We finally had our long-awaited retreat, camping out northeast of SD county, 5,000 ft above sea level.
Refreshed, albeit lingering nostalgia: ready for coursework, running the store, technology and reality.
Sunday, April 22, 2012
4/20 and Earth Day Weekend
We finally had our long-awaited retreat, camping out northeast of SD county, 5,000 ft above sea level.
Refreshed, albeit lingering nostalgia: ready for coursework, running the store, technology and reality.
Monday, April 16, 2012
REINVIGORATED via TECHNOLOGY
After quite sometime, the GStoar is back to harness the interweb (at least in Blogger terms). Modern technology has constantly been a fiery, controversial facet of the co-op--are we molding technology or is technology molding us?
We persist to question and challenge that false dichotomy of modern versus traditional. In constant motion, whether it'd be via REM sleep (fact#23: 60% of our current GStoarians vividly experience dreams and retain impeccable recollections), errands 'round the store or discussing and acting on issues integral for the UCSD student community's proactive growth, we Gstoarians constantly ask ourselves the eight dollar question of a lifetime (our minimum wage version of Regis Philbin's $1M):
Time versus intensity. Modern versus traditional. The GStoar can be thought of say, if Willy Wonka made a toy called Everlasting Putty. The General Store is constantly reworked, remolded, remixed into various shapes, textures, flavors depending on member dynamics, current challenges and parameters. To refresh the habitual homespun into exciting and to soothe the overwhelmingly new into something as pliable as the proactive familiar.
This is us today as the resiliently novel and pliable General Store Coop: handwritten love notes of customers' I-O-U's, inked meeting minutes in unruly stacks of notebooks, tallying up our vinyl record sales--literally--while using a quill (metaphorically, almost literally, because the pen has a feather attached to it). Our finance team orgasmic over the accounting software Quicken. Titillating features on our new Brothers printer. The oral tradition of passing down wisdom, clever shortcuts on the registry BAMF, exchanging guilty pleasure stories of past GStoarians.
Is h(is/er)story meant to be documented or fleeting? We'll leave that rhetoric for our generations of Gstoarians and community to ruminate on and challenge.
In the meantime, let's commemorate current GStoar events. Photo: the eleventh hour last Sunday in the GStoarians' thoughtful deliberation of the our future investment: the next generation of Gstore babies ready to do the family proud!
Welcome N00bs/Babies/Probationary members to the Gstoar family. Prepare to be loved and exploited <3
Love,
Your Loquacious GStoar Dino
We persist to question and challenge that false dichotomy of modern versus traditional. In constant motion, whether it'd be via REM sleep (fact#23: 60% of our current GStoarians vividly experience dreams and retain impeccable recollections), errands 'round the store or discussing and acting on issues integral for the UCSD student community's proactive growth, we Gstoarians constantly ask ourselves the eight dollar question of a lifetime (our minimum wage version of Regis Philbin's $1M):
How can we better our contribution and service to the UCSD student community, considering our steadfast adaptation to changing times and technology while nurturing the core of our soul and individuality--epitomized in that pair of chewed up, grimy sneakers we all come home to for nostalgia and comfort?
Time versus intensity. Modern versus traditional. The GStoar can be thought of say, if Willy Wonka made a toy called Everlasting Putty. The General Store is constantly reworked, remolded, remixed into various shapes, textures, flavors depending on member dynamics, current challenges and parameters. To refresh the habitual homespun into exciting and to soothe the overwhelmingly new into something as pliable as the proactive familiar.
Is h(is/er)story meant to be documented or fleeting? We'll leave that rhetoric for our generations of Gstoarians and community to ruminate on and challenge.
In the meantime, let's commemorate current GStoar events. Photo: the eleventh hour last Sunday in the GStoarians' thoughtful deliberation of the our future investment: the next generation of Gstore babies ready to do the family proud!
Love,
Your Loquacious GStoar Dino
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