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feministpizza:

this is awesome.

Seeing this sort of thing adds to my faith in humanity. We get so many reminders of the bad things that happen, it’s nice to see people working to change them. Especially in the case of men fighting for woman’s rights.

The last little while I’ve been about as antisocial as I get. I mean, I still spent a lot of time around people, and was happy to do so, but I didn’t seek out connections as often or as with as many people as I’m in the habit of doing. I guess I was just feeling a little bit exhausted. There is so much going on, not only in my life, but in everyone around me’s lives too, so its hard to make time for each other. Social interactions beyond some of my closest friends felt like a lot of effort, even with people I’m close with and admire and respect a lot. I guess I was just thinking about that today, and how its okay to have times like that, and that it’s important to me to form friendships that can last through time a part. Actually, in the friend making department, that is sort of my specialty, keeping in touch with people. So sometimes I get hurt feelings when the favour isn’t returned, even though I understand how much time long distance correspondence can take. I mean, I have a couple letters I need to mail right now that have been sitting on my shelf since before valentines day. I would like everyone in my life, from the past and present, that the time we spent together meant something to me, and that I still care about them even as we move on to new cities and new circles of friends. I have met too many fantastic people to be able to nurture relationships with nearly all of them, but that doesn’t change the way I feel about them or about people in general. Anyways, I’m looking forward to Coffee Pub tonight, and spending some time with the people I, uh, actually live with, as well as watching the show  (and participating in it!)

Oh come on, eschatological anxiety is SO 1999.

John Green

Look what I found in my Drafts folder!

I think there comes a realization in most peoples lives that it isn’t really all that hard to find someone. However even someone fantastically ideal who tells you all the thing you want to hear, isn’t necessarily the one. Often isn’t, even. In fact, that person can be a fantastic friend who has many admirable qualities and yet all of this won’t cause a relationship to form. As Erica Strange put it “friendship is a strange mix of alchemy and circumstance” but I think relationships are even more so. We seem to often fall for people who differ greatly from our idealistic imaginings. People who won’t tell us what we want to hear, who make things more complicated, hard even. Yet, if you feel it, none of that matters. As my friend said yesterday, even the flaws of someone dear to you are spoken of fondly, and seem to dissolve, disintegrate if they are clutched. It is hard for some of us to criticize those we care about. Yet this is my view, and if I’ve learned one important thing from my encounters with love it is this. Humans are both extremely different and extremely similar. While we all tend to yearn for the same things, we express ourselves in a million ways, we communicate in a million ways, our reasons, associations and goals differ greatly. This is the beauty of humanity, the constant battle and balance of diversity and sameness. The oxymoron that is ever being on our planet who both individually and part of a whole make something extremely simple and infinately complex. Ah, love and life.

Things that I liked about St. Paul’s Coffee House

  • My pretend friend Dhruva planned and MC’ed (with Viv) He is the best pretend friend ever.
  • My favourite Decemberists’ song, Shankill Butchers was performed
  • It started with Improv
  • It ended with Hip Hop
  • BATTLE OF A CAPELLA: Unaccompanied Minors and AcaBellas
  • There was a light up hula hoop
  • These two girls sang and played guitar and piano. They played Elvis and John Cash and original compositions and Jolene. Man were they good.
  • I got a CD (Sam Nabi – Chance of Rain)
  • Dhru did magic and told stats jokes and WORE A CRAZY HAT (most importantly)
  • Piano playing improv! Tulips in E flat major. So cool.
  • Radiohead, Animals and Gorillaz songs were preformed
  • I love music
  • Dhru played piano!
  • I ate cake.
  • OMNOMNOM
  • goodnight!
  • there’s more tomorrow