2001-11-24

oh man my feet are sleeping because i just had my feet up on the desk becasue i was sleeping at work again. took the bus here from pennsylvania to nyc,this morning. this means i woke up at 5 in the morning, so i guess its fair to nap here and there, at my desk.

but your saying to yr.self,: "jeez pappazon, are all of your entries gonna be about sleeping at work? don't rub it in, y'know."

well i could tell you about how i've got to pee a little now, or about how my breakfast was so boring, slightly bad; or about how rapturous the bus ride was this morning.

just read 'Power Politics' by Arundhati Roy. and i recommend it to everyone for a good perspective to what this whole 'globalization' struggle means. it goes through this woman's fight with the Indian government and court systems over the Big Dam projects, and with her critics in literary circles:

"In circumstances like these, the term "writer-activist" as a professional description of what I do makes me flinch doubly. ... It is strategically postioned to diminish both writers and activists. It seeks to reduce the scope, the range, the sweep of what a writer is and can be. ... And, conversely, it suggests that the activist occupies the coarser, cruder end of the intellectual spectrum. That the activist is by profession a "position-taker" and therefore lacks complexity and intellectual sophistication ... instead fueled by a crude, simple-minded understanding of things.

One is not involved by virtue of being a writer or activist. One is involved because one is a human being. ... I Think it's vital to de-professionalize the public debate on matters that vitally affect the lives of ordinary people. It's time to snatch our futures back from the 'experts'. Time to ask, in ordinary language, the public question and to demand, in ordinary language, the public answer."

Her first novel brought her international acclaim, but now she's using that spotlight to write about her experiences in reality, and politics. I like that. So now im gonna read her novel, "The God of Small Things". Keep you updated.

what else? just saw K-Pax. yikes, not sure what to say about that. ill write more later. kind of impatient to get away from diaryland right now, you know the feeling?