Friends, food and uh school...

Today; good times with some doubts lingering in my head.
Wake up, try to sign up for classes, fail at doing so. Biked (on my brand new/used awesome bike) to the people's potato and ate there, ran into Pagoda, TKJ, Bum and a bunch of other people who don't have cool names on this blog (yet?). Hung around a with TKJ and Bum mostly, Bum wants to get into parkour again and I told Pines and V I'd start it up again, looking forward to that.
After the potato went to Rainbow's house but she wasn't there, dumpstered a ton of carrots with TKJ instead and started cooking up a huge dinner at his place with his awesome roomie Liberty. A bunch of peeps ended up coming over and I met cool people and shared a dinner table with them all. In the end me and a girl biked home in the rain together with was fun times, I def thought biking in the rain would suck but it was very enjoyable. Now I'm back here did some school stuff. Time to chillax and waste time being unproductive.

Dirt and glass

Hung out at home all morning, tried giving Virgil a call but he was asleep, never called back, whatever. Since told me last night to expect a call from her so we could meet up and hang out at the MoMA, but you know it's Since and all our plans seem to fall through...
Only one thing to do, go the squat garden with my sister. We moved out more debris, turned most of the earth and-
Wait, phone call from Since, basically: come to the MoMA, there's a documentary. Oooh okay, sounds like a plan.
Head home, remove sneakers, put tools away, wipe away some dirt, prepare to leave while explaining plan to my mother and she's sayin-
Wait phone call from Since, basically: the movie is full, umm iunno, yea ok I'll call you when it's over (I guess she's still in the movie...)
Return to the squat garden with plants and sister and water and mom and tools. Finish turning the earth. Make a pathway from discarded bricks and rocks, cut finger on glass, dig holes and plant things, add water, take picture, go home, half expect Since to give a call, eat dinner, stay upstairs and read a bit (the phone has reception there and you know Since might call :-/ ), lose patience and go down stairs, hope Ithaca is online, have to tell her about possible change in plans for the day she gets back, check random websites, get inspired to travel, send a message to Cipher about potential travel, read a bit more, write blog...
Here's a pic of the squat garden so far: except the uploader put it at the top so yea...
Haven't been feeling as upbeat and awesome as of late, can't pinpoint why, *shrug*
Oh also, talked to Pagoda online about squatting got some tips which was cool :)

feeling shitty

At first I wasn't going to write this and I felt like writing this in a notebook and starting a journal (reading "Tales of a Punk Rock Nothing" make me wanna start a journal), but I decided fuck it, I mean no one reads this and the people who do I trust (yea I trust you, be flattered). Why do I feel shitty?
I think it's a combination of the following (in no particular order):
Feeling distant from Ithaca
Not being able to see Since because of shitty logistics
Not having the same crew of friends as in Montreal (I need to make some literally rad friends)
Having spent a night in jail and consequently not feeling the shoplifting thing as much and of course the general shittyness of that whole situation in general
Knowing that Ithaca is probably gonna start seeing someone (this I feel is stupid, I mean I gotta walk the walk if I talk the talk, I'm surprised this is even part the shit that's getting to me, I guess it's because the feeling distant is also here that it's getting to me)
Feeling lonely despite efforts to be social
I kinda just want someone to give me a huge hug and kiss and really mean it. I tried to cry but I can't, maybe gender socialization is deeply ingrained in me, maybe I'm just not sad enough to cry, I don't remember the last time I cried, is that healthy?
Hopefully I'll see Since later today and tell her about the shitty night in jail and cuddle in front of a movie and maybe do other things. If I can't contact her at 7 I'm gonna go to the Anarchist Black Cross to hang out there; meet people, make new friends, find people who might be down to garden in the squat garden. I gotta call Virgil and ask if he wants to work on it tomorrow. I should probably look at the bike messenger dude that Cipher's dad told me about.
I'm thinking I'll be less sad if I have work, but at the same time that's pretty shitty, it won't mean stuff is less shitty it just means I won't notice it as much, which is, you know, a great way to make the world a better place, just kinda stop seeing all the problems...
Maybe I got too used to Ithaca being around and making me feel good. In Montreal when I was seeing Pagoda and Ice Cream and Ithaca, I never dealt with stuff like this, I guess it just didn't come up. Iunno, I've always felt that poly was good for me because it kept me balanced, never too worried about any one relationship because I knew that at the end of the day there was always someone I could hold/who could hold me. Not that I don't want to be in any kind of invested relationship, that's not it, I really like what is going on with Ithaca and I, it's been since April that we've been seeing each other which is longer than I've ever been with anyone before and it's nice. There are ups and downs but they seem worth it. I feel as though I'm ranting, but not even sure what about...
I wanna squat a building, open a community center, never pay rent, do food not bombs, and generally spread what I consider to be anarchist alternatives to the shitty capitalist bull that's happening now. I mean it could totally be worse. I guess I'm just discouraged a bit from doing anything illegal because of the arrest, and the finger prints and the photos and the getting busted shoplifting it all took place to close to each other. I shoulda stole the map of Manhattan, I would of totally gotten away with it and it would've kept my theft-confidence up...
I'll see what's up with what...
writing this felt good, if you read this you're awesome I guess...

