Internet Roundup

A lot of the internet browsing I've been doing over the last week is themed, apparently.  I've realized over the last couple of days that I've been exploring women's issues and violence against women via the web.  Here are some of the interesting, powerful, heartbreaking, and inspiring things I've been finding:

• "Rape for Profit" featuring the Seattle-based non-profit, The Genesis Project:


Play RapeForProfit Extended Trailer from RapeForProfitFilm on Vimeo.

• "Dear Daughter" - a powerful letter.

• "A Call to Men" by Tony Porter

• Finally, take 20 minutes to watch this moving and brilliant lecture on the Power of Vulnerability.  Seriously:  

I'd love to hear your thoughts.

Epilogue

It's been a while.  Hello.  I finished school about a week ago and haven't quite been sure what to do with myself.  My lovely mom visited for a couple of days and it was great to see her and do girly things together.  Since then I've been doing a lot of walking, a lot of sitting, a lot of looking at the internet, a lot of watching the Today show and Modern Family.  I went to my internship, too.  It's a confusing and disorienting thing.  Not rushing into a job, I have lots of time to sit and be and think.  I don't know if I like it or not, but I keep telling myself (and mostly believing) that it's good for me.  I feel a little depressed.  But that's ok because my school prepared me to feel that way.  Glad they did.  And I'm doing my best just to let it be what it is - not to fight the ambivalence, sadness, lostness, relief, sleepiness, or nothingness.  That may just be what I need.  

When I am celebrating, or when I feel like I deserve to celebrate, I also feel like I deserve to buy everything that I want.  This becomes a problem.

A really good day

Browsed here:

Ate lunch here:

Drank tea, ate a giant cookie, and played a board game here:

Browsed more here: 

And some here:

Went home and started reading this (and couldn't stop laughing):

Did a little of this:

Then had my mind blown by this:

All with the delightful company of my love.

(Photo credits: Seattle Curbed, Belltowner, Thyme Bomb, Flickr, Decor8, Wikipedia, Apartment Therapy) 

Spring and moving on

Just when we all thought that Spring forgot about Seattle - or really the entire Pacific Northwest - we're finally getting a little relief from the cold and rain.  My mom is coming next week and she literally told me she has to "unpack her winter clothes" because she's put them away for the summer already.  The summer that has, yes, begun everywhere else in this country except for the clouds that generally still cover Washington state.  


I finish school in literally four days.  Four.  
That's four days.


I can't tell you how grateful I am for a little bit of sunshine and a little bit of heat (and by heat, I mean breaking 50 degrees) as I enter this next week.  What a flurry of mixed-up-ness.  I am so tired - like a deep, embedded in my bones and soul kind of tired.  I can't wait for the end.  Literally am planning my nothingness for the day after my last day.  T'will be grand.  Yet, I'm sad and scared for it to be over too.  I don't know the world from any other lens than a student!  What will happen to me when I can't get discounts to movies or museums, and I can't use the excuse "I have to study" to get out of awkward situations.  Plus, my graduation is a little anti-climatic: I get my Masters on April 13th, but don't have a big, fancy ceremony until June.  But, I'm not complaining.  I get to be finished and that is a proud, glorious, and exciting thing.  


Now I just have to figure out what the hell I want to do with "M.A." tacked onto my name.  


For your information, if you call or e-mail me asking about my plans after graduation - in particular, my plans for employment - I have none.  The options that sound the best right now (in no particular order) are: florist, interior decorator, ice cream scooper (rekindle that flame from high school), dog/cat/gerbil walker, walker (as in, I get paid to go on walks), house sitter, babysitter (maximum two kids, but only one may be awake at a time), sitter (as in, I get paid to sit on my ass), eater (as in...yea).  I'll keep you posted.