ramblin'

i am missing this conference held by the national lawyer's guild at brooklyn law:
"from the Black Panther Party to the 2008 RNC: COINTELPRO – then and now"
oh man. they got guys who helped sue the FBI and NYPD and former black panthers, oh man! definitely when i go away i start getting five emails a day about great things downtown/in brooklyn that i am missing. i bet that conference would be interesting. i bet i could network with people from brooklyn law there, ah well.

spent the day in class, watching the first center for indian studies on the african continent get inaugurated (yay wits!), then at the botanical gardens, then at a health food store (black beans!), and now at home. lost another free water bottle. dragging around achy muscles from yesterday's resistance thing, and reading paulo freire for an elective. not enjoying the 80 degree fahrenheit weather with the lack of a breeze. i really don't like warm places too much. i like the african winter down here though. that was nice, with layers of clothes. spring rain is coming in october!

also: as of yesterday, watching wall street collapse even more, from many many miles away. know how that feels? terrifying. surreal. kind of like the boom 90s is yelling "i told you so!" from the grave. we're done, guys. merrill lynch...lehman...bear stearns...AIG...goldman posting a 51% drop...foreclosures in the hamptons...how is this going to affect normal people?