Day for Night

End of another month.

2008-11-29T08:57:00.011-04:00

I figured I should update my blog today, partly because I haven't in awhile, and partly because I actually want to blog twice in one month. How different this is from my days of blogging several times a week. ;) I'm also hoping I can get into the writing mood as I have a paper I need to work on for my Global Policy class. So this blog entry is serving as a regular update, something to prime the writing pipes, and a procrastination tool. Go me! :D

I've really enjoyed my Global Policy class. The material can be depressing and overwhelming at times, especially if you have not any previous experience with the material. We talk about how the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) are serving to keep the rich nations rich and the poor nations poor. We talk about various interlocking forces of oppression and world strife. So why did I enjoy the class? Because in the midst of all the difficulties, there is still hope and stories of triumph. I see part of my work as a social worker to be hanging on to that hope and fostering it in others so we can all overcome these many adversities. I don't think all social workers feel that way, but I do. And the longer I can hold onto my belief in hope, the better off my clients will be. See? I'm already writing stuff down for my paper! :D

While I'm not waxing poetic about the nature and future of social work, I'm knitting and surfing on Ravelry, a knitting/crocheting social/networking/pattern-sharing/etc site of uber awesomeness! You can share your projects, in progress and completed, and find patters for just about everything. You can keep track of your yarn stash, of how much yarn you used for a given project, keep a virtual bookshelf of your pattern books, swap notes with crafters with similar interests - I'm deeply in love with this website. I highly recommend it to all the knitters and crocheters out there. Let me know if you join and I'll say hi! :D

My plans for moving are still on track. I can't tell you how excited I am about this! While I'll be living in a city I've never lived in before, I'll be so close to so many friends that I've been missing for years. I just wish I could pack up all the good friends I have here and take them with me. :P That's always the thing - I'm so excited about moving, but I don't want my friends here to think that I'm excited about leaving them. They made living here again worth it, which is really saying something for a place to which I didn't want to move back. I'm going to miss them dearly. But they'll always be welcome to come and visit! :D

If the weather holds out I'll be visiting the GTA for about a week next week! I'll be looking for work and trying to sell my parents' car (as it just has not been selling here), and using those two things as an excuse to see my man. ;) Yes, I know, I'm moving there in about a month, but what can I say? I'm in love, so I'm doing rediculous things. I'll also feel much better if I pass out some resumes as well so as to at least have a start on job hunting. And yes, I can rationalize anything. ;)

Well, herein ends this update. I'd also like to hear how YOU are doing, so leave a comment would ya?

One Word Answers.

2008-11-05T18:27:00.004-04:00

I figure if Elad can do it, so can I. :)

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1. Where is your cell phone? jacket
2. Your significant other? Ontario
3. Your hair? brown
4. Favourite type of music? 80'sUKelectropop
5. ?? No number 5
6. Your favorite thing? sleep
7. Your dream last night? iPod
8. Your favorite drink? pinacollada
9. Your dream/goal? counsellor
10. The room you're in? Parlour
11. Your ex? several
12. Your fear? failure
13. Where do you want to be in 6 years? happy
14. Where were you last night? bed
15. What you're not? finished
16. Muffins? lemoncranberry
17. One of your wish list items? job
18. Where you grew up? Canada
19. The last thing you did? walk
20. What are you wearing? clothes
21. Your TV? attic
22. Your pet? snoozing
23. Your computer? streaming
24. Your life? improving
25. Your mood? good
26. Missing someone? YES
27. Your car? temporary
28. Something you're not wearing? stilettos
29. Favorite store? n/a
30. Your season? n/a
31. Love someone? YES
33. When is the last time you laughed? 5minago
34. Last time you cried? 7daysago
35. Who will/would re-post this? anyone

A proper update.

2008-11-02T12:38:00.006-04:00

Hope you all had a loverly Hallowe'en. :)

It's a gorgeous, sunny, chilly day here on this first day of Daylight Savings Time. I really hate Daylight Savings Time. I don't like the fact that it gets dark at 4:30pm and I feel like sleeping soon after. I all but count the days until the Winter Solstice when the days start getting longer again. Mind you, even though I don't like DST, I am glad it is now starting later in the year and ending earlier in the following year.

