Robert Jordan:  

After my liberation, er, graduation from NDSS in '65, I worked at The Nanaimo Daily Free Press for a year, first as office boy for a paltry $40 a week, then as photographer raking in a whopping $60 a week by the time I left in September, 1966 to blow it all on my first year at UBC. Don't look for me on any UBC magna cum laude lists but finally, after squandering a year goofing off from classes and another year travelling in Europe, I graduated with the coveted Bachelor of Music degree in 1974. I worked in the UBC Music Library until 1980 when I left with my first wife to live and study music in London, England. It was a fabulously enriching year musicwise but alas, we parted ways on New Year's Eve, 1980, over a simple difference of opinion: I wanted to be married, she didn't. We divorced amicably. Well, as amicably as divorces go. Not wanting my Canadian landed immigrant status to expire, I returned the following March to Vancouver where I have been ever since, working as a tennis instructor, photographer, conductor, pianist, music writer, music librarian and residence attendant (now known as the more la-de-da Front Desk Service Representative) for UBC Student Housing, the latter being the furthest from what I was trained to do but which actually pays the bills. In 1996, I remarried and we had boy-girl twins - Angus and Karelia - on January 30, 2003. Becoming a first-time dad at the venerable age of 54 (when many of you were racki...Expand for more