Radical Politics

I had my day yesterday all planned out. I was going to go to yoga before work, and then go to a documentary screening/ protest of the Atlantic Yards project at night. It was in the auditorium of the local high school and was sure to bring out a good number of indignant housewives, ambitious local politicians and over-involved retirees. In my neighborhood there would probably be some crunchy granola-y yuppies too afraid of what the basketball arena would do to their property values. I've always wanted to be a community activist. Like that woman in Buffalo who took a Federal employee hostage when the city had failed to disclose that the land her subdivision had been built on a toxic waste dump. Love Canal. True story.
Anyway it was not be. As much as I dislike the Atlantic Yards project and think it will fail financially and destroy several quiet Brooklyn neighborhoods and their family owned businesses, standing in the way of real estate development in New York is a little like being that guy holding a flower in Tienneman Square.
Plus I woke up an hour later than I had planned and ended up going to yoga after work. At least I know I'll see some results from that.
Speaking of results, my dear Alma Mater, ole NYU, has managed to spark international controversy today. The NYU College Republicans was planning to stage a "hunt the illegal immigrant" game in Washington Square Park. This was the third most read story on the BBC's website. A person previously selected by the venerable College Repbublican would be set loose in the park with a sticker designated him/her as the "illegal." Anyone with an NYU id would be able to search for the illegal, and the winner would receive a prize of approximatetly $100. Bigoted? Inhumane? Just plain stupid? Well then you just don't understand Repbublican political discourse.
But hey's it's been pretty much working for them for the past 13 years. Look at the swiftness and ease with which they've gotten Hilary and Obama and David Geffen to argue about...well nothing. I know I'll never vote for a Republican, but I'm beginning to wonder if I should vote for a Democrat. Why don't they get that they would save so much face if they didn't respond to these schoolyard taunts?

I'm back!

Apparently, I have a fan. Hola, chica.
I stopped writing back last summer, because frankly my life has sucked. I used to laugh at those frat boys who stay in college for ten years, but now I see that they are the genuises and we are the idiots. The transition to a 9(ish) to 5(ish) life has not been easy. I'm finally a sort-of adult, and I'm not quite sure what to do with myself. I've realized my childhood dreams aren't coming true, and now I have to figure out what else I'm going to do with my life. I've kinda felt that way since I was 17 and applying to college. If there was anything I learned from that experience, it's that what I really have to figure out what to do with the next day, the next week, and forever will take care of itself.