute cousins that missed Christmas because of a snow storm: 3
Christmas services attended: 1 (down from 2 last year)
Books planned to read cover-to-cover* in '07: 50
Actual books read in '07: 47 (48 if you count the Clifford children's book I read last week)
Books planned to read in '08: 50
Books sitting on my desk waiting to be read: 10
Books finished in November '07: 8
Months it took to finish the first 8 books: 2 1/2
Roommates reunited with over New Years: 4
Champagne bottles emptied: 2
Hangovers of roommates: 0 (down 500% from last year)
Boyfriends who left the country on New Years Day: 1
Weeks until I see him: 9 1/2
Weeks I'll be in Ireland visiting: 2
Days until I return to New Haven: 11
Upon my return to New Haven, number of weeks until I see Andrew: 8
Times I want to watch this video: 10 billion
How much I wish I was an otter, floating and holding hands: very much.
*My goal is defined by completely finishing a book, front to back. Unfortunately, this rules out a lot of books assigned for classes based on the sole fact I only read specific sections of those books, not the whole thing. I've read parts of more than 50 books, just not 50 whole books.
Times told by my dentist my teeth looked perfect: 1
Political Mario/Luigi '08 t-shirts received: 1
Sizes too big of said t-shirt: 2
Days of Bush left in office: 383
New Presidents to elect this year: 1(!!!)
New digital cameras bought: 1
Best Buy camera salesmen who hit on me while buying camera: 1
Boyfriends in vicinity while being hit on by Best Buy employees: 1
Instances of sushi eating: 4
Instances of making sushi at home: 2
Times I myself have driven between Minneapolis and Green Bay: 3
Times driven through a snow storm/falling snow: 3
Forays into the ditch on the side of highway 29 because of said snow: 1
Cute cousins that missed Christmas because of a snow storm: 3
Christmas services attended: 1 (down from 2 last year)
Books planned to read cover-to-cover* in '07: 50
Actual books read in '07: 47 (48 if you count the Clifford children's book I read last week)
Books planned to read in '08: 50
Books sitting on my desk waiting to be read: 10
Books finished in November '07: 8
Months it took to finish the first 8 books: 2 1/2
Roommates reunited with over New Years: 4
Champagne bottles emptied: 2
Hangovers of roommates: 0 (down 500% from last year)
Boyfriends who left the country on New Years Day: 1
Weeks until I see him: 9 1/2
Weeks I'll be in Ireland visiting: 2
Days until I return to New Haven: 11
Upon my return to New Haven, number of weeks until I see Andrew: 8
Times I want to watch this video: 10 billion
How much I wish I was an otter, floating and holding hands: very much.
*My goal is defined by completely finishing a book, front to back. Unfortunately, this rules out a lot of books assigned for classes based on the sole fact I only read specific sections of those books, not the whole thing. I've read parts of more than 50 books, just not 50 whole books.
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