today is my mother's birthday.

today is the raymond ackerman academy alumni reunion.

tonight is 'earth hour'.

it's overcast & drizzling in the morning.
there's a small turnout @ the graduate school of business. nareeman her kids & husband dean. sam(antha) & our class of january 2008 baby, her youngest (he's big with the biggest, dark brown, bright eyes). stacy (sadly without her baby to show off). rastafarian jason from the class before ours talks about a lot of interesting topics - industrial paints & materials; african continental development; travel; nicola tesla etc. bianca, pamela & washeema are all from the class that i helped recruit. sisa is there but luvuyo is absent - they've apparently had lots of success at the baxter theatre. it's very good to see cameron again. elli is fabulous & smart, as usual. stanley shows up - all smart, beaming & apparently very successful. first time i have a full conversation with serena (hilda's replacement counselor) - who's also in all black dress & impersonating 'batgirl'. she gets teased by elli because tells all about her self-confessed "awesome-ness!!" during her job interview. mampho is late but it's good to see her... handsome junaid is the split image of grant, who was in high skool the year after my class.

today is the launch of the raymond ackerman academy website. mr ackerman sent us all a well-wishing video message.

a speaker from social networking data-miners 'instant grass' ("grass" is irish for snitch) introduces us to www.1501.com.

on my way home i meet losuko, from our soundandmotion internship, tending the train ticket office.

superboy is caught in the twilight zone & metropolis is facing apocalypse.

near full moon.
after 'earth hour' i switch on the tv again to an instrumental version of peter gabriel's 'signal to noise' on the 'gangs of new york' soundtrack. i always thought the movie is just an attempt to prove to white america that they also have gangster origins & don't need to "wigger" to get street cred.