Tuesday, 11 October 2011

Are you prepared for this disaster?

I am a bit of a disaster. I can't stay organized worth my life, my room is never neat for more than 2 consecutive days, and I am horrible at making decisions. A constant contradiction, I am a hopeless romantic and insanely logical, feminine yet tomboy-ish, creative but horrible with art. I go from calm and collected to a passionate fanatic in seconds. I am a whirlwind of activity, always juggling too many things, whether it be school, work, family,friends, fitness classes or volunteering. Always on the brink of insanity.

Is it weird that I want to be an emergency manager?

I love natural disasters: volcanoes, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, you name it! But no, I do not want to spend the rest of my life studying rocks or watching the readings of a seismograph. I need to work with people. I see all the pictures and hear all the stories of people who have lost everything within seconds because of a natural phenomenon. They lost their families, their homes, their jobs. It isn't fair. And I'm all about justice, let me tell you. Therefore I take it upon myself to change this. No, I am not capable of holding back a tsunami or stopping a hurricane in its tracks, but there are policies, plans and efforts that can be made at different levels to prevent, mitigate, prepare for, respond to, and recover from an emergency situation.

Statement of Purpose

Yes, I am supposed to be writing a paper about Jurgen Habermas, some philosopher I have never heard of, but then I had a thought. If this dude was not 90-something, and was my age, would he be still using books to document his ideas? Maybe would he be one of those people that spend their time on philosophical blogs where they all argue nonsense (no offense intended Mr. Habermas). That is when I realized that I should make one with ideas that aren't philosophical! I would consider myself a girl of many different interests and experiences that I could share with people that are looking for something lighter to read. And even if absolutely no one reads it, at least I will have a bit of a more productive method of procrastination. 

I keep on thinking of all the directions that this blog is going to go and let me tell you; it's going to be a disaster.

A friend of mine told me that I don't think in a straight line. My thoughts explode and criss-cross and jump from one idea to the next. So please excuse the random topics, and the varied themes. I am thinking that this is going to be a project to document personal growth and accumulation of knowledge, whether relevant to my education or not.

Anticipated topics include:
-Emergency Management
-Urban Planning
-Fashion
-Food
-Health
-Polish-ness
-Relationships
-Travel
-Student Life
-Whatever comes to this crazy mind!