So I guess it's time to update everyone (all 4 or so of you who read this ;) ) on the important going's on in my life. I promised about a month ago I'd update you on the education situation, so here it is. I'm doing one course this term (global policy - I really like the material and the prof) and it's going well. I have a group presentation due tomorrow (hence my procrastinating by writing this blog entry!), and will be meeting my group later in the day to put the final touches on the presentation. Then it's just one paper and I'm done the course!

As for my outstanding coursework - well, it's a little complicated. I will be completing all the outstanding work by the end of the term, but I won't know if that will mean I'm done my degree yet. "How does that work?" you may be asking yourself. Well, even though I will be handing in the work, the department has given me no guarantee that my work will be marked and credited. So I might be doing all this work for nothing. Yep, that's the situation. They are leaving the decision up to each individual prof for whom I owe work. If a prof decides they aren't going to mark the work, then I don't get credit for the course. And keep in mind these are courses for which I have one outstanding assignment for course completion. If I don't get credit for a course, I need to take another course aaaaall over again. *sigh* What this ultimately means is that I have no idea if I'll be finished my degree come the end of December. If I'm not, then I'll just keep plugging away until I'm done.

Regardless of whether or not I'm finished my degree in two months, I've decided not to stay in my current city any more. I'm tired of being here, and it's time for me to move on. So I'm moving back to Ontario at the end of the year!! If I still have work to do on my degree, then I'll be completing it either by correspondence or by taking courses at another university.

Now, of course, you'll ask "But why are you not moving back to Ottawa?" And the reason for that is, well, a man. :) This summer I met a wonderful man who was living out here in the Maritimes but was planning to move "back home," which was, for him, Southern Ontario. We ended up hitting it off much better than either of us could have imagined, and I'll be moving in with him at the end of the year. I'm excited and nervous and sure of everything all at the same time! I've only ever lived with one other person before (relationship-wise), and this relationship involves two adorable kids which is completely new to me as well. Okay, kids aren't new to me, but being involved with someone who has kids is new. :) I'm thinking it will be a marvelous adventure!

As of yet, I do not have a job lined up for when I get there (due mostly to the fact that I don't know if I'll be finished the degree), so I'll be looking immediately when I arrive. I hope to do some investigating of jobs in November when I'm hoping to visit the man again (I was there in October for a week) and to hand out CVs and such. So anyone in the GTA, please keep me posted if you hear of any social-worky type jobs that you think I'd even have a remote interest in! Even if the job description says "BSW required," please let me know as I can tell them I'm close to finishing my degree.

I think I've hit all the major points. Anything else you want to know? I also want to thank you all for updating your blogs - I really love to hear how you're all doing, and I can't wait to actually see you all again.

Happy Hallowe'en / Blessed Samhain

2008-10-31T19:45:00.002-03:00

Happy October 31st to you all! Hope it's filled with lots of fun and candy. :)

Hallowe'en here has brought me closer to where I want to be. I'm getting my school work done (more on that in a future post), and I'm heading back to Ontario soon! That's right, folks, I'm finally getting out of this one-horse town and moving West, closer to friends and family. While it won't be Le Capital, I figure the GTA region won't be too far away from my River Valley friends. Weekend road trips will take me there easily! I'll be moving at the end of the calendar year, and hope to find work by early in January. So if you hear of any social work-y jobs in the GTA (preferably East of the city), then please pass them my way.

I'm heading off to our local Samhain rit soon, so I'll bid you farewell for now. Miss you all, and will be seeing a bunch of you relatively soon!

Welcome to Fall.

2008-10-01T13:36:00.003-03:00

My poor, neglected blog. I guess time flies when you're having fun.

And for the most part, I have been having fun. I had a great summer, got to visit friends in Nova Scotia, hang out with friends here, all while still working the night shift.

Now I'm back in school for what is (hopefully) my last course! I say hopefully as this past Monday I was going over my transcript with the current chair of my department, and there seems to be some issue as to whether or not I've taken the right amount of courses in the right topic "streams." This is very aggravating as 1) I've been over and over this very thing with the past department chair and was assured that I had all my streams covered, and 2) I desperately want to move back to Ontario this winter, at the end of this term. I just do not want to stick it out here any longer. While I enjoy my friends here, I do not want to work the night shift for an extra 4 months for yet another course. It's really high time for me to move on.

