a sleepy sunday

so today i slept in until 11:00. (i've been getting up at 9) then showered, went to brunch and went BACK TO BED for a 1.5 hour nap. it was glorious. i met with my contact person Mo (short for Maureen) today. i brought 2 friends, seth and nicole. Mo baked us a date & cherry cake, which was delicious. she has traveled everywhere and is still very active for a 71 year old. she was telling us how she is against genetically modified crops/organisms (GMO's) and how she joins in protests against them and digs up fields of GMO crops with a bunch of other people in the middle of the night. crazy. she is a firm believer in working with the system for change instead of being angry and trying to oppose it (despite that previous GMO example) and referenced Joanna Macy quite a bit. (someone i will have to look into) Mo was also pretty into the Maya calander and the 'world is going to end in 2012' belief. you can't put stock in everything people say. still she was a very sweet woman and i am going to visit her next sunday for some tea and to do some weeding for her in her garden.
after that, was dinner. (dairy free mashed potatoes, cooked carrots, brussel sprouts and tofu slabs that somehow tasted really good) then most of our group watched a movie called 'waking life' it was amazing. if i tried to explain it, i wouldn't be doing it justice, but the following is copied word for word from the wikipedia entry on the movie:

"In a broad scope, Waking Life is about a young man in a persistent lucid dream-like state. The film follows its protagonist as he initially observes and later participates in philosophical discussions that weave together issues like appearance and reality, free will, our relationships with others, and the meaning of life. Along the way the film touches on other topics including existentialism, posthumanism, and the film theory of André Bazin. The young man eventually comes to the realization that he is dreaming and that he is unable to wake up. By the end of the film, he fears that he might be dead."

it definitely gave me a lot to think about. anyway, classes start tomorrow at 9:15 (!!) so happy dreams to all!