Month: June 2006

I haven’t been involved with any sort of protest since I was in college.  Which is not to say that I haven’t been totally annoyed/disgusted/enraged with something or another since then, more that I’m not so much for group action.

I have notes for an entry about the protests at the port around here on that topic, but I’m realizing as I read Breaking the Spell that I’m just not much of a group participant in general.  Something about being a shy depressive with yuppie tastes.

But this thing with emergency contraception at Ralph’s Thriftway hit me very closely.  This rather verbose comment at OlyBlog covers most of the highlights for why. This grocery store has become part of the fabric of my life the last four years.

That’s why I’m getting involved in protesting and boycotting.  Because I’m sick of the whole world feeling a little bit/way the fsck off-kilter, and when it’s something this close to home, something that’s a source of personal pride & pleasure — I shop local! — I want to do something.

Tomorrow I want to go through my records and figure out just how much I spent at Ralph’s in May, and then write my letter to Stormans to let them know that I won’t be doing that anytime soon.

I’m going to have to work to be more organized in my meal planning & grocery shopping.  (The cats were very annoyed this morning because they were out of food and I didn’t just rush off and get them some real quick.)  On the bright side, maybe I’ll end up eating less junk food, sweets, etc., because it won’t be so easy to run over to the store.

I am up to my eyeballs in everything!

• the Ralph’s Thriftway boycott/protests
• Paula’s site
• a new freelance project
• puttering around the garden
• remodelling stuff (the project that never ends)

…plus this week we took a mini camping trip, and work is now on the somewhat wacky summer schedule (long M-Th, short Fridays).

I want to go to Kevin’s digital photography workshop, but my camera is being flakey. Not wanting to power on all the way, mostly, which makes it pretty damn useless.

Summer decided to show up on time this year, somewhat unusually. It’s supposed to get up into the 90s this weekend, which is way too damn hot for me. I’m enjoying the sun, but I’d prefer it a little cooler so I could get stuff done.

The site redesign is in a bit of a holding pattern while I work on other projects. I’ve been trying out Code Igniter in recreating media diet, just out of curiosity. I have a big list in my head of things I want to do, but it could take a while…

quick notes while my brain is still fresh….

issue is that Ralph’s pharmacy (at my around-the-corner grocery store) won’t stock Plan B.

plan is to picket, to organize a boycott, at least thru the month of July.  with pledges.  I’ll be setting up the website.  (but of course)

picketing will start June 28-30.  we’ll have a booth at the unity in the community (anti-nazi) event on July 2, and then picketing again that evening. (note: give away condoms at protest?)
also, organizers (planboly@hotmail.com) are looking for volunteers to make complaints to the pharmacy board (?) because of legal implications.
everybody is to contact everybody they know about it.

There’s nobody here (the whole college, almost, is at graduation), so I’m waking myself up by rawking out really hard to Pixies.  This haircut is about perfect for headbanging as any grown-up looking haircut can be — go inverted bob! — and Wave of Mutilation in particular makes me feel 17 years old and ready to go fsck with the world.

Which right now means diving into some code, but that’s neither here nor there. 🙂

As should be fairly obvious, I am doing that redesign I said I wasn’t ready for.  I just couldn’t help myself.  It may be exceptionally ugly or strange around here for another week or so while I figure out what I’m doing…in that I’m creating a theme entirely from scratch, which I haven’t done for a while.

Media Diet, also, should be back soon.

It’s supposed to be sunny this weekend….  C wants to go to the Air show with the guys, and the downtown neighborhood assoc. has its big “yard” sale on Sunday.  Plus OMG do we have a ton to do around the house/yard.  Oh, and the guy who’s digging a trench for bamboo at the neighbor’s is going to take down one of our trees.  (sideways-growing, half in the neighbor’s yard, spawn of the world’s tallest crabapple tree ™)

So it should be sooper-busy, hopefully all in a good way!

Also…we are doing this thing at work making “READ” posters like the ones the library assoc. does, only with Pierce College people, and I’m the person in poster #2, which Ken finished today.  The poster looks pretty good.  My book was DOM Scripting, and Ken used the pink in the spine along with the lime shirt I was wearing as highlight colors.  (looks better than it sounds!)

Funny story: last week I was wearing that shirt, and two of our graphic designers approached me separately to ask me if I had my book with me, because that was the perfect shirt to take my picture with.  Of course the book was at home, so I wore the same outfit twice in one week, because my shirt (!) had reminded them of this project.

Now that my brain’s all the way back (‘now there’s a hole in the sky…’), I’m going to get back to what I need to be doing.