Okay, so I didn’t actually throw it, but I helped set up, so I consider that good enough. What a blast! Just make sure that any underage idiots who show up don’t drunkenly blare, “Are you 21? Are you 21?” to everyone as the cops show up to lodge a noise complaint. SERIOUSLY. Shut. Up.
femmethat's Life List
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1. accept the things I cannot change, have courage to change the things I can and have the wisdom to know the difference
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2. attend a birth
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3. backpack through Europe
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4. bake my own bread
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5. be an effective anti-racist activist
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6. become fluent in french
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7. become more spiritual
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8. brew my own beer
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9. Build a Canoe
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10. clean my room and keep it clean
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11. compile a family history
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12. cook more
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13. Find new (to me) music I love
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14. get inked
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15. get rid of unnecessary possessions
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16. Go to Oktoberfest
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17. go vegan and STAY vegan
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18. have a vegetable garden.
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19. keep my car clean
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20. knit all the yarn I've bought
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21. learn carpentry
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22. manage my depression
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23. never get married
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24. Participate in the Northeast MPLS Zombie Crawl
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25. receive a letter from Hogwarts apologizing for the late owl but informing me that i am actually a wizard.
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26. return to 'Moffatt Mountain' in the Bounday Waters with my dad in 2017
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27. share quotes
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28. Skydive
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29. spend less time on the internet
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30. Stop reading Perez Hilton
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31. Travel on the Trans Siberian Railway
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32. update my wardrobe
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33. visit china again
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34. wwoof
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35. list 50 women little girls should admire instead of symbols of stupidity and weakness
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36. complete a National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) Course
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37. Do the Red Ribbon Ride
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I attended a fabulous anti-valentine’s party on the thirteenth, we made sushi (spicy tempeh, “elephant rolls (vegan)”, etc), drank sake, and had a great time. I picked up nori and sushi rice this afternoon and I’m set to make more, mmm!!!
In alphabetical order;
(1) Angela Davis—Black Panther, political prisoner, activist for racial and gender equality, prison abolitionist, out lesbian
(2) Audre Lorde—activist, poet, writer, in her own words, “Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet”
(3) Aung San Suu Kyi—Burmese pro-democracy activist, Nobel Peace prize winner, current political prisoner
(4) Emma Goldman—anarchist, author, human rights activist, as she said “If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution.”
(5) Fannie Lou Hamer—civil rights leader, known for her activism for voting rights
(6) Freida Miller—Mennonite midwife from Ohio, imprisoned for administering Pitocin (to help end a post-birth hemmorhage) without a license, thus saving a woman’s life, and for refusing to name the doctor who supplied her with the Pit.
(7) Rufina Amaya—Sole survivor of the El Mozote Massacre, Salvadoran homemaker-turned activist who spoke out and pressed for accountability to the United States-trained Salvadoran troops who murdered her children, husband, and approximately 800 others.
(8) Viola Liuzzo—white anti-racist activist during the Civil Rights era, marched in Selma, and was murdered by KKK white supremacists and a known FBI agent while driving other marchers home.
(9) Wangari Maathai—First female African Nobel Peace Prize winner, Kenyan environmentalist, began the Green Belt movement that has resulted in the planting of over 30 million trees in Kenya.
