We're here!

We've moved to London and we've unpacked almost all our boxes. Things are slowly coming together in the apartment and the festive bush is out of the box and decorated. Otherwise, things are slow. Work is the same old stuff everyday. I heard today that there were 5 candidates chosen to be interviewed for 2 positions. Obviously I wasn't one of them. Neither were the other new Librarians here currently not working as librarians. I was told that they have been applying elsewhere because they are tired of sitting around here not being librarians. I don't blame them but I purposely came here in an attempt to move my way up....hopefully that is soon (as in the next 6 months). There are more positions that need to be filled so we'll see.

We still don't have a car and London sucks without a car so I'll keep being annoyed at transit and anti-social for who knows how long. I am looking foward to my big break from work. I work until noon on the 22nd and then I'm not back until Jan 2. The university does have its perks....librarian or not.

I initially posted so I could rant about all the people getting their panties in a knot because once again there is an "attack" on Christmas. I was going to go on about how christ cannot be forced upon everyone who recognizes december as a festive month but it's alomost 6pm and I'm running out of steam......

later

Moving

This weekend Myles and I move from Toronto back to London. This past month has gone by pretty fast and has held a lot of changes. Firstly, my new job...which may be my "old" job in the new year if I get a new position (still at the University of course). Secondly, we found Gogi a new home. He bit Myles again so we decided that we just couldn't keep a dog that bites. He is now living in Mississauga....probably not even remembering his old life.

Now a new apartment...yay! I can't wait to live with my hubby again!

Assisting

So I am now in London and started work today. Things went pretty well. I was informed that I had impressed many people with a perfect interview score....hence my new employment. I was pretty surprised and now I am worried I'll disappoint!

Anyway - we don't have our apartment yet....We will definitely have it December 1st...but hopefully a little sooner so my hubby can join me here.

Till then...I will be checking out books like a maniac....er...a lot.

Woo Hoo!

I was offered and have accepted the Library Assitant job with the University of Western Ontario. I start November 6th....off to buy a bunch of turtle necks to hide the ink!

Balance

I haven't posted in a while because unseen forces have been trying to make up for all the good things that have happened in the past 6 months by giving me some crap to deal with.

My temporary contract with the library ended....which I obviously knew would. In an effort to be able to apply for upcoming postings and not be locked out for 6 months (long story) I took a position as a page. You know the job that highschool students do shelving books....it pays very little and I'm lucky if I get 10 hours a week. Needless to say the job sucks....but it lets me apply for Librarian jobs that are posted internally.

I've only been a page for two weeks and was hoping to get my old job as a librarian back as the job was posted this week...yes the job I just vacated was posted a week after my retreat (another long story). Then I find an email today saying the posting has been withdrawn. Nice!

I then found out that I can't get EI because I was not unemployed for 7 days....I went immediately from 21 hrs/week at $29.87/hr to 10 hrs/week at $8.75/hr and I can't get any EI. Nice!

In an attempt to balance out all this crap, I have an interview tomorrow at UWO in London...also a temp gig...but full time.

And in an effort to refresh my memory about Library of Congress Classification I found that The Bible is classified under the letters BS.....Nice!

Plans

Due to some recent flowing of creative juices and no satisfying outlet...coupled with my impending employment drought.....I have picked up a book on writing mystery fiction. I've always loved reading mysteries...and I'm not talking true crime (I do enjoy that too) but more like witty sleuths and parlor murders. When I was young I read Nancy Drew books all the time.

So, in my imagined literary success I see myself writing teen mysteries...with a sort of hipper Nancy-ish sleuth character. However, today at dinner (I'm at work) I went to the nearest Wendy's and because it was 4pm and because school is now back in and apparently no one eats at home from September to June, there were about 800 teens in Wendy's.

At first I thought....aw crap this is going to be annoying. Instead it was mostly interesting and frightening. Maybe it was frightening because I just saw Idiocracy yesterday and I'm sure most of these teens are going to end up like the people in 2505. But anyway, I couldn't understand most of what these kids were saying - it was English but it was like they spoke another language that's all hyphenated and melded together. All the females were bossing around and slapping around the males who were trying to pretend it wasn't happening. They were in huge groups and were checking their cell phones every two seconds. Then I started to worry that maybe I can't succeed at writing something for this group of people. I mean, what the hell would they want to read about? Can they read words longer than 5 letters? Can they sit still long enough to read a book longer than 5 sentences? What sort of mystery do they find interesting? Would my book be like this?....."OMG! Someone has totally like hijacked ur wireless service and all ur TM's are going nowhere....I must find out who this is!"

Maybe that's the biggest crisis they can handle. Who knows but I'm not giving up hope that some literate teens exist out there who don't just care about TM's and IM's and the next designer handbag.

And.....

The movie is entertaining and scathing but not a brilliant satire by any means. I give it a 3.5/5 in terms of entertainability and originality. Definitely worth seeing but it doesn't satisfy like Office Space.

If you only see one movie this year......

See Idiocracy. Why? Because Fox Studios doesn't want you to see it! Have you even heard about this movie? Have you seen a trailer? NO because a trailer doesn't exist.

Read more here on why Mike Judge's new movie is being sabotaged.

"finally releasing it Friday, September 1, in a piddling seven cities — Austin, Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles and Toronto — with no plans to open it wider. Not even New York will get to see the latest from the Austin creator of "Office Space" and television's "Beavis and Butt-head" and "King of the Hill."

I'm going to see it today - and I hope that any of you who can get to it will also see it....because if it gets enough people in the theater then it may be realeased to a wider audience. DO IT!