this has been a busy set of weeks.
i started teaching a few weeks ago. i love it.
robyn and juhl are going to help me get a job teaching at a university.
mern called me a few weeks ago. called once and didn't leave a message. i thought it was a fluke - it was 1am on a weeknight. she called again the following weekend. so she was in idaho for her show and thought of me and wanted me to call her. so i emailed her, asking when i should call. nothing. i called her the following week and left a message. nothing.
kelly is town this until wednesday. i've only seen her twice. tech for her show isn't going a smoothly as desired, but that's the theatre. seattle rep, even with money, is no exception.
dennis comes back next week (i think). kelly conway should be here tomorrow, but i haven't heard from him. fucker.
most of last week was very socially active.
monday, i went to elizabeth's for Monday Night Dinner. The last few weeks have been fantastic - lots of people and amazing food. great conversation and lots of laughter.
tuesday, i had dinner with kelly. she prepared enchilladas and made a salad. afterwards, we went to larry's and split a ben & jerry's pint of mint cookies & cream (or whatever they call it). hanging out with her is great - comfortable and without any pressure. it seems like she's really herself around me and i appreciate it.
wednesday was teaching. my group now knows over half of walking!
thursday, i hosted my first dinner party here. well, it was my monthly dinner with dave, amanda and liz. DAWG brought salad & corn on the cob. liz made apple crisp (a la mode). i made west african peanut soup. this soup is a more sweet potato than peanut, but it was fucking good, nonetheless. liz and i decided to go to a pumpkin patch soon, drive around and see the deciduous trees turn color and find a hayride. she misses her new engand fall.
friday, i went to dragonfish for happy hour with melissa and some guy melissa knows. he's a little weird, but whatever. happy hour ended at six (on a friday???), so we went to bonzai in pioneer square. unfortunately, their happy hour ended at 6:30pm. ish. i had two mac & jack's and a tempura seattle roll. damnit, but i love tempura-ed rolls. sushi + fried goodness = happy rlo
today was quiet. slept until 9am. i've had terrible sleep for the last two weeks - waking up around 2am and 5am again. dunno why. talked to darla - rita was supposed to go right over my parent's place, but changed course. darla said it wasn't even raining in tyler, just windy.
Saturday, September 24, 2005
Thursday, September 08, 2005
heard at work today
person 1: africa is a country.
person 2: (pause) it's a continent.
person 1: no, africa is a country
person 2: (pause) no, africa is a continent. what do you think kenya and mozambique are? they are countries.
person 1: no. africa is a country. those places are provinces
person 2: (pause) it's a continent.
person 1: no, africa is a country
person 2: (pause) no, africa is a continent. what do you think kenya and mozambique are? they are countries.
person 1: no. africa is a country. those places are provinces
Bush family Katrina comments draw scrutiny - Yahoo! News
Bush family Katrina comments draw scrutiny
Thu Sep 8, 3:29 AM ET
US President George W. Bush is not the only member of his prominent political family to be drawing criticism for public utterances about Hurricane Katrina: His mother has raised eyebrows too.
In widely reported comments after visting evacuees at a Texas sports arena, former first lady Barbara Bush on Monday seemed to suggest a silver lining for the "underprivileged" forced from their flooded homes in New Orleans.
"What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality," she said in a radio interview from the Astrodome in Houston, Texas.
"And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this -- this is working very well for them," she said.
"I think that the observation is based on someone or some people that were talking to her that were in need of a lot of assistance, people that have gone through a lot of trauma and been through a very difficult and trying time," White House spokesman Scott McClellan said Wednesday.
"And all of a sudden, they are now getting great help in the state of Texas from some of the shelters," he said.
Her son, the president, has faced criticism for saying on September 1 that no one anticipated that New Orleans' levees would break -- even though various federal and state agencies had warned of that scenario.
In his first tour of the devastated region, Bush also praised Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) chief Michael Brown, saying: "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job."
