i still exist!

an unexpected hiatus due to an unexpectedly busy week -- but rest assured, i've been yapping my head off all week about lots of interesting stuff, some of which i expect to post...some day soon. the moral of the story is, if you are a political science major interested in on-the-ground activism, avoid any and all conversations with philosophers unless you're looking for a serious run for your money.

that said, i still think i have the upper hand when it comes to the actual lives and histories of actual people in the actual world, logically inconsistent as that upper hand may sometimes be. sometimes we have to work with what we've got. so now all i have to do is figure out how to 'work with what we've got' and still respect the idealistic future world inhabited by those crazy philosophy folks. easy, right?