political struggles

i spent the majority of last night, when i was not busy practicing stepping in the street with chidi, discussing politics with a right wing man in my corps. i never realized how radical i was (and i don't even consider myself radical) until we started conversing. i like that elements of CY culture have come out, like saying, i must respectfully disagree to every statement that i said. it fired me up to talk to him. i invited him to this talk i am going to in october at the jamaica plain social forum. it's called 10 myths about immigration, presented by aviva chomsky. he got my number, shook my hand and said, i'm down, as long as it doesn't turn me liberal. bradley said i was trying to make a convert. i have realized i might be a socialist. but i have to figure out what that means before i go around declaring that.

he talked a lot about upholding democracy. and about how our nation is being threatened. our new roommate jessica is also very conservative. she's the southerner in our real world housing situation. last night i also blew up at colin because he has no respect for the fact that bradley had gone to bed. colin is loud. and he comes over uninvited, but he is a 2nd year corps member.

jessica's parents drove from tennessee and brought her a full size bed, and four huge plastic boxes full of kitchen supplies. she's still taking classes to graduate this december and she is pretty excellent. i think she was angry that we were having our little political spiel last night and she avoided it entirely.