It's weird, y'know? I'm never there on Sundays. If I have to study, I bring my books home with me for the weekend. But I was there today for the SOA Watch legislative sessions. It's ridiculously easy to reserve rooms here at the George Washington University School of Law, so I just grabbed three and oop! we had a mini-conference thing. I learned how to show movies with the help of neat-o GWU media guy Andrew and made copies in the library. Aside from that, I just sat around and studied Civil Procedure.

One big downer was some of the conversation at the anti-oppression working group's workshop. It's amazing how quickly white people are able to turn serious talk about racism into a blame game, or abstract it to the point where it doesn't really matter that they're speaking so dismissively to poor sweet Gail, who is the only black person in the room, as she becomes visibly tense, standing stiffly with her mouth tightening into a hard, weary line. Why can't people see what's in front of them?

But not everyone was that way, indeed really only a few loud voices. All in all it was a good time. The day was good for me. Sometimes I feel like I don't do anything anymore except study. But now I've found my true calling in life: reserving rooms.
posted by weiss @ 10:51 PM