I live for instability.
I kind of can't believe that in a month this won't be my home any more. In a month, I will have a new home, and it will be in a new city, and I will be a graduate student. Those are all really weird things to think about. Time is so weird, you guys!
The more I think about how my life in Montreal is not a life I want to continue, the more eager I am about moving and moving on. I hate moving so much, but I am so in love with how when places change and circumstances change, things just change. I think about who I will be when I live in Toronto, and I really like my answers. I am looking forward to learning to love a new city. I am looking forward to having an entire year to put down roots before I move again. I am looking forward to having a "life" in the city I live in. Here, my days are like individual segments where I do things until the day is over and then the next day happens without any relationship to what came before it or will come after it. That's weird too.
But mostly I am excited about
As a kid, I would spend the entire month of August being on the edge of my seat for September. I feel much the same way now. I could not be more convinced that there is no program or school I could have possibly chosen that would have been a better choice. Despite that the York bureaucracy is totally offputting and awful, I think I am going to really love it there. Please remind me of this come October when I will undoubtedly feel stressed out and contemptful about everything! Anyway, these are the courses I am planning to take!
FALL!
MA Colloquim in Political Science
Transnational Feminism(s): Globalization, Empire and the Body
Technopolitics (with Shannon Bell!!, who, having never met or spoken to her, I still bet you a dollar will become the love of my academic life! I am already so excited about who I will be and how I will think after learning with her!).
WINTER!
Gramsci and Contemporary Political Theory: The Challenge of Postmodernism
The Politics of Postidentity (with Shannon Bell!). The post- version of this: most amazing syllabus ever?!
Core Issues in Cultural Studies OR Thoretical Issues in Media and Culture
Anyway, today Emily and I biked one-handed while eating popsicles in the other. My front wheel had a small snafu, and I fixed it myself! We snuck into the salt water pool and clutched onto the ledge while discussing etymology and cultural vs. political applications of marxism. Now I am at home sitting in front of the fan, contemplating my novel choice for the evening, and eating the same delicious dinner I have eaten every day the past two weeks: sliced baguette, garlic hummus, basil leaves, slices of fancy tomato, sea salt. Basically, this is how I should live every day of the rest of my life.
The more I think about how my life in Montreal is not a life I want to continue, the more eager I am about moving and moving on. I hate moving so much, but I am so in love with how when places change and circumstances change, things just change. I think about who I will be when I live in Toronto, and I really like my answers. I am looking forward to learning to love a new city. I am looking forward to having an entire year to put down roots before I move again. I am looking forward to having a "life" in the city I live in. Here, my days are like individual segments where I do things until the day is over and then the next day happens without any relationship to what came before it or will come after it. That's weird too.
But mostly I am excited about
As a kid, I would spend the entire month of August being on the edge of my seat for September. I feel much the same way now. I could not be more convinced that there is no program or school I could have possibly chosen that would have been a better choice. Despite that the York bureaucracy is totally offputting and awful, I think I am going to really love it there. Please remind me of this come October when I will undoubtedly feel stressed out and contemptful about everything! Anyway, these are the courses I am planning to take!
FALL!
MA Colloquim in Political Science
Transnational Feminism(s): Globalization, Empire and the Body
Technopolitics (with Shannon Bell!!, who, having never met or spoken to her, I still bet you a dollar will become the love of my academic life! I am already so excited about who I will be and how I will think after learning with her!).
WINTER!
Gramsci and Contemporary Political Theory: The Challenge of Postmodernism
The Politics of Postidentity (with Shannon Bell!). The post- version of this: most amazing syllabus ever?!
Core Issues in Cultural Studies OR Thoretical Issues in Media and Culture
Anyway, today Emily and I biked one-handed while eating popsicles in the other. My front wheel had a small snafu, and I fixed it myself! We snuck into the salt water pool and clutched onto the ledge while discussing etymology and cultural vs. political applications of marxism. Now I am at home sitting in front of the fan, contemplating my novel choice for the evening, and eating the same delicious dinner I have eaten every day the past two weeks: sliced baguette, garlic hummus, basil leaves, slices of fancy tomato, sea salt. Basically, this is how I should live every day of the rest of my life.