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Hmm.
After high school?
Messed around, played in bands, delivered pizzas (among other ignominious jobs), partied pretty hard.
After about 5 years of that, I began to tire of the rock 'n' roll lifestyle.
Enrolled at Ulster Community College, then after a semester transferred to SUNY New Paltz. I studied Music Theory & Composition there.
Favorite composition: "Springtime in the Elephant Graveyard"
After 3 semesters of that, transferred to Bard. Intimidated by the music scene there, and experiencing a surge of interest in thinking about the world, I dove into social theory. Eventually settled on anthropology. Got seriously into radical politics.
Thesis title: "This Is What Democracy Looks Like: Modes of Resistance in the Praxis of the US Direct Action Movement"
Best scam: Got Bard to pay for my trip to Prague to attend the anti-IMF/World Bank protests there in Fall of 2000.
Graduated just before my 27th birthday in 2001. Moved out of my apartment in Kingston, and didn't move back in anywhere until 2005. Travelled around the US mostly - visiting punk houses and anarchist collectives, touring w/ puppet cabarets, forging Greyhound bus passes, hopping freight trains.
In 2003 went to Latin America for 3 months. Guatemala, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina. Started learning Spanish. Started studying Permaculture.
Kept studying Permaculture.
Got mixed up with School for Designing a Society.
In 2005, came back to the Hudson Valley to try and settle down a bit. Got a place with some friend in Red Hook, got a job working in green building. Learned a bit of carpentry.
Started dating Brook, my sweetheart.
Started developing a workshop curriculum about creating personal, conceptual, and strategic relationships between ecological design and social justice. Called it Liberation Ecology.
In Summer 2006, moved to Germantown to live at a collective farm. Stayed for a year. Learned a bit about farming. Learned a bit more about dense group dynamics than I wanted to.
In Summer 2007, decided to embark on making Permaculture & Liberation Ecology my full-time (or nearly so) gigs.
Last autumn, decided to apply to grad school. Spent the winter in Austin TX, being with my sweetheart and working for an ecological engineer.
Did my first Liberation Ecology workshop tour.
Came back to the Hudson Valley in the springtime, with newly long-distance relationship in one hand, and my funding letter to for grad school in the other.
Helped organize the Northeast Climate Confluence over the summer, thus helping ensure that the conversation about grassroots, community-driven responses to climate change can get rolling in the northeast, while also ensuring that I would be stone broke for most of the season.
Move to Burlington the week before classes started.
Now two weeks deep in grad school. Don't know hardly anyone here. Lots of fresh acquaintances. Lots of uncertainty about institutional culture, institutional power. Not sure who to trust.
Studying amazing things - ecological design, simulation modeling, field ecology, more.
You?
After high school?
Messed around, played in bands, delivered pizzas (among other ignominious jobs), partied pretty hard.
After about 5 years of that, I began to tire of the rock 'n' roll lifestyle.
Enrolled at Ulster Community College, then after a semester transferred to SUNY New Paltz. I studied Music Theory & Composition there.
Favorite composition: "Springtime in the Elephant Graveyard"
After 3 semesters of that, transferred to Bard. Intimidated by the music scene there, and experiencing a surge of interest in thinking about the world, I dove into social theory. Eventually settled on anthropology. Got seriously into radical politics.
Thesis title: "This Is What Democracy Looks Like: Modes of Resistance in the Praxis of the US Direct Action Movement"
Best scam: Got Bard to pay for my trip to Prague to attend the anti-IMF/World Bank protests there in Fall of 2000.
Graduated just before my 27th birthday in 2001. Moved out of my apartment in Kingston, and didn't move back in anywhere until 2005. Travelled around the US mostly - visiting punk houses and anarchist collectives, touring w/ puppet cabarets, forging Greyhound bus passes, hopping freight trains.
In 2003 went to Latin America for 3 months. Guatemala, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina. Started learning Spanish. Started studying Permaculture.
Kept studying Permaculture.
Got mixed up with School for Designing a Society.
In 2005, came back to the Hudson Valley to try and settle down a bit. Got a place with some friend in Red Hook, got a job working in green building. Learned a bit of carpentry.
Started dating Brook, my sweetheart.
Started developing a workshop curriculum about creating personal, conceptual, and strategic relationships between ecological design and social justice. Called it Liberation Ecology.
In Summer 2006, moved to Germantown to live at a collective farm. Stayed for a year. Learned a bit about farming. Learned a bit more about dense group dynamics than I wanted to.
In Summer 2007, decided to embark on making Permaculture & Liberation Ecology my full-time (or nearly so) gigs.
Last autumn, decided to apply to grad school. Spent the winter in Austin TX, being with my sweetheart and working for an ecological engineer.
Did my first Liberation Ecology workshop tour.
Came back to the Hudson Valley in the springtime, with newly long-distance relationship in one hand, and my funding letter to for grad school in the other.
Helped organize the Northeast Climate Confluence over the summer, thus helping ensure that the conversation about grassroots, community-driven responses to climate change can get rolling in the northeast, while also ensuring that I would be stone broke for most of the season.
Move to Burlington the week before classes started.
Now two weeks deep in grad school. Don't know hardly anyone here. Lots of fresh acquaintances. Lots of uncertainty about institutional culture, institutional power. Not sure who to trust.
Studying amazing things - ecological design, simulation modeling, field ecology, more.
You?
Re institution: can't it be treated as a can opener?
(Anonymous)
you don't have to graft can openers to your body...
(Assuming I'm not the CAN in your simile...)
Thank you for that lovely comment... Maybe you are describing a project to balance the weight of my new appendage. How carrying two buckets of water is easier than one.
You are also invoking a painfully poignant connection to times and places when I was surrounded by people who were aching to exchange invitations.