Kelly's Kabobs

Which is okay.

This lack of sleep has a seriously direct correlation with a lack of original thought.

I don't feel inspired lately which reminds me of a zefrank video in which he talks about how unfortunate is that people wait to be inspired to do anything. As if that is the only version of us we trust to do really cool stuff.

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...can really be conflicting sometimes. 

It is the running joke of DEVS students (and sometimes it really feels true) that our department is out to make us feel like racists. Every type of anti-racism we perform is somehow racist. Maybe it's practicing colour-blindness, maybe it's affirmative action or maybe it's acknowledging "race" at the wrong time and not acknowledging it when we should. We're all big, fat, ugly racists. 

This is kinda true. That my department has (so far...I'm only in my first semester of my second year) made me feel that no matter what I do, I cannot contribute to anti-racism. I read an anti-racist critique and suddenly everything I thought I was doing right was just reinforcing racism.

If you try to help someone/a group because of their race you're reinforcing socially-constructed power roles.

If you treat everyone exactly the same and do not acknowledge race at all, you are colour-blind...and therefor bind to all the plights that each race went through.

And these lose/lose situations just continue. And I don't even disagree with these things...they're true. But sometimes it just leaves me a little hopeless. 

I feel like this happens for 2 reasons (neither of which are bad):

1) Using both qualitative and quantitative research

2) Teaching intersectionality

To be accomplished by Monday, November 14th 2011.

1. Go to the quarry by my house. I've lived here for over a year and everytime I drive by it I want to go look at it. I haven't.

2. Go to a supplementary lecture that has nothing to do with any of my classes. There's two this week!

3. Go to all my Spanish classes.

4. Ask a friend for coffee.