Ithaca isn't New York and the LES isn't the MTL

Summer is upon us! Alas I've been disappointed socially in a few areas of my life in terms of my summer so far. Ithaca and I are going through a rough patch, at first I thought I was jealous (wow, I didn't even know I could feel that way, this is new to me) of her spending time doing fun stuff without me, but we talked a bit tonight and yesterday and she feels smothered, we've been spending so much time together in close proximity living together and alla that, that it seems less meaningful and also that I'm not "doing what I want" the same way I did in Montreal, (ie just following whatever impulse led me to whatever event and if Ithaca wasn't there whatever) which makes sense since in retrospect I was trying to make sure I spent a lot of time with her while since she was here. I'm probably gonna try to make an effort to spend time with whoever I feel like, I never thought I'd be clingy but I guess that's kinda what I was doing...
I was thinking to myself that I should start seeing someone else as well as Ithaca like I was in Montreal, that kept her "on her toes" so to speak and also made sure I didn't make any one person or group feel that I was giving them too much attention (think: Ice Cream and Pagoda). I have a few people in mind that I would be happy to be in some kind of relationship with, it may be a problem of course since you know when Ithaca is in NY she sleeps at the house.
The Lower East Side, highly romanticized both in my head and in the book Resistance is very cool, but isn't what I expected of it. I mean I guess I was looking for a militant youth scene like in Montreal but that's not the case and I may have to create that scene on my own (Crisis and some other peeps maybe). The scene is a lot older and seems to be less about direct action in the militant sneak around at night or yell at protests sense.
In other news Ithaca is gonna head home on Wednesday until probably Monday to work more. This'll let me get into a good social routine that doesn't revolve around her and allow me time to (pretend) to look for work and see all the friends I haven't seen yet (potential lovers included). I guess it was ridiculous to think that any one person could fulfill any and all desires any other one person has, you need a network of friends and lovers and family and acquaintances and strangers and all that.
Also I wanna start a squat at some point in the not too too distant future, probably in Brooklyn in my neighborhood. Ideally I'd fix it up, throw up some solar panels and only pay property tax and maybe internet (fuck cable TV, fuck land lines, I'll find a way to heat up water fo free too probs). Of course the house would be green as fuck; recycling, compost (shit included), water reuse/conservation, bike stuffs, dumpstered and gardened and shoplifted foods, maybe some chickens, etc...
Yar it's summer I feel that there's a lot of potential!

Homer, NY...