Brown has become a lightning rod for criticism over Washington's sluggish response to Katrina, one of the worst natural disasters to hit the United States, and opposition Democrats have stepped up calls for Bush to fire him.
The president has also come under fire for paying tribute to ravaged New Orleans as a place he used to visit years ago "to enjoy myself -- occasionally too much," an apparent reference to the days before he quit drinking.
In an effort to raise the spirits of the hundreds of thousands who have lost their homes, Bush promised to rebuild devastated areas better than they were before, but at one point focused on the home of a powerful lawmaker.
"Out of the rubbles of Trent Lott's house -- he's lost his entire house -- there's going to be a fantastic house. And I'm looking forward to sitting on the porch," he said on a tour of the region Friday, drawing nervous laughter.
Some Republicans winced, including one disbelieving congressional aide who told AFP: "Lott? He's focusing on Lott? Surrounded by poor people, he talks about a sitting senator?"
There have also been echoes of the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, when Bush urged Americans to go shopping and live their lives as normally as possible.
In some of her first remarks after the hurricane, First Lady Laura Bush told Gulf Coast evacuees: "It's very important to get your children in school. It gives children a sense of normalcy."
The White House later put together a plan to help students and school districts affected by the hurricane.
Barbara Bush had raised eyebrows two days before US troops invaded Iraq, when she told ABC television that she was not interested in media commentators' concerns about the war's potential human toll.
"Why should we hear about body bags, and deaths, and how many, what day it's gonna happen, and how many this or what do you suppose?" she said. "It's not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?"
Filmmaker Michael Moore used the remark in his fiercely anti-Bush film "Fahrenheit 9/11," leading former president George Bush to call him a "slimeball" and defend his wife as "a decent, wonderful person."
Thu Sep 8, 3:29 AM ET
US President George W. Bush is not the only member of his prominent political family to be drawing criticism for public utterances about Hurricane Katrina: His mother has raised eyebrows too.
In widely reported comments after visting evacuees at a Texas sports arena, former first lady Barbara Bush on Monday seemed to suggest a silver lining for the "underprivileged" forced from their flooded homes in New Orleans.
"What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality," she said in a radio interview from the Astrodome in Houston, Texas.
"And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this -- this is working very well for them," she said.
"I think that the observation is based on someone or some people that were talking to her that were in need of a lot of assistance, people that have gone through a lot of trauma and been through a very difficult and trying time," White House spokesman Scott McClellan said Wednesday.
"And all of a sudden, they are now getting great help in the state of Texas from some of the shelters," he said.
Her son, the president, has faced criticism for saying on September 1 that no one anticipated that New Orleans' levees would break -- even though various federal and state agencies had warned of that scenario.
In his first tour of the devastated region, Bush also praised Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) chief Michael Brown, saying: "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job."
Brown has become a lightning rod for criticism over Washington's sluggish response to Katrina, one of the worst natural disasters to hit the United States, and opposition Democrats have stepped up calls for Bush to fire him.
The president has also come under fire for paying tribute to ravaged New Orleans as a place he used to visit years ago "to enjoy myself -- occasionally too much," an apparent reference to the days before he quit drinking.
In an effort to raise the spirits of the hundreds of thousands who have lost their homes, Bush promised to rebuild devastated areas better than they were before, but at one point focused on the home of a powerful lawmaker.
"Out of the rubbles of Trent Lott's house -- he's lost his entire house -- there's going to be a fantastic house. And I'm looking forward to sitting on the porch," he said on a tour of the region Friday, drawing nervous laughter.
Some Republicans winced, including one disbelieving congressional aide who told AFP: "Lott? He's focusing on Lott? Surrounded by poor people, he talks about a sitting senator?"
There have also been echoes of the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, when Bush urged Americans to go shopping and live their lives as normally as possible.
