Cary’s 100% Generic Blog

I know I’ve been bad. I haven’t posted anything in nearly two months now.

Things you should know:

- I graduated recently. I’m a real, honest-to-God university graduate now, which means I can write B. Arts & Sc. (Hons) when I want to be really pretentious.

- My parents bought me a Cole Clark FL1A acoustic guitar as a graduation gift. It is wonderful. But she needs a name. Suggestions?

- I’ve been working at CCE (the place I worked last summer and all school year) as the receptionist. It’s pays well, but it’s not the most intellectually stimulating job in the world.

- Still looking for a job for the fall. Hoping something at McMaster will pop up (preferably at CCE).

- Half-Past 8 P.M. is going very well. I’m extremely proud of my cast and crew and all the hard work that they put in. Now to market the shit out of it so they have an audience. We’re doing the “you must all be promoting this show” talk tonight. Can’t wait.

- The Summer Performance Festival has been getting a lot of love from me lately. New website (sidenote: I love Wordpress), and we’re meeting with the McMaster School of the Arts people sometime next week to discuss the extent to which they can support us. Official university support + money = awesomeness. People seem really interested in it, too -yesterday we had around 200 hits, and so far today we’re at 40.

- I have been spending a ridiculous amount of time on Twitter following the #iranelection stuff. It’s fascinating stuff - Twitter covered all the major events days before the major Western news meda. I am cautiously optimistic for the Iranian people.

- A few new friends to add to the sidebar. Blogdenville, a blog run by friend Jillie from Chillie, and Obscure References Monthly, a website run by my housemates Nick, Brendan and Mike. Please visit them!

 Looking back over this entry, it more closely resembles a series of tweets than a blog post. Gah! Twitter is destroying my brain.

I will come back with a longer post when I have some free time. I promise.

Maybe you’ve been following the recent events in Iran extremely closely - with Twitter, an RSS feed, and BBC News running on the television 24/7. Maybe you have absolutely no idea what’s going on - and could care less (educate yourself). Either way - there is important, potentially world-changing stuff going on in Iran right now.

Being the news junkie that I am, I’ve been following it all pretty closely - especially on Twitter, which was the best source of news on Iran from last Friday until Wednesday, when our media started to say, holy shit, these tens of thousands of people protesting an unfair, undemocratic election might actually be newsworthy! and began acting like they gave a damn.

I give a damn. There are a lot of young people protesting in Tehran - probably about my age. As far as I can tell, we’re not that different - at least not in the ways that really matter. Many of them are students with hopes, dreams, and aspirations. They want to be treated fairly. They want to be heard. And so when it became apparent that their presidential election had been stolen from them - not lost, but stolen - they took to the streets in protest. What started out as protests quickly became a movement, as the regime clamped down on communications and more people took the the streets.

Green is the colour of the movement. It represents many of the things that I take for granted - freedoms that are so deeply embedded in my way of life that I have difficulty seeing that they’re there. I don’t know how much I know about Iran’s current government is accurate, but if the little bit that I know is correct, then the protesting Iranians are amazingly courageous. There aren’t many things people outside the country can do to help, but I’ve tried to do something (changing my Twitter location to Tehran, for instance. Or even Twittering about what was going on in those early stages - to get the word out. I tried setting up a proxy, but that was beyond my technical ability, even with ). I’ve changed the header’s colour to green to show my solidarity with the Iranian people, and their hope for a freer, fairer country.