I feel strange being so close to NYC, to home, friends, family, a new scene to discover, yet I'm here in Homer with Ithaca, it's not bad per say, but the anticipation combined with a lack of excitement is getting to me. Here's what I've been doing since I got here:
hitched into Homer and met most of Ithaca's immediate family. Her parents are split so we checked out both houses and we stay at her mom's in a room upstairs.
The weekend Ithaca worked at a bakery doing catering, I worked on Saturday but not Sunday, both days I went into Ithaca on a bike and checked that out, it was alright, on Sunday I had an alright time, dumpstered some donuts for lunch after getting told off for trying to table dive some lunch. Bought a book, yea with money and all that, cause you know it was a local store and all (Resistance: The Radical Social and Political History of the Lower East Side). Other than that just biked around, met a parkour guy at Ithaca University and we talked a bit but didn't jam. Other than that I've just been hanging around with Ithaca in Homer, it's getting to me, I want to be in a large city again wear I can dumpster all the time, and ride a bike around and do parkour and interact with a much larger amount of people.
Went canoeing today in the morning with Ithaca and her grandfather, I always feel weird around him because he's a proud republican guy and I never really talk politics around him but I have my political (read:anarchist) patches all over my shorts and my anarchy bag on my shoulder all the time, whatever...
Either yesterday or the day before I'm not too sure Ithaca's dad dropped us off in Syracuse a bit and we got to hang around there. We (read:I while Ithaca walked away nervously) wheat-pasted some anti-war and anti-consumerism stuff up randomly along with two small anarchist posters. We also checked out the Syracuse Peace Council which seems to be the activist scene there, it's strange for me, I'm used to a youthful militant activist scene slightly associated with punk rock, students and sub/counter culture and definitely associated with bikes, but these people were all older, strictly non-violent and very formal, it was nice to see a different type of scene with different types of people and all that but I feel much more interested in a youth scene that's more fast paced and on bikes and all that. Got some pins, got some condoms and dumpstered bagels, not much else happened. Ithaca is contemplating staying in Syracuse and working there a bit, if she's down with that she should go for it but I couldn't pull that off in a small city with no youth scene, but then again I don't know the city like she does so I can't see it how she does...
I'm anxious to get to NY and see all my friends! Originally we were supposed to hitch to NYC on Monday, but a lot of work opportunities have come up and Ithaca is gonna stay another week, I'm on some "fuck that" because I honestly can't stay here much longer without going crazy or become really docile and passive. So I had planned to take a greyhound on Monday, there's a ska show in Syracuse on Sunday night anyway so I could just go with my back pack and sleep outside and hit the train the next morning. When Ithaca told me that she wasn't gonna hitch with me I decided forget it I wanna hurry home and decided to leave on Sunday morning if she thought I could go with her to work on a farm in the morning (some drama with a clingy ex and potential drama if I'm around while he's there and alla that, bleh), I didn't mind missing a ska show if it meant surprising my parents and being home faster, but I just checked online about 2 minutes ago and the buses for NYC are all on Monday...
I guess I'm gonna have to ask Ithaca if I can go to the farm and try to avoid drama (which I already do, you never see me involved in bull like that) because staying at her mom's place and doing internet and books all day won't cut it. I'm kinda happy to be sleeping outside though especially in a city I don't know I just hope the weather is dry, waking up to rain isn't the most fun (but it's still pretty fun).
I miss NYC, I miss my friends, I want more interesting things to happen around me. This summer I wanna go to punk shows with Crisis, travel with Cipher or TKJ, play urban games with Shorty, dumpster with everyone, go to the beach, get in trouble, climb roofs, do parkour with the whole NY crew (both of them). ugh...
I'll be home soon though.

Also: with Pagoda I think stuff is gonna be finished, I saw her before leaving MTL and we hung out at a drawing club which was super boring. We biked back to her place in St Henri and went to bed. we made out a bit before she told me that lately (the last six months) she's been much more into girls then into guys (which I understand since I feel the same way, unfortunately I'm not bi:( ) so we just slept and nothing happened. I wanna stay friends and will probably try to stay friends when get back to MTL, I mean, bikes, dumpstering and agreement on a lot of political and social issues is till great even if there isn't sex involved.

