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as i expected, i lost my workstudy forms and had to get more from csaw. but i'll be a good girl and turn them in on wednesday.
i slept for 10 hours last night. that was good. went to work where i moved wood around (big surprise), and it looks like i'll be working with fauna a lot. she's neat. i swear dar williams sounds like her, because she's the one who played me most of dar's songs.

my schlager came today! i'm so happy. it needs rust cleaned off of it very badly, but darkwood put nice oil stuff on the guard at least, so it's less rusty than it would otherwise be.

class was annoying yet again. everyone's worried that for our 'opinion papers' on whatever article we chose, it's going to be more of a thing where she grades us off if we have a different opinion from hers. we tried to bring up this concern. all the students understood what we were trying to say, but she just didn't get it... thought we were worrying about our analytical capabilities or writing skills or something. i'm hoping that part of the confusion inherent in her lectures will go away once she's talking about theories she agrees with.

it's kind of silly of her to argue that biology plays no part whatsoever in gender. first of all, plumbing, biologically determined, usually plays a role in gender. also, there's the issue of different hormones present in men and women. if i recall correctly, particularly butch women had a body/brain chemistry more like that of most males than most women. so i think that biology does affect gender (ie stereotypical ways we act). it would be interesting to see if culture affected biology, though. maybe do twin studies or something and see if growing up in an environment with different ideas of what's appropriate and natural for boys and girls would not only make them act differently, but changed hormone levels or something.

i did my homework ahead of time. be proud of me. also, i went through the entire school network and added everything interesting to my winamp playlist. and sorted it. man, that took forever.

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" I have arab friends who have been threatened, harassed, and attacked. School children had to be escorted out of the LA Muslim Center by police to avoid attack from bigots and freaks. To me that is far scarier than anything a terrorist could possibly do. That's erosion from the inside out."
"People in eastern europe can live on a daily basis with the threat of a bomb going off next to their house and its ok, but as soon as it hits Great America its suddenly a world crisis. This is a country full of drama queens. What happened was terrible and hideous, but it happens every day. We're finally feeling some of what other countries feel and people can't handle it and they go to extremes, "that shouldn't happen to US" like we're so special we deserve to be untouched.THIS SHOULDNT HAPPEN ANYWHERE, but everyone is so fucking isolated that they don't care until its shoved in their faces. It makes me sad."
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"When they arrested the communists, I said nothing because I wasn't a communist. They came for the socialists and I said nothing because I wasn't a socialist. They came for the union leaders and I said nothing because I wasn't a union leader. They came for the Jews and I said nothing because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for me. And there was nobody left to say anything."
-martin niemoller

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dammit. i forgot we were supposed to memorize a quote and something original about flirting for acting, and bring a prop. everything having to do with that class just slips out of my mind, it's really bad.

i'm going to be spending my scene shop hours cleaning out the props cage, i think.

but what we did with the flirting thing was pretty interesting. once we started saying anything at all, it was hard to keep from trying to make conversation, and it was hard to remember to vary the speed i walked at.

it was really hard to stay aware of what everyone else was doing in lanes because of my glasses. i have no peripheral vision. i think that's related to a lot of how i've been feeling disconnected, actually. my eye needs to get better fast.

costume history was pretty good, although i swear a cyclas is something other than a tabard with sides sewn together and slit front and back for riding. i thought it was a tabard with a belted front and a half circle back that was left loose, like a cape. i'll have to look it up.

ooh, dinner.

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hands are blackish. sword is less so. tea is yummy.

die, evil rust, die!