2010 is upon us and I've never been one to make resolutions because I usually just like to see where the year takes me. This past year has been a bit of whirlwind (well the last few months anyway). Four years ago on this day Myles and I had been back from South Korea for only a couple months. We had just decided to move to Toronto because I had been offered a job at a Vet there and we moved into our place on New Year's Eve. Since then we moved from Toronto to London, ON, then we spent two years in Yellowknife and are now in Vancouver...perhaps not for long.
Three provinces/territories and four cities later I'm in Vancouver and loving it, except for that pesky detail called employment. It appears that in a place with at least eight public library systems and countless college and university libraries there isn't a library job to be found. Couple that with the apparent regional bias (being that libraries tend to hire UBC grads) and I'm sitting here after two and a half months with no prospects in Metro Vancouver. I've applied to a job in Lethbridge and one in Kelowna. They both close mid-January so we'll see what direction we go from here. I'm not opposed to being a nomad, it's just that it gets expensive not to mention lonely. Just as we make friends somewhere, we move. Anyway, since two and a half months have gotten away from me with not much to show for it, I'm going to try to make some goals (not resolutions!) for myself in 2010.
Goals:
1. Continue the novel I started in November 2009 (16,000 words so far!)
2. Get my Etsy shop up and running (which means I need to knit more!)
3. Stop spending so much time on FB playing stupid farm and pet games
4. Read more (a lifelong goal)
5. Find a job that I really like (this seems to be an unachievable paradox)
6. Blog more (not stupid micro-blogging on FB)
We'll see how that goes. I'm off to find something else useful to do.
Later.
