Everyone Does

Methinks my thesis advisor knows something I don't know (well, who doesn't). When I called him today to shoot the breeze and figure out an actual plan of some kind for my summer work, I told him I would be taking two summer classes. He seems to think this is going to be a lot of work to be doing all simultaneously. But I think it will be okay. This is likely because I am, on occasion and most especially when it is necessary to schedule things, an idiot.

This has been a busy week and I have been feeling like a Young Professional. The provincial environment department has hired me on for a month to do a quick, almost consultant-like project on environmental governance. If one could find two people in the universe who believe the same things about what governance even entails, and put them in a room together to discuss governance, they would swiftly come to blows over how it should be done. This is because governance, like much of the policy literature, is made-up, making it fun and easy to disagree about. But I suppose something being made-up doesn't stop it from being real once it's been made up, if you follow me.

On a more personal note, my Wee Sister, the Boopsita-In-Chief, will be graduating from high school this weekend and it is making me feel old. But I am excited for her, because she has a great first year of university coming up and she shall be closer to my neck of the woods. Grandma is up visiting for the occasion, and we took advantage of her visit to have a nice weekend in Banff. The weather took advantage of our visit to be horrible; I have never seen it rain so much in the mountains as it did those few days. Yech. It had better be nice for the ceremony on Saturday.