They Like Me!

They really do! I just found out on Friday afternoon that I was being hired full-time!

Yay me!

Can't really get into the full background right now ('cause I'm at work) but now that it's been officially announced, I wanted to share the joy. I'll try to find time on the weekend to share the whole story.

Living on Borrowed Time

Well I got the word that my company is extending my contract to the end of December - phew! At least that gets me through Christmas which is nice to know. There may yet be a full-time opportunity, but until they review full budget late in October I don't know for sure. Still, my boss is really working hard to keep me in the team and I honestly can't say how nice it is to work for someone who really fights for their staff. I haven't had a boss like this in a very long time and it makes such a difference, you know? I find you tend to actually want to put in the extra effort when you know that effort is truly appreciated.

Still keeping my eyes open for full-time, but at least I have a few more months and can be selective rather than feeling I need to apply to everything, you know?

Back to nursing my migraine. Sigh. The weather here in Toronto has been up and down like a toilet seat the last few days and my brain is none to pleased to say the least!

Official Sod Off from the Vatican

Well it's official - Canada's been given a stern talking to by the new Pope (or at least the Catholic-type high ranking folk have been). Apparently were immoral heathens who are doomed to hell. It seems that because we have legalized abortion, birth control and same sex marriage we're damned as a nation. Our "good Catholic" politicians are failing us and so now we're all to roast slowly over an open demonic pit.

Well I for one am pleased as punch to hear that!

I mean, who want's to be sanctioned by a church - any church from any particular one religion - as a purist, narrow-minded bigoted, sexist nation? I say kudos to us for recognizing that we're all individuals with different ethics and morals, and that for all their failings our politicians realize that fact. We are not a Catholic country. Heck, we're not even a Christian country and I am the happier for it. We have ethnic and cultural diversity that allows everyone to worship as they will and live as they will provided they bring no harm to others (well okay, in theory anyway). So we have the foresight not to mindlessly pro-create for the sake of populating the country with more mouths than we can feed - so what? That's a bad thing?! We can't afford to educate, feed and give decent health care to the kids we currently do have in some cases - who are we doing a favour for if we create more bodies than our geography can support?

Good for us! I am now prouder than ever to be Canadian!

Down in the Dumps

So Michigan will stop taking Toronto trash, and we have four years to figure out where to put it all.

Rather than figure out where to put all our trash, what say we concentrate instead on how we can reduce how much shit we throw out and figure out how we can reduce waste. That would be a much more logical way to solve the problem, no?

Oh, I'm sorry, we have politicians in charge of this decission don't we? My bad ...