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New project
Jun. 11th, 2005 02:45 amDamn you all, why must you all conspire to make me want to try BPAL? ;_;
A storm was brewing this evening when I took our dog out for her nighttime walk. About halfway down the block, a torrential downpour started. In the approximately six minutes between that time and the time I reached home, I ran into mini-lakes that were a good couple of inches deep and ended up being completely drenched by the rain, which was coming down so hard visibility was nil. It was kind of fun, though, as long as I thought about it as like a waterpark ride or something.
So, now that I'm in dry clothes from the skin out (even shoes - every single article of clothing I was wearing was completely saturated with water, and I only hope my leather jacket will recover), on with my LJ entry.
...I may have a new project. My mom somehow let one of the emeritus English faculty members at UMKC a few weeks ago talk her into organizing a lecture/appearance thingy for his friend Ruth Price, author of The Many Lives of Agnes Smedley. ( More on the event and my possible role in it )
It just goes to show that even once you're no longer on the payroll of the W.C., you still can't escape involvement with it! x_x
But I think it'll be a good event. Agnes Smedley, the subject of the biography, is actually a veddy veddy interesting woman. She worked closely with both Gandhi's Indian independence movement and with Mao Zedong's Chinese nationalist Communist movement (she taught Mao to fox trot). She was one of the first women Margaret Sanger deputized to go out and educate women about contraceptive options. She wrote a novel that is still one of the landmarks of feminist literature, Daughter of Earth. She was close friends and corresponded regularly with lots of other well-known figures, like George Bernard Shaw, Nehru and Emma Goldman. And there's a whole bunch of other interesting things about her.
( more on the book and the controversy surrounding it )
More info about Agnes Smedley here. And if you want to read more about the controversy over the book's revelations, here is an article Price herself writes about the discovery.
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courters28, you giving the KC thing another try this weekend? If so, you know the drill - call me and we'll get together. :D
A storm was brewing this evening when I took our dog out for her nighttime walk. About halfway down the block, a torrential downpour started. In the approximately six minutes between that time and the time I reached home, I ran into mini-lakes that were a good couple of inches deep and ended up being completely drenched by the rain, which was coming down so hard visibility was nil. It was kind of fun, though, as long as I thought about it as like a waterpark ride or something.
So, now that I'm in dry clothes from the skin out (even shoes - every single article of clothing I was wearing was completely saturated with water, and I only hope my leather jacket will recover), on with my LJ entry.
...I may have a new project. My mom somehow let one of the emeritus English faculty members at UMKC a few weeks ago talk her into organizing a lecture/appearance thingy for his friend Ruth Price, author of The Many Lives of Agnes Smedley. ( More on the event and my possible role in it )
It just goes to show that even once you're no longer on the payroll of the W.C., you still can't escape involvement with it! x_x
But I think it'll be a good event. Agnes Smedley, the subject of the biography, is actually a veddy veddy interesting woman. She worked closely with both Gandhi's Indian independence movement and with Mao Zedong's Chinese nationalist Communist movement (she taught Mao to fox trot). She was one of the first women Margaret Sanger deputized to go out and educate women about contraceptive options. She wrote a novel that is still one of the landmarks of feminist literature, Daughter of Earth. She was close friends and corresponded regularly with lots of other well-known figures, like George Bernard Shaw, Nehru and Emma Goldman. And there's a whole bunch of other interesting things about her.
( more on the book and the controversy surrounding it )
More info about Agnes Smedley here. And if you want to read more about the controversy over the book's revelations, here is an article Price herself writes about the discovery.
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courters28, you giving the KC thing another try this weekend? If so, you know the drill - call me and we'll get together. :D
