KATIMAVIK!!!!!

The most bestest thing I ever did is in jeopardy!

Please follow the link to petition the canadian government to not cut Katimavik financing. http://www.etatdufinancement.katimavik.org/support/index/

Or, you can post a paper letter to your mp and the Minister of Canadian Heritage and Status of Women free.

this beta thing

My blog has a new look, I'm sorry. I tried to make it be wider and don't know how well I succeeded. Hopefully the colours aren't distracting or difficult to read, please let me know and I'll try to work on it more. I've spent two hours now, reading through old posts and such, when I should be reading through job postings. It was a nice trip to the past- I have been back from Haiti a while now, i guess. Also I read my mom's blog from her trip last christmas, and noticed how similar we are, and also how different. It made me realize how much I love her, which seems to be a theme this week. I love you mom! (tell Wm I love him too)

(Sidenote: Ottawa is SO the place I've lived in Canada where I do the most exciting things. Tuesday I went to a play at the National Arts Centre. There was much jumping up and down when i realized I had been to the theatre and was now looking up at my nation's parliament buildings)

Anyway, back to work, ugh.

Yesterday and even farther ago

I went to church, and the text was "Love the Lord your God with all your heart..."

I know how to love God with my mind, but I forget for the moment how to love with my strength. That seems like an odd thing to say. I suppose I could use my strength for the thing that I love, but I don't know how to use it for God. He doesn't actually need me to physically climb mountains does he?

Well, come to think of it, in Haiti I climbed a lot of mountains, and thought it was necessary for my job, and thought that was serving God. Hmmm...

Monday Motday

Of late, I have been doing much reading and encountering words I don't know, or at least, of which I don't know the specific definition. In order to not simply look up definitions and then forget, I have decided to start Monday Motday- a day for words to be practiced. Since I'm not in grade school anymore, all the words will have to be used in one sentence. Not because I want to learn to use them in that way, but because effusive eruditism is much more ostentatious. (and as such, competitive and fun!) (Yes, I think word competitions are fun. Even against myself- but if you wanna experience the fun for yourself, the comments section is open)

antebellum: adj.
before or existing before the war, esp. Amer. Civil War
concomitant: adj.
existing or occurring with something else, often in a lesser way;
accompanying; concurrent: an event and its concomitant circumstances.
propensity: noun
1. a natural inclination or tendency: a propensity to drink too much.
2. Obsolete. favorable disposition or partiality.
anacoluthia: noun
lack of grammatical sequence or coherence, esp. in a sentence.

As in:
A propensity for anacoluthia to be concomitant with propaganda can be noted in the articles of antebellum journals.

Toast with your tea

www.myspace.com/toastlikestojam

Everybody go there, and then watch their video. It is like the second time that i can think of where I've been connected to a band personally, so I like their music, but everyone will like their video. (It is in Tripplettes of Belleville style.) GO NOW!

eh?

So, I'm looking for jobs, I started yesterday. Everyone whose been hassling me to do so may now relax. Those of you hassling me to go back to school, attend a different school or pay my taxes, you will be pleased to note that the looking for job option is ...I don't want to say unpleasant, but certainly ... well, here's the last post I read:

Years of experience related to the job offer : none
Description of qualifications : Be an incumbent(holder) of an equivalent secondary school diploma in the 11th year or in a 5th year of the secondary or the certificate the equivalence of which is recognized by the proper authorities; or belong to a class of jobs of the public service the conditions of membership of which as for the schooling are comparable; the person who is also admitted(supposed) has a lower number of years of schooling, on condition that it compensates for every year of missing schooling by two years of work experience; we hear(understand) by work experience, such as, the dependent or the time dedicated to the care and to the education of a child or the other persons with load(responsibility). The knowledge of the English language is essential in the exercise of the job and will be the object of an evaluation which will be eliminating heat. This competition addresses only the persons whose main home located in the RCM of Pontiac, administrative region of Outaouais. However, this condition does not apply to the members of cultural communities and to the persons with a disability. You also have to have the status of Canadian citizen or that of the permanent resident. Furthermore, to occupy a job in the Quebecois public service, you have to have a knowledge of French suited to the duties(functions). SALARY: the annual salary, calculated on a base of 35 hours per week, is 26 591 $ (14,56 $ the hour) in the start and of 32 581 $ (17,84 $ the hour) at most of the scale(ladder) *

Surely the coolest thing since that van commercial!

A movie of dominoes and billiards. You'll like it, really! (And plus, hey look at me being interested in something relaxing!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niSw5DWomIA