drained, i am fighting the urge to drop everything and become a street-poet in beirut. cop-out is such a familiar term, now.
an empty thermos stands on a desk i cannot see the surface of anymore - weeks of piled papers, opened books. chaos theory in action - a stack of folded laundry scattered across jai-namaz, rumpled blankets, red and white shamagh and an empty cup. a speeding ticket, some painted rocks, blue headphones, notes from a wyatt sonnet and latin american independence movements. scrambled readings from nozickian political philosophy, a rolled newspaper, a work of shafi'i fiqh, a stack of paperbacks (a greek drama, jane eyre, sol mandlsohn). dust-bound scripture, guilty thumb-prints.
december 10th is the third white band day. wear the white band in display of ineffectual solidarity, to make poverty history. all the cool people are.
sometime before april i need to decide between option a (combination of one, two), option b, or...both.
i'll...post again in two weeks. fight the good fight, everyone. my good solution to the few hundred pages i must read over a few days? i will now go outside for a walk.
and then our exile
Thursday, December 08, 2005 at 10:50 p.m.
said...
http://www.courts.gov.bc.ca/Jdb-txt/SC/05/16/2005BCSC1681.htm
Canadian prisoners riot over pancakes!
Your country isn't all bad!
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basit said...
m - it gets stronger the more work one has piled up around, i've noticed.
e - ha!
i tell you, we take our pancakes seriously.
and now you know why i complained about not having a nonstick pan.
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said...
Queen's, huh. I'm trying to figure out how to respond. (Not that a response is necessary, but the self-flattery is necessary. Of course.)
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basit said...
not queen's necessarily - am mainly considering the u of c. it's closest, so can come home for harvest & spring planting.
except i like the u of a, don't want to leave, familie, etc.
and i don't like calgary.
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said...
Well in any case, Queen's doesn't accept any transfers. You'd have to redo first year.
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basit said...
ouch. but no, queen's just had the nice national list of programs.
things you write about queen's aren't very friendly.
the more i think of it though the less i want to. i just /got/ back. etc.
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