So it's not quite March yet, but I thought it was time for a post here anyway - possibly my last one...
I am currently living up in Glasgow, house-sitting and looking after a couple of cats as a trial run for my future as 'crazy cat lady', and I've decided that being back in a city - and having a bit of stability - is suiting me, so my intention is to stay put here for a bit.
Mostly, though, I have come to the conclusion that trying to live with minimal money is something of a drag and I'd better try and find some kind of paid work again (boooo). I have also decided that yes, general (urban) society encompasses a lot of things that suck: big nasty global corporations, mindless drones, jobs that require humans to endure numbing, grinding boredom, identikit retail outlets and a really soul-destroying amount of concrete. BUT, it also includes a lot of quite simply wonderful things. Trapeze lessons, for instance. Choirs. Amazing musicians playing live. People, just walking around, expressing themselves through the medium of fashion. Korean/Japanese/Mexican food. Street art. Cocktails. Art-house cinema. People dancing away like fools in dimly-lit basements. Why would anyone want to cut themselves off from that? Or rather, why would I want to cut myself off from all that?!
I have decided that right now, at this point in my life, I don't want to live in a rarefied, morally superior, land-bound bubble, I want to engage, and interact and... yes, CONSUME. Not the kind of mindless consumption of unnecessary goods that turn the wheel of dirty global capitalism, but consume culture.
Probably no more WWOOFing then, at least for the foreseeable, although to be honest a lot is resting on whether I get PhD funding or not (pleeeease, funding bodies, pick me pick me pick me). This also means nothing of WWOOF nature to blog about for a while, but never fear! you can still read my inane prattlings at my new and much less serious blog, www.lovesandbugs.blogspot.co.uk. :-)
