The Splif Spot: October 2006

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Busy busy busy

Driving back from Jacksonville at 87 mph resulted in a $200 speeding ticket from one of the nicest cops ever. He even let my expired licence pass, since it was only one month expired. I really got to get that renewed... I was driving out there to pick up Simon Sedillo, and last night he spoke on the social/indigenous movements happening in Oaxaca mexico. Pretty good turn out, plus Dana came from the fsuview, and shes cute, smart, all the good stuff.

Today is the SFA day of action, so we will be flyering at critical mass and dropping off manager letters to mcdonalds. Then back home to make "Golden Bicycle Team" tshirts for tonights bike race, which (i just saw the design) have a picture of Freddy Mercury. The ladies are racing, mimi with her new Bianci Europa, Megan on a red "flash gordon" specialiezd, Shannon on "the shark" blue Trek, and Lindsey on a classic steel schwin. Road bikes totally rock, and im glad to see the mansion representing. For the boys, greg and Bill are working, and I'm hosting a checkpoint here at the mansion: "Zombie Dance Party". Think Shawn of the Dead, and bike racers having to make it through the basement as "zombies" durring a dance party. (ps, I promiss pictures).

Then saturday is another Oaxaca event and saturday night I may just chill at home with Billie. We had a house meeting the other day and talk about cleaning and getting billie on a routine. Its hard being so busy and keeping to a schedule, since it takes me 15 minutes to bike home to walk her. I need more hours in the day!

Thats all for now.

this afternoon

shannon mimi megan

megan mimi shannon

greg

a few of the mansion crew

billie with bottle

friday the 13th

Last Friday, Friday the 13th, was in a string of bad luck for me. To start it off, Guest Services double booked our space reservation Thursday night. So we all went to Kristi's house to watch the movie go Further. If you havent heard of it, look it up on google and watch the trailer. Its a Ron Mann film with Woody Harrilson. Anyways, we went to Kristi's appartment, and I left my backpack and planner there.

After the movie, Eddy and I biked over to Jenns who was carving pumpkins. I couldnt tell if it was all women intentionally or not, so I didnt stay long. Jenn carved a pumpkin with a feminist fist in it, oh Jenners.

Friday, I slept in through my spanish exam, and decided I had to drop the class. I was late for the first exam, and she gave me a zero on it, so this one really made it impossible for me to pass. On the plus side I dont have so much to do, so I can write emails and post on my blog in the morning.

Bah, the picture tool isn't working this morning. The pics from this weekend's CPE retreat and bonfire will have to wait.

Carly asked for more pictures of Billie

monday night

Josh hooked me up at New Leaf last night so Im loaded with food! I decided to shop for quality rather than quantity so i picked up a bit of the following: curry cashews, date coconut rolls, wine, organic avacados, dark italian chocolate, spelt bread, habanero hot sauce, wasabe ginger tamari, and some raw snack bars. It was a long weekend, lots of happenings, so Sunday was pretty relaxed and I liked it that way.

Today I took my Seminole History exam. I felt all right about it, since it was short answer and I could fill in most of my gaps with other pertinant information. I also got back my Environmental Ethics exam: 90%. I emailed my professor after class asking him to include some Vandana Shiva in the ecofeminism lecture.

Then I worked till midnight. Im off to make a sandwich and go to bed.

billie, scopes, and me at the greenway, saturday

The camera comes back to me...

JK JK Apparently I left my backpack in Jennifer's car. I have my camera back, so wicked. Tonight was fun. Vicotria is in town, visiting from Pensacola, and (even though shes jennifer's best friend / ego nothing would ever happen between us) she cute as hell. So we went to first friday with Ryan. There were so many people there, it was a bit out of control.

We ended up at the Mansion playing a dice game. More and more people showed up (Mimi won 36 dollars last round!) until i retiered to my kitchen for grilled cheese and taquitos. Milo was esspecially enjoyable. So much screaming from the poarch, all over one dollar. These kids are so routy...

And, in tribute to my newly recovered camera, here are some pics...

This dream...

Last night I dreamed I was walkin around with some kids and someone passed me a joint, only, it was "organic extacy" in some grass form. Smoked it, got stoned, and woke up. It was weird, I woke and my lip was swolen to the size of a grape. So I took billie for a long walk and ate some breakfast, and now its not swolen at all.

Yesterday I went to Olive Garden for Jessie's birthday. I havent been there in years, and it seems waaay more expensive than I remember. Afterwards I biked over to Doug Shrocks house to meet with him and Daphne. Schrock is a professor I had a few semesters back, the Global Justice Movement. He's really smart and in tune to a lot of the shit going on in this country. If I decide to go to grad school I would ask him to write me a letter.

my backpack was stolen yesterday from the cpe office, with my digital camera in it.

theres a team of kids out looking for it, they have knifes and are prepared to shank whoever did it.

and fuck cars. i got clipped by a side mirror yesterday afternoon. didnt hurt too much, but i got this weird grind up on the side of the car and hit the ground roughly. the lady was pretty appologetic, and cute, so it wasnt a big deal. but my camera!?! sucks so much.