Weekend Update

I finally registered for the GRE's. I did so on Tuesday night. So now i am out $115 bucks, and because of the monetary loss, which always speaks louder to common folk than most other kinds of loss, i am finally being a better stickler about studying for it. I finished reading through and practicing bits of the verbal section, so this afternoon, i'm going to one of the Boston Public Library branches and taking a verbal practice test.

So i should go, because they close at five.

ALSO, Dan and i went to the Reproductive Rights Conference at Hampshire College this weekend. It was a real eye-opener. I tell you, you can be a liberal and think you know what's going on, but until you actually listen to the panels and listen to what is still going on that you assumed stopped fifty years ago, you don't really realize how much more work there is to do, and how reproductive rights means something completely different if you're a 26 year old poor black mother who is in jail for 20 years because you stole baby food -- most women in that situation are sterilized. Um, it was a powerful conference. There was only one part of it that really took away for me, and it was an abysmally unfocused workshop on masculinity. It was written up as how men and other masculine-identified individuals can be reproductive choice allies in the face of all the negative attention "masculinity" gets today, but instead it was more boxing in of what masculinity really means. We left.

But it is time to shower and go.