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walkingshadow) wrote2005-03-09 04:57 am
walkingshadow) wrote2005-03-09 04:57 am
standing in front of you they fade into the wall
A cold front came through overnight and it was windy when I crawled out of bed for class this morning. So windy it actually whistled, and I'm not anywhere near anything like a wind tunnel. It sounded, actually, like the noise your fingers make when you rub them over a vinyl jacket, a high-pitched, inquisitive sound. Wind is my favorite weather. I love rain, and I love gray, cloudy days, and I hate sun, but even the sun is okay if the wind is blowing. Below a certain temperature, of course, this ceases to be true.
Latin American history. The world-wide Great Depression, the changes Latin American nations made to save their economies—export economies dependent on and vulnerable to the international market, then tanking. Rise of populist movements or, elsewhere, autocratic regimes. A video on Juan Perón. Our topic ideas for our short paper are due this Thursday. Fuck.
I caught the bus out to Publix after class, because I thought I might be able to make it back in time for the 3:30 Step class (not quite, as it turned out). I always feel sorighteous good about myself and the world in general coming out of Publix, with fresh vegetables and fruit and soy products and frozen Indian dinners from the Ethnic Gourmet and plans to make soup and pasta with salmon and white wine. A strong wind blowing all day, and I always breathe bigger.
Made soup when I got home (a kind of tomato-based southwestern vegetable my mother made up, with corn, black beans, sweat potato, zucchini, green chiles, chili powder and cumin, parsley and cilantro, etc.) and then ate some. Gym at 6:15 and I hate breaking in new shoes. If I could do high-impact aerobics in my bare feet, I would be all over that.
M. came over to work on this week's component of the group project (which consisted of giving a camera to somebody else and letting them take their own pictures) and we dispatched it in like, thirty minutes. The rest of the night I spent beating the England poster into submission. I am the proud owner of a contact sheet with 98 photos, and I just need to figure out where I'm taking it to be printed out. Possibly I will avail myself of my Ofoto account; I hear that's been successful.
In other news, it's five a.m. and I have my earliest class of the week tomorrow morning. Which isn't news so much as a current event. Like skirmishes on the West Bank, you've seen it before and can reasonably expect it to recur.
Latin American history. The world-wide Great Depression, the changes Latin American nations made to save their economies—export economies dependent on and vulnerable to the international market, then tanking. Rise of populist movements or, elsewhere, autocratic regimes. A video on Juan Perón. Our topic ideas for our short paper are due this Thursday. Fuck.
I caught the bus out to Publix after class, because I thought I might be able to make it back in time for the 3:30 Step class (not quite, as it turned out). I always feel so
Made soup when I got home (a kind of tomato-based southwestern vegetable my mother made up, with corn, black beans, sweat potato, zucchini, green chiles, chili powder and cumin, parsley and cilantro, etc.) and then ate some. Gym at 6:15 and I hate breaking in new shoes. If I could do high-impact aerobics in my bare feet, I would be all over that.
M. came over to work on this week's component of the group project (which consisted of giving a camera to somebody else and letting them take their own pictures) and we dispatched it in like, thirty minutes. The rest of the night I spent beating the England poster into submission. I am the proud owner of a contact sheet with 98 photos, and I just need to figure out where I'm taking it to be printed out. Possibly I will avail myself of my Ofoto account; I hear that's been successful.
In other news, it's five a.m. and I have my earliest class of the week tomorrow morning. Which isn't news so much as a current event. Like skirmishes on the West Bank, you've seen it before and can reasonably expect it to recur.