On the topic of work, things aren't terrible, but they aren't great either. My migraines are back with an increased frequency, which I fully attribute to working all night while staring at a computer screen for 8 hours straight, and then sleeping all day. My head was not built to work at weird hours and in front of a computer screen all the time. It's strange - I was in front of a computer less when I worked in IT than I am now in a call-centre type job. So I'm really looking to end this job soon.

On a happier note, I have vacation time from work starting next week! I'll be in Southern Ontario for this event over the Thanksgiving weekend, then heading down to the States to visit my brother and sister-in-law for a few days. I'm so excited!! The time away will be great.

Those are the major things going on right now - well, the ones I want to talk about here anyway. :) I'll probably be posting here when I know more about my course situation. I hope I hear back from the chair before the end of the week.

Hope all is well with you out there! Miss you all, and hope to see you in the new year.

Unconscious Mutterings.

2008-08-04T01:33:00.003-03:00

Wow, I've not memed in this blog yet, so here goes:

Unconscious Mutterings, August 2, 2008

Crankiness :: annoyance
Backpack :: camping
Clone :: wars
High ground :: higher
Dreams :: living
Lovingly :: give
Mistake :: amends
Carson :: Daly
Errand :: Boy
Dozen :: Baker's

Will someone slow down the time machine?

2008-06-28T07:23:00.005-03:00

Okay, folks, where did June go? It went by faster than May did, and I thought that went by pretty quickly. *sigh* I think it's time to mindfully root myself in the present so I don't keep losing track of time.

I just got back from a quick walk to the local farmers' market. I only live about a block away, so even laziness is a poor excuse for not going. I treated myself to one of my favourite coffees - raspberry cream. I haven't had coffee in about two weeks, so this really was a treat. Of course, my cat thinks I got it for him and is trying to sneak sips every now and then. But now I think he's mostly distracted by the people going to and from the market. He enjoys sitting in the window and watching his "adoring public" go by. :)

I've noticed lately that I'm having a bit of a hard time with a lack of daylight. "LACK of daylight," you say, "but it's the middle of the summer!" Yes, that's true. But when you work the night shift, you don't get the benefits of all that daylight. I keep the shades down during the day so I can sleep, then it's dark all night when I'm awake. I've found it harder to sleep after work because the sun is already high in the sky at 6:30am when I finish work, which puts my schedule even more out of whack. I'm just glad I know I won't be doing this night shift forever.

A fun bit of news this week: Kay and Jay are visiting from La Capital area! YAY!! I can't wait to see them! And Jay will be on an actual vacation this time, i.e. he won't have to work all day like he used to have to do on his "vacations." I hope to see them a few times this week, at least. There will be some of this and hopefully some of this, and maybe just some hanging out, too!

There are a few other things I want to write about, too, but I think they deserve their own separate entries. So watch for those. Hopefully they won't take a month to be written down. :)

Have a great weekend, all, and HAPPY CANADA DAY!

Adventures in La Capital.

2008-05-26T06:53:00.003-03:00

It looks like it's time for my monthly blog entry!

I spent a week in my beloved Capital this month. I got to see many fantastic friends, see a fantastic concert, and eat lots of fantastic food. It really didn't feel like a vacation, though - it felt like coming home. Moving through the city, whether by car, bus, or my own two feet, felt more right than it does where I'm living now. And I've lived here much longer. Heck, I've lived in Freddy Beach longer than I've lived anywhere else, and it's never felt like home. But La Capital really does. So knowing that I'm moving back there (that, and the fact that I have some amazing friends here in FB) makes being here much more manageable. :)

The fact that the entire trip felt like being at home is probably why I didn't take even one picture. It was my city, my home, I knew it all already. Mind you, that probably shows I'm taking it too much for granted. ;) And had I known they were going to allow full use of cameras at The Cure concert, I would have definitely brought mine! The pictures some people were taking were amazing! But the few pics I snapped with my meagre phone camera were pretty sad.

