about
Valerie is currently living in Canada, where she thrives on unwieldy seasons and periodic ice skating. In this blog you will find traces of her recent adventures: a vacuum-like undergraduate degree in Art History, a year working in Educational Technology at a university, and a four month solo journey through Europe (that involved hiking, couch surfing, dining on delish vegan food, and farming (WWOOF) - among other things). She is currently wholly absorbed in her graduate school degree in Communication Studies (research interests: museology, social web (2.0), how art lives online) - and exploring the city she studies in - Montreal.
She has a long term partner, J, a supportive and simultaneously bewildering family, and her beloved Macbook which serves as another limb. Art in its many incarnations, she feels, is the meaning of her life and the beating heart of such a world as the one she lives within. She is a die-hard perfectionist engaged in a lifelong struggle to learn how to let go. She thrives in a realm of yummy smells, instant and speedy wireless connections, the uneven ground of light-filled forests to ramble on, and room. Lots and lots of room.
After some research in which her world expanded and took on new colour, she discovered that she strongly cares for the future of the planet and the lives of animals, and believes in the rights of animals to not be exploited. In this blog she writes primarily about her vegan lifestyle, art, academia, technology, literature, travel, or whatever else she happens to be learning or experiencing of interest. Thankfully, for the rest of the blog, she will not be writing in the third person.
(Can also be found voraciously using Tumblr)
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