The laydown yard is where all the tools needed for the construction project are stored. You’ve got to make sure it’s placed smartly on the site, that it’s safe, that it doesn’t get you caught in a property loss suit, and that it does, in fact, store all the tools. The topographical survey’s still got me divisive, so I should make sure I’ve got an accessible, well-stocked laydown in the meantime, if I’m to make any headway on this thing.
Okay, in all seriousness. Needlessly extended metaphors aside. I’ve been late in my update because I was trying to draft another post. I started right after finishing the Envisioning SLC intensive on October 18th, when I caught up on the news of the day right after I was done. What I started writing may have gotten off topic for an academic blog, though, a bit more pathos to ethos/logos than what might be expected here.
So I quit that, and tried drafting a different post, this time looking at what’s been happening through the lens of evaluating sustainability and the climate crisis. I figured applying my knowledge from what I’ve learnt here would help me understand new, different aspects of this political environment that I have grown up with and known since I can remember. I ended up with 20 pages of source material – since I was collecting articles and news every day – and I’m still parsing through it, hoping that I’ll finish today, or tomorrow, or today, or tomorrow, so that’s how I’ve wound up posting a) late and b) none of that draft at all. (The little problem of my falling sick extremely frequently since the spring of this year and never properly recovering before my body gets stuck in another interesting session of incubating fresh, flourishing, Flus of the Season has also had a hand in this, but that’s neither here nor there.)
I have to write about something here though, right? So, reviews of the intensives so far, and then KIPP it is. Strictly within the boundaries of course material!
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