I am also now single. The wonderful man that I've been with for just over a year and I have parted ways, in a way, for now. I just found the whole long-distance relationship thing too impossible. I know we'll be in the same city in the future, and I would really like to try again, if he'll have me. But that can't really be decided until a later date.

I guess that's it for now. For all the folks I saw, I'm so glad we got to spend time together! For all the folks I missed, I'll see you all when I move back.

PS I was about to add a 'vacation' tag for this blog entry, but I go on vacation so rarely I decided not to bother. ;)

It's finally Spring!

2008-04-07T13:37:00.005-03:00

After a long, arduous winter, I think Spring might actually be making an appearance. It's sunny and "warm" outside (at this point, anything above 0 degrees is warm), and people are actually starting to go outside again. My cat is enjoying sunning himself in the window of my room, and people outside are enjoying looking in on him. :) Luckily, my window is far from the street, so folks aren't actually peering in my room!

I'm back in school! Actually, I have been for two months now, almost immediately after I made my last blog entry. The course is going well, and it's great to have some forward motion again. I'm still procrastinating, but things are at least better. :)

New friendships have been formed, and a few old ones fallen away - some with more of a kaboom than a gentle, final whisper. ;) All in all, my social life has slowly improved. I can only assume that comes with me being less hateful of myself and allowing myself to feel worthy of quality friendships. But I'm telling you, it's been much fun so far!

Work is also going reasonably well. I've missed time because of migraines, and my supervisor doesn't like that too much, but my job performance is still very good and doesn't suffer from missed days, so I'm still holding my own. As I've been there 6 months now and my performance is good, I've had a 7% raise in my wages. Yippie! Every bit helps, that's for sure. I'm still on the overnight shift, and I will be until I'm done with the company, I'm sure. I really enjoy the team I'm on, and my team leader is fantastic, so I'm very happy there.

Oh, and I got a new tattoo!! It's a design I've been wanting for years now, and I finally got it done about 2 months ago, just as I was starting school again. I wanted something physical (both on my skin as well as experiential) to help me get started again. It worked. :) I'll have to get a pic posted here sometime.

So I'm back! Feel free to say hi. It's good to know someone's out there. :)

I am alive.

2008-02-04T16:48:00.000-04:00

Well, 'kay, so it's been about two months (over two months) since I blogged. Sorry about that. Just haven't felt inclined to do so, I guess.

Christmas was fantastic! My brother and his wife came up from where they're living and we had a great time at my parents' place. I love the holidays because I love it when my family gets together. I know that's not everyone's experience of the holidays, but I'm so thankful that it's mine.

Work is work. No changes, really. I'm glad I have a good crew of people who are on my immediate team, or else work would be painfully boring. I need a job where I'm constantly doing new things or lots of variety. This is not that job. I knew that when I took it, but of course I need the paychecks. :)

As for the job I really want, social work -- well, I'm afraid I've made no headway there. I'm still "in a stuck" about my coursework. That's part of the reason I haven't bothered blogging. There's been no movement on the biggest issue at all, and I'm ashamed to admit it.

That's it for now.

Minor update.

2007-11-19T16:50:00.000-04:00

Work is going well. I'm doing a good job, and my stats show it. I'm out of my 6-week on the floor training as of tonight (or, technically, last Friday). It's always nice to hear you're doing a good job, even if the job is easy.
I think my cat is sick again/or still sick. He barfed multiple times last night and had diarrhea today. :P I'm taking him to the vet tomorrow. Let's hope it's not serious!
I'm sick. I started getting sick last week with a tingle in the back of my throat, and now it's in full force. I thought I was getting better yesterday, but it's worse today. Let's hope it leaves me soon. I have other things to do than sleep. :)

Less of this.

2007-11-07T01:41:00.000-04:00

I think I need to be less afraid of life. Sometimes the only thing I want to do is stay inside and keep away from the world. Then I get angsty because I'm inside too much. I also think I need to think less and do more. But how does one get out of one's own head?

I've spent way too much time in here over my life.

