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Archive for October, 2006

lady in waiting

Well, I have officially completed my law school applications. I’m applying to these schools:

University of Toronto – they have an international human rights program that interests me greatly.
University of Ottawa – they have both international law and a social justice program that focuses on advocacy for marginalized groups.
Osgoode Hall at York University – one of [...]

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My friend Matthew over at littlewoodenman has a new post up about microfinance (AKA microcredit), and offered it up as a guest post here. I thought I would use it for Feminism Friday, since it definitely has a focus on women and empowerment.
Microcredit has been lauded by the development world – recently the inventor of [...]

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Hi all,
my second guest blogger has stepped forward, and I couldn’t be more pleased that the idea is catching on! if you haven’t considered submitting something, please do.
Marc Andre submitted to me a post he wrote on his French language blog. (Don’t worry, he translated it for us!) It’s about Faith, and I thought it [...]

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Hi all,
So this is the first of perhaps a few guest blogger posts. I’m glad to have some help from my readers and blogging friends to keep the momentum on this site going as I go through a bit of a lull and work through some issues with voice in my writing.
So as I embark [...]

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still nothing…

Since I still don’t have too much to say, and am struggling to find my academic voice again amidst demanding classes that are now asking me for paper proposals that my own internal pressures deem must be brilliant and original in content, but yet I seem to be able to find something to say in [...]

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I feel like I don’t have anything to say lately. I open my mouth to speak, or position my fingers over the keyboard to type, and I come up with nothing. I guess I do tend to get a bit reclusive this time of year, but this seems unusual. I always have SOMETHING to say! [...]

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god I get a lot of spam. most of it has to do with porn – and really graphic, violent porn at that. just complainin’. also, my site gets cruised by a lot of pervies. I’m sure they’re not pleased with what they find here!
my email is getting filled by spam too, mostly from African [...]

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It’s International Vegetarian Day! Hard to believe that I became a vegetarian only a few short months ago. It seems like something I’ve been doing all my life. It is no more difficult to make myself a meal than it was before. I don’t miss meat, hardly. (Every now and then, I do drive by [...]

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