(the return of) irresponsible consumption day

dear friends,

i try to keep my life simple. i get rid of one old thing the minute i get something new. i don't have knick knacks. i like grocery shopping when i just buy what i will use immediately. but, i can't deny that i am a commodity fetishist. during my first foray into teaching marx to girls who were thinking about the next purse they were going to buy, i too used shopping to cope with being alienated from my labor. it was back in 2004 that i declared my first irresponsible consumption day. it coincided with pay day and mcgill free friday (another much beloved tradition). lately i have felt very much like i did in those mcgill days-- too much ra-ing, too much ta-ing, too many papers all in progress, and all work all the time. and i will do some work today, but:

the girls of wallace 129 are going to zoe. i am going to buy clothes and dress like a princeton undergrad (well, as much as is possible for someone who consumes more than just salad). today i am going to buy whatever i want. even if it is gold lamee. or fur. or i will only where it once. i am going to wear some of this new stuff to the re-opening of the graduate student bar (possibly even breaking my boycott on any club that involves standing in line). and when i get into said bar, there will be mass irresponsible consumption of alcohol.

for one day i am going to ignore the structural problems and root causes of my malaise and shop and drink and be merry.

cam

ps- don't judge! i almost declared it sugababes appreciation day.