There is a lot happening here...

namely interspecies erotica and sea creature flatulence.

Do I preach to you while you're lying stoned in the gutter? NO!

too long of a gap since last update. RUDE.

have finished up mid-terms. failed my human sexuality midterm. Now, it was a 52% which technically isn't failing here at UBC but anything below at C- at UCSC is considered failing. So I am working really hard to NOT fail the final and succeed. It was a lot of physiology and really difficult- which is something I've always struggled with because it's memorization and I have a poor memory. I haven't gotten papers back for midterms in my other courses and I have one final midterm next week- but it is in my Critical Studies in Sexuality course (which I LOVE) so it's not that bad.

Have been hella busy volunteering for the UBC V-Day campaign. I am charged with doing publicity for the upcoming coffee event.  I also volunteer at the movie theater every Thursday night which means getting to watch second run flicks for free- I got to see The Hangover, and Drag Me To Hell (which was so funny) and this week  they are doing Good Will Hunting and American Psycho. I'm looking forward to seeing the end of American Psycho. Because I've not seen the last 25 minutes of the film. And next week is Fast Food Nation and...I can't remember the other one.

Was feeling a bit under the weather last week. Started with a fever and a mild sore throat accompanied with low energy levels...so I took it easy and didn't go to the gym...maybe it was two weeks but I am having some body dysmorphia as a consequence. Feeling like I put on fifteen pounds (because I ate like crap) but the scale hasn't moved. My shape has changed a little just because I'm not working muscles.

My classes are going pretty well. My Human Sexuality course is highly problematic and violently normative BUT in all fairness it's different than the violences and normativities promoted in the U.S. Today we had a fantastic lecture on asexuality. We had a guest speaker who was really adorable and antectodal. In my Feminist Research Methods class I am designing a research project that I am thinking of asking a prof at UCSC to sponsor me in independent study so that I can conduct the research. The research will examine correlations between sex education among college age individuals and their ideas/definitions of sexual violence. I kind of have this theory/idea that many sexual violences (including harassment) go un-reported or are not considered as such as a consequence of the sexual education people receive. For example: will someone who received their sexual education primarily within their religion consider/be aware of spousal rape? aquaintance rape? etc. I don't know if that seems axiomatic or insipid (input is always helpful) but I also feel similarly about the ways in which sexual education in America seems to erase or marginalize non-hetero reproductive sex.

have been making friends with people in my classes and the organizations I'm involved in as well as my flatmates. It's a lot of fun.

My flatmates and I went to a halloween party last weekend and got dressed up in semi-sexy outfits (although I looked more like a third grade teacher) and put on mustaches. We all got very drunk (which is always a great bonding agent) and after the party went to McDonalds to eat- on the way there we found $20 which paid for our meal. After sleeping for a few hours I got up to use the washroom and when i came back into my room I blacked out and landed on my chin and split it open on the carpet. I woke up on my floor--very confused--and got back into bed- not realizing how bad my chin was. My primary concern was not vomiting. I went and got butterfly stitches and we'll see how the wound closed up after I take them off on Friday. I'm hoping it will be an adorable scar that is beyond kissable.

I've been learning a lot about myself. Some of which I'm not comfortable revealing here. Not yet.

The weather is distinctly autumn. Raining and the trees are shedding thier fall colours (who knew death could be so beautiful)? And I have some pictures I took a few weeks ago for ya'll.

It's ate and I have more reading to do for classes tomorrow so...peace out ya'll.