Oh nap time!

So I turned in another midterm and of course procrastinated until the last possible minute,didn't have enough sleep and now I'm grumpy.I am hoping yoga will help but first a nap.falling asleep to Lauryn Hill is nice.So the official medical diagnosis is that my ankles and feet are fine.Well sort of...they are definitely bruised and swollen but they are not now nor have they ever been fractured or broken.It was mad cheap too...the benefits of health care.
Unrelated but related I had a very long conversation in the hallway at school about being poor/working class and in college.We laughed a lot which I feel like inevitably happens in conversations like that.Just funny stuff like how you conveniently eat at someone else's house when you seen to be out of food. It was also interesting because one guy was Puerto Rican and moved to Jersey later and talked about the differences there.Mostly we just talked about how people without enough resources are really good at building communities more out of necessity than anything else.So that was super fun and I was supposed to be studying.But who needs studying when there is a life to be lived.
Also Japanese is kicking my ass...the class moves so fast and we are tested constantly.Booooo.But for my class on Nationalism,Ethnicity, and Politics there are all kinds of great things...including this kid who needs an atlas and an encyclopedia.I just want him to stop asking dumb ass questions like "Where exactly is Ireland?' or "What's the deal with Braveheart?"Just shit that any fool in his position,which is quite cushy and involves boat shoes could just wikipedia.The best was him blaming the Sikhs for 9/11.Wow!But for the final in that class I am thinking about writing on Bhutanese nationalism, or rather I was until I remembered how limited resources are at this library.But it is an interesting Kingdom where the king has decreed that everyone has to wear traditional dress in public spaces.And(yeah I know you can't start a sentence like that)independent travel is not allowed in the Kingdom.All travelers must go on a government sanctioned tour and the tours cost on average about US $300 a day.The idea behind all this is cultural reservation.But then this always brings up interesting questions of what parts of cultures.Who's culture?Is this a real or imagined community?Aren't all nation imagined communities.It is fascinating...and if you are gonna look it up I recommend looking on the travelers forums as well particularly Lonely Planet.Some interesting ideas being batted around about power in privilege.Like is it a fundamental right for your crusty ass to be able to go anywhere you want in the world.What kind of upbringing conveys these ideas that you can and should be able to go anywhere.Is that liberal or colonizing.So that's my brain all empty and picked.
But I will probably just write the paper on gender and nationalism so I have one final that I don't have to stress about and ya know I like it.
Oh yeah so I only got two votes about pictures but they both cared so I will put up a bunch over the weekend.