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Day Two Hundred and Seventy-one:  It’s Business Time

I’ve been considering buying business attire for a while now.  I’ve specifically wanted tan and gray dress pants and some plain blouses.  I’d need some new proper shoes, I’d love some navy oxfords ad brown loafers, and probably a belt or two that were nice.  Banana Republic is my business attire destination of choice, but the chances of me being able to afford any of their clothing is slim, and so I dream for now.  I actually don’t really need that much proper work clothes right now anyway, but sometimes it’s nice to look forward, right?

I’ve been thinking a lot about next year, next fall, and what September 2014 will bring.  I look forward quite often, obviously, and it is nice to plan ahead in my opinion.  I have no idea what this time next year will look like, but I can only hope that the dreams I have now will be fulfilled and will be starting.  Some of my dreams seems unrealistic, but I am determined to make them happen.

I’ve been writing a lot about support lately, and I’m currently working on a project surrounding Canadian support and what it means to be a supportive Canadian.  I think that something about being Canadian inherently makes us polite, positive, and supportive, or atleast that is the national understanding about us, but part of me wants to say that it is something else.  Maybe our nation doesn’t define us, but maybe it gives us the framework to grow to that point?  I’m not sure.

This probably seems like it’s coming from left field, what with my talking about business attire and the future and all, but it isn’t really for me.  I am hoping that September 2014 will be bringing me to a different country yet again, and that hope is on the belief that if I leave home I will continue to be a supportive Canadian, and in turn Canadian at all.  We’ve been talking in my Canadian Drama seminar about working in Canada’s theatre system, and what it means to be Canadian in a theatrical sense, and how important it is for us as a nation to further Canadian theatre.  Does it make me a bad Canadian to want to travel and grow abroad?  Or does that fact just endorse my Canadian-ness further?  Let me explain.

Canadians are so welcmoming (again, or so we think) and we try to preserve culture and hope to encompass further other cultures, countries, and people in our own land.  If I want to study somewhere else, or experience a different culture, is it too much to ask for some Canadian support on that?  I’m not disowning my country, and I never said that I wouldn’t want to turn around in three years and come right back, travel the very large country we have here and do theatre, but I think I just need to spread my arms a little wider when it comes to what I support before I lock myself down.

That’s another dream of mine, to road trip Canada with a company that I’ve created myself, but make it a charitable company that performs ina  certain way all over Canada.  Today is the first day that I realised that was why I wanted to do it, because I wanted to support Canada with what I know.  This paragraph of this post has illuminated a path for me, friends, this is a moment in my own history.  I think I’m going to cry.  I have just realised what I want to do, and maybe you know what I’m talking about and maybe you don’t, but for me, this…this is quite a lot of progress for a Saturday afternoon.

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