Jesus, I need a vacation from my vacation! Aside from the BWAs and the unexpected scathing comments and attacks, this whole wedding thing has me all in an emotional mishmash. On top of that, I gotta head back to work in the AM and deal with the White Girl Squad. Which reminds me…I need to take the contents of this article and assimilate it lest corporate mediocrity breaks me down into a cursing, snarling curmudgeon.
Well that and all the bullshit going on with our current administration’s lack of intelligence concerning the Hurricane Katrina relief efforts and the media’s obvious racial bias to the “so black” evacuees and stranded people still in New Orleans.
Anyway…
- Check out my latest post on Atlanta Metblogs. If there’s room in ‘da House, why won’t they open the door?
- Speaking of side gigs, I’m also currently a columnist over at Sex-Kitten.net and a contributing city editor to Not For Tourists Atlanta. Might also be part of a black queer writing group headed up by Charles Stephens. Hopefully my gross anti-social qualities don’t overshine my writing.
Oh, who am I kidding?
- Surprise, surprise — Bush pulls his thumb out of his butt long enough to give the affirmative to newly elected John Roberts to become Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
- There’s also a few 101 in 1001 updates:
20. Cook a three-course meal. I did this sometime last week: Waldorf salad, a grilled skirt steak and baked strawberries with a crumbled oat topping.
25. Cook dinner from scratch from a month. This was actually easier (and cheaper) than I thought. The grocery store right near my new place, while smelly and cramped, actually has good fresh meat and produce on the low. But like most hood stores, the service sucks. Anyway, before I knew it, I was cooking up casseroles, glazing hams and baking desserts. Who knew eggplant casserole was such le bomb?
54. Formulate a businss plan for my web design business. Done and done. Also, I need to redo my portfolio site because it’s really starting to get stale.
82. Learn Flash and Dreamweaver. I’ve got DW down pat (still don’t like using it though) and Bear is teaching me Flash in exchange for some copywriting and copyediting services.
94. Visit the Farmer’s Market (either the one on Buford Highway or in Dekalb County). I went about a week or two ago and picked up some dried squid, some tofu and some daikon.
- I am highly entertaining switching over to Linux full time. I’m typing up this entry on the latest version of Ubuntu and Linux is impressing me overall so much more than Windows. So you want to use Linux?
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go comb through urban lifestyle magazines, look for design inspiration, and re-watch Little Shop of Horrors for the 100th time.
<sigh>
Name's Karsh. 28. Country-born, city-raised, 
your observation about universities reaching out to Tulane has been on my mind as well the past few days. here in dc numerous colleges and universities are accepting students from Tulane – in no news article have i read (with the exception of Howard U.) are any of them reaching out to students from Dillard or Xavier. even schools further north such as Johns Hopkins and Syracuse tout on their sites and through mass email to their constituencies that they are reaching out to Tulane students. neither of them mention Xavier or Dillard. unfortunately or perhaps rather fortunately Katrina has not only blown the covers off of buildings – she has also blown off the lightl veil of tolerance and unity that some espouse but truly don’t have.
Said by Clay Starr — September 6, 2005 @ 10:07 pm
Congrats on teaching yourself Dreamweaver. That was my summer goal and I am still struggling with it. Keep up the hard work:-)
Said by Quest4Love — September 9, 2005 @ 4:21 pm