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Dream

3:52am CDT Saturday 19 August 2000

(dream)

anti racist workshop inspired

YRUU, we were in a house, and about to get on a bus to go somewhere. We were in a meeting and (Bitter Bitter) Kate walked in, but she was like older and coming back from having been in YRUU a couple of years ago. I didn't recognizer her.. had heard her name but not seen her. It was late at night for this group of youth; we were all talking.. kinda upstairs in a loft room thing and we heard someone come in and it was Jen and she had brought Kate with her.

Then it was time for the group to leave so we were all hopping into my van/bus thing but someone had left their sandals in my dorm room, so I yelled down out the window at them who's shoes were these and did they want me to bring them? "They're mine" and yes, from Jen and someone else.

Then we were on the bus and we were talking to a man with dark skin from a country in Paraguay who was running to be president of the US. He described how he had little chance to become president, but that the tide was slowly turning.

Scene shifted to like a parking lot with chairs all around the perimeter. A white man who was dressed in layers of ripped up clothing was barely able to speak english asked me for some money.

The guy from Paraguay had lots of food and supplies - he was backpacking across he US

I started cooking some eggs and forgot about them and began talking to a man who appeard to be from the middle east.

I walked over to him and was all, motioning something like, "are you hungry?" and then "do you speak English?"

He said in perfect non accented English, "yes, I am teaching my kids German, old German, English, Hindi. He had two infants with him - well toddlers, but they were in basket things and I held out my hand to "give me five" and the one kid taught the other how to do it by giving me five. He was all, "watch" and slapped my hand, and the other child did a sloppy job of it. "okay, turn your hand over" and then I brushed my hand to give him five. He was a baby; I didn't want to slap his hand.

Then their dad was all, 'what is this give me five?" and I taught him how to do it. He did a bad job and missed my hand, but hit my wrist the first time. He showed me his country's custom of kissing back of hand. His skin was very dark and I kissed the back of his hand.

Then my dad called me over, "Rob need your help" and I was all, "excuse me" to the guy, and oops the eggs were pretty burnt. Mimi was over near them and I was chanting some Beastie Boys lyrics as I tried to salvage the eggs. They weren't totally burned, but the plastic spatulaa I had used was melted on the edge of the skillet. I threw it in the trash, and it seared a hole in the trash bag as it fell into the garbage can.

4:15am

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Movies

5:00pm Saturday 19 August 2000

Space Cowboys was very cool. Not necessarily worth seeing twice, but I almost cried. good camera work and computer graphics work stuff. Weird when they had the collision in outer space with the big satellite..

I didn't dig the way our hero saved the earth, as he somehow landed without crashing? no way. no way.

I got Madison's number at Whole Foods and we're going to go see Red Planet sometime soon. Wende doesn't want to go and gave her blessing on our going to see it. I'll suggest dutch treat so nothing seems weird.

Now we're at Hobbit Cafe for dinner. It's Elise's last couple of days in H-town; she's going back to Dallas soon. I'll miss my almost-step-sister.

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ktru

10:15pm Saturday 19 August 2000

Last night after Hobbit Cafe with Dad, Karen, Elise, Wende, they dropped me off at KTRU for my shift.

This shift turns out to be the my last one of the summer semester as I will be missing my next two Saturday night shifts. (Super special thanks to Donna for taking them!)

The phone rang only once during the first half of my show, not counting Wende who called twice just to say HI. When I commented over the air my surprise at so few calls, I got a call immediately by two guys who I put on speaker phone as I looked for their requests.

"Do you have The Hippos?"
"Um, okay - do you have Mot Skan?"
"How about Dimitri in Paris?"

I looked through our stacks for their requests and finally found Dimitri in Paris. I played the intro and first music track on the CD for them.

Then the calls started to arrive in earnest. In the last 45 minutes of my show, I had probably 9 calls! Totally amazing.

One of the calls was from a woman named Mickey. Jesse and I immediately broke into "Oh Mickey you're so fine, you're so fine you blow my mind Hey Mickey!" I apologized to her - she's probably heard it a million times. But she was all, "No I like that! " So we sang about 90 seconds of the classic tune. (who is it by? Toni something?)

Mickey asked for something by Less Than Jake. I knew we didn't have an album by them, but I found her some random ska. Then I found Less Thank Jake on _Ska The Third Wave_ or some such compilation. Cool!

The last 3 tracks I played were a hip hop track by L Fudge, DJ Shadow, and DJ Spooky to satisfy my turntablistic craving.

So the end of my last show of the summer was great fun!

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ultimate

11:30pm Saturday 19 August 2000

After KTRU, Wende picked me up and drove me to ultimate! Very low turnout this night, but we played 4-on-4 anyway. Unfortunately, I had to leave after the first game; I had stepped on a shell and kinda sliced my heel. Cut is about 3/16ths of an inch deep and 1.5 inches long. Mostly callous, but it did bleed some.

Fortunately, Mark L just arrived as the game was ending so he presumably took my place.

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