The Fanstastic Ms. Fox

I'm returning to Vancouver, and now with my work and surgery done, I'll finally have a lot more free schedule.

With stressful events elapsed, I'm actually able to remember what I like doing.

How long has it been?
Well, it's about fucking time.

This summer:
- Construct history/access wiki
- Finish degree (two classes)
- Date with the aim of finding an ongoing relationship - much like finding a job one supposes
- Look at revisions to living situation over the next three years
- Revise work plans track while getting involved in alternate-economy projects
- Physical activity
- Creative work - playtesting an RPG system? graphic/word work?
- Skills - guitar? Mandarin? Office software? motorcycle? sewing?
- Do more cooking for myself - and my roommate!

1. "Axum" is a new Ethiopian restaurant near the Northeast corner of Clark and Hastings. It has 9 vegan options, 7 of which were available when I was there. You can get any 3 with injera for $10. It's tasty. There's an Ethiopian place near 12th too. It's good as well.

2. I am finding success in getting over my habit of conserving useful consumables. Example: as a child, I wouldn't eat my halloween candy, I'd just save it until it went stale. I don't understand where this comes from. Was there some kind of environmental trigger? I never went hungry. Maybe it's instinctual.

3. I am finding that it's easier to tie together polyhedral (as in "many surfaces") information. I've heard people accredit this to hormones, but by ts timing, I think that it has something to do with not being depressed.

4. I am finding that I actually enjoy embodied activities now, when before there I was a lot more ambivolent. I really enjoyed lifting weights at the gym.

5. I am seriously looking forward to getting on to the next stage of Stuff I Want to Do. I won't be working full time at the union, so I'll be able to do more stuff. The prospect of idleness still scares me though.

I got into all my classes on the first pass. This is a considerable improvement over "register the Thursday before term starts."

GDST 301 - Queer Genders - 'cause that's my focus in more than one sense,
BUSI 251 - Financial Accounting - everyone needs an accountant (I'm compulsively useful), plus it's a credits for FT business
BISC 100 - Basic Biology - for Health Sciences and personal fulfilment
BUSI 272 - Group Behaviour in Organizations - I get to study making people do things in small groups, plus it's a business credit
HCSI 4?? - Adolescant Health - to see if I actually want to be in Health Sciences, plus it sounds fun

And I am now registered in the SFU system as "Sen. Graham (Sasha) Fox."

(dances without leaving chair)

The possibly half-assed plan is that if I have no work next semester, I take 'em all. I am working on the assumption that only Queer and Health will be heavy, and BISC should be easy. This may change, and a classmay go.
If I have part-time work, or just come to the conclusion that this will be too much, Health Sciences and/or a business goes.

So. If I take Stat 270, challenge Microenomics, do a self-paced chem 12, and take Business Computing, that makes me ready for both business and Health Sciences. But that's a ways off.

Also: my roomate stabs straight at the Heart of the World.

I had a dream some years ago; the best one to date. I think it was in January of 2004.

Along the length of hallways with short stairs at the corners, I was stepping through large silvery mirrors to check/spy(?) on people while they slept. I stepped into my own domicile. I saw myself in the mirror and I looked half like my uncle, meaning I was fifty then. The grey sheets were ruffled and the sun creaked through the wide window, my wife had gotten up.

I think we slept in the same bed, but mostly in shifts - I had been up for awhile. We did this, she rose to work after I had written in the night.

I went out onto the main floor? It was like a large supermarket, an Overwaitea or whatever with corrugated brown metal on the ceilings high above. Stalls of some sort dotted it, one L-shaped unit held breakfast for the masses walking in in the early morning. I got a mild blue bubble tea and an electric blue jellabee for her before she went to her stall to be doctor at a walk-in.

We spoke shortly and I was to go out to the rest of the community that was once the UBC campus. To the North, I waited for a middle-aged woman to answer the door because she was behind on her rent or something.

This was good in the sense that it was complete: work, hobby, community, relationship and a just society.