yo Taylor, i didn't mean to ride your ass or anything, i just wanted to straighten out my argument

Yeah i was thinking of getting my own "copy" of CS2 as well. I think I'll wait though this computer I'm using is kinda of slow even using 5.5. I don't think I have much use for illustrator, looked at it and couldn't really find any use for what I was doing. Nope just Photoshop, since I'm not a graphic designer or anything like that that will do just fine. I don't think I even use 10 percent of what 5.5 can do. As for Grand Arms, I'm stuck on finding inspiration right now. If they sold inspiration at a store I would be buying it by the truckload right now.

downloading illustrator CS2! w00t w00t!!! Now if only that damn keygen would start downloading too...

It's funny, I keep scrapping my portfolio page in favour of new ideas. The crazy thing is that the more I work on this portfolio, the more things I make to go INTO the portfolio. On top of it all, I keep learning how to use new programs, the latest of which will be adobe illustrator CS 2 which can go into the resumé! I will be an unstoppable force. Hopefully.

$200 a week? Isn't rent at a decent apartment around $800 a month? Sounds like they want you to move out or something. On another note I've decided after talking with Mark to get a Acura RSX. Now all I have to do is get a job.

Three m's? Two e's?

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

I know where you're commming from Taylor, my parents make mee pay $200 a month while Im working, which was more than what they charged both my sisters.

Maddox: Star Wars Episode III: a steaming pile of Sith.

anyway, I got sidetracked. The reason I came on here is to tell you the great injustice I've been committed:

I've been informed that starting this week I must pay $200 rent a week to live at home. HOLY FUCK... where do they get these ridiculous rates from!?? That's crazy, eh?

I know what you're trying to say, but this was my whole problem (that I decided not to write about) with Eric's argument to begin with. Rather than saying we're trying to be all white, just say "neutral", because I for one do NOT want to be white; I personally cannot stand a good number of the connotations that go along with that label. I just fuckin want to be an individual. I consider myself first and foremost to be a product of my community, Edmonton, and secondly as a world citizen.

Yeah, I can see where you're coming from. Maybe comments like that are too much of a reflex for me.

I also had a feeling issues like this would be brought up when I asked my question about the whole affair. It is just one of any number of frustrating things that come up when we discuss these 'race' issues. The starting point of this whole debate for me was frustration. We're supposed to be in this 'tolerant' and 'diverse' environment, but I ended up with the feeling that buying into that environment somehow made me naive or ignorant about the issues around the Grewal/Dosanjh issue (hence, my question.)

Of course, all of this is our society trying to figure out how to shake off the preconceptions and prejudices we have about different groups. In struggling to get away from negativity about different people, we end up with this reverse racism that eric is talking about, where we force positive preconceptions on people. Of course, the only way to get this pendulum to settle down is to have discussions like this; discussions that challenge our preconceptions and force us to think about and reconsider these notions we have.

In a way, phrased in a horrible sort of way, we want to all end up being 'white' (by which, of course, I mean the unclassified, neutral status that eric described earlier... hmm, perhaps beige is a more apt description...)

I have a bad feeling that that quote, out of context, may come back to haunt me.