What had happened with the cat since my last post is that I had said to my GF that I didn't really want to get a cat, she wanted one...and I complained that she'd got the cat for me without really asking me.  She then resolved she'd keep him as her cat, though she brought him over to my place for visits on a number of weekends, and as he grew up a ( Read more... )

After a long, cold winter, it's now spring. Spring in Ottawa was fighting it out with winter, but of course Spring always wins eventually. Ottawa's spring often jumps from 0 degrees C to 20 (freezing to summer) in about a week, and this week is going from 5 (Monday) to 20 (Friday ( Read more... )

Gavin, my older son, just got into Queen's! I'm so happy and excited. He's applied to Carleton, Toronto, and Waterloo as well, but this is the first response. I helped edit his Statement of Purpose and suggested some stuff to put in, so I feel some writerly pride, but mostly motherly pride at his accomplishment ( Read more... )

Lucky me, I have a job teaching JK/SK and Gr. 2 French Immersion from now until the end of June.

It's the last week of classes at the college, and I just marked a bunch of letters and reports for my business English class. The final reports take about 25 minutes each to mark, easily; luckily I only have 15 students in this class. The majority are in biotechnology, and they are fun to teach because they are more serious than some of my other ( Read more... )

At the beginning of Ecstatic Dance last night, N and J played some very tranquil, serene music, and we had about 10 minutes to write a poem from ourselves as very old women and men, at the end of our lives, to ourselves now, about what makes us dance. This was mine. I am usually very afraid of death, and I'm very glad that in this poem expresses ( Read more... )

Happy belated Birthday, dear logospilgrim! :)

I have an interview on Wednesday for a _full-time job_ at Algonquin College in the School of Business. I have to teach a half hr lesson, do a test, and answer questions. The lesson is to be on parallel structure, which is quite dull, but useful. I am thinking of how I present it, because having a fantastic lesson will be crucial ( Read more... )

I rocked the interview.
It will come down to experience; other candidates may have more with Primary students. Even if I don't get the job, however, I won't be sad, because I really did all I could do.

I finally took the plunge last night and sent my resume to one agency. I applied for two jobs posted at the agency, one quite basic and one more involved. (one editing, one writing.)

The agency emailed me late this aft asking me to call and answer some questions about my expertise!

Hoping this goes somewhere.