michanna

Hello Dreamwidth/Livejournal,

I have a lot of thoughts and feeling today - way too many for twitter - and it's a slow enough day that I might get the chance to actually write them down so here I go:

After spending last week at the cottage, I'm super homesick for Ontario. I think I have enough experience now to pick up and leave and grab something better over there. I do feel some loyalty towards my company but I also feel like I've paid my dues. I have spent the last three days mostly convinced that I should make a goal to move back to Ontario next fall.

Most of my hesitation comes from how much work has been done in my house. Really I'm a little stressed at how much work (and money) my mom's putting into making my house awesome because it makes me feel like I have to stay and appreciate it. Things like the gardens, where we've put hundreds of dollars worth of plants and days of our time, make me especially reluctant to walk away. She's so much more invested in my house than I am. She also got my uncle to come down and put a lot of work into it and he flat out told me he'd be disappointed if I didn't continue living there and enjoying the work he's done.

I'm still not sure what my career goals are - I need to think about it as I'm planning on taking some classes in the winter and I want them to be relevant to my goals, not just the company's goals especially if I'm not sticking around. Anyone know what environmental skills are in demand in Ontario right now? I'm leaning towards hydrogeology.

I sort of adopted a kitty last night. I don't have it yet but I agreed to take it. It's a cat that belongs to a friend of the family but they're not able to take care of it due to spending months away and their daughter's fiance's allergies. They wanted it to go to a home where it could be loved and I want a kitty, so it works out. It might make the place a little harder to rent, but I'll survive. I only hope the cat gets along with my roommate's dog for the next few weeks; my roommate sold her house and will be moving out by the end of September.

By the way, if anyone knows anyone looking for a room, send them my way.

I also got to ride some ponies in Ontario and now I'm back on the trail of trying to find a barn here in Calgary ... again, I should just move back to Ontario.

Addendum:
Oh wow, today has turned some things on their head. Okay, with respect to that 'send roommates my way' thing, pick one that likes cats and can take care of mine when I'm gone? Apparently, after months of not having work and being stuck in the office, work's trying to triple book my fall. They're sending me away next week and the following week and for most of October. With all the client turnover, who knows where our new sites will be located ... but I want a cat and I don't want to take back my offer to my friend to look after it. What do I do?

My boss also casually asked me today if I wanted to move to Edmonton. I don't think he was kidding. I should have told him I'll start an office in Guelph instead.

:s

The drive to work this morning was lovely. I slept in a whole extra hour and still coasted to work in about 40 minutes. It was so nice to not have to stress about it that today the option of moving to the suburbs of Calgary so I can walk to the office is definitely winning the where should I live decision battle.

Also, the morning CBC radio program that airs during the holidays is so much more interesting than the usual Calgary Eyeopener.

Went to see Beauty and the Beast the musical yesterday. It was delightful if not quite as high-quality as I was hoping. Now I want all the Lumiere/Cogsworth fic but AO3 is unhelpful on that front. I am, however, intrigued by some of the beauty and the beast crossovers that exist over in the AO3 but I'm not going to explore them from work.

Going to try, once again, to get into the habit of using DW and crossposting to LJ. (old habits die hard).

( Cut for length, angst - and I was doing so well )

In other news: a bunch of idiots staged a flash mob outside the Community studio to protest its hiatus, in all likelihood proving to the studio how small the fanbase is.

They're making lego for girls. Who do I shoot?

Hello Livejournal!

I haven't been on here in forever! So much has happened; interviews attended, spirits crushed, the Calgary Comic Expo, scintillating career workshop that nonetheless seems like it won't get me anywhere, x-men love, hockey ...

But I'm not really here to talk about any of that. I'm here to, 6 months late, post a picture. I'm just going to link the url since I'm too lazy to embed and don't really like it when other people embed images.

https://dl-web.dropbox.com/get/IMG_7160.JPG?w=c7cae9db

Let me know if you can't see it; this is my first time trying dropbox to host pictures.

Look, the Leverage Flashfic comm has our first story!

http://leverage-flashfic.dreamwidth.org/1048.html?#cutid1 <-- lazy at coding.

Everyone's making "Welcome to my LJ, MJers" posts. I would like to do the same but I can't think of anything to say!
Hi! If I friended you it's because I thought you were awesome. Feel free to ask me questions. There are a bunch of other people I thought were awesome who I can't remember usernames for.

(PS. Riddles of the Sphinx is a terrible movie, but Dina Meyer is pretty in leather and the alternative is applying for jobs, which I hate.)

Continuing with my reverse chronology:

( MCR Concert )

Have arrived back home safely in Calgary. Seems like ages since I was getting off the plane in Toronto. Now C's married and MJ's over. All I want to do now is drink tea and read all the fic I learned about while there.

Maybe I'll unpack and go through my e-mail first.

Should I take this temp position with the Canada census?

Hi! I left my computer logged in at a con! WELL DONE ME!

PS Captain Planet, he's our hero, gonna take pollution down to zero!

Okay, so yesterday I decided that the best way to start working would be to finish Dragon Age. As a result, I am ashamed of how much time I spent playing dragon age, how little I got done, how emotionally invested I am in that game (seriously, way more connected to my emotions in this game than in real life).

Now, in a much more productive Tuesday (not), I'm almost caught up on Community

I have at least managed to double check that all my trip tickets were booked properly.

ETA: the D&D episode of Community is making me feel better about my connection to video game characters.