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somethin’

• I read about a winery in the golan heights whose future is uncertain, and it got me thinking alot about the arbitraryness of territorial claims, shifting borders, which side of the border you are, who gets to administer you, and impermanence. 
  
• I was at a party with 2 psychologists, 1 social psychologist, 2 geeks, a top class skater, some amazing cartographers/geek/ontologists, a privacy lawyer, a northern sea ice researcher and a kinestheologists.  This consisted of alot of water - aka gin tonics and fruit salad - aka vodka & fruit.  The conversation somehow got to yentil, statistical definitions of identity, identity bound into territory, norms attached to identity, wishing to move beyond identity politics, the politics of identy and political correctness and reverting to manitoba proud!
• i watched the movie archangel, filmed in russia, it included an archivist who was a lenin expert who uncovers the secret that lenin bore a son who was brought up in the deep rural north of russia who was about to be introduced to the world.  The terrain in Russia was fertile for his homecoming and followers were waiting for a return to the good old days!  The images, manufacturing of ideology, iconography and idolatry soup creating a context for people to still believe and want back to that time of control and certainty.  How easy it would be to revert back to that.
• I met an elderly academic who is devoting the rest of his life to the Bhutanese refugees of Nepali descent, and to reveal how the the Happiness index loving king has created such a wonderful persona that the world is just not ready to hear about the fact that there are so many exhiles from this seemingly perfect country.  The gentlemen has sent numerous kids to school, changing peoples hearts one child at a time.
  
• I sold a ton of my old junk on the side of the road to friends, some really cute young couples, some honest kids who came and paid later, a local hooker and the pimp she beats up as well as a latino family who was so happy to get new stuff!  I also traded my music infrastructure for some music.  Some great friends also now have some of my stuff in their house - physical memories.
  
• I then had breakfast with a nanotechnologies, an organ donor researcher, a person conducting a comparative analysis between Korea and Turkey and an egg marketing specialist.
  
• Later i had dinner with a couple of Nagas, their Somali Friend, 2 french friends, and my fave pals.  Brochette and a wonderful talk about the changing nature of relationships.
• I then communicated with many cities officials related to some really interesting work
  
• Worked on a travel visa related to research
• read about a strange lenin experiment where he was trying to genetically create an ape type of human that would be muscle, no brains, to be an army, the geneticists involved, and then i thought of lord of the rings and the orks.
• went out with two great friends on elgin street and got completely pickled on a school night
  
• and now i am getting ready to go to a farm in castleman to erect a teepee and get the place ready for 60 judoka for the first ever annual judo party for my club!
• I also had a wonderful conversation on what it is that defines a people
  
• The week before was equally as amazing and i left out a bunch of details for this week, and i have a special homework assignment for next week!