On the friend front, things are alright. I'm not seeing the people I was having problems with, so that's made me a heck of a lot more sane over the past few weeks. There's a possibility I will run into some of them this Thursday, but I'll just make sure I have my own transportation and will leave if I so need. I hate running into crappy people in fun places. :P

End of the road.

2007-10-21T21:21:00.000-03:00

So it looks like I'm going to have to stop hanging out with my group of friends here. This means I suddenly have no close friends anywhere near me, and I'm without a local spiritual community. I'm feeling incredibly stupid and incredibly lonely. I don't think I've ever had to step away from an entire group of friends before, it's really scaring me. But being around them makes me feel crazy and unhealthy, and I don't like the person I am when I'm around them. Unfortunately a chunk of my situation is all my fault, which is why I feel rather stupid and why all of this is hurting so much. But I think this would have ended up happening anyway, without my "contribution."

So what do I do now? What do I do until I get back to La Capital?

On the Night Shift.

2007-10-16T19:13:00.000-03:00

I worked my first week of night shift last week, and I made it through surprisingly well! I work at UPS from 10pm to 6:30am, sleep when I get home, then I'm up for the evening before work. And I've got to say... I feel great!! Isn't that bizarre? I know it's only been a week, and I'm giving it a few weeks before I give a more informed opinion, but this night shift thing is working for me! I think it's because I can sleep any time of day, so sleeping during the day is not difficult for me. Some of my co-workers are having a tough time with it, but it could partly be because they have kids, or they are in school and taking classes, etc. Anyway, I'm enjoying it so far. And I have weekends off, so I don't miss anything then! :)

In other news, my poor baby cat has a bladder infection. Again. He had one when I was away on my placement earlier this year. My wonderful parents took care of him then. Now he's got another one, so $115.72 later, he's got two week's worth of antibiotics and a week's worth of anti- inflamatory stuff to get him well again. This means I have the privilege of giving a cat a pill twice a day for two weeks. Yippy skippy. :P I'll just be relieved when he's all better.

I've also had more opportunity to hang out with a few of my young cousins in the past few weeks. Last weekend I hung out with my 11 year old cousin (who feels more like a niece because of her age!) at my parents' place. We sewed most of the day, making matching sleep pants out of fabric my mom bought when we were in VT for my brother's wedding. My cousin loved the fabric, and we had a great time together! She's such a great kid.

Then this weekend, I'm going to another cousin's 11th birthday party! I still need to figure out what to get him. He's growing so tall, too! That kid gets taller every time I see him, I swear. :) This weekend is his "adult" birthday party where all his grown-up friends are invited, and last weekend was the "kid" party when all of his peers came over. Not bad, two parties. :)

Well, that's it for this update. Miss you all! ((HUG))

Happy Turkey Day!

2007-10-07T22:07:00.000-03:00

Happy Thanksgiving to all my Canuck readers and visitors! Aw heck, Happy Thanksgiving to all my non-Canuck readers and visitors, too. I hope you all followed custom and consumed entirely too much poultry this holiday weekend.

Work updates:

I resigned from the group home this week. I really enjoyed it, but I really need the time to...
... Go to full time with UPS! I start full-time over-night shifts with the megacorp this week, so I'll need to sleep all day to be up all night. Let's see how long Angela can last! :D

Life updates:

Friends are weird. What do you do when you find yourself not fitting in to they way that any of them seem to be running their lives lately? I mean, I'm sure I could fit in if I wanted to, but I'm quite sure that I don't. The prospect of seeking out an entirely new group of friends is rather daunting.
No move on school work, yet. I've been using the excuse of working 2 jobs to not work on my papers. Now that I have one job, I'll either have to start the papers again, or knit. Guess which one will win out? ;)

And thanks to everyone who mentioned they're actually dropping by once in awhile. Good to know there's a point to this. G'night!

Is this thing on?

2007-10-01T07:16:00.000-03:00

Does anyone even read this? It seems that since I started blogging again, everyone else has stopped updating theirs. Hmm.

Any signs of life would be great! :D

In The News.

