the athletics of loss

+ my itunes is now at 2182 songs. that's 6 days 7 hours 18 minutes and 2 seconds. i am staying up far too late, because all of my favourite songs keep coming, one after another, constantly, never stopping. i wanmt to keep on listening all night and all day. i've quelled the urge to skip songs to find out what surprises are next in store. in the first 10 seconds of each song, i say 'i know this song. whatever. what's next!!'. one i get past that,. i'm fine. it's a problem. my sleep patterns are also a problem; i'm staying up too late again, and feeling bad all day as a result. i think i'll take this weekend to get back on track. lots of reading through the day.

+ i listened to the leslie feinberg talk that everyone's buzzing about and got two lessons out of it.

1. it's like this: ()
   
2. class is the root of oppression
   

i learned that from mark leier in 2002-3 in my labour studies 101/301 courses. the intersection of class/race/gender was really key. identity-based oppression as an economic strategy. there are a lot of very successful upper-class queers in the world to back that up. the question is whether communists are queers or whether queers are communists. i trust that people more interested in the topic will get back to me.

+ we won't be snowshoeing after all, so i will spend friday reading at home and listening to my my record collection. i will be reading soviet history, mostly.

+ on inertia, again: i never want to take the dog out to the park, but when i am there i am happy. every single time. tomorrow i will take the dog out in the afternoon.

+ all sorts of courses that i want to take this summer, including the following:

• cmns 130 - explorations in mass communication (distance)
  
• geog 312 - geography of natural hazards
  
• hist 300 - approaches to history
  
• hist 338 - world war two (distance)
  
• hist 339 - the british empire and commonwealth (distance)
  
• hist 436 - british columbia
  
• pol 324 - the canadian constitution
  
• pol 327 - globalization and the canadian state
  
• pol 329 - selected topics in canadian government and politics