update on life

january was a month of birthdays: T, A's bf, H's bf, S, H, H, E... however, january was far from a month of celebration. rather, it was a dreadful return to apathy towards everything in life... a sentiment that has seaped into february.
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a few things happened in january, not necessarily worthy of recollecting: [in chronological order]
1. listened to Paul Rusesabagina speak @ the chan.
2. listened to David Orr speak on 'The End of Education"
3. went bowling with the anthropology/sociology department students and profs. Dr. Guppy is a fun man.
4. gave a presentation at the student leadership conference, and co-led another presentation.
5. arranged to meet someone to give them something, forgot to bring that something so went home to get it, came back to campus and forgot to meet that person at arranged time, but thank God ran into that person to give her that thing that I had forgotten but then remembered. that was such a bad day.
6. had a wonderful wednesday in which I was hannah lim herself: 11 - met E for lunch, 12 - met D for tea, 1 - ran into H for discussion above the pool, 2-6 - class, after - meet S&S, 7 - greet visiting parents and go out for S' b-day dinner, 8-9 - eat pinapple tarts while watching AI together.
7. transferred bank accounts. yippee |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
[8-15: Africa Awareness related; a tiring week as a coordinator]
8. fashion show @ i-house
9. movie - karmen gei @ liu institute - missed, stayed home sick [10-12=same day]
10. met the secretary general of the African Unification Front (AUF), Dan Kashagama, while introducing him at a public lecture.
11. attended a beautiful moroccan african studies research dinner at sage bistro, where dr. idahosa from york university spoke ever so succintly and eloquently. waiter spilt milk on me.
12. coffee house and african story telling at the graduate student's society. wonderful and dynamic storytelling from ms. comfort ero in the beautiful woodfloor thea's lounge. ethopian coffee and tazo teas.
13. called mom for birthday at 12:01am. attended keynote speech, Pulane Lefoka, at the Museum of Anthropology. strawberries with ubc catering. walked back in the rain and wind.
14. sikiliza - african party all night long; good samosas, people, music, and dancing.
15. entire day of conference-ing at the education building. a successful event if i do say so. +|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+
>>> apt: i had to miss chinese new year dinner on saturday because i came home tired exhausted and just plain low from the africa conference. what kind of compromises have i made? an underlying crisis i don't want to think too much about.
>>> i got a haircut today at AIR after realizing that i wouldn't be able to score on a free cut at RAIN because i'm not available on mondays... alison, that would have been fun. sadly, things are too japanese at the moment.
>>> i saw an intriguing program on detroit public tv (pbs production) last night - African American Lives - in which henry louis gates, jr, was interviewing oprah, whoopie, ben carson, chris tucker, quincy jones, td jakes, etc... to collaborate on a composition of african american history through their family geneologies in the south. the importance of land and education - two very powerful points to get across, and i think they did it quite well.
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>>> i'll be cooking with E and H tonight. just like old times, except with the cooking.
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>>> i'll be seeing this amazing man sing in two weeks.

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in the meantime, i am paralyzed by apathy.