I get like a million spam comments every week. I can’t imagine having a blog that is actually read by a lot of people and how much spam they get. It’s ridiculous.
I quit my job and am moving back to Toronto on June 16th. Guelph has been nice, mostly because I’ve got to spend a lot of time with my mom… but I really miss Toronto. I miss my apartment, walking around without pants on, going down to the apartment pool whenever I want and being a 50 minute transit ride to downtown Toronto. These are all things that can’t be replaced by the shitty transit “city” of Guelph. They cut their bus service down, too. Which makes matters worse.
Work has been great though. I wish I could pick it up and move it to Toronto - that would be ideal. But I’ve decided to just go to school. This way I can get a work-study job on campus doing work at the library or something while I take 9 credits. I got into a Urban Social Policy class that I’m really excited about. I’ve really enjoyed my urban studies classes in the past, and this one seems to be taking two ideas that I’ve enjoyed and combining them together.
I know I said I’d blog all summer, but I lied… and I don’t care.
I spend a lot of time helping my parents with the book my step dad is writing about dying congregations in the United Church of Canada. (Here is his website… I made that, too.) I’ll actually be going to the UCC conference in the middle of the month to help him sell the books and stuff. Doing this isn’t really helping my reputation as being a United Church of Canada spy in all my freethought groups.
Speaking of freethought groups - FAC has a new executive lead by Emily. I stepped down as president and took a role I had no intention of taking: VP-Special Projects. I really shouldn’t have taken it since I’m leaving the country in 6 months, but I guess it is good that I’ve been involved… it’s less irritating this way to make sure they have all the information/passwords for things that only I have.
About leaving in 6 months - I’m a little freaked out about the war-talk going on in Korea. While it seems like South Korea doesn’t want to get into anything.. North Korea is just such a sketch-bag. Now, I know that they have been at war for like the past 30 years - but this seems to be really serious. Even the South Korean papers (like the Korea Herald) are reporting about how serious it is, when in the past they have all but ignored stuff about North Korea that makes the news here in Canada. What I do find particularly interesting are the tones in news between Canada/UK and South Korea. The BBC has reported that SK has put complete sanctions into place with NK - but SK papers openly report all the things that are still being shipped back and forth and that the sanction is really just all talk. So… UK news does seem to make it look worse than it is, but it is a pretty serious thing.
But I haven’t given up - I still plan on going. If things are still particularly bad in November that I might look at waiting until April, or maybe even going to Taiwan, but I think things will be okay. We’ll see. My mom doesn’t want me to go, but… I really do want to…lol