In some of her first remarks after the hurricane, First Lady Laura Bush told Gulf Coast evacuees: "It's very important to get your children in school. It gives children a sense of normalcy."
The White House later put together a plan to help students and school districts affected by the hurricane.
Barbara Bush had raised eyebrows two days before US troops invaded Iraq, when she told ABC television that she was not interested in media commentators' concerns about the war's potential human toll.
"Why should we hear about body bags, and deaths, and how many, what day it's gonna happen, and how many this or what do you suppose?" she said. "It's not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?"
Filmmaker Michael Moore used the remark in his fiercely anti-Bush film "Fahrenheit 9/11," leading former president George Bush to call him a "slimeball" and defend his wife as "a decent, wonderful person."
Tuesday, September 06, 2005
nin
i have recently spent my time simmering in anger. what makes me so angry about katrina is that so many people keep asking "how is this possible in this country?" it's possible because we choose to be arrogant and cold to the poor, the people who've given their youth, their life energy, and the precious little time they have on this earth to fulfill the christian tenet of "there will be poor always." we ignore the fact that the people we expect to dust our monitors, empty our office trash and clean the breakroom make minimum wage. and those are the few that can find work. i'll not tirade right now (i see red all the time), but goddamnit i'm fucking pissed.
hey bush, what the fuck is this supposed to mean?
Bush had raised eyebrows on his first trip by, among other things, picking Sen. Trent Lott (news, bio, voting record), R-Miss. — instead of the thousands of mostly poor and black storm victims — as an example of loss. "Out of the rubbles of Trent Lott's house — he's lost his entire house — there's going to be a fantastic house. And I'm looking forward to sitting on the porch," Bush said with a laugh from an airplane hangar in Mobile, Ala.
i thought to myself, "self, what kind of music do we want to listen to? ben lee just isn't gonna cut it today." so i turned to nin. i was a nin freak in college. well, maybe not a freak, but i did see trent & co. at the frank erwin center on oct 28, 1994 with jc. and i had a mural sized trent poster. ah, college. so put in the downward spiral and went ot nin.com. so i totally forgot that trent moved to new orleans after recording the downward spiral. he's fuckin' pissed.
here's link to an essay from author anne rice, formerly of new orleans, as link from nin.com.
anne rice: "But to my country I want to say this: During this crisis you failed us. You looked down on us; you dismissed our victims; you dismissed us. You want our Jazz Fest, you want our Mardi Gras, you want our cooking and our music. Then when you saw us in real trouble, when you saw a tiny minority preying on the weak among us, you called us 'Sin City,' and turned your backs."
get your shit together, america.
hey bush, what the fuck is this supposed to mean?
Bush had raised eyebrows on his first trip by, among other things, picking Sen. Trent Lott (news, bio, voting record), R-Miss. — instead of the thousands of mostly poor and black storm victims — as an example of loss. "Out of the rubbles of Trent Lott's house — he's lost his entire house — there's going to be a fantastic house. And I'm looking forward to sitting on the porch," Bush said with a laugh from an airplane hangar in Mobile, Ala.
i thought to myself, "self, what kind of music do we want to listen to? ben lee just isn't gonna cut it today." so i turned to nin. i was a nin freak in college. well, maybe not a freak, but i did see trent & co. at the frank erwin center on oct 28, 1994 with jc. and i had a mural sized trent poster. ah, college. so put in the downward spiral and went ot nin.com. so i totally forgot that trent moved to new orleans after recording the downward spiral. he's fuckin' pissed.
here's link to an essay from author anne rice, formerly of new orleans, as link from nin.com.
anne rice: "But to my country I want to say this: During this crisis you failed us. You looked down on us; you dismissed our victims; you dismissed us. You want our Jazz Fest, you want our Mardi Gras, you want our cooking and our music. Then when you saw us in real trouble, when you saw a tiny minority preying on the weak among us, you called us 'Sin City,' and turned your backs."
get your shit together, america.
