I studied for my GRE a few hours today and I am waiting for a friend of mine to go for a walk around Davis's arboretum. I feel dizzy all day, but I am little better now. I really can not go to gym tonight. This light walk might help me. There are too much to say and in the main time, I don't feel to write. I need some hard rock music to boost me up. I am going to LA next week. That may change my mood. Not much to say.
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A Social Numb?
Sitting outside of American River College's Student service, I am waiting for Behnam to take his assessment test. A lady next to me slapped her child more than five times because she was picking cigarettes from the ground and chewing them. What could I do? Nothing. I did not want get into a conversation with her. I let it go. Shouldn't I?
There are some situation that we know are wrong. A few weeks ago, I was in Cal for McNair Symposium. I was standing next to my poster and I was ready to take audiences question. Imagine me on my formal business pants, shirt, and tie, standing in a hallway. One of Cal McNair managers came to me asked me why I don't smile. I did not answer him. I did not tell him that he just make a sexist comment and he would not make such a comment if I was a male standing there. But I did not say anything. Like ten minutes ago when that crazy lady slapped her baby in front of me?
When is the time for reaction? Why we don't bother ourselves to get to some certain conversations? Of course these are not comfortable and pleasant dialogues, but is this a good excuse? I don't want to turn to a social numb. Keeping myself involve with what goes around me has been always a concern. I don't want to turn to a numb.
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Back to Business!
I need to start writing in my beloved Acorn again. I know. I promised that a lot here and that never happened. How about if I categorize my post into three main parts and force myself to write even one line everyday about it? Here is those three: my new job as Sac State Women's Resource Coordinator, my fucking GRE test, which is coming in less than two months, and my daily observation of what's going around me including Iran's current situation. You know it has been in crises since June's presidential election. Do not you?
1. We moved! for second time in less than a year, WRC ( which stands for Women's Resource Center) has moved and now has a new home in Student Union, 3rd floor and to be exact, inside students activities office. PRIDE and WRC are sharing a small space and basically we are not center any more. We are just an office, but I have to create all events and program for this coming semester from there. We would see how does it go. Nicole and I unpacked all day and I did some research on other campuses WRC's program. I came with few new ideas.
2. I am in Monique's conference room, supposed to go through my vocabulary today and start memorizing them! Well, I am blogging now, but that's what I am going to do next. GRE till 7 and then I would head the gym.
3. Appointing two women in his ministry doesn't make him a women's right advocate! I am talking about Iran's selected president Mahmoud Ahmadi Nejad. Different bloggers have different opinions on that. Some look at it as a way to empower women and see it as a result of all women's right activist who finally put that in the government agenda, but some see that as another, and easier way to put women down. I would write my idea about it soon.
Back to GRE!
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