2007-09-28T23:44:00.000-03:00

Well... my news, anyway. :)

Work is going well on both job fronts. My house at the group home have been cut back (and my impetus) so I'll be working on getting back to my school work. I've got one more week of part-time training at UPS, then it's on to full time. This will be good for the bank account! Actually it will be good for my debtors. My bank account will still be starving. ;)

General life stuff is... alright. It's difficult being away from my sweetie, especially now that he's been brutally ill for the past three weeks and is showing no signs of getting better. Being away from a sick loved one is so difficult. You just want to be there to take care of them! I feel like all I can do from this distance is nag the poor man about going to the doctor and getting some rest.

I'm also wondering if I'm losing the group of friends I've had here in the East. I've been obsessing as to whether it was something I've done or not Thankfully, another friend of mine (who's separate from this group of friends) helped me put some things in perspective today, so I'm feeling more grounded about the whole thing. Either way, losing friends is sad, but sometimes it's for the best. I'm a very low-drama person. I figure life is dramatic enough on its own, so I try to keep it to a minimum when it comes to my friends. :D

I think that's it for tonight. I'm off to visit the parents and do some laundry tomorrow. Time for bed! G'night.

So much for blogging.

2007-09-18T23:50:00.000-03:00

Wow, I've been pretty much going non-stop for the past week and a half, so I've not even blogged in the past nine days. This will be just a brief update.

Work is going well at both the group home and UPS. I really like the guys I work with at the group home, but I've decided I really need to cut back on the hours there. Working a total of 60 hours a week between two jobs is not for me (like I didn't know that already). I'm sticking with UPS as they pay better and they have benefits, where at the group home there is nothing. I'm only designated as a part-time employee at the group home even though I'm working full-time hours. Not fun. So even though I like the guys, I need to cut back. More on the group home at a later date.

Off to bed for me!

Busy Days.

2007-09-09T13:52:00.000-03:00

It's been a busy few days, and it's about to get busier.

On Friday, I went in for my Orientation at UPS. Not a bad string of events with UPS: get a call on Tuesday for an interview, have the first interview on Wednesday, have the second interview and the call-back saying I got the job on Thursday, then start work on Friday. I found out that UPS is an awfully conservative company. The dress code is business attire (not "business casual" as I'm used to, but "business"), meaning I have to somehow find money for new clothes. I also need to find some jewelry that hides my industrial and rook piercings. Yep, it's that conservative. But I need the $11.60/hr. so I don't have that much problem wearing the uniform. It's better than their brown courier uniforms, anyway. :)

Then I went for the last of my orientation at the group home. I start full time there tomorrow! I'm a little nervous as I'll be taking two of the men to the job centre by myself, so I'll see if I'm able to keep the tougher one in line and keep them both busy. Wish me luck!

My schedule will be rather busy over the next month. Monday to Friday will be 8:30am - 4pm at the group home, then 6pm - 10pm at UPS. I've never worked more than one full time job before, so a full time and a part time job will be quite the experience. Also, I'll be walking to and from these jobs. The group home is about 35 - 40 minutes from my house, and UPS has got to be over an hour away. So I'll be getting home after 11pm every night, and having to get up by 6:30am. It will be a tough schedule, but I'm hoping I can make up the sleep on the weekends.

Since today is Sunday, I'm going to get all those things done that I won't have time to do this week - clean my room, dye my hair, and sleep. ;) Too bad I don't have enough groceries for cooking up several meals in advance. Maybe I can squeeze grocery shopping in between the two jobs.

Anyway, enough inane chatter from me. I just wanted to let you all know why you might not be hearing from or seeing me a lot over the next month! Take care.

More Great News!

2007-09-06T14:57:00.000-03:00

I got the UPS job! Just a few hours after my interview, I got a call back saying I was successful! I have four hours of orientation tomorrow, then I start training on Monday evening. Now I just need to juggle both jobs, and finish my school papers, and I'll have my life figured all out. :D

Good First Day.

2007-09-06T10:01:00.000-03:00

I started working at the group home yesterday. I was there for 4 hours (noon until 4pm) and spent the afternoon hanging out with two of the residents and the young woman who currently works with them. Actually, yesterday was her last day, so it was sort of a rushed transition for the guys - they at least get to see my face once before I start working with them alone.

