Laura Lee:: I am vegan. I am tattooed. I love the earth. I believe in love regardless of gender or race. I will spend my life fighting oppression and spreading compassion. Sometimes my dogs are my favorite people in the world. My family has a second home on the big island of Hawaii, and that is where my heart is. I wish I could fly away...
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03/30/2008: "Piecing my heart together"
music: Queen - "Bohemian Rhapsody"mood: Happy
I haven't written in a while! But basically it's been the same kind of thing day after day... pretty monotonous.
However! Josh and I got our tattoo (FINALLY) last week. You can see lots of pictures in the Gallery. It's a heart made out of puzzle pieces. I'm sort of wanting to cover up my rainbow tattoo, just because the colors bled as it healed and it lost its quality. Morgan, the artist who did our hearts, informed me that it would be easier to cover up than to fix. I want to get an animal, perhaps a panda... but in order to look really good like my others, it would need to be fairly large, and I'm not sure how I would feel about a visible tattoo that I couldn't cover up without long sleeves. Sometimes I do feel like my tattooing won't be complete until I have a large tattoo that really represents my core. I don't want to have small tattoos scattered over my body because then I will become like the back of my car - a collage of bumper stickers. I'd rather have something huge and intricate like a rainforest scene... something nature related... maybe on my ribs or one of my legs. Of course something like this would be very costly and take hours and multiple sittings to complete, and I'm in no position for that now. Hopefully in my future before I'm too old, I can get a tattoo like this, and then I will be complete.
My spring break just ended, which is sad. But there are less than 2 months of school left, and then I get to embark on a summer internship! So no real break.... but it should be another great experience, like Greenpeace was last summer.
Another thing I have been doing lately is volunteering at a dog rescue organization called BARK. It's been so fun. On Friday I helped take 10 puppies and 4 older dogs to the Prevent a Litter and SPCA to be spayed and neutered. Although one of the dogs had massive diarrhea on the way there, it was still fun. I got to hold a small puppy named Bernard for a good 20 minutes, and I wanted to take him home! I hate not having animals in the dorms! I feel so removed from the important things around here.
