beautiful monsters

Addictions

I’ve cut down on my drinking chocolate consumption. Sort of. Well, actually, I’ve replaced some of my drinking chocolate consumption with chocolate instant pudding. Did you know if you make them with soy milk they’re vegan?

Heavy

So I went grocery shopping, did my shopping for the week, lugged my backpack and jute bags to the bus stop, and then struggled home with my load. Unpacked everything and put it away, then headed back into town for a meeting. Couldn’t work out why my bag was still so heavy. All I had was a couple of notebooks, my diary, a jersey… Then, after I got home, I found the pumpkin.

Windy

Went along to my first Windy (Wellington Independent Media) meeting. They put my "Recipe for Peace" poem in the latest edition. Ok, so they changed the formatting, but I’ll forgive them. I’m quite excited about getting involved. Hey, it’s a way to ensure my rants reach even more people! Nah, but seriously, I really believe that in times like these, we need to support independent media.

Understandably, a large part of the latest issue is devoted to the war on Iraq – and opposition to the war. But I’d really like to put my energy into writing about other issues. Yeah, the war is important… but it doesn’t make all the other issues go away. Children are still being exploited, sweatshops are still operating, people are still being raped, abused tortured. Forests are still being cut down, marine life is being destroyed. The global climate is still warming. GATS is being sneaked passed while our backs are turned. Why doesn’t anyone care about Columbia? Palestine? Even Afghanistan seems to have been forgotten.

Posted by Fionnaigh at March 26, 2003 10:31 AM