So our little submission has been published in the Third Space. Unfortunately, it's rather like an advertisement so it's not available in the web issue. So, if any of you are from Victoria, pick up a copy.

I'm actually toying with the idea of submitting an actual article for the Gender Issue coming up. This whole weblog thing has really helped me with my overwhelming fear of others reading my ideas.
It's a good thing.



I'm also re-designing our v-day website (with the help of others I'm hoping...) so expect MUCH better things in the future...

check out this paper, Third Space

We, the Vagina Monologue group I was referring to earlier, will be in it's upcoming issue spouting off the best things about our vaginas.

I would love to put a forum to discuss this on my page. I wanted to do it on our website but it's a frustrating thing, working with others...

Ahhhh, a friend of mine was trying to find my website by using my full given name. I realise that I still haven't really mentioned that anywhere on this blog. I guess, it really, hasn't come up....

One third of government jobs are going to be cut over a three year period here in Victoria. BC's largest employer is the government! That will be over 11,300 jobs (according to the estimate in the paper this morning)! If this really does go through, I wonder how low our economy will go. We seem already strapped for money and jobs as it is. On top of that, a friend of mine has been trying to rent an apartment for two months and keeps running into price wars with other prospective tenants! She doesn't have the money to live somewhere for over $700.00/mth.

As a side note, we are organizing a coffee house/open mike for Dec. 6th and I am thinking of performing a vagina monologue. Perhaps, "My Vagina is a Village". I'm not sure though. I'm not going to be performing in the actual production in Feburary so maybe someone else should get the practice.

oh, before I forget...
Ash, you silly man, if you keep talking like that, I will stop talking to you for your own good...

I was reading over my weblog and I have noticed that I can get a little vague.
Sorry about that. I guess I'm still trying out my new wings on this soap-box, or whatever I have created for myself.

I have some other news as well. I have received an email from geocities:

Dear Geocities member,

So... that means I will be moving. The new address? I'm not sure. I don't know if you've noticed, but my ".com" domain name has been taken by a horrifically 80's inspired vodka company. I am thinking about dirtyolive.net.

regardless, I will let you know if I move with those ever so handy:

This page has been moved to the following address...

I bought a camera I bought a camera I bought a camera I bought a camera!

I am very excited about this... can you tell?
It's a Pentax ME 35mm SLR. It cost quite little and the guy who sold it to me was amazingly patient. He talked to me for almost 2 hours! I got a case, strap, lens covers thrown in for free and a little banged up but mostly amazing wide angle lens for cheap.
You will now be seeing dirty olive live and in colour.....

I should also note the new additions to the links, if any of you actually peruse that side of the page... I know, I know, my blogs are soooo very exciting.

I, and a whole schwack of other volunteers, are putting on a university production of the Vagina Monologues in February (we are still working on our website). It is quite an experience.
Last night, a friend of mine went to a coffee house open mike and read the monologue, "Reclaiming Cunt". She wasn't a professional like the actors I saw on the tour but she did it so well, in her own quiet, sexy way! I was touched - to see it performed by someone you know to a group of your peers, it was special.
- and even though it was a very open crowd, it was still interesting how hard it was for people to say the word, "CUNT".

I quite like the word actually. Try saying out loud.... nice eh?

It's a funny thing. The idea of a union is so positive yet the people around me do not seem to appreciate it. Kinda like how when you were a teenager and you didn't appreciate your parents... even though they would give you the shirt off their back (which in many cases they practically have... but that's another gripe...). Nevertheless, all you saw was what they were doing wrong, what they weren't giving you.

The way I see it is that a union represents all of us, a collective group of employees. Just because there is 1 member as a part of 30, doesn't mean that that 1 member is equal to the 30. With the mentality that 1 = 30, I find that people are willing to sacrifice the whole for the good of themselves - the 1. This is where a union, or any other collective bargaining power, breaks down. Perhaps people need to think in terms of group rights, not my rights. As a result, selective agendas will not be forced through and people will realize how to live as a community instead of as separate individuals clamoring to get to the top....

I have been a little speechless for while. I was thinking that anything I had to say was quite meaningless considering... but then again, I realized that was quite meaningless as well.
ooooh... how profound...

Actually, I found out this weekend that my Mom reads this! So now that I have a faithful reader I need to impress, I will try to be more regular.

now this is getting meaningless...

So anyways... I do have a couple of things to say that I will be expanding on in the future:

1.) unions. I support them but I am getting a little tired of seeing them abused. I support so much that this is a very sensitive topic with me and most likely not too popular.

2.) no, scrap this. It's dumb. I am very cold and tired and just wanted you guys to know I'm still alive. I'll be back later.

btw, check out the new link in my blog list. He works with me and will have some interesting things to say - seeing how he has a anthropology degree. (I tend to think that anthropologists learn some pretty interesting things. They are taught to see outside their bubbles and to realize that there are no fundamental anythings)

Then again, he is a bit of a goof...