A ridiculous amount of stuff

...that's what happened since the last time I posted on here...
Last Friday, I went out dancing with TKJ, Australia, Rainbow, and a friend from the coop. Ice Cream and Ithaca were going to come but they took a toke from Kusa when he smoked and Ithaca got super high and probably wouldn't be able to ride her bike so she stayed and Ice Cream told us they would meet us there later (pshh yea right).
We got the show (it was a hip hop/dubstep/dancehall show) and just danced until the place closed. TKJ got wasted and couldn't bike home so Rainbow and Australia walked him home, apparently that was a funny story. I got home to find Ice Cream and Ithaca sleeping on the bed, I slipped in and went to bed after a quick conversation about the night.
I woke up with Ice Cream already gone, she left us a note and we go up and got ready, eating a bit and searching the house for Ithaca's bike lock key. When all was in order we headed to the coop and hit up a store for food that couldn't be sold. By the time we finished Ice Cream had arrived at the coop and we were ready to go to her house pick up some last minute stuffs and then roll out. Some of the coopers were doing a fundraiser party so we helped them carry some things up the stairs, before we finished a bunch of kids arrived with Katimavik, ready to do food not bombs. No one else was around for food not bombs so we called TKJ and stayed with them until TKJ, Australia and Rainbow arrived. After that we fixed up a bikes a tiny bit and grabbed some water at Ice Creams and rode out.
We headed south until we hit the bridge and we crossed that, the weather was great and riding across the bridge gave us a nice view of the city (and some trains). We got to the island where la Ronde is and we climbed a bit of scaffolding until security told us to get down. Afterward we threw our bike over a few fences and rode for an hour or two then decided to set up camp when we hit the end of the road/a big fence.
We rode back a bit to find a nice spot and then locked up bikes. I started a small fire in my hobo stove and Ice Cream and Ithaca set up the tent when it started to get dark since we were camping on private property. The hobo stove was pretty shitty in terms of getting really hot with the wood I was putting in it since it didn't really turn to coal just ash, but we managed to cook some potatoes and eggplant that we dumpstered earlier. Ithaca and Ice Cream also brought some food so we ate dinner and just as we finished it began to drizzle. We got into the tent and rolled out the sleeping bags. It was a really tight fit, three people in a two person tent but we managed. I read aloud a bit, we played some talking games and hit the hay super early (probably around 8 or 9)...
Woke up and biked back to Ice Cream's after a small fruit breakfast. Once there we cooked up everything we didn't eat and had a nice brunch. I was tired from all the biking at that point so I rolled back to the coop a bit and started to head home afterward, but I decided to pass in from of TKJ's place for fun. Of course I ended up stopping in when I saw a bunch of bikes locked out front. Turns out Australia, TKJ, Rainbow were there along with a guy from the coop. They had dumpstered pasta and made tomato sauce and jam but it wouldn't be ready for a while. I was tired as shit but I hadn't had pasta in a really long time so I stuck around. We went to tam tams and I napped there on my sleeping bag and then we went back and ate the pasta and all that. I hung at TKJ's place until about 9 napping on and off. I left after that because I had to attend Pagoda's birthday.
I went home, checked the address and rode out on my bike. She was celebrating at Casa del Popolo which is a chill cafe/bar/venue where cool girls throw their birthday parties. Spent time talking to random people and just hanging out and eating delicious cake (you see Pagoda works at a bakery so she gets a free awesome birthday cake on her birthday, FO FREE!). People started leaving and I got to hang out with Pagoda one on one a bit which was nice. Later she recognized a guy she saw on the bus once back home and we went and talked to him and his crew, turns out they were a punk band that had just played at the venue next door. I talked to one of the guys about ABC No Rio and New York in general because he had played a show there a while ago. Was an interesting evening, nothing too crazy, but I was tired from the long weekend anyways. At the end of the night I kissed Pagoda good night, said peace to the punk band and got to take the rest of the cake home.