When I work the day shifts, I'll be working with two men over at a job centre for disabled people. They do a variety of jobs (none of them very exciting), but they get out of the house, get experience, and keep busy. One of the men is very sweet, soft spoken and funny. The other is loud, boisterous, and a horrible chauvinist. It's going to be quite the ride. ;) I enjoyed the day, actually, but I'm sure it will be different when I don't have a co-worker to talk to.

I like what I see of the group home so far. No one is coddled - the residents do their own dishes, heat up their own lunches, set and clean the table, and do their own laundry. They also do other chores in the house as they are able. We are there to deal with any health issues they have (mental health flair-ups, hygiene needs, coaching and teaching, etc). I already know I'm going to learn a whole lot!

Another great thing about yesterday is that I had an interview at UPS. Yes, I know you are very excited. ;) The great thing about this job is that it starts at $11.60 (almost unheard of in this region), and has great benefits. If I can get the UPS job, then I can actually afford to live and do the group home job. As with most group homes, they don't pay well and have no benefits. Anyway, the interview went so well that I was asked back for another interview today! I had the interview about an hour ago, and I think I impressed the second interviewer, too. :) As the next training class starts on Monday, she said I can expect to hear back (if I'm a successful candidate) sometime tomorrow. Yay! Please, pray, light a candle, cross your fingers, or do a little jig for me - whatever works for you. :)

That's it for me for now. I work at the group home tonight and tomorrow night at 4:30pm just for a few hours of orientation. Then I'll probably work a full shift next Monday taking the guys over to the job centre. Have a great day, all!

A Great Day.

2007-09-04T22:20:00.000-03:00

I GOT A JOB!! And this one won't disappear in two days! :) I interviewed and got a job today working in a group home with adults with intellectual disabilities and mental health issues. Doesn't it sound like a blast? I'm sure you're all jealous. ;) But the crazy, budding social worker that I am, I think it's great! It's going to be amazing experience. And I start orientation tomorrow! I should be working regular shifts by next week.

Just before I went out the door to the interview, I got a call about an application I dropped off at UPS on Friday. They offered me an interview for tomorrow morning! They pay significantly better than the group home job, so I'm hoping I'll be able to work at both places. The shifts won't conflict as one is a day job and the other is all night shifts. We'll see how my body handles that! And with these two jobs I just might be able to pay my rent. :)

Wish me luck!

P.S. Now Jay can't make any Burger King jokes. Mind you, it was touch and go there for a bit. I did hand in an application for Tim Hortons. :P

Afraid of sleep.

2007-09-03T03:25:00.000-03:00

Sometimes I actually find myself feeling afraid of sleep. I'll know I'm tired and that I should go to bed, but I get a bit of a panicky feeling when I think about actually turning in. I'm not sure why that is. I don't tend to have nightmares, and I usually love sleep. But sometimes this panicky feeling will keep me up hours beyond the time I should have gone to bed.

Like now, for instance.

What a Difference a Day Makes.

2007-09-01T20:09:00.001-03:00

(don't worry, I'll soon stop with the entry titles containing the word "Day." :) )

So yesterday's resume extravaganza went quite well. I already have an interview at a group home scheduled for Tuesday at 1:30pm, and that was a result of dropping off a resume yesterday. I also stopped by the local chapter of the John Howard Society, UPS, a Dollarama store and two bars. We'll see what comes of out that.

While it rained yesterday night and evening, today's weather was wonderful! Sunny, not too hot, and a bit breezy. I had coffee with a friend early in the afternoon and went to a craft fair with a few of my roommates in the early evening. Now I'm back at home knitting up a storm and taking it easy. Next on my oh-so-exciting to-do list is "go to bed early." :) I actually want to get up at a decent hour tomorrow so as to get back on a proper sleep schedule.

That's been my exciting life! How's yours going?

(P.S. Oh, and I forgot to tell you about the huge amounts of laundry I got done last night. Somebody stop me! I'm a crazy woman! ;) )

Pounding the pavement.

2007-08-31T10:03:00.000-03:00

May I just say that I absolutely loathe writing cover letters?

Well, it's my blog, so I guess I can.

I LOOOOOOAAATHE WRITING COVER LETTERS!

*ahem* That is all.