| National Conference on LGBT Equality: Creating Change Planning Committee Meetings. |
[May. 9th, 2008|10:48 am] |
From the creating change web site (http://www.creatingchange.org/)
"The National Conference on LGBT Equality: Creating Change is the premier national grassroots organizing and skills building LGBT conference. Each year the conference is held in a different region of the United States and attracts 2,500+ participants from within and outside of the LGBT community. The conference is well known for providing a unique environment where activists and leaders come together from diverse places and backgrounds to create a community that is both strengthening and inspiring to the participants."
From January 28 thru February 1, Denver will be hosting the 2009 Creating Change conference. If you are interesting in being part of the host (planning) committee for this conference, meetings will be held on the third Thursday of each month, locations will rotate to various places/spaces in MetroDenver.
Next meeting: Thursday May 15 7:00 PM at Gill Community Room.
2215 Market Street, Denver, CO
For more information contact Ed Garton, Director of GLBT Student Services at Auraria, at egarton2@mscd.edu or 303-556-6333. |
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| *sigh* |
[Apr. 14th, 2008|01:04 pm] |
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to top off my general feelings of depression and anxiousness today, i just found out i need two years of a foreign language for my public relations degree, not just two semesters.
i can't survive two more semesters of Spanish. the last one just about killed me as it was.
why the hell was i doing this school thing again anyway? |
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| Update on the MSNBC piece |
[Apr. 7th, 2008|04:27 pm] |
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Since LJ seems to be wonky with me editing my entries.
![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) suicideluvkitty found a copy of the video on Joe Scarborough's page. Scroll down to the bottom to "The News You Can't Use" section. |
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| Offensive "news" report from MSNBC |
[Apr. 7th, 2008|03:42 pm] |
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from suicideluvkitty
It is about the transman who recently appeared on Oprah. Can anyone confirm this actually aired before I go on a tirade about it?
edit: got the embedding fixed. i feel i should write a letter, but i'm not even sure how to begin or what to say. it's just totally intolerant, and it's not just the three anchors. The directors and producers have just as much responsibility. did they really think it's okay to mock and snigger about this?
update 2: suicideluvkitty found it on Joe Scarborough's page. Scroll down to the bottom to "The News You Can't Use" section. |
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| mopey and down |
[Apr. 7th, 2008|01:28 pm] |
i'm just really tired and meh. i can't seem to motivate myself to do anything right now, and my mood is just really bleak. and i need to get some work done.
i think the only think that's picked me up at all today is listening to the "The Dark Side of Phobos" (mmmm, "The Glass Moon") and the Portal end credits song "Still Alive"
blah
on the up side it seems that my dreams were a little precognitive this morning. i dreamed that it was snowing and i had slipped because I wore my Doc (the soles are all worn and slick) and so I was taking it to wear better shoes today. and when i looked outside today after i got up it had snowed, and snowed more after i got on campus. not as bad as in my dream, but the dream prompted me to check outside this morning.
*shrug* |
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| Food Fight |
[Mar. 11th, 2008|12:21 am] |
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| |  amazed | ] |
found by love_is_syn
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| VNV Nation |
[Feb. 26th, 2008|07:40 am] |
There is just something about VNV Nation that really touches the depths of my soul and stir things up in me – their lyrics, the complexity of the music, something else. Some days I get obsessed with a particular song or two and listen to it repeatedly.
( some songs, some lyrics ) |
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| Fractal Wrongness |
[Feb. 25th, 2008|05:06 pm] |
from suicideluvkitty
Fractal Wrongness
The state of being wrong at every conceivable scale of resolution. That is, from a distance, a fractally wrong person's worldview is incorrect; and furthermore, if you zoom in on any small part of that person's worldview, that part is just as wrong as the whole worldview.
Debating with a person who is fractally wrong leads to infinite regress, as every refutation you make of that person's opinions will lead to a rejoinder, full of half-truths, leaps of logic, and outright lies, that requires just as much refutation to debunk as the first one. It is as impossible to convince a fractally wrong person of anything as it is to walk around the edge of the Mandelbrot set in finite time.
If you ever get embroiled in a discussion with a fractally wrong person on the Internet--in mailing lists, newsgroups, or website forums--your best bet is to say your piece once and ignore any replies, thus saving yourself time. |
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| Mercury goes Direct today, Lunar Eclips Wednesday |
[Feb. 18th, 2008|08:12 am] |
From astrology.com
When two important events occur close together in time, one thing is for sure: You won’t be bored! Mercury turns direct in inventive Aquarius on February 18, which means the plans and ideas you have been mulling over since January 28 -- when Mercury turned retrograde -- can now proceed. Usually you would be in full logic-mode with the Aquarian emphasis, but with a full Moon eclipse on February 20, you will feel anything but! As the emotionally intense lunar eclipse occurs in common-sense Virgo, you will be asked to maintain balance between your feelings and your analytical mind. Since Virgo is the sign of work, health and service, these themes will be especially important now. Develop and maintain a great self-care program to make the most of this period. |
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[Feb. 15th, 2008|02:12 pm] |
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| Drag Show Tonight |
[Feb. 15th, 2008|01:03 pm] |
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I have totally spaced trolling this up everywhere, but our office on campus is putting on a FREE drag show tonight in the Tivoli Turnhall on the Auraria campus. Doors open at 7PM, the show starts at 7:30PM. Sorry this is such a late announcement. Hope some of you can make it. |
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| okay, the office needs a new printer already... |
[Jan. 25th, 2008|01:30 pm] |
when sable has to stand there and continuously probe, push and pull energetically to make it work...
grrrrr.... |
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| Need tips for spelling too |
[Jan. 23rd, 2008|02:40 pm] |
Our Media editing professor is also going to be doing weekly spelling tests. Spelling was not one of my strong suits in school. In fact, it was one of my worst subjects.
Any tips in learning how to memorize my spelling words out there? |
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| Need tips for reading the newspaper |
[Jan. 23rd, 2008|02:39 pm] |
So our media editing professor strongly suggest reading the local newspapers and is going to include questions about current events in his weekly quizzes.
I'm not really a newspaper person. I never have been. Most of it is about subjects I could really care less about. I guess being around several dozen (if not hundreds of) life times, reports of abusive caregivers, murder, theft, scandal, sports teams, and so forth just become... trite and repetitive.
But I have to trudge through it.
So I tried looking at the online paper.
Oh gods. If my interest level were not already strained, having to sift through the montage of headlines and news snips that are just piled on the page does not help matters. How do people read the newspaper? It just becomes and overwhelming jumble to me. I suppose I might have to get dead tree editions, but subscriptions are expensive.
So what tips to people have with reading newspapers? How do you do it? Heck, I have a tough enough time dealing with LJ some days, and it come in a nice linear fashion. |
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| Back from Arizona |
[Jan. 21st, 2008|03:04 pm] |
It had been over 7 years since I was last in Tucson. I flew in to Phoenix Thursday, and got to see desert_zen. Yay.
It was the first flight I've taken since 1980. It was intense. Not bad. Just... wow... The energy shift was definitely noticeable, and I felt somewhat drained when we landed. Though nothing that was not easily dealt with.
It was neat seeing Tucson again. And the things that have changed and those that stayed the same. It was also a delightfully decadent weekend, with a lot of good food, good drinks, and great people. I'm so going to have to visit more often.
Coming in to Denver this morning was neat. It was overcast this morning, so it looked like a sea of clouds with mountains poking up like islands. Very beautiful. |
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