Monday morning; cake for breakfast, best breakfast ever. Went to my last class this semester and then headed off to the People's Potato. Ithaca was there along with Rainbow and Australia. We ate and headed to TKJ's place. Me and Rainbow stopped at the sporting goods place to receipt scam the bike lock she bought from there last week. It went down pretty smoothly. At TKJ place we sewed stuff up and ate dumpstered food. I don't remember the rest of the day, cept hanging out in a playground a bit. At night though we hung at the coop and on the way there we dumpstered and I finally glued up the new lock on the compactor (it's still there by the way, they haven't done anything about it...).
Not too sure what happened during the week nothing spectacular or particularly memorable, just hanging with Ithaca at the coop (apparently people have been complaining that we we're loud when we have sex, that we leave the door open and that we have sex in the shower too much, none of which is true, but I'll explain that later). Kunoichi got hurt a while ago but she's doing alright, I've been dropping food off on and off for the last few days which results in cool food being made by either me or Kunoichi and her roomies. Sleeping at her place and the coop.
On Friday I went swimming with Ice Cream and Ithaca. Ice Cream practiced her lifeguarding stuff on us and we played around in the pool. After hanging in our sex's saunas we met up upstairs and headed to the coop. The bike ride back to the coop resulted in us arriving soaked in rain. The only solution of course was to strip down and shower up, which we did. Ice Cream Left the shower before Ithaca and I did and didn't lock the door, the door mind you can only be locked from the inside and can't really close unless it's locked. A cooper stuck her head in and saw me and Ithaca showering (and doing just that and not much else) and complained about it later (hence my above comment about sex complaints, none of which are true). We were gonna stay in and sleep but instead a girl from the coop convinced us to go dancing. The first club we went to had a really Euro feel but we didn't like the music so we went to another place and danced until it closed then went back to the coop. We were pretty tired and ready to head to bed when a few (three) coopers came back from what I can only assume was a crazy night (involving a metal show and a strip club and some drugs). At first we weren't sure what they did but they told us a bit. They had come in with a friend, apparently he had brought some crack and was going to take it upstairs, when another cooper found out he headed up. We were all chilling on the couches downstairs and didn't really think twice about it, except discussing that crack was a shitty drug and it would fuck you up and all that. A bit later the guy comes back downstairs with a 40 in one hand and a hammer in another, he said "the guy upstairs" scared him. He was super paranoid and kept asking us where the front door was even after we told him. He got more and more antsy and started to open bedroom doors to find a way out and freaked out a sleeping cooper. The cooper who went upstairs when he found out about the crack came down and took charge, he told us all to get to one side of the room and for the crack guy to leave, he eventually did but not before we had a few scares with the hammer. Crack sucks...
Next day hung out with Ithaca a lot and we went to a show at Katacombs in the night. Ice Cream was supposed to meet us but never showed. The show had the Chaotic Insurrection Ensemble (an anarchist marching band), Micro Armee (a French hip hop group with b-boys, rappers, singers and beatboxers) and a samba collective whose name I forgot. We didn't stay 'til the end because we got tired, we went home cooked up some stir fry and then hit the sack. The next day we dumpstered a ton on breakfast and lunch and made lots of foods. After breakfast we watched two movies about sex and sex culture. Stayed home a bit then headed over to Kunoichi's for ice cream and pie, ended up sleeping over, Guts was there and he slept over as well.
Next day, lots of cooking and hanging out. Australia called and they were all at TKJ's house, I went over to hang since she's leaving on a bike trip, and we went to play tag and grounders at a playground across the street, good times but I realized I'm not as stealthy and fast as I used to be...
Exam tomorrow off to pretend that I'm studying.