Barbara Bush: It's Good Enough for the Poor - Yahoo! News
Barbara Bush: It's Good Enough for the Poor
btw barbara, FUCK YOU. FUCK YOU. FUCK YOU. FUCK YOU.
John Nichols Tue Sep 6, 1:08 PM ET
The Nation -- Finally, we have discovered the roots of George W. Bush's "compassionate conservatism."
ADVERTISEMENT
On the heels of the president's "What, me worry?" response to the death, destruction and dislocation that followed upon Hurricane Katrina comes the news of his mother's Labor Day visit with hurricane evacuees at the Astrodome in Houston.
Commenting on the facilities that have been set up for the evacuees -- cots crammed side-by-side in a huge stadium where the lights never go out and the sound of sobbing children never completely ceases -- former First Lady Barbara Bush concluded that the poor people of New Orleans had lucked out.
"Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this, this is working very well for them," Mrs. Bush told American Public Media's "Marketplace" program, before returning to her multi-million dollar Houston home.
On the tape of the interview, Mrs. Bush chuckles audibly as she observes just how great things are going for families that are separated from loved ones, people who have been forced to abandon their homes and the only community where they have ever lived, and parents who are explaining to children that their pets, their toys and in some cases their friends may be lost forever. Perhaps the former first lady was amusing herself with the notion that evacuees without bread could eat cake.
At the very least, she was expressing a measure of empathy commensurate with that evidenced by her son during his fly-ins for disaster-zone photo opportunities.
On Friday, when even Republican lawmakers were giving the federal government an "F" for its response to the crisis,
President Bush heaped praise on embattled
Federal Emergency Management Agency chief Michael Brown. As thousands of victims of the hurricane continued to plead for food, water, shelter, medical care and a way out of the nightmare to which federal neglect had consigned them, Brown cheerily announced that "people are getting the help they need."
Barbara Bush's son put his arm around the addled FEMA functionary and declared, "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job."
Like mother, like son.
Even when a hurricane hits, the apple does not fall far from the tree.
btw barbara, FUCK YOU. FUCK YOU. FUCK YOU. FUCK YOU.
John Nichols Tue Sep 6, 1:08 PM ET
The Nation -- Finally, we have discovered the roots of George W. Bush's "compassionate conservatism."
ADVERTISEMENT
On the heels of the president's "What, me worry?" response to the death, destruction and dislocation that followed upon Hurricane Katrina comes the news of his mother's Labor Day visit with hurricane evacuees at the Astrodome in Houston.
Commenting on the facilities that have been set up for the evacuees -- cots crammed side-by-side in a huge stadium where the lights never go out and the sound of sobbing children never completely ceases -- former First Lady Barbara Bush concluded that the poor people of New Orleans had lucked out.
"Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this, this is working very well for them," Mrs. Bush told American Public Media's "Marketplace" program, before returning to her multi-million dollar Houston home.
On the tape of the interview, Mrs. Bush chuckles audibly as she observes just how great things are going for families that are separated from loved ones, people who have been forced to abandon their homes and the only community where they have ever lived, and parents who are explaining to children that their pets, their toys and in some cases their friends may be lost forever. Perhaps the former first lady was amusing herself with the notion that evacuees without bread could eat cake.
At the very least, she was expressing a measure of empathy commensurate with that evidenced by her son during his fly-ins for disaster-zone photo opportunities.
On Friday, when even Republican lawmakers were giving the federal government an "F" for its response to the crisis,
President Bush heaped praise on embattled
Federal Emergency Management Agency chief Michael Brown. As thousands of victims of the hurricane continued to plead for food, water, shelter, medical care and a way out of the nightmare to which federal neglect had consigned them, Brown cheerily announced that "people are getting the help they need."
Barbara Bush's son put his arm around the addled FEMA functionary and declared, "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job."
Like mother, like son.
Even when a hurricane hits, the apple does not fall far from the tree.
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