this might be because i had a dinner consisting of the following:
one gas station cappuccino
one off-brand coke
one sugar-free red bull
and for dessert, one java monster (it tastes like coffee flavored yoo-hoo, btw. sickening. william, you'll probably like it.)
i will say, my car ride was a lot more enjoyable than usual. that's a plus.
having never pulled on all-nighter in college, i didn't think all that caffeine would actually keep me up. now i'm pretty sure this much caffeine can wake the dead. anyway, as i've been laying here for the past three hours i've been thinking about my future. as i was thinking about my future, i decided to think about how i got to be interested in urban planning in the first place. it is somewhat obscure and i wonder why some people in my program chose this degree. for some it might be by accident (hopefully a happy accident), but others i think are really passionate about it. i fall under the passionate category and i'm glad about that. ANYWAY, i would like to share my journey with you and hopefully it's boring enough to put me to sleep!
it all began when i was a young girl. just kidding. well, kinda....
when we moved to charleston from connecticut i was very perplexed at the way mt. pleasant looked. in connecticut we didn't really have subdivisions. there were different areas of town with different names, but there were very few named subdivisions. you just lived in the town, not snee farm or hobcaw creek. i hated the idea of living in one of these places (no offense) and that's part of the reason we moved to daniel island. (an unperfect solution, i know. i almost hate d.i now.) sitting in 17 traffic seemed ridiculous. it still does. in connecticut there were a million different ways to get to one place. in mt. pleasant there are about three different routes you can take. yes, connecticut was congested, but at least there was an alternate route other than the Post Rd. sooo, in my fifteen year old head, i said, "i want to be the person that decides where everything goes". at the time i had no idea that was a profession. fast-forward to freshman year of college...i pick historic preservation to be my major. why? i can't remember, but i picked it while i was still a senior in high school. i guess because it was the closest thing to architecture. i didn't know that community planning was the second part of the major. once i started those classes, i fell in love. and the rest is history. well, the falling in love part really happened when i took urban design. and then love turned into obsession. and here i am! i wish i could say that i knew all along that i wanted to be an urban planner because for a little while i wanted to do interior design. then i did it (sort of) for a bit and come to find out, i don't love it! and you wanna know what else? i SUCK as a salesperson. i couldn't sell someone an umbrella in a monsoon. this is going to be a problem when i have to sell my ideas to a municipality or whomever, but at least i'll be passionate about it. well, that's my story. i know you weren't wondering, but i decided to tell it anyway.
and for the record, i love charleston. way more than connecticut. i just don't love mt. pleasant. once they fix 17 and coleman, i might like it. but, that might not happen in my lifetime. i know you mt. p'ers might be a little p'od that i dissed your town. sorry. i still like you. and if you want to know what i mean by "fix" i can tell you, just ask. maybe i'll even write a really exciting blog about it.
damnit, it's 4am and i'm still not tired. cuss!
bye.
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