September 22, 2005
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Topic: Dave Eggers
I’m really digging this book AHWOSG, which is a memoir by the author, Dave Eggers. Will muse on this later.
My buddies in Chicago just lost their 3rd roomie…this is just accelerating my push to get my counseling career going. I had posted something on a Chicago kayaking site about kayaking and jobs, and the response was from a guy named Tom, who I had also responded to a post I put up a while ago through the Associatoin of Experiential Education. If I can get myself moving job wise, I’d like to do it in Chicago to be w/ my friends, or here in NYC mostly for the good kayaking scene, and other things will stem from there.
I think I’ve finally made the important life transition from trying to spread my message to everyone like a fanatic, to figuring out how to live like everyone else, w/ everyone else, and how to be a sponge from the experience of others. So..now I hope to use the AEE as I’ve managed to use several kayaking listserves, to figure out what the deal is w/ things, and how to get involved.
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Don’t know whether you’re still interested, but the most recent Life Learning magazine has an article by Gatto: “Breaking From the Herd: What’s Wrong With College by John Taylor Gatto – Not attending college allows young people to tune into our greatest export: creativity…and many well-known (and financially successful) people have done just that.” More of the same stuff from his speech at the AERO conference, about how so many successful people never went to or never finished college, and yet we (and they) still push it as the answer to happiness and success.
Hey, i just came across your site and i love to travel to. I have only been to 3 places so far but I love it. Comment back
~Katie~