What's going on

Current To Do List
Womyn Making Waves Sunday-make play list AND get ready for Women's History Month
Vertical File Project
More organizing Evernote file
Get ready for Library Day in the Life on Monday
Move mediation timer to IPod and set up space at home
Swim on Saturday
Write a review for Book View Cafe books

Current reading list
Rocket Boys and the Geek Girls
Wanderlust: a history of walking -Rebecca Solnit
Library, An Unquiet History- Matthew Battles
Blame-Michelle Huneven
Twilight of the Superheroes- Deborah Eisenberg

@mikecane again

I know @mikecane thinks I'm stalking him, but he has (sort of) become a present day replacement for Carl "Speaker to Minerals" Lydick since Speaker, being dead, can't call me a bimbo any more. [RIP Carl "Speaker to Minerals" Lydick 1956-1996]

Mike's latest post came just in time. Titled "Desire, Belief, Ability, Synchronicity, Infinity" quotes two tweets from Kathy Sierra, which I will just cut and paste here:



I'm person A, not person B. I'm not proud of it, but I am defined by my baggage, and it weights me down to the point where even fantasy is too much sometimes.

Read Mike's post, including the two YouTube videos. He even talks about Scarlett O'Hara taking charge of her life by turning curtains into a gown. It's funny, I always wanted to be a mashup of Scarlett and Jo March when I grew up...but when I think of Scarlett, even though I feel the curtain Scarlett, the "I'll never be hungry again" Scarlett, I find it much too easy to slide into the "I'll think about it tomorrow" Scarlett.

Task 1: Live in the now. No more "I wish I could." No more "weasel words." No more "shit for brains bimbo." Just do it.

Random Thoughts-pt 1

WARNING: This post might not make any sense

wordwill
I've bought a lot of junk, hoping to redefine who I am. Now I'd like to get rid of some, to redefine who I am.

I tried to do a mindmap, but my brain just doesn't operate that way. I need to sort some things out and get rid of the junk. @wordwill's tweet says what I want to say, what I wish I could say, but what I haven't said yet.

List of things I want to get rid of:
all the crap that it piled around because it is easier to ignore it than put it away
the need to collect other people's ideas (but not think about what I have collected)
[i will come back to this later]
stressing about family


Current things "on my plate"
3 blogs/1 analog journal
Womyn Making Waves (WEFT)
work (worry about student training/schedules) (classes start 1.19.2010)
lists of books to read
tracking blood sugar/diet
not exercising
general messiness of my personal space
relationship with family
keeping up with social media
[more later]

What I WANT to do:
keep track of the books and movies that I consume
write
Make sure every student and staff member is performing appropriately (not the best word choice, but this is quick, dirty and in no particular order)
Meditate/learn to meditate/practice meditation
get the books back on the shelves and put away my laundry
keep my blogs updated
figure out what I really want to keep up with and ditch the rest
Quit spending money


How I am tackling the things that:
I want to get rid of
Are "on my plate"
I want to do

That is the question.

Amazon I am ASHAMED of you-wtf ftw

via @mikecane quoting Gawker:

Amazon Hawks Censored Joseph Conrad Book, Calibrated for Delicate 'Modern' Eyes

Amazon recently added this gem, from a conservative publisher concerned with "the phenomenon of manipulation based in white guilt." So white guilty they changed Joseph Conrad's title, The Nigger of Narcissus, to The N-Word of Narcissus.

Here's the production description, including a rather anachronistic gloss:

WordBridge Publishing has performed a public service in putting Joseph Conrad's neglected classic into a form accessible to modern readers. This new version addresses the reason for its neglect: the profusion of the so-called n-word throughout its pages. Hence, the introduction of "n-word" throughout the text, to remove this offence to modern sensibilities. The N-word of the Narcissus tells the tale of a fateful voyage of a British sailing ship, and on that voyage the ability of a lone black man to take the crew hostage. The ability of this man to manipulate an entire ship's crew can no longer be seen as a mere exercise in storytelling. Conrad in fact appears to have been the first to highlight the phenomenon of manipulation based in white guilt.

How can Amazon get away with this kind of shit? I protest!

Meta Resolutions

http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2010/01/01/my-meta-resolutions-for-2010/

Courtesy David Weinberger:

So, in the spirit of the season, I offer the following content-free meta-resolutions:

I will make good resolutions this year.

I will follow through on those resolutions.

If I do not follow through on them, I resolve to make better resolutions next year.

I think I can handle that.

Transformation Decade

David Houle, on this blog Evolution Shift has named 2010-2020 as the Transformation Decade.

This new decade, 2010-2020, will be known as the Transformation Decade. The definitions of transformation are several: the act or process of transforming, the state of being transformed, change in form, appearance, nature, or character.

Makes sense to me. Anyone who has Eris as a personal goddess expects change as the normal state of being...I just hope that the Transformation Decade continues the way it has started (at least for me) with positive change.

My gratitude meter is totally in the red zone. I'm happy, life is good, and what I want most in the world is for all of the people in the world that I love to be happy too.