right now i am trying to write a survey for rural young womyn in canada and their relationship with ICTs but i keep on getting distracted by cyberfeminists, aKa cyber-distraction-terrorists! there are so many cool womyn looking to democratize the development of ICTs and the ways that ICTs are used in development work. one cool lady that i just met is my new academic advisor, norman hellica. norman hellica is the director of international relations at the university of morellos, in mexico. right now she's doing her PHD on media, education, and international development and i had so much fun talking to her about all the different trends, partners, websites, and conferences that are happening around this topic. she hadn't heard of TIG before so i gave her the address as well as YDCO.

aswell, in my research i found another awesome lady named natalie jeremijenko... anarchist, activist, feminist and engineer!!

http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/001450.html

what a neat womyn... i can't help being jealous of her brain. somedays i wish i could just lock myself in a room for a year and read read read........ i would read all of the books on cyberfeminism, anarchism, buddhism, islam, racism, popular education, and all that shizzo. i guess it would get boring after a while but sometimes i feel like i'm too busy to actually obsorb all of these ideas. of course i guess the books lose a lot of meaning when you can't compare them to reality?

it's like learning about independent media, without a pen, paper or computer to make any. how are you suposed to learn about it if you don't do it? one of my friends david sheen was in arcitecture school, and he was so pissed off at the amount of assignments he was getting. he didn't have time to be with his family or have normal relationships with people. sheen said that it was rediculus to be building houses for people, if he couldn't even be with people while learning to build houses. i think that this is very symbolic of the unwholistic nature of mainstream education. i guess we need reality to compare and contrast what we learn in books.

see? i am so frazzled......

someone needs to invent a "no-sleep" pill so i can get all the things done that i need to get done. the curiosity never stops.

elle.