The weather has been beautiful lately, it makes me so so happy. Spring is finally coming.
Dave and Luke came to visit for the Umphrey's concert, and that made me happy too, it was so much fun.
Life is so lovely!
- To be free atop a tree stump
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ohgeez_heather- March 4th, 16:07
- Everybody leaves
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- ohgeez_heather
- February 22nd, 16:07
I had the strangest, most vivid dream ever last night. I feel like it means something, it was really beautiful but so sad.
- Come down from the mountain, you have been gone too long
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- ohgeez_heather
- February 15th, 17:50
Something in the air today felt like spring. I've spent weeks telling people how much I love winter-and I do-but I'm starting to get the feeling that nothing could make me happier than springtime. My mood has been like spring this whole semester, and it'd be lovely if the weather reflected that. I love the changing seasons.
- Oh no!
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- ohgeez_heather
- February 14th, 13:37
Not again!
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- ohgeez_heather
- February 7th, 13:30
Also, the lack of ability to compost in the dorms is starting to physically pain me...I need more hours in the day so I can fix things like this. There is WAY too much I want to do...
- Snow Moon
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- ohgeez_heather
- February 7th, 12:16
It seems more than a little bit weird that I'm starting to become incredibly interested in indigenous peoples' issues, mostly because I'm a middle class white girl from the suburbs. But honestly, their plight ties right into ecofeminism in a really profound way. Oppression of indigenous peoples and oppression of women both stems from overcommoditization of virtually everything and its destructive effects on our environment. I have read so many amazing papers lately about this issue, especially one by my Social Processes & the Environment professor, Jack Manno. His social theories are incredible and so dead on about the problems facing modern society. I have so much to say about all of this, but no time to do it, but...I really love this place. ESF rocks for teaching me about all this stuff. They're things I inherently knew but at the same time failed to recognize directly.
- Taking the time
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- ohgeez_heather
- February 3rd, 15:02
I want to go to the flame. I want to go to the flame. I want to go to the flame. I need to sit on the roots there and just be able to breathe!
I may love school, but suddenly it is very much not the beginning of the semester anymore and I have an immense amount of work. I am so overwhelmed. And every day I'm baffled, and sad, that you don't go to school here anymore...lame.
I just want to take a break and go walk around in the woods, you know? But there's never any time for a break, ever, and I can't clear my mind because of that.
- Not to be a typical college student or anything...
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- ohgeez_heather
- January 31st, 20:15
...but I'm pretty sure sometime between this past September and the present I became a complete bleeding-heart liberal. This mostly happened recently, but was confirmed when I read a bunch of Marx for a class and actually agreed with it. Ayn Rand is rolling over in her grave as I type this. I guess the way that this came about is that Marxism, or whatever my perception of it is, exists as the only real political and economic ideology that doesn't destroy the environment. There's just no way to reconcile capitalism with environmentalism. None. And honestly, I care a lot more about nature than I do about dollars. I just wish the rest of the world felt the same way.
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- ohgeez_heather
- January 25th, 16:57
I'm putting this in here as a reminder to myself, so when I have money I can buy this:
Iron and Wine- Around the Well
Apparently this album has two discs of rarities and b-sides. Sounds like a dream come true to me :) Thank you Pandora!
- Emile Durkheim
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- ohgeez_heather
- January 24th, 15:33
I am both seriously and pleasantly surprised that a sociologist from the 19th & early 20th centuries had such valuable & still applicable things to say, as well as really enjoying reading the essays he wrote. Sociology is super interesting, I'm really glad I signed up for Social Processes & The Environment.
"Human passions stop only before a moral power they respect" -E. Durkheim
This illuminates so much in such a short sentence.
- Beautiful!
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- ohgeez_heather
- January 22nd, 14:50
It is gorgeous outside, my classes are amazing, I feel like one week back has already made me closer with people I wanted to get to know better, and my schedule is literally perfect.
I guess you could say I'm pretty much floating around campus in a state of perpetual bliss. So this is what it's like to be an environmental studies major, huh? I'll take it. :)
- A reminder:
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- ohgeez_heather
- January 18th, 21:44
Shit, I miss Elmwood Avenue & all it stands for in my mind. Obviously I love the city, especially Elmwood and the West Side, but it hasn't occurred to me in a really long time how much I miss wandering from Hannah's dad's house over to Spot in the morning sunshine then window shopping at all the stores we couldn't afford then and really can't now. Or the way Delaware Park looks in the summer. Or the view off the skyway when you're driving over it at night.
I toy with all these ideas about running west, because I feel like it'd be really beautiful there in a way Buffalo can't begin to compare to. But I think I forget about the things that make Buffalo beautiful too. And I miss it, like crazy. And I think I understand now.
- Communion cups & someone's coat.
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- ohgeez_heather
- November 30th, 2009
I am never content. Not here. Not anywhere.
I want to see someplace new now. More than one semester feels like a chore. I don't know if college is my thing or not...
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- ohgeez_heather
- November 1st, 2009
I wish it were Halloween EVERY weekend. :) This weekend was seriously the most fun, ever!
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- ohgeez_heather
- October 11th, 2009
Every time I leave the Adirondacks, I get really sad. I hate leaving there and coming back to Syracuse. Seriously, it was like the second we reentered city limits this grey cloud descended over everything, because that's how it always is here. It was sunny and beautiful the whole time I was in the mountains, though. Of course. I can't wait to go back next weekend for Fall Trails Day! It's going to be freezing though, I'll actually be camping outside next weekend unlike the last two times I was up there. Haha I hope it snows! :)
I wish I knew how I could reconcile how much I'd love to live up there in the future with how much I'd love to live in the heart of Buffalo. Summer cabin? I hope so...
- ESF :)
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- ohgeez_heather
- August 30th, 2009
I'm pretty sure college might be my new favorite thing, no lie. I love everything about this place. The other students, the school, the teachers, everything. It's perfect. :)
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- ohgeez_heather
- July 31st, 2009
You know, honestly, if I could leave today for ESF I would.
- Summer, it came like a light across the highlands
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- ohgeez_heather
- July 19th, 2009
This summer has been really wonderful, the best yet. Except that I realized today that not once have I worn my hiking boots for any reason and therefore really have not gone on any meaningful excursions yet this summer. How is that even possible? It's kind of sad. I blame the fact that Sarah lives in Syracuse now, she was always the one I went adventuring with. I really need to get out more for the last month or so I've got here. At least I can be sure that once I get to ESF the hiking boots will get put to good use. :) Haha I can't wait to leave for college! It's so soon!
I wanted to go on at least one camping trip before summer ended, too. Where did June and July go?!
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- ohgeez_heather
- May 29th, 2009
Everything is so hopelessly boring...
- Thanks, President Obama!
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- ohgeez_heather
- April 16th, 2009
How the fuck is Obama justifying not putting those CIA assholes in jail? I read the memos on interrogation techniques and I've never been so disgusted in my life. I'm ashamed to call myself an American. It's disgusting the way we've been treating those people. I know, I know, they're potential terrorists-but violence only leads to more violence. Torture is unacceptable in all circumstances. I can't believe he's letting this slide.