~ °Café de Terrasse° ~
The thoughts of an odd duck who sits alone in a night cafe, with a stylo in his right, a journal in his left, a valise under his chaise, a tasse on the table, and plenty of time to pass.
~ samedi, mai 15, 2004 ~
I like small intimate groups of people as opposed to large impersonal ones. That's why I'm not always up for going out with the masses. When there're too many people involved in something, it's inevitable that the group will split up into their small social units... more like segregate if you will, and there really isn't a way of stopping it from happening. Oftentimes when I'm in a group with 3 different conversations going on and people split up into these groups, i don't know where to go and who to talk to anymore. It's not easy for me (and not just because I'm a libra) to choose among friends even in a small situation like that.~ dimanche, mai 09, 2004 ~
When we organize a group event, its hard staying together as a group. But even though there's drama and people dont like each other and stuff, I think we owe it to the spirit of the group to stay as one. wow, that sounded kindof lame.
Then again, what to do with problem-people. Oh yes, we know problem-people. Yeah, we do.
~Benjamin 5/15/2004 11:59:00 PM
I can't concentrate on starting this 6pp paper due Wednesday and it's not that I have something pressing on my mind but that I have nothing in mind. With only about 5 weeks of the quarter left, it's very difficult to focus on school.
HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY to everybody! Hope ya'll gotta chance to wish your mommies or daddy-mommies a happy day today!
Anyway, Whole Earth Fest '04 was this last weekend. Twas coo... not much to do unless you're into the WEF sort of thing. Personally, I got a kick out of people-watching. It was a people-watcher's paradise. For those of you who don't know, WEF is this on campus gathering of social activists and people who live alternative lifestyles... hippies, witches, vegans, "Jews for Jesus", spiritualists, femenists, musicians, nudists, doggie lovers, stoners, tree sitters, homosexuals, heterosexuals, bisexuals, any-sexuals, maybe rastafarians, anti-this people, pro-that people... the list goes on. Oh, there were people wearing 'Sonja skirts' there too. hehe... aww, she would've loved the fest.
One of the weirdest activists there was this anti-circumcision dude. An infringement on male babies' rights! Goodness! They had little t-shirts for babies that had "circumcision" crossed out in a red circle... it was quite funny really... until i found out they were being serious. I don't think i'll ever get over that one. Ooh, Amnesty International was there too... they're soo cool. I signed soo many petitions that I don't even know what they're for anymore. One of them had to do with the Abu Ghraib prison... i remember that fo' sho. It was fun looking at the hippy mobiles... although i should be less nosey cuz i saw hippies in the process of making love not war in the backseat of a converted, heavily-painted schoolbus. eenteresting. I wonder how their children grow up. Anyway, i basically walked around the event in my earth-tones attire looking at arts&crafts, antiques, and oddities. And we also met some intresting ppl... nobody knows that experience better than andie and me (i miss the Santa Cruzian we "met"). I really did have fun at the festival even though i was constantly on the lookout for narks. And even though my companions kept complaining of the air smelling like garlic, body musk, and incense, haha, i can't wait till next year.
okkk, well i better be getting back to this AMS paper on "frontier barbarism". the heck is that, you ask? don't ask me, cuz i dunno. peace man.
~Benjamin 5/09/2004 11:32:00 PM
