The Dead Communists Society

moonwingzz @ 2006-06-23T20:34:00

2006-06-24T00:54:13Z

The State House had free fluffernutter ice cream a few days ago because of this whole fluff debate. And I get to meet, really meet, introduce, and shake the hand of Dukakis! The day before I get my wisdom teeth out, too.

And I just discovered I have...synthessomething like that. I see letters and numbers and days of the week and months in colors. I had always thought that was normal, but nope! It's for special people, kind of like a good disease.

i'm a big kid now

2005-12-13T02:07:28Z

Two momentous occasions happened in my life today. Well sort of.

Got plane tickets for Washington DC in February to go to a social justice conference, the first time I've arranged for major transportation for myself, instead of my parents or a program organizing tickets. Now have to hope the scholarship money from Hillel comes in.

Discovered that as much as I love my family, I don't need to spend 4-5 days with my mother and grandparent community in Florida over break.

moonwingzz @ 2005-12-09T11:08:00

2005-12-09T16:08:32Z

snow day!

moonwingzz @ 2005-11-24T21:48:00

2005-11-25T02:49:15Z

Kevin Smith was on Degrassi!

moonwingzz @ 2005-11-05T00:14:00

2005-11-05T05:20:20Z

UMass radio is saying that Hitler was a woman, a very boyish woman, named Olga. She initiated the Holocaust by sleeping with the big Nazi party members, and specificially had a relationship with Eichmann. Olga was a vegetarian but attracted to Eichmann because he ate a lot of red meat and was corpulent and fleshy.

And Stalin was really good with little kids, except for the time he got in a food fight and smothered some little girls with bear fat.

Now they're talking about god making women do stuff they shouldn't do.

I think they're serious

moonwingzz @ 2005-10-25T03:25:00

2005-10-25T07:28:08Z

Note to self: Well, guess I'm not immune to coffee after all. Drinking a mixture of coffee and hot chocolate and soymilk and water at midnight is awesome, but not if I want to actually get sleep that night. Staying up till 3:30 is fun, talking to awesome people who won't even read this, definetly just had an awesome night. I like the word awesome. Oh no, I really really need to sleep now, have to get up in 5.5 hours. But experience is just as important as classes in college.

Energy

2005-10-19T21:04:05Z

I've been running lately. Only a teeny tiny bit. Somehow being busier than I have ever been in my entire life is giving my body random bursts of energy. Last night I ran, full out sprinting, from the dining hall to the campus center. Well part of that distance at least. Can't remember the last time I really really ran.

moonwingzz @ 2005-10-06T01:05:00

2005-10-06T05:07:09Z

amherst college is so not getting the love right now. it keeps me up all night to write this paper on why jefferson and franklin had privilege that not everybody in society did: RED FLASHING LIGHTS THATS EXACTLY WHAT THAT SCHOOL IS!!!!! this class is definety a learning experience at least. well break time's over, back to the world of ben and tj

Heteronormativity

2005-09-25T22:35:56Z

I just used the word heteronormative in an essay. It's about my life and how I want to be an activist because I have heternormative privileges that not everybody in society has. Word up for theory!

moonwingzz @ 2005-09-21T22:58:00

2005-09-22T03:01:08Z

I'm starting to think I might be swinging to the Liberatarian (????) side of life, at least socially. Gasp!!!!! Now I think my opinions kinda don't have a right to make a difference on anybody else, even though that in itself is an opinion. Erin speaks that's just being open-minded, but I'm not really sure. Because I still am not a Carla Howell fan at all.

moonwingzz @ 2005-09-09T23:41:00

2005-09-10T03:44:02Z

I've gots myself a job, and a community service internship and 5 classes and a couple a clubs. My life is going to be SO busy this semester and I'm gonna love every minute of it.

textbooks

2005-09-09T01:05:50Z

Spent over $250 so far on textbooks, and still got more to go. But...my cheapest one was 50 cents! That's right Frederick Douglass, way to earn low prices for all of us. Er something like that.

moonwingzz @ 2005-09-01T19:52:00

2005-09-01T23:52:34Z

No internet this week. The internet decided it has better things to do than to visit my house. So no email for a week. And when everybody in family is watching about New Orleans I find sanctuary...at the library! And it's wonderful. This internet might be even faster than at school.
Had my last day of work at one of the museums, but it was so quiet and I only gave one kinda-tour. But my last real day of work is Saturday.

The world has gone poof. Or to college at least. Or to high school. Or to whine about gas prices.

Adventures from Vermont

2005-08-29T03:09:56Z

Wow. That state just goes on and on with pretty hills and lots of cornfields. But we met this guy named Kai Mayberger who sells djiredues, I have no idea how to spell that, those long cool Australian instruments.
I think if I hear one more person tell me about the process of making cheese I'll throw some enzymes.

But my brother and I just found Greg the Bunny!

IMP never really goes away

2005-08-25T05:04:17Z

This afternoon I heard the Bodyguard song on the radio. The one that goes "If you'll be my bodyguard, I will be your long-lost pal... I will call you Betty, Betty when you call me Al, call me Al." Well that's what I hear it as. But Betty and Al are the 2 kids playing a dice game in IMP 1. They are the beginning of my high school math experience, and now they are in a song. Ah!!!

Let's do the time warp again

2005-08-21T03:32:34Z

The Civil War encampment is this weekend, so I've been living in 1861 all day today and tomorrow. Yes, of course I'm hot wearing a hoop skirt, little tourist. No, I don't know what an airplane is. But I love it, that's why I keep coming back.

