23rd Hour Appeal

One more post from Denmark I guess...yikes I have really grown to love this place! What an about-face. There must be no other city in the world that moves at this speed. Also the parks, the green spaces, its marvelous. I think Stockholm probably outstrips Denmark in this department because there seemed to be more set-aside space there and the lake and sea make for so much water. I WILL see Stockholm in the summer before my 27th birthday (ah, 27, what an unlucky age!).

So I am in my death throes now here in Denmark...breathing that fresh Scandinavian air for the last few times before I return to the world center of smog. I am making a few last ditch appeals...very last ditch appeals. A friend of a friend is running for mayor in my glorious hometown of San Diego (and a plug, vote Donna Frye!!) so I am seeing if Mrs. Frye's campaign would be willing to bankroll a European world-tour where I would hit as many urban centers as I can by election day to gather the support of absentee San Diegans. I offer a dirt cheap zealot who believes firmly in Donna Frye. I offer a mind that is keyed toward political persuasion, the only thing I may do better than lifeguarding. I offer a body that knows minimalism of the highest degree and is not averse to slumming it for a couple months in the name of two higher causes (Donna Frye's election and my continued exile). We are at the 23rd hour! Wish me luck.

Otherwise I have developed a summer theme for my time in Houston (unless I land part time work in San Diego where I have several offers of couches to crash on if I can come up with food/surf wax/book money). I call it a "Spartan Summer" for several reasons. I will dedicate myself to toil with the masses this summer, but I am also dedicating myself to 2-3 workouts a day and a steady diet of theory. I plan to complete my first book this summer co-opting several themes I have been working on lately that have emerged as a series of temporal essays. The ideas are roughly a critique of liberalism and the rule of law (specifically in international human rights law), a theory of international human rights law that is communal and inter-subjective, and finally an argument for international legal, political and economic integration. I see myself as going out on a limb here because I plan to defy all the party lines I can possibly defy in the process...and I plan to spare no rhetorical weaponry in the process. Thus, in two days the Spartan Summer begins, and so history re-emerges from the current stagnant and decadent pause.