Woah Its been tooo loooong.....

Hi Blog, let me reintroduce myself.  I know its been a while but I'm ready to catch up.  Its now been almost a month since I've been back from my exciting adventures in Vancouver.  Its been bittersweet in the sense that I'm happy to be home to see my family and friends and boyfriend, but I miss the work I was doing, the new friends I made and the beautiful, beautiful mountains of BC.  It was an ok transition back.  I'm working really hard at transitioning to a new role at the Y.  I've had fun and loved the opportunity to work in the position I'm in at the location I'm at, I'm just ready for a new challenge.  I'm sure I'll keep you posted blog, as I am now settling down a bit from the "lets get lunch and chat", "how about happy hour" which I love cause my friends missed me as much as I missed them. 

I like this blog because I get to talk about the stuff I really like: Music, Social Issues and not to sound too arrogant, ME.  I recently got an iPhone...I know what you're thinking. "What about your trusted, scratched flip phone you've had for the last three years" ...well, it has been recycled and I've taken a very, very serious step in my relationship and got on his plan.  I know, its a big, big step after dating for a year. But, I like money and it saves me a lot of it.  Anyway, I'll be able to blog even more about stuff I like, so get ready....

First, the music part.  I have newly discovered (because I have an iPhone now) the wonderful world of Spotify.  So glad i did too because have a lot of catch up to do with bands and their new albums I didnt get to listen to while I was in Canada. 

One group I'm really digging is Wild Belle.  It is a group of two people from Chicago, Natalie and Eliot Bergman.  I think they are brother and sister.  But anyway, they have this great reggae-esque chill vibe with a sultry sax and Natalies voice that is smooth as can be, kinda "erykah badu-ish. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EtYBbPH-kw

(for some reason I can't post the video so heres the link)

Its excellent!

On another note, in my travels I met a lovely girl, Julia Satlari from Argentina who gave me an essay to read by Eduardo Galeano called "The Right to Delirium".  It is a really interesting essay about history and how we have the right to imagine what we would like in the future, a world.....

Where the air will be clean of every poison that doesn’t come from human fears and human passions
Where the TV will no longer be the most important member of the family, but will be treated like the clothes iron or the washing machine; 
Where people will work to live and will not live to work; 
Where nobody will die of hunger, because nobody will die of indigestion
Where street children will not be treated like garbage, because there will be no street children
Where rich children will not be treated like money, because there will be no rich children
Where perfection will continue to be the absurd privilege of the gods, but in this untidy and messed-up world, every night is lived as if it is the last and every day as if it is the first

a few excerpts from the essay that i liked and a little food for thought.  To read the entire essay go to

http://www.normangirvan.info/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/the-right-to-delirium_doc.htm