And then we went into Cambridge tonight, finally made it to Veggie Planet/Club Passim. SO modern! Harvard Square is very 2005, just what I needed.

Adventures in Provincetown

2005-08-15T23:28:34Z

Awesome. We left Needham by 7 am, after a teeny car crisis and made it to Provincetown in 2 hours, found the hotel easily and went into town. Spent the weekend walking around all the stores and beach a bit, trying not to get dehydrated.

Went to a drag show Saturday night, Varla Jean Merman, and realized that alas, I am not a middle-aged gay man and I don't get middle-aged gay male humor. She did a comedy routine and spoofed songs, did a dirty schoolhouse rock version. That was funny.
We called a high school teacher who has told us to call him whenever we're in Provincetown. Then we realized that he loved that show, which is weird. And saw old camp counselor!
Erin: I think that's Harlie.
Me: No, there's lots of people who look like that and push baby strollers.
Carrie: It might be her.
Keri: Whatever.

Took about 6 hours driving home. This morning I realized we were driving through flood warning neighborhoods. SO that's why all those towns had lost their power.

So basically, an amazing amazing weekend.

Which ended with me and Hermes getting hit today. We're both okay.

Dream Summer 2006

2005-08-06T05:09:13Z

Come home from school. Stay home for about a week, seeing people and maybe going back to my museums.

6/7 day road trip to California!

Live in San Francisco for about 6 weeks-2 months, doing some activisty internship and getting a job. Maybe living with my cousins a few hours a way, wouldn't have to pay rent. But this version is my vision.

While in California, work in an organic vegetable garden a bit and take road trips to other parts of the state and Oregon and Nevada and cool things out west. Learn to surf and spend time in the Pacific Ocean. Do people even surf in San Francisco?

Come home, spend the rest of the summer just like this one, relaxing, working, spending time in Boston and Needham.

moonwingzz @ 2005-07-31T23:49:00

2005-08-01T03:42:04Z

Realized today that a significant amount of my clothes either come from my old dress-up pile or Provincetown. Cheap fun stuff.

Norman Rockwell goes to college

2005-07-31T03:36:36Z

Since all my family is here this week, we've had lots of Norman Rockwell wholesome family gatherings. And it's fine, I mostly like my family. But the other day we started talking about marriage and I said I don't want one because there's no way I can get married if not everyone can in my state or country. SO my grandfather says that I can have puppies instead of kids. And they didn't get it. ANd it was such a generational, the older people thinking college completely changes their kids even thought it's not college at all.

Romney sighting

2005-07-22T04:49:07Z

Saw Romney today. I was walking around Boston this afternoon and saw press trucks and reporters and people standing around. So I joined the people standing around and realized I recognized the man in the middle. It was Mitt. I've never really seen a celebrity before, but I've seen enough pictures of Romney to know it was him. He looked so confident and proud.

Birthdays aren't special anymore. When I was little, I felt special and fuzzy all day, I never forgot it was my birthday. But for the past few years it hasn't been anything special. Yeah, I get cake and some gifts, but I don't feel any different being 19 than 18. That's kind of sad.

By George (Weasley, get it, haha its funny), I figured it out

2005-07-16T22:32:08Z

Harry Potter is actually about terrorism and communism. That's right, my friends, Voldemort is a cross between Osama Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, and Josef Stalin. That's why nobody knows where his followers are, because Harry and friends are fighting an unseen enemy with no home base. They don't know who they can trust. The Weasley's have red hair...think red alert. Harry's scar is lightning, lightning is bright yellow. That's like an orange alert. THe British prime minister is this weird dude with big ears (okay, fine, Rowling doesn't describe his ears but you KNOW they have to be huge). That's like Tony. But the British muggle leader doesn't have any real say, because everything is controlled by the wizards/ Americans. The prime minister has no power, but an guy with white hair who talks funny does. Dumbledore starts with a D. George W Bush goes by W, right? And if you were to write out W, what letter would it start with? A D! Just a coincidence??? I think not...

moonwingzz @ 2005-07-16T09:33:00

2005-07-16T13:24:42Z

THE BOOK has arrived

Character Observations

2005-07-09T03:35:22Z

Saw a guy on the train the other day who was really really really skinny and had green hair with bangs coming over his forehead shaped like a crescent. He had an army-colored shirt and carried a messenger bag. And I thought to myself that he was the coming of this generation. He was kind of punkish, but not really, he was his own person, very unique looking, I couldn't tell if he was aesthetic or gross, he just was. He was an archetype of individualism. And then out of the bag came a can of Coke. My vision was ruined. Everyone is a part of the consumer-based society. I know I am, but some random dude on the train could have been the symbolism that our generation will change the world. But no. He had to drink Coke. Pepsi, Snapple, I could understand. But Coke!

Then I gave a tour to a woman today who was really obnoxious and kept walking into the wrong rooms and asked really weird questions. And I found out she's Israeli. So I can't dislike her. And I hate even more that part of myself, that just because I meet somebody with the same kinda heritage as me I feel a connection with them. It doesn't make sense at all, but I can't stop it.

Lesson learned: Assumptions make a person angry.
Real lesson learned: Stereotypes are fun!!!

moonwingzz @ 2005-07-04T01:19:00

2005-07-04T05:14:14Z

Thanks to Erin and Keri, my car now has a real name. I shall call thee Hermes, forever and ever, it shall be my means of transportation for the next 10 years. Except for next year when I am at school and don't want to deal with a car.

Tonight was a lot of fun. Being at the fireworks and then singalong was great. This summer really is awesome, but I'm starting to miss school. I don't like this lifestyle of back and forth, school and home.