Looking Forward

How is the post-strike depression treating everyone? I know I'm not the only one suffering from it. One of my classmates recently described it very well. With our short semestres, we are usually forced to build up a lot of momentum and energy to get everything done in the four months given; it's like rolling a boulder up a hill. With the strike-break, we've lost that momentum just before the peak, and now it's like we have to go from 0 to 60. All of that built up energy dissipated. This is basically how I've been feeling.

While working to wrap up my semestre here at VIU, I've also been planning my escape, so to speak. For the last five years I've kept a summer salmon farming job with Marine Harvest up in Quatsino Sound, and it looks like I'll be going back up there again. I actually leave for the farm next Thursday, so I've had to arrange with some professors who had intended to schedule classes on that day. I'm sure I'm not the worst off. There are students who had planned to start picking up shifts, or leave for work much earlier than me.

I'll be working pretty hard this summer, trying to earn as much of my UBC tuition as I can for the fall. My salmon farming job, plus living with my parents, has allowed me to stay off student loans all through my undergrad, but I'm going to have to go into debt when I move to Vancouver. So, I'll be bouncing between the farm, my parents place, and Vancouver all summer, and come August I'll have to find a new place to live. Haha, but i guess I should be focusing on the present. I still need those grades if I ever want to go to grad school.