homophobia and bikes

One of the things that I do for a living as many of you know is give workshops to high school students about various topics. Today it was homophobia and transphobia. Damn we had a brutal group today I felt like crying in the middle of the workshop. They we just so damn hurtful. I was just there for the day and I am an adult. I hate to imagine what it would be like to be a queer kid or a kid that people thought was queer. wow so much fear.

Oh the upside I bought a new bike this weekend. $5 whole dollars.
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Watching Shortbus-- at my parents

Ok. So Shortbus---------my new favorite movie......realish people struggling with real issues around sex, intimacy and relationship. All things did not have a happy ending..........and monogamy did not solve every thing. Wow........Iam smitten.

Iam sure I will come down and have more...........critque.

Writing Papers

Damn I have been working on this paper all weekend, well really it is a summary, critique and comparision of this book that I have to write about chapter by chapter. Granted I am learning tons, but my "how long is this going to take me to do" skills need some work. I thought it might take about half the time it is taking and I am still not finished.
Life is good the sun is peaking through the clouds.

Serious frozen chess in Calgary your move, Pants. This is a semi- active park.

In a passive park in downtown Calgary. A passive park a park in which you can do nothing, they forgot no fun on the sign,

This gets me thinking of what a aggressive park would look like, and what a passive-aggressive park would be like.

Anyway, just spent 5 days in Calgary. Very cold, snowing the whole time. Molly and I where presenting our Queer EYE for the Service Provider, workshop format to folks at the Outrights, queer human rights conference, that went with the Outgames. It was interesting I attended some kewl workshops; Rectal Microbicides 101, Towards a new measurement scale of sexual orientation, Sexual Self-Esteem, Sexism in Gay Language, Queer Ambivalence Toward Gay Marriage and much more.

I met up with folks that I met at Camp FyreFly-Queer youth leadership Camp last summer.....we went out for drinks, hung out, went Karaoke(ing)- good times. We went up the tower and saw the flatlands. Had a spiritual moment in a fab indoor garden in the middle of the city.

I am damn happy I live here. Thanks Grandpa! Where today I got too hot doing homework on my front porch.

As spring has arrived so have the baby goats, at the petting zoo at Beacon Hill Park. I have been 3 times to see them.

Strange, I am amused by the baby goats but have found myself more interested in the jaw movements of the adult goats.

I have also been caught trying to imitate the jaw movements of late.

Joe Dog Is Home

Joe Dog is home
after 2 years of Joe
Dog being missing we
finally got him back.

My heart goes out to
the folks that looked
after him.

But blessed be he is back

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