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Okay friends it has become an interesting day....I woke up at like 730 this morning unable to sleep, so I got up to buy a paper and enjoy the serenity of the morning, while everyone is still sleeping. While I was doing this, I saw your president and (begrudgingly) mine talking about new-cue-lar weapons and how he is used to dealing with things and not passing them on....wait a second....we are talking about a president that squandered the greatest surplus our country has ever known, and pushed us into the greatest defecits we have seen in years....not passing on problems.....WTF!?! Please if you can explain any of that to me I welcome the time and I will even buy you a beer or two while you do...if you can....what did Bush call Iraq?...a catastrophic success (or something to that effect) John Edwards' response on the campaign trail..."I like most americans have no idea what the president is talking about..."  Anyway, unfortunately I went back to bed and stayed there until about 1130 when meredith and I got up and made breakfast for ANG, and ourselves.

Went to class...same old thing, except that last semester I was asked to write a letter of, essentially, recommendation for a professor that taught one of my favorite classes last fall: Social Movements by Dr. Melinda Kane....great class, great professor. She is going to do an independent study with me over the labor movement, how and why they strike, how courts interepret labor law etc etc etc...anyway, I had to give that letter to another of my favorite professors Dr. Pamela Brandwein....literally a god amongst mental midgets. She is pretty incredible....so my gender and law class was good plus I shared a moment with Dr. B.

I had a late lunch with the real worlders.....we ate some Qdoba....we are such freaks....Went to work...tutored Jordan and Tung in government and history respectively....very few things are better than getting to explain your favorite subjects to students who are so interested to learn that they are willing to go the extra miles to get tutored through our disability office.

Then the night got really interesting...I attended simultaneously the LULAC (league of united latin american citizens) meeting and the utd democrats meeting. Always a good time, but sadly I may have inadvertently agreed to sit as either chairperson, or co-chairperson of a committee or two for LULAC...I think she tricked me....other than that nothing much interesting has happened I have spent a few hours tonight looking for phd programs in sociology, political science or something to that effect....we shall see...that GRE makes my butthole pucker up.....like right when the cliffhanger lets go and you make that face. exactly. anyway. off to bed. more school. day to day to day. oh how about a "today in labor history?....."

August 31
10,000 striking miners began a fight at Blair Mountain, W.Va., for recognition of their union the UMWA. Federal troops were sent in, and miners were forced to withdraw 5 days later after 16 deaths - 1921

ok goodnight all....

A long weekend

well friends the past few days have been both eventful and interesting. In no particular order I would like to apologize to:

ANG - for putting you in the wrong place at the wrong time. You don't deserve any of that.

Emilie - you are a great friend and a great person. I have no excuses and no explanations, and this apology pales in comparison to what I wish I could say.

meredith - words cannot convey...

Aaron - dude, I just didn't hear it.

Emily - meredith thinks it was someone you know, either way, I know how much you loved it, and cherished it.

Gotta go now, will be back soon

Ok, I'm back.

Couple of things, for those of you that have not heard I am organizing a team to walk...yes, walk in the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure. Which I guess makes it less of a race and more of, well, a walk. Anyway, let me know if you would like to join or donate.

Secondly, I just finished tutoring one of my students. He has not disclosed what his disability is or why he is coming to us, but he seems and we frown on the use of this word..."normal" if not just a little wierd. We are working on pre-college algebra stuff and things are going well. He understands it and is doing well, I think he may just have a problem when copying the problems down, leading me to believe it is a sight problem...dyslexia or something.

School is beginning to get interesting, in so much as it just hasn't yet. I am trying to get student loans and that of course is always a beating. Paperwork, on top of paperwork....if anything I will have spent thousands of dollars and many many years learning if nothing else, how to jump through hoops. Luckily, I may have eliminated the need ot buy my books for one of my classes. Campaigns and Elections is a jr. level class that seems to be more of a discussion of current events rather than anything else. Today we reviewed the places in the constitution that talk about elections etc. Not really all that interesting, seeing as how every semester I have atleast one class where we discuss the basics of the constitution.

Remember, teach a man to fish and there is no "I" in team.

jake

Dr. King

not a lot today, I am about to go clean up the pile of clothes that meredith and I call a closet, and will probably either go to a birthday party tonight or maybe, play some games....spades, clue, scattegories etc...with the usual suspects tonight.

Oh yeah and because today is a day that is close to my heart and in spite of the bush administration's attempts to keep the people down, in honor of the 41st Anniversary of the Civil Rights March on Washington...

"...let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!

Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!

Let freedom ring from the curvacious peaks of California!

But not only that, let freedom ring from the Stone Mountain of Georgia!

Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!

Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, 'Free at last! free at last! thank God almighty, we are free at last!'"

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 28 August 1963