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Name: Shawn
State: Ohio
Birthday: 12/9/1985
Gender: Male


Interests: Classical music, jazz, other random music. Books. Plants. Fashion.
Expertise: anything with plants, art or music
Occupation: Student
Industry: Fashion


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Member Since: 8/2/2004

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Thursday, August 30, 2007

I am visual. Begining French 'immersion style' is aural. We have a slight....shall we say problem. I can't pick up on quite a bit of what my proff. is saying. All I hear is a bunch of pretty sounds, maybe a word here or there that I recognise from my VOCABULAIRE. I desperately want to be fluent in French. This is just going to be one of the hardest things I will ever do. I'm descent at speaking it though....


Wednesday, August 22, 2007

I never thought I would feel like a freshman again. Only this time on a hugely larger campus. I just don't know anyone yet, this being what makes me feel like a freshman again. On a great note though, no new-to-college anxieties. Oh, and missing the comfortability of BW and the friends. Not BW though. Everything as I expected of course...


Friday, August 17, 2007

Ballet is great, PBS is great, being at home is driving me crazy, I hate packing the end


Wednesday, July 25, 2007

I am sort of upset to find out my sexual orientation is embarrassing to my father.  He's told his coworkers that I am going into business.  Granted, the act of designing and making clothing to sell to customers is a business.  However, Fashion Design is a vastly different degree from that of a Business degree.  Whats more, he mentions how the area of expertise I am pursuing has a reputation of....as he puts it "well.....you know...kinda like......." Nonetheless i finished that statement for him " A BUNCH OF FLAMMMING GAY BUT PIRATE FAGGOTS." Just kidding, thats how I wanted to put it. But you get the point. So he is embarrassed. He also doesn't want to run into a fellow coworker and her son moving in in a few weeks to KSU.  That would just be awkward and he would have to fib about me being a business major. Well I told him I hoped we run into this employee and that we can have a proper chat about my Fashion Design major. If she wants to just assume I am gay then so be it. Not all designers are gay. Not all gay people are designers. This world is not black and white, although my dad has a very worldly aesthetic such as that.

Granted, I should cut him some slack, its not like this is easy for him. But, as a firm believer that sexuality is simply what it is and that being gay is no more special than being straight, he needs a little nudge to get over it. If he sees I am not embarrassed, maybe he won't be. I just want him to be comfortable...and proud sorta. And if he isn't really proud of me going into fashion and he feels that need to warp it into his idea of business....sitting in a cubicle being run by a big boss and running a team of lessors slaving over mathematical figures for 35 years...then I feel slightly, I don't know, really...let down? Upset? Ashamed? Superficially supported??.....


Tuesday, July 10, 2007

so global warming is ever present in my mind anymore.  Perhaps my feeling of desperation is overly reactive and not necessary, but I feel as if people are going to sit around talking about it more than doing something about it. momentum is growing, but at this rate, the damage humans have done is already beyond complete repair. its already to late. the momentum is to slow.  so my desperation is in wondering what I can do to help fix this. Yes everything already gets unplugged when not in use in my present living quarters. I have tried to cut out any excessive food and packaging that only creates more waste.  I even drink tap water at the expense of my health to make up for the waste of bottled water we greedy consumerist humans have littered this earth with, the wonder that is plastic, in hopes of saving the environment.  Whats more is this tap water, at least around here, is highly suspicious for health related issues (underground murmerings which I believe are fully credited, at least theres a strong correlation).  there hasto be something I can do with more impact. perhaps becoming very vocal about global warming. nagging though tends to turn people off but someone has to do it.  Until a better idea comes to mind, my efficient lightbulb, living only on necessary food, unplugging, indoor gardening, and overwhelming feeling of needing to grow every plant in existence myself will have to do. After all, some people have the skills to work with humans and save them, others with animals, still others with plants. I am that last category. I've always had a dream of building a vast collection of every plant species, dividing them up into their natural terrain like environments.  The thought of caring for a whole kingdom of species to ensure their existence until this world ends naturally....am I crazy?

perhaps i am a novice fanatic horticulturist. i shed tears at the thought of species of not just plants but animals disappearing every second so that you or I can print out that essay or have our chicken fingers (? random...). possibly i just appreciate the gift that is this planet, personally not a gift from any diety. just simply a gift, doesn't really truly matter why or how it and we subsequently got here. what matters is that we keep it here so that future generations of human, animal, plant can flourish. enough bickering over religion and differences whether social political or whatever. were all in this together. some day we may by chance find out why and how we got here, but only if we can manage to stick around and not cuase our own distinction. 

so basically i have just illegitimized my own chosen profession at a most basic level. in no way am i the true pure embodiment of a staunch earth...ist?....this is really tough. but i have to remain steadfast to my ideals and guide my profession in a path as to legitimize it. although clothes have never been a 100% necessary for survival, only water air and fire can attest to that. so really what is 100% necessary that anyone can make a career out of cuz apparently money is a driving force thus we have to do something to make it? so why work so as to make money so as to survive so as to.........when there is nothing left to live on, in, for? 

ok i have rambled on far to long, i am a hermit, and the plugs are transferring enough energy for one day.

plugs unplugged.



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