Today is May 1st, International Workers’ Day, in which proletarians gather around the world to fight capitalism and express solidarity with their fellow human beings.
Happy May Day and Solidarity to All.
I’ve been away from this blog (for the most part) for the past few months to focus on completing my master’s thesis project. After months of conceptualizing, re-conceptualizing, gathering data, conceptualizing again, testing hypotheses, writing, re-writing, re-re-writing, and proofreading, my master’s thesis is finally done, complete, finished! I’ll officially receive my MA next week. Now that this stage of my life is past, I’ll be posting more regularly on this blog — at least until I start work on my PhD in the fall. 
My Thesis is Finally Complete!!!
Great song.
South Dakota has an art museum?
I hope I live to see it opened
SDSU’s beautiful campus
Brookings, South Dakota
South Dakota sky
The student ghetto
South Dakota is awesome!
Brookings is nice
The student union
Ancient steps to the campanile
They just don’t make streetlights like they used to
Louisiana Purchase plaque at SDSU’s campanile
The campanile juts into the sky
The symbol of SDSU
Class of 1909 . . . 100 years before I graduated
I love spring
The campanile
SDSU has one of the world’s most beautiful campuses
SDSU classroom buildings
A classroom building at SDSU
SDSU is great
Teddy Roosevelt was president when this bench was built.
Why can’t Minnesota colleges look like this?
A few pictures I took last weekend at South Dakota State University in Brookings, SD.
Go Big. Go Blue. Go Jacks.
These are some pictures I took yesterday on the South Dakota-Minnesota border, just east of Brookings, SD. The pictures, taken during an unusually warm and sunny early April day, illustrate both the haunting desolation and sublime beauty.
Minnesota may be the ‘Land of 10,000 Lakes,’ but Lincoln County is definitely not. This area of the state is on the high, flat, dry, dusty Great Plains.
A picture of my car, which is parked in Minnesota, from South Dakota. I walked across the state line just to say I did (I’ve done this in other states). The SD-MN border is about two feet in front of my car, about where the pavement curves.
I took this picture looking out across the Minnesota plains from just behind the South Dakota welcome sign on the SD side of the border (it’s the big one on the right sign of the image).You can see the Minnesota welcome sign and my car, just on the MN side of the border, in the center of the picture.
Welcome to Minnesooota. Yah, you betcha, eh.
If you look closely, you can see someone chiseled “Vikings Suck” into the Minnesota welcome sign. I guess that person was from South Dakota ;).
Not all of Minnesota is trees and lakes; a large section of it is on the High Plains
The welcome sign in a very desolate area of Minnesota. The nearest town over 1,000 is 20 miles away; the nearest major city (Omaha, Nebraska) about 200 miles away.
I took this picture on the South Dakota side of the state line, looking into Minnesota. The big sign in the center is the “welcome to South Dakota” sign.
The flatness of the High Plains makes for a beautiful contrast with the deep blue spring sky. This picture was taken right on the border, looking south across highway 14. South Dakota is on the right side, Minnesota on the left.
Me on the MN-SD border during a beautiful spring day.
This picture was taken on the Minnesota side, looking into South Dakota. The flat land in this part of the country makes for big skies and beautiful sunsets.
My ugly mug in front of the South Dakota sign, a few minutes before another beautiful prairie spring sunset.
I took this picture while standing directly on the South Dakota-Minnesota border. SD is to the left, MN is to the right.
A derelict fireworks stand about 5 feet west of the South Dakota-Minnesota border. The 6th of April isn’t known for firework shows.
South Minnekota Sublimity
Spring’s kind warmth, blue skies, and sunshine hit Chicago, Illinois after a long, snowy winter.
Urban Spring
Marriage is for all: lesbian, gay, straight, or otherwise. Love is love. 
