I ended up having a decent holiday. I did almost nothing ( Read more... )

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I had my last day of class yesterday. It seems to me that it went by before I knew it ( Read more... )

Yesterday, at work, my co-workers and I were surprised to notice an RCMP (national police) helicopter making erratic circles above our building ( Read more... )

Well, I had to resign my job at the college yesterday ( Read more... )

Dang, I meant to write over the past two weeks about some topics that I didn't get around to at the end of my trip: How I enjoyed my trip to Ottawa, my nice overnight in Montreal and seeing some old buddies, reflections on people in my family and what they are up to these days, and so on ( Read more... )

OK, my last exam this afternoon wasn't as tough as I was worried about! It was worth 40%, too ( Read more... )

I had my last Labour Studies 101 class the other day. Interesting, I thought it might ease my transition to once more being a unionized worker somehow, but I didn't expect that a unionized job would just fall in my lap in the middle of the course ( Read more... )

Heh, I don't think I would have it in me to do the Labour Studies minor they offer at my university. I've been taking a Labour Studies 101 course after my work because I'm really interested in organized labour, etc, but here I've been sitting all day today staring at the take-home midterm essay questions I've been avoiding for a week... I just can' ( Read more... )

I've been having to get up earlier for my work since my courses start this week, but I looked up my textbooks last night, and the selections for my Labour Studies 101 class seem pretty cool!
One of the texts is even Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich :)

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