Tuesday until now; In chronological order

Tuesday:Went to class all that, blah blah. Later in the night there was a trash race planned but before I went to that I took a friend to see the dumpsters in my area, we got some fruits, vegetables, dairy and bread, nothing too exciting, but not a horrible run either.
The dumpster race was pretty fun, we started at TKJ/Dreads/Guts' place and weren't allowed to use dumpsters we already knew. I was teamed up with Dreads and West (a girl who's friends with Australia) and the other team was Ice Cream, Ithaca and TKJ. We found really random stuff, some necklaces, USB speakers and a hamburger phone. The other team didn't find anything but went to a dumpster we know and brought back a ton of bagels. We ate a ton of bagels into the night and Ithaca, Ice Cream and I ended up sleeping over.
Wednesday:
Woke up at TKJ/Dreads/Guts' place, Ice Cream and Ithaca were there. I think the beginning of the day was spent doing nothing particularly interesting, ate at the potato and just hung out. Later in the evening I met up with a few classmates and my old TA from a theatre class I took last semester for a reunion. That was a bit boring and I used the opportunity to take a nap. Afterward I met up with Pagoda for our "hot date" (according to Ithaca). We rode bikes to her neighborhood and locked up near Friendship Cove (where a show was going to start later) and did a bit of roofing while waiting for the doors to open. We went in and listened to live music and met up with friends and explored the rooftops, there was a gap that I really wanted to jump but decided not to because it was night and I couldn't judge the distance (I wanna go back and do it at some point).
After the show we went back to Pagoda's place and chilled and had tea and went to bed.
Thursday:
Pagoda wakes up at around 10 AM, she's off to work, since I'm up that early I decide to fill up my day and actually do what I kinda planned to do. I hop onto the bike and ride to the meeting spot of "Bike against the Pipe", a bike bloc protest against a pipeline that runs through Montreal.
It was good times, a lot of the crew showed up; Ice Cream, TKJ, Australia, West, Dreads, Ithaca and a few friends from everywhere. We rode out east until we got close to some refineries, once there there was a banner drop and some speeches about oil sucking and being bad. We headed to a refinery with a lawn afterward and ate a nice lunch there before heading back towards downtown, taking up two lanes :).
(if you wanna see some footage of the protest check this video out: http://vimeo.com/10634190)
After the Bike against the Pipe we (Australia, Ice Cream TKJ and another friend) went straight to a protest against Quebec's new budget. It was all good at first, music, flags, large amounts of people all that, but it got dicier later on.
A world trade building was open and people stormed in with a huge cardboard bill that said so and so company owes this much. Doors were locked at the top of staircases and they never managed to get to the offices I don't think. Riot cops arrived and tried to clear everyone out, we didn't stick around for that we left through another exit discreetly and went to the front of the building to see what was happening.
Riot cops were lined up in front of the main entrance and people were yelling at them and throwing stuff because they're you know, cops. After a bit people stopped throwing shit and yelling. People were just standing around being protesters when without warning or provocation the cops charge the crowd beating people and kicking shit over. Needless to say that we all grabbed out shit and run, well we did until we noticed TKJ on the ground clutching his arm, his face contorted into a grimace of pain.
He was sitting on the ground when the police charged and had tried to get up to get out of the way, some cop pushed him down and when he tried to get up again he got smashed on the wrist with a night stick! We were pissed. At first we thought there was a fracture but it was just a nasty bruise either way it was stupid, just charging a crowd unprovoked and without warning, I keep losing more and more respect for police as time goes by.
We bounced after that all headed in separate directions, I went with Ithaca and Ice Cream to Ice Cream's place where her family was waiting and immediately left with her to Ottawa. Me and Ithaca went to some boring meeting to plan an event at her school but left early due to ridiculous amounts of boring. Went back to the Coop and fell asleep.
Friday:
Wake, get dressed, find Ithaca, we head to a friend of her's for potluck brunch (pancakes and French toast ummmm). I climbed her friends roof for fun quickly and came back down. We all joked about it a bit since she was the only one who didn't see me get up or down. After a while I decided to show her and climbed up again.
At the top before I could let the sun really warm me, some crazy janitor guy starts yelling at me from street level, talking about how he'll call the cops, and I'll die and a bunch of ludicrous stuff that's all bullshit. Before I have time to react, a neighbor comes onto his own balcony and starts bitching at me as well. I tell them calmly that I'm just gonna come down and I'll be fine and all that. As I'm climbing down the girl's who's place we're at's upstairs neighbor smiles at me from her kitchen, I smile back an embarrassed smile since I'm kinda getting yelled at and trespassing and alla that. After getting back to the balcony I went back in and no police were called, the neighbor calmed down and sympathized and the crazy janitor left (hope I never see that guy again).
We bounced after that, I went home for a bit and hung with friends in the neighborhood.
Since it's Friday I had to jam with the Frozen Monkeys. Got there a bit (very) late but it was good times. We went to a new spot that I discovered on the ride to the second protest on Thursday, it wasn't as promising as I though but it was still pretty cool, lots of wall runs and cats not much in terms of vaulting and small technical stuff. Frozen Monkeys was Lil Jon, Columbia and I, we worked on turn vaulting large obstacles, wall runs and some other stuff. Lil Jon had messed up his leg not too long before and it was acting up so the jam wasn't the longest and we all left early.
After parkour I met up with a friend from home and a friend from here and we walked around the Old Port a bit then headed home.
Time to take a erst for the night, Pillow Fight Tomorrow!!!!!!!!111

Update I guess

Turns out being cold in -15 weather is normal if you're wearing a tank top and a sleeveless, so I'm comforted knowing that. Stuff with Ice Cream is good, we've talked a bit and we've agreed to be something along the lines of "friends with benefits" or "fuck buddies", which is fine with me, and works for her since she isn't into "pda" (public display of affection). Going to a show with Pagoda Wednesday after hanging with my old theatre class, looking forward to that. There's some talk about replacing a highly visible roof flag with another one, that's probably gonna involve Pines and Lil Jon. Didn't really need to sabotage a lock that was on a dumpster, when we got there with the glue the lock was already gone :D Dumpstered with Australia and TKJ brought back some nuts, chocolate, chips etc, just junk food from the pharmacy dumpster, which is new and shiny and unlocked on the sides, so no more night runs squeezing underneath the lid. Life is good. Been hanging with Ithaca a lot lately she's pretty chill and seems like she's usually down for adventures, she lives at the coop and is big into Food not Bombs.

