killing time

I'm utterly bored at work and am thus inspired to update this thing. Given the public nature of a blog, I guess this doesn't really count as "journaling" - everything is obviously filtered to prevent enmity and well, probably job termination. Not as cathartic as I thought it'd be.

In recent news, I'm planning to attend some exciting upcoming events:

July 27 - MGMT concert at McCarren Park Pool! Holla! It's for my bestie Ani's birthday (which is actually July 29th if anyone wants to like mail her a present or call her or something)- well, MGMT was playing for their own, suspicious personal reasons, but we choose to think that it's 'cause Ani's so fly.

August 2 - Stop War on Iran! No War, No Warming protest at Times Square in NYC. A friend is a producer for CBS News and will be interviewing some attendees so people should let me know if they want to share their story. This is a really important message that needs to be sent across America - dozens of protests will be taking place across the nation on this day.

September 1 - Protesting the 2008 Republican National Convention in Minneapolis! This year's election is probably going to be a Democratic landslide, but those pesky conservatives need to know just how nasty this country's citizens find their policies, both foreign and domestic. The main issues, at least for me, are, in no particular order: same sex marriage (since men have stolen the word "gay") and other homosexual civil rights, war on Iraq and Iran as well as pseudo wars on drugs and terrorism, energy policy, emissions standards and sustainable development, economic regulation, and invigorated investment into development of nanotechnologies, especially in the biotechnology / health care realm. Um yeah. Lots of problems but these odious bigots have no interest in the cessation of American bloodshed, poverty, and ignorance. The decline in unipolarity means that Americans can't stand idly by any more. Action must be taken, and while protesting isn't necessarily gonna change anything, I've always wanted to taste a rubber bullet. Plus, I recently watched "Hair". (God, I love Milos Forman.) I'm hoping my friend Mark will go with me, but either way I think I'll be able to find some company given that Brooklyn is such a bastion of liberalism.

I guess the first event doesn't really jibe with the second two. I'm not one of those insane bomb-making anarchists, I just want to feel connected to people who share my political viewpoints, at least in a physical way and not through internet forums at 3 am. Yelling and waving signs is a start.

Life's been so busy lately. I joined a basketball league for young professionals, and we've lost every single game. But I get to wear stripey knee socks and white high top converse, so that's all that matters.

I also started volunteering through NY Cares for Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic. It's pretty fun because you get to be vocally immortalized for the benefit of disabled people everywhere. Some day, when I'm dead and gone (which is of course a figure of speech because I plan to never die) there will still be people listening to me reading "The Age of Innocence" while weeping copiously from the dramatic effect my voice lends the plot line and dialogue.

Um. Also I'm studying to take the GMAT. It's kind of a tricksy test! Who thought you'd ever need to use the formula to find the area of a cylinder ever again? I mean, I still don't see how this will help me, in any way, within the business world, but oh well. I'm sure it will somehow - right?

I wanna start learning French again. I find that I can read it OK - parsing it out takes a while but I can muddle through it - but not speak it at all. There are a bunch of conversation exchanges listed on Craigslist so I think I'll check that out.

Jose and I are starting a book club. Holla.

Lastly, The Dark Knight was amazing. Heath Ledger's performance was utterly jawdropping aka intensely creepy. GO SEE THIS MOVIE YALL.