Still a Gypsy

thoughts and things

2008/3/19

About seven weeks left!!

@ 06:47 PM (20 months, 14 days ago)

I'm having a pretty good week this week. We were able to host a writer named Rick Bass on campus. He does lots of nature writing and activism. I enjoyed his talk, but I didn't really have too manyquestions forhim, and itseems as though no one else did either. He gave a craft talk on Tuesday and on Wednesday he did a reading. It went by pretty quickly. I don't know why people were in such a funk tonight. I guess either way, the dude got paid, and that'swhat counts. He lives off the grid. I'm proud and jealous of him for that.

This morning we had a guest speaker in our Cultural Anthropology class as well as a brown bag lunch session with a native american "Two Spirit" otherwise known by herself, as a Gender Adventurer. She said she doesn't like the term "Transgender" because she said it feels like you're talking about a moving company. That was funny. I liked this lady a lot. I wish I could have heard more about her being a Lakota, rather than the gender thing. That was what I was drawn to, rather than her gender preference and the switch from Male to Female...oh well.

My mom called me and left a message that I shouldn't worry about the wildfires that are burning down there. Shoot, I didn't even know they were lit up in the first place! She said they were about twenty miles from where she is. When I was alst there a couple years ago, I didn't see much that would burn in her particular area except a little brush.

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  1. Keep the ole nose to the grindstone...lol...I have confidence in your ability to pass, hard work now will allow you to take it easy in the future.....as for "off the grid", ill assume you are refering to making your own power, and being more self reliant.....try otherpower.com, windstuffnow, and there are a bunch of others...I am currently working to that end..(one of these decades...lol) im gathering the parts to build a VAWT (vertical axis wind turbine) and the alternator to go with it....if you have a running stream where you live I envy you, thats free power to be tapped...but anyhow thats enough for now, I could type on it all day...lol..riff

    Comment by riffran— 2008/03/20 @ 10:15 AM — (Reply)

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