We've Got a Life to Live they say.. Day 9, and I still haven't brushed my hair. I guess you could say I dont find the use in it anymore. Often I have considered banishing other social mandates but all seem to hold some purpose. For instance, to stop brushing my teeth would hold some unhygenic reprecautions, as would refusing to bathe or wear contacts. However, I have yet to find a use for brushing my hair except to encourage broken strands and frizzed out do's. I can now say that I have discovered I have naturally curly hair and I have been fighting that for the last 18 years. Whether or not that was an important discovery i can't say...

Things feel a little more like home. I slept naked last night for the first time since moving from Oregon and it was so much more liberating than i remember it being. I can also fart, burp, leave dirty underwear out, and be a general slob without feeling uncomfortable in any extent. This could mean good things, or that I have turned into a totally uncivilized slob. Which ever it is, I like it.

One thing I can say is that I am glad that I am a woman, and that I have a the internet. Because without the essential organs, societal responsabilities, emotions, thought processes, worrysom ways of a woman, I would never be able to analyse and experience life as I do. I read today "I think, but what does that mean?" by Spinoza and he really hit home with me. We always say I think therefore I am but because I am a woman I want to know more. When i learn in African American studies that less than 200 years ago woman who were black where sold in ads reporting that "this one ought to make a good breeder", I realized not only the capability I have to produce more "am's" but also, what it means to be alive today. And thats why I am glad I have the internet. Those emotions I am blessed with as a woman push me to stay connected to people I otherwise wouldnt put forth the effort to reach. Not to say I dont enjoy the connection. On the contrary; often they are the highlights of my day. But without my mind, without my "I think", without my womanly emotions, and more importantly, without AIM, I wouldn't achieve these highlights.

I hope to post some pictures my lovely roommates and I took one day on our coffee study break when the sky was absolutely stunning but my internet is a bit on the fritz. We'll see how it goes in the morning.  ¶ 11:14 PM