Be honest

I saw Pagoda today at the People's Potato, she was kinda in a rush to get to class so I told her quickly that I wasn't trying for anything exclusive or anything and she was okay with that. It wasn't nearly as hard as I thought it would be to stay in this situation without hurting anyone, I'm glad everyone is alright with what's going on.

Ethics and Food

Today I ran into Ice Cream, Australia, Thief and Bum at the People's Potato. I took the opportunity to tell Ice Cream I'd probably be seeing someone else at the same time I was seeing her, she seemed alright with it *wipes sweat off brow* she wants to have good communication which I totally agree with.
Food Not Bombs is gonna be busy all week, we're cooking up veggie pate and making sandwiches and all kindsa stuff for a conference this coming weekend about mining and the environment. I was there until around 11.30 at night with TKJ, Australia, Ice Cream and some other peeps. Got some free tofu and also dumpstered some meat (hot dogs and BACON) and a bunch of yogurt (some of which I dropped at Kunoichi's place) on the way home.
I wanna see Pagoda, tell her that I'm seeing someone else at the same time, I don't feel it's wrong seeing more than one person at once, but I don't feel comfortable keep the people I'm seeing in the dark about each other. Pagoda lives in an awesome neighborhood, which apparently has a bunch of punks and has some history of squatting and a nice hop out spot, so I wanna hang out with her there a big and see what's up.
Weather has been ugly but a bunch of us want to return to Jimbo's (our awesome roof squat) and watch a movie, but we'll have to wait until weather permits.

Friday March 19th

Couldn't think of a good title for this one...
This fun stuff started when I showed up to a neighborhood friend's house party. She moved into a new place and it was housewarming time so we socialized there and hung out a bit. At around 11-12ish a girl with a bike and a girl who was going to take the bus told me they were heading to a party called "Art Matters". After some debating I decided to go with them and see what was going on since it was free, (I'm the most broke I've ever been right now, I have less than $30 to my name in the bank at the moment, not that I usually spend any money on anything 'cept rent) I took my bike and headed out with the bike girl (she had a cool pagoda patch so we'll call her Pagoda). We pull up to Art Matters lock up, and just as we walk up to the door we notice the bus girl a block away so we wait for her and go in. Bus girl runs into her boyfriend right off the bat, so me and Pagoda walk around and see if we can find people we know. Pagoda runs into a pal and we talk to him for a bit but we get away quick and she tells me he's kinda a creeper lol. A bunch of people at the party are wearing paper animal masks (racoons, owls and foxes), and Pagoda wants one so I tell her she has to steal on before the night is out, which she does, I'm impressed :). We realized that the party is suck as soon as the music starts, it's a strange electronic band that doesn't sound too good. Everyone at the party is a hipster, no one is dancing and the atmosphere is pretty neutral despite the large number of people present. We decide to leave and head to a different party that her friend is at close to where I live.
We get there on bikes, lock up and go up. The party is really unusual, it's in an office and the DJ is playing strange sounds that aren't melodic enough for me. There are maybe five people dancing up front and about half as many chatting further back. We easily find Pagoda's friends but decide to leave after about two minutes, the vibe is kinda dead. Not sure what to do we end up standing on the corner.
There's a guy who Pagoda calls the "Electronic music guy", he has some sort of mixer/sound board/I don't know and he just makes strange music with it, he's really into it, does it in the street and people give him money. We sat down against a pole and watched him for a bit, just talking and chilling. He left after a bit and we went halfsies on some chow mein, ate that outside and decided to go dumpster on the bikes.
(it's really convenient, ever since I found the black bag at the police protest and customized it to work for parkour, I've been able to carry a ton of useful stuff with me everywhere, it's great. Needless to say I had a flashlight on me when we went dumpstering)
We stopped at home for me to pick up a bag and went out and found a few things, not too much, nothing worth noting really except a BUCKET OF FROSTING, which was amazing. We headed back home after everything and ate pastries with frosting on them! It was a bit late at this point and I asked Pagoda if she was good at cuddling, she told me she was so I told her she could crash her if she wanted to, she thought about it and agreed.
We changed and went to bed. Spooning led to caressing (the funnest thing ever, just trace some lines and draw patterns everywhere on the other person) led to kissing led to falling asleep. First night sleeping in my bed since I started sleeping outside on Tuesday and it was great.