Ah, Life!
Hello life,
I understand that it has been absolute ages since I last checked in on you. I realize that I have been neglecting you, and that though you’re still interesting, and sometimes absolutely crazy, that I have been pretending that you don’t exist, but you do, and you remind me of that every now and again, often to my chagrine.
Things have been absolutely nuts over the past few months. My entire life, which was going so fantastically well, got flipped upside down and shaken. After having lived very comfortably and happily with Heidi and Florian for a little over a year, I was given about one a half weeks’ notice by them before they moved out. Given the brevity of the time I had to get things in order for me to take over the lease, I jumped into a crazy situation that I already regret. Suffice it to say that the apartment is now under my and my new roomie’s name, and that our banks are suffering big time because of it.
Luckily, the suffering of my bank account is slightly alleviated by the new permanent for-realZ government job that I now have. Benefits, paid sickdays, paid holidays, it’s all fucking great! Of course, I started this job just before having to change apartments, so the whole “It’s gonna help me get on my feet before Heidi and Flo move out!” thing went down the drain pretty damn quickly. Not terribly impressed by that, but what can ya do right?
I absolutely love the apartment I’m in, and think I will probably be here for quite some time to come. I don’t picture myself living with my current roomie for an overly extended period of time or anything, but he will eventually move out, I expect. For now, it works. Either way, we’re stuck together for a year. Stupid leases…
My new boss is anal about employee development, so I have been taking courses right, left, and centre since I began here. I recently took a Principles of Plain Language course, to teach me how to write properly. Kind of funny, that. Anyway, the next course that I’m kind of excited about is an “Editing Skills for the Workplace” workshop and a “Project Planning and Control: Techniques and Tools” course in October. I am still toying with the possibility of doing the latter in Montreal rather than here in Ottawa. I think it would be lots of fun, and would be interesting in that I would be taking the course with regional operations’ people rather than people who work in the National Capital Region. Once I get my life under control, once my debts are paid, once I have a Bachelors, I would like to start working in the regions on one-year or so contracts. Specifically, I think I would love to live in Montreal for a year, and then Vancouver for a year, then maybe Halifax or Edmonton for a year or six months or something. So that’s something that I’ve been keeping in mind and on the horizon. Some time off yet, I know, but it’ll happen eventually.
By January I should be back in University. I will begin taking one to three courses per semester, making sure, as much as possible, that they would not conflict with my job, and slowly work my way towards a Bachelor of Social Science in International Development and Globalization… If they let me change faculties. Otherwise, it’ll probably be something like a Bachelor of General Arts. Not as interesting, but should do the trick.
In March, just before I started this new job, my last job sent me across Canada to help host Engagement workshops in Saskatoon, Edmonton, Vancouver, and Montreal. For one and a half weeks I was flying across Canada. I went west of Ontario for the first time in my life… Flew for the second time in my life… Got to see an ocean for the first time ever… And had a wonderful amazing time. All in all, I’m pretty darn happy about it!
Anyway, life, you’ve become more or less bearable, these past couple of weeks, but just barely. That being said, when it’s good, it’s god-damned good, so I’ll try not to complain too much.
Vive la résistance! (you boner-biting uncle fucker!)
I understand that it has been absolute ages since I last checked in on you. I realize that I have been neglecting you, and that though you’re still interesting, and sometimes absolutely crazy, that I have been pretending that you don’t exist, but you do, and you remind me of that every now and again, often to my chagrine.
Things have been absolutely nuts over the past few months. My entire life, which was going so fantastically well, got flipped upside down and shaken. After having lived very comfortably and happily with Heidi and Florian for a little over a year, I was given about one a half weeks’ notice by them before they moved out. Given the brevity of the time I had to get things in order for me to take over the lease, I jumped into a crazy situation that I already regret. Suffice it to say that the apartment is now under my and my new roomie’s name, and that our banks are suffering big time because of it.
Luckily, the suffering of my bank account is slightly alleviated by the new permanent for-realZ government job that I now have. Benefits, paid sickdays, paid holidays, it’s all fucking great! Of course, I started this job just before having to change apartments, so the whole “It’s gonna help me get on my feet before Heidi and Flo move out!” thing went down the drain pretty damn quickly. Not terribly impressed by that, but what can ya do right?
I absolutely love the apartment I’m in, and think I will probably be here for quite some time to come. I don’t picture myself living with my current roomie for an overly extended period of time or anything, but he will eventually move out, I expect. For now, it works. Either way, we’re stuck together for a year. Stupid leases…
My new boss is anal about employee development, so I have been taking courses right, left, and centre since I began here. I recently took a Principles of Plain Language course, to teach me how to write properly. Kind of funny, that. Anyway, the next course that I’m kind of excited about is an “Editing Skills for the Workplace” workshop and a “Project Planning and Control: Techniques and Tools” course in October. I am still toying with the possibility of doing the latter in Montreal rather than here in Ottawa. I think it would be lots of fun, and would be interesting in that I would be taking the course with regional operations’ people rather than people who work in the National Capital Region. Once I get my life under control, once my debts are paid, once I have a Bachelors, I would like to start working in the regions on one-year or so contracts. Specifically, I think I would love to live in Montreal for a year, and then Vancouver for a year, then maybe Halifax or Edmonton for a year or six months or something. So that’s something that I’ve been keeping in mind and on the horizon. Some time off yet, I know, but it’ll happen eventually.
By January I should be back in University. I will begin taking one to three courses per semester, making sure, as much as possible, that they would not conflict with my job, and slowly work my way towards a Bachelor of Social Science in International Development and Globalization… If they let me change faculties. Otherwise, it’ll probably be something like a Bachelor of General Arts. Not as interesting, but should do the trick.
In March, just before I started this new job, my last job sent me across Canada to help host Engagement workshops in Saskatoon, Edmonton, Vancouver, and Montreal. For one and a half weeks I was flying across Canada. I went west of Ontario for the first time in my life… Flew for the second time in my life… Got to see an ocean for the first time ever… And had a wonderful amazing time. All in all, I’m pretty darn happy about it!
Anyway, life, you’ve become more or less bearable, these past couple of weeks, but just barely. That being said, when it’s good, it’s god-damned good, so I’ll try not to complain too much.
Vive la résistance! (you boner-biting uncle fucker!)