The sidebar design was based on a Salvatore Ferragamo shirt that I loved but couldn’t afford. The overall aesthetic of the site was a bit splashy and over the top but I guess it speaks to my state of being at 19. and 20.

Here’s how I described myself then:

If life came with instructions I must have spilled cola all over mine. I was never one to let the limited expectations of others impede me from achieving success. In January I will start classes at Trent University which is located in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. I left my hometown Nanaimo, British Columbia over two years ago and moved to Vancouver.

Being in this very international city has made me realise that the greatest thing life offers me at this point is education. I have come to the resolution that I do not want to be preparing grande/non-sweet vanilla/soy/140 degree latés to gaudy American tourists when I am 35. No, I have the right to choose my own destiny and it certainly does not involve being a minimum wage earning, disposable pawn in a corporate wasteland.

Without a university degree this rather unsavory destiny will definitely be mine.

I have been described as many things but boring has never been one of them! I am very energetic, spontaneous, and outgoing. I am also quite blunt as I always say it how it is and never shy away from raising a little hell! I am passionate. What do I like/dislike? What I like: journalism, anything with sugar in it politics, books (Lots, and various genres), politics, hanging out with friends. What I dislike: Snobbery, crap, misery, peanut butter. I also don’t care much for clubs or bars.