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I became politically active when I went up to the FTAA protests in Quebec in 2001 to find out what all the fuss was about. I've been fussin' ever since.
I knew I'd met you somewhere before.
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I didn't until now.
I love beer but anything above 5 or 6 percent isn't the real thing for me.
I don't post much here anymore, but that might change once I get out from under the sword of Damocles that is my dissertation. If you wanted to sum up my entire life with one word it might be: edumacation or book-larnin’.
Grew up on a dairy farm near Neil Young's farmstead and went to elementary school here and learned to hate the small town mentality and lack of diversity. A reunion of my graduating class would require a lot of people to be dug out of the ground or to be granted day passes. Went to high school here and learned to love music. Went here to get a biochem degree and realized how much I loved diversity in all things in life (also loved the city despite its nasty reputation). My dreams of a career in medicine having been thoroughly dashed on the rocks, I went here to get an MBA and fell in love with the weather (seriously, you can dress for the cold in AB, but there ain't nothing you can wear that helps you deal with the humidity in the summer or lack of sun in the winter in ON) and the mountains. I finally realized what I had known for most of my life: I love to teach. Thus, I headed south of the border to do my Piled high, Deep here. While there, I met the love of my life, a witty and brilliant lady from Montreal. Financial and psychological pressures forced me to take a faculty position before finishing the degree, so I'm now a professor of entrepreneurship somewhere in the same state from which Alan Avans currently hails. I am in the belly of the beast that comprises the red states. (aside: in reading this thread I grew embarrassed because I realized that Alan had sent me a friendly PM months ago and I forgot to reply to it while under an avalanche of work. Sorry, Alan!)
I put a lot of effort into fighting discrimination in all of its forms. Once graduated, I plan to start work on a book highlighting the parallels among the various struggles for equality that have been and continue to be waged over the past century and a half or so here in North America. It’s to be a team project, and I intend to pay contributors for their time whether or not we can get it published. I’m hoping that there will be a kosher way of soliciting contributions through babble when the time comes (and also that there will be some interest in participating in the project as well).
Edited because I originaly capitalized kosher.
[ 04 March 2006: Message edited by: Dex ]
He's also 12 feet tall, made of gold and can shoot lasers from his eyes. Papal Bull is also known to be the only man in Canada to have ever learned to eat granite.
Presently a Library and Information Science (LIS) grad student trying to reconcile a love of literature with an inclination towards the study and practice of IT related skills, along with other crucial priorities like, say, transvetitism, narcissism and shiny pretty things.
That wasn't really granite P_B, it was just the burgers at Teddy's.
The other stuff though, I know him; it's true!
The long hair isn't a fashion statement, it's a political statement. At one time, having long hair meant you were against the establishment, against the war in 'Nam, and for things like equal rights.
Some of us kept the hair in tribute. Others, I suppose, grew up to be consultants.
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Ouch to the first part.
GAZE UPON ME AND WONDER. TO SEE MY GLORIOUS FACE IS TO KNOW ALL (to the second)!
Aack!! skdadl doesn't curl! Alert!
(Or did you keep a glass of wine at either end of the rink?)
ETA: BB went back to skule to get his BA and Master's. More paper to patch the holes in the wall. [img]smile.gif" border="0[/img]
[ 04 March 2006: Message edited by: Boom Boom ]
True -- but then, for those of us born after the 1950s, the war in 'Nam was over by the time we hit our teen years, and so long hair had different significance. Especially in little places like No Future, Ont., pop. 8002, where "Stairway to Heaven" counted as classical music.
Actually it was the long-in-back, short-in-front thing I was (you should pardon the expression) teasing you about. Even I, 'lance, had long hair for a time, just not hockey-player fashion. (It was neither a political statement nor a fashion one, but began out of simple laziness. Later it took on other significance. Not to go into too much detail, it proved popular with grils).
[ 04 March 2006: Message edited by: 'lance ]
1. to throw a tiny pebble into the other pan of the scales. She has no degrees of any kind, no profession and no committment to any social projects - just keeps head above water by one strategem or another. In the boonies. Owns a car, cause you have to, in the boonies (but the right headlight was smashed by a suicidal gull two years ago and the driver-side window doesn't wind down). She has no faith, no affiliations and no illusions about democracy, the innate goodness of humanity, the global environmental awakening... or much of anything, really.
2. to thank Tommy_Paine for the best compliment she's ever received on babble (lagatta might disagree: she and i often do, though perhaps we would not do so as often or as radically in real life, which might well be the case with T_P and nonsuch, too... which hardly bears thinking about)
3. because it's the most fun thread i've seen here in a while
Thank you! After reading your post, I don't feel so alone! [img]smile.gif" border="0[/img]
Most here seem generally to have fulfilling, meaningful careers that it can be intimidating. Sometimes, being on babble is like being at a party consisting of doctors, lawyers, activists, successful writers, etc. and meekly announcing that you're a manual labourer.
The Evil Twin actually has an University degree but due to various personal problems/misfortunes/mistakes has never used it to find a career. Today, he lives much a nosuch does "just keeps head above water by one strategem or another". One thing that education has given him however, is a love of reading and debate so he loves coming on Rabble/babble and reading the opinions of generally intelligent, progressive people. [img]smile.gif" border="0[/img]
[ 04 March 2006: Message edited by: The Evil Twin ]
[ 22 May 2006: Message edited by: Sifo-Dyas ]
Anyways, this thread is now over 100 posts... should we start a new one, if we want to continue it?
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Evil Twin:
Don't be meek about it. Assume your rightful place as a representative of the proletariat. Shout it from the rooftops! (clad in certified, union-approved safety-gear, of course)
and think about a business to start when they outsource your job to Nigeria
This is normally where we close things for length, but I thought I'd resurrect. Part two, and anything subsequent seems to be lost in achives which are for now inaccessible.
If people want to continue, I'd be happy to see another part two.
People seemed to enjoy themelves in this thread, four years ago. For one thing, the oldtimers might now consider saying how babble/the world, has changed in the interim. Their take on things. What have emerged as concerns that were only budding at the time, etc.
I'm four years older than I was four years ago.
But you didn't do a Rip van Winkle in the interim, Boomer.
Ha!
Sad that they are now spread over three sites and beyond. Four years can be an eternity on the internet. An enjoyable thread to read. I'm glad GOD resurrected it.
I guess this thread started pre-strike. The strike was pretty interesting, George. We are generally encouraged not to talk about the strike on babble though.
How much old content was lost in the re-launch of the site?
We need a come on home week. Like a grand Reunion, a raproachement, world peace...