Anarchist to Aristocrat
Well, in the matter of a few short weeks I've gone from regular slack ass punk to land owner. Nearly 2 whole acres in Bamfield. I've been talking about it for so damn long even I'd begun to think it would never happen. But there you go. So I'm diving into a whole new world of bureaucracy. Actually, I'm trying to stay out of it as much as possible. I'm not really going to do too much with the land right now--just sit on it, plan, live my life. Lots of plans for the future--travel and work in Africa in the fall, grad school next year. I've decided to go into urban planning, with a focus on urban agriculture. UBC's School of Community and Regional Planning is my first choice, but there are also some interesting profs at York and U of T. Much to my disappointment there doesn't seem to be much going on in Montreal, though I should look again. At least McGill's page was a resoundingly mediocre department of planning. Yay for medium level civic bureaucrats!! Not really what I'm going for. I like the idea of planner as radical regional representative (and alliterative at that) of environmental and social concerns. It's an opportunity to be involved directly with issues of poverty and consumption. Localisation of resource use in urban areas is the area I'm particularly interested in, but alternative shelter and transportation offer lots of room to explore. I just feel it's time to engage myself in politics a little more actively than I have been of late, and as my mother put it "find some focus." So that's my life in a nutshell . . . as for the summer, well, be in Bamfield a lot, hike in the mountains, see the north island. Enjoy basically. Life's going pretty well.