Stacey Cordeiro

I have $55, 000 in student loans, on a 30 year repayment plan. Student loans just perpetuate the myth of class mobility, and I found out too late. Don't go, don't pay, don't end up like me!

generalist

Southwest Corridor Community Farm, Oakdale Community Garden, Sumner Hill Neighborhood Association, Old F@RTS, WORC'N, Stick & Rag Village Orchestra, Boston Workers Alliance, Debo Band, Conjunto de o Novo Gerao, Vanguarden CSA, Boston Area Spinners and Dyers Guild

enough sleep, the right tool for the job, the new cooperative economy, making new dirt, potting up the plants, stone age technology, hot dice, drinking, revolution, making out, not getting evicted, updating my profile, spackling, insulating, hanging drywall, stripping screws, bending nails, hauling the shop vac up and down the stairs, mudding and sanding, caulking, painting, tiling, doing the books, fixing double hung windows, pruning the hedges, mowing the lawn, tuning out the beats, making lists, picking at my skin, turning the compost pile, playing my bike, riding my banjo, weeding the garden, complaining, canning, trying to be an influential but not overbearing big sister, improving my friensters-kissed to friendsters-not-kissed ratio, making gray hairs, procrastinating, coping, recovering, laying naked on a rock by the river, shooing bats out of the house, self-medication, being a force of nature, not a selfish little clod.

The Long Emergency, The Humanure Handbook, Ball Complete Book of Home Canning, Manual of Plant Propagation, Studies in Ancient Technology Volumes I to IX, Understanding Wood, the Natural Paint Book, the Dictionary of Embroidery Stiches, Field Guides to North American Mushrooms and Trees (Eastern Region), The Integral Urban House: Self-Reliant Living in the City, Piano Servicing Tuning and Rebuilding, Rodale's Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening, Communes Law & Commonsense: A Legal Manual for Communities, Flintknapping: Making and Understanding Stone Tools, Anybody's Bike Book, How to Brew, A Weaver's Garden, Singer's Sewing Essentials, How to run a Successful Construction Company, The Revolution within the Revolution: Worker's Control in Rural Portugal, The Great Transformation, Women in the Eritrean Revolution, Working With Your Woodlot: A Landowner's Guide, The Revolution Will Not Be Funded. My favorite thing to read is actually seed catalogs. I keep them under my pillow. Also Harry Potter.

I hardly ever see any movies. So I am easily amused, pissed off, confused, and frightened by them. I have to watch the same movie two or three times before I understand what happened. But here are more books: America in the Twenties, How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America, Coin Laundries: Road to Financial Independence, Building Green, Lehmann's Non-Electric catalog, Mapping Boston, Rites of Way: The politics of Transportation in Boston and the U.S. City, The Stars, Plumbing a House, ACCA Manual J v.8, The Complete Guide to Sharpening, Solar Water Heating, Root Cellaring, Sacred Harp 1991, Franklin Park Woodlands Management Plan

Rude Mechanical Orchestra, The Brand New Orleans County Brass Band, The Jazz Requirement, Modern Lovers, Tracy & the Plastics, the Cramps, the Damned, Scurvy Pirates, Black Lung Brass Band, Prokofiev, Elizabeth Cotten, Strawberry Switchblade, Delta 5, Soft Cell, Bow Wow Wow, U$Aisamonster, Prince, Laurie Anderson, Dead or Alive, Saturday Night Fever, Bikinikill, Johnny Cash, Poison Girls, Heart, Tom Waits, X Ray Spex, Mirah, Abe Schwarz Orchestra, Jelly Roll, Doc Cook, Verbal Assault, Stereototal, The Ex, Black Sea Quartet, Hungry March Band, Hot Fives, Celestin's Tuxedo Orchestra, Swing Caravan, Slavic Soul Party, Jesus & Mary Chain, Wire, Fanfare Ciocarlia, Second Line Social Aid & Pleasure Society Brass Band, Konono No.1, Zlatne Uste, Can Kickers, Beat Circus, Magnetic Fields, Jesus Christ Superstar, Warsaw Village Band, What Cheer? Brigade, Tsehaitu Berake, Kimmo Pohjohnen, Highway 61 Revisited, Tlahoun Gessesse, Conlon Nancarrow, Daniel Kahn & the Painted Bird, Mulatu Astake, and god help me, Ki

yahoo mail, pandora, reciva, myfamily.com, friendster, ziprealty.com, zillow, google, indymedia, amazon, weather.com, wikipedia, commoncensus.com, myspace (yes, I joined), icanhazcheezburger, gmaps pedometer, babelfish translator, MIT open courseware.

Taurus

hypothyroidic, endometrionic, plantar fascistic, Azorean, utopian, old-timey, flannel-lined, steel-toed, low-VOC, primitive, high-tech, green/red, wind-up, unboyfriendable, unfuckwithable, thorough, lusty, tired, committed, overcommitted, forgetful, loyal, hemstiched, ribbon-embroidered, bedazzled, applique'd, unplugged, pentatonic, polyrhythmic, psychometric, blenderized, pre-seasoned, bobinette, waterproof, plush, non-hydrogenated, equal-tempered, ungovernable.

People who read the JP Gazette. People who take the time to get it right the first time. People who believe in trying and trying until you get it right. People who can teach me new things. People who haven't got it all figured out already. People who have become quite comfortable with their utter insignificance but feel like trying hard at things anyway. Gardeners! Farmers! Lumberjacks... Post-punks. Over 30's. Over 40s. People who don't think that's being ageist. Anyone who wants to buy me birthday presents from my amazon.com wish list. People who actually do what they say they'll do. Anyone who is dead serious about the revolution and wants to win. I already have enough friendsters, what I need is comrades.