50 Book Challenge-2012

I might have lost a list of a few things read under the not-book category, but I think I can reconstruct my books.

9. "Third Girl from the Left" by Martha Southgate-Three generations of African-American women in a VERY dysfunctional family, but they all find themselves interested in some aspect of film. The grandmother had an interest in how the projectors worked, but couldn't see herself free to actually do anything. The mother was the daughter who ran-away and didn't get farther than an extra in Blaxploitation films in roles like, third girl from the left. And the daughter who becomes a film maker.

10. "Cloud Atlas" by David Mitchell-weird novel with several different stories that get cut-off to start the next story in the next chapter that will somehow reference the previous story and they're all connected. Then after every story's been started, the last chapters revisit the previous stories and ties everything together.

11-17. I read the seven books that is "The Invisibles" by Grant Morrison when collected together. Though granted I didn't get particularly involved in the part of the ending where he's jumping around with Jack as school principal, Jack as telling the story of his life in an alleyway, Jack as a man who's playing "The Invisibles" video game with a relative, Robin as creator of a novel that's become real, whatever else there was for different endings. I'm not going to sit there and puzzle with, what's real? What's the truth for what's happening?

Not 50 Book Challenge-2012

So there was a zine that I only read part-of before returning to Papercut Zine Library about DIY organizing for people of all ages and incomes from Positive Force DC. There was a list in the back about the internet. The points about uneven internet access can be a barrier to participation if your group does a lot of organizing online, stand. Except the list also claimed you don't have community online, just a space you maneuver in and that you don't really make friends online. Makes me wonder what the creators of the zine would think about alt.gothic's Convergence and how a chunk of my closer friends were already friends online before I met them offline.

Of course I'm also thinking about about that 2.5 page zine on race, punk, and anarchism that encouraged us to organize by neighborhoods. I'm wondering how urban and not in the middle-of-bumfuck all these people are/have been.

Tax Advisor Sought for Education Related Advice

I posted the following in davis_square and b0st0n. Anyone here reading this should know I live in the Boston metro-area and my local transit system is the MBTA (Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority or T), which connects in some places to smaller Regional Transit Authorities (RTAs) that services areas outside of the scope of the T.

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So I'm currently in a situation where I might be able to make the finances fall-in place and go to school at Landmark College in VT this Fall. Since they specialize in students with learning disablities, their web site says you can sometimes get a medical deduction as a special education expense and to consult your tax advisor.

I don't have a tax advisor.

So since I have no freaking clue as to how to even start the search process, I'm asking all you snarkers at home for advice. If you have specific advisors for me to check-out, you need to know I don't drive. If someone's particularly kick-ass, I will take the extra time to commuter rail and Regional Transit Authority out to someone.

Especially since the advisor's advice might help me avoid this from being a true statement: College: the fling that lasts 2, 4, 5 years, but costs you a lifetime.

http://www.landmark.edu/admissions/tuition-and-financial-aid/making-landmark-affordable/

ETA Landmark link.