tarynhope

for change

Sat, 05 Sep 2009 11:50:13 -0600

As school starts and I am not returning for this year I am fully realizing that I need to make changes in my life.

I have reprioritized and so far it seems to be working out for me. I have my kittens who make me so happy. I have a job that is kind of crappy, but it’s chill and I work with cool people, and I have really great friends and a boy who looks to be like a really good thing.

I miss school dearly but I will take this year off and see what happens. The more I think about it the more I want to move after this year. I have been very happy in Calgary but I think it will be time I made a change after this year.

For whatever reason I feel it’s time to make some really cool things happen in my life.

for connection

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:07:09 -0600

I sort of ignore things when I want to.

I am rewatching BSG and it is still mind-blowing. I found someone to show it to. I am super excited.

I’ve realized that it’s super easy to fall into ruts, I want adventures, not ruts. So until I can find a real job I am going to dress people up and continue to wear ridiculous clothing because I can. I am going to giggle at my life because it’s kind of adorable and really it what I want.

Anyone want to go on an adventure? I am ready.

for patio pints

Sat, 11 Apr 2009 10:51:33 -0600

The Broken City patio is amazing. I feel isolated from the world up there. It’s perfect for pretentious conversations about music.

The Ship patio is wonderful for people watching.

I need to make a larger and more comprehensive list of the patios in Calgary and what they are good for.

I also forgot how much I love summer clothes.

I have the feeling that Girl Talk might be the creator of my summer album this year.

for softly tanned skin

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:21:59 -0600

the weather has turned to the beautiful and now all I want to do is outside pretty things.

-patio pints

-lay in a field on a blanket

-make summer playlists

-picnics

-road trips

-more patio pints

-wearing shorts

-backyard parties

-riding bikes everywhere

I am restless and antsy. nice weather does this too me all too often.

I love this. oh goodness. interpellate: This is so not...

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:46:33 -0600

I love this. oh goodness.

interpellate:

This is so not something I would normally reblog, but it really is wonderful! All BSG fans should watch it all the way through. It will make you smile.

bugeyedbistro:

This song has successfully deflated my hate-on for the Battlestar Galactica finale. You try watching it with a straight face.

Cylon rule totally sucks!

(from therockcookiebottom via TiFaux)

for dancing

Sat, 28 Mar 2009 13:53:04 -0600

The new Metric album Fantasies has reconnected me with an old favorite. I saw them around two years ago and they were playing most of the songs off this album and I not sure what took them so long. It has been well worth the wait.

They played “Stadium Love” and I remember being blown away by it. It has shattered my memories and it is one of the most solid Metric songs I have heard in a long time.

Emily Haines, you never cease to amaze me.

"Nothing is more seductive for man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of..."

Sat, 28 Mar 2009 10:39:16 -0600

“Nothing is more seductive for man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering”

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

for your ears

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:15:05 -0600

album du jour: Dark Was the Night - Various Artists

essential track: So Far Around the Bend - The National

a beautiful compilation of excellent tracks from excellent artists

songs this week:

Cigarettes, Wedding Bands - Band of Horses

take home line: If my body goes, then to hell with my soul/We don’t even know the difference

He Hit Me - Grizzly Bear

take home line: He hit me/And it felt like a kiss

Evening on the Ground - Iron & Wine

take home line: We were born to fuck each other/One way or another

Flume - Bon Iver

take home line: Only love is all maroon/Lapping lakes like leary loons

for the weekend

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:54:17 -0600

my momma comes today.

I couldn’t be happier.

for the time being

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:36:40 -0600

it appears as though I will be staying in Calgary next year. this means a few things.

1. I need to look for a job here

2. I will need to decide where I am living and with whom

3. I don’t have to leave my friends

4. I am sad that I won’t live with my sister

5. I should stop complaining about Calgary because I am stuck here for a while

maybe this won’t be the worst thing<3

for human education

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 22:00:53 -0600

today a random professor yelled at me and a few of my fellow students for moving desks around in a class. our class does not have a formal professor anymore and we have adopted a tribal learning style. for this entire school year we have been moving the desks around to fit our educational needs and we have never had so much as a peep of a complaint until today.

this professor came in and ever so rudely yelled “could you move the desks back so that my students don’t have to come in a move them back EVERY FREAKING DAY!?”

we all kind of looked at each other and hastily threw tables around the room to make this lady shut up. after she yelled she was clearly embarassed and sort of shrunk behind her podium of power and we all shot her looks and immediately started bitching about her.

what really bothers me is in this class we are learning that traditional pedagogical and societal power structures really mean nothing and we have every right to learn as we learn best. along with these ideas we (in the class) have come to unearth the need for basic common decency in order for the organic principles of a true education to come forth. this woman epitomizes the lack of this and the basic problems that our society faces; she was uncomfortable with the change in the physical space of a classroom so much so that she felt her power in the classroom was threatened by the fact that we move desks around. the traditional form of a classroom was not there and so she felt the best way to reclaim authority was to yell at people who do not have the same amount of institutionalized authority as her. her approach to teaching is what we are trying to dismantle and prov we ineffective. but we still moved the desks. it’s really hard to escape from that authority. in our classroom we have created a safe space for everyone to be able to teach themselves and each other but everytime we open the door those traditional pedagogical practices come strutting in ready to protect the power they have so painfully obtained by jumping through institutional hoops.

this class has made me a much more aware person, but I still see that even I bend to the will of authority when push comes to shove. I am not sure when I will finally put my money where my mouth is or will I continue to go through life claiming I have learned so much and have had as true an education as I can but still not really living up to those principles I study and discuss at length?

that professor very much startled me and I hope thanks to her I will start living out the ideas that I study because they will make me a much better person than she will ever be.

at the very least I won’t be threatened by a classroom where the chairs don’t face the front.

for beginners

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 22:54:49 -0600

my head seems to be full of nonsense.

instead of doing school I did this.