life and the meantime

the day after tomorrow

Today is my first foray into the new world of blogging. Since I'm a trend-whore I thought I should probably jump on the bandwagon. Life is hectic these days... grad school applications are due by Feb. 1st, the QRC appeals budget is due Tuesday, Elections Committee meets tomorrow to revise bylaws, Senate meets Friday (hopefully to approve said bylaws), and 20 credits might just kill me. I keep thinking about how involved I've gotten over the past few terms. In any sort of organizing activity, whether it be for social and economic justice or environmental stewardship or business relations, the possibility of burn-out is very real. I have finally moved past the burn-out phase (otherwise known as growing up) of my adolescence and moved into the activist phase of my young adult life. While I enjoy doing "the work," I also find it saddening and frightening that these are my last few months in Portland. And as much as I've bitched about it in the past, I have come to love the city full of dirty hippies and fellow trend-whore leftist activists. I am frightened mostly about what I'm going to be doing with my future. While not yet entirely resigned to failure in academic adventures, I'm entirely nervous and neurotic about being accepted into graduate school. I have come to realize that my place in the world is in academe, and that any action is driven by theory and study. Theory is the driving force of action, and if positive action for social and economic justice is to happen, then theory itself must be expanded. This is my role. I sit in the computer lab at 11pm and think about the whirlwind adventure my life has been thus far and am grateful. Too many influential names, places, and events to mention here, but all have formed my conscious experience and interpretation of life in some drastic and immeasurable way. So, with open arms and tired eyes, I welcome myself to this new world of blogging, and wonder.... do people actually read these things?

posted by Alaska @ 9:44 PM