Strike

James texted me today as he was excited that he didn't have school on Monday due to a strike. He was quite happy about this.

Today the World gymnastics qualification began and with today's internet age I can keep up with what is going on.

This week things slipped from being relatively ok to spinning out of control as there were timetable conflicts (Thanks to Thanksgiving) and other conflicts that needed to be negotiated. I took it eary today but will be working tomorrow.

scampering squirrels

I am noting that squirrel activity is much increased in the area. Must be fall.

I was debating if I should wear mitts today. James was wearing shorts.

James is off the injury list- seems to be fine now.

While I am trying to put the project teams for next term together, I am too busy answering emails and dealing with issues from this term to make too much progress!

injury list

James got hit an injured his shoulder so he is on the injury list.

I have walked downtown and walked by the corner that the stabbing happened and it felt weird.

Things are still busy with work as I try to make the project groups for next term and manage everything from this term as well. Tabitha is doing a lot but there is always more to do!

stabbing

Woke up this morning at 4am. We are starting week 2 and things are coming together. After the classes I went down to Food Basics. But this was no ordinary trip. As I was heading down all sorts of police cars went by me and then an ambulance in the other direction. Apparently there was a fight and a stabbing, which resulted in 2 deaths. The police tape had already gone up. They get that up very quickly. Apparently a police officer had to discharge a weapon so the SIU was called in. The police officer only shot for the leg of the offender though, not to kill.
Tomorrow aiming to launch projects!

a long day

Today is my hopefully last long day. However, made even longer because the wind woke me up before 4am. It is the time of year of very high email volume and a lot of training sessions. Tabitha has been a great help- today she will go to the classes instead of me. I have a training session in the evening so will need to stay late today but that is the end of the late training sessions. I am also working on the quizzes set to launch on Friday.

the stop

So after being out of the office all day yesterday I was in the office all day today. In the morning working on setting up the quiz for the week and then in the afternoon tackling the email. When I got home I took a nap.
It is raining here and tonight was supposed to be the night of the outdoor concert so I'm guessing that didn't work out too well.
I'll be going in to work tomorrow as I have to finish taking care of email and working on project approvals.

on the run

On Wed it was a long day as we had our big welcome ceremony in the evening so I got home very late.
Today was the first day of class so I was in classes all day as APSC 100 was running and I was also in the calculus classes for our time management APP. I was running literally as we had forgotten some supplies.
Hopefully will sleep well tonight.

Happy Birthday to my Dad

On labour day no less

teams

Yesterday I went into work and worked on email and the presentation for Wednesday evening.
Today I worked on making the teams. I thought it would take 5 hours and it took 10.
I washed dishes and did laundry before going to Rustle so I was on the run all day.

blisters

Yesterday it was raining lightly as I walked into work. So I didn't want to wear my summer shoes as they don't do well with water. But it was too warm to wear nylons so I wore some other shoes and paid the price in blisters.

I had gone to sleep when all sorts of sirens descended around our area. This is not particularly unusual. After the sirens arrived I could hear (and can still hear) the fire alarm going off. If must be one of the apartment buildings. Shortly after they arrived I could hear a fire guy speaking over loudspeaker (though I couldn't hear what he was saying I imagine it was telling people to get out of the building) so I figured it was more serious than a usual call. Twitter is now telling me that it is an "extinguished oven fire" so hopefully they are now doing clean up and everyone can recover from all the excitement. Including me!

New routine

I was woken up by some shouting from the apartment block nearby. It is an ongoing thing but I can't tell which apartment specifically. You would think that the neighbouring apartments would complain.

But it was ok as it was around the time that I would wake up anyway. I went to the early service at Rustle and then stayed for the start of the 11am one so that I could count the deposit. It seemed to work out better for my morning so I am liking this change.

I have not made my work to-do list for tomorrow yet but I am taking Tuesday off as I expect I will need to work the weekend.

My Tuesday list includes:
A/C maintenance guy is coming
Food box is coming
Scheduling committee meeting (not scheduled yet)
Meeting with Irene (not scheduled yet)
Board meeting - 6:30pm

From a week ago- glazed meatballs

 Pork lettuce wraps

 I think I was supposed to actually wrap the lettuce around, but the lettuce wasn't in good enough shape to do that. Was still yummy.

Writing from when I was 9:

 This past week.

Spicy carnita pork tacos

 These were good but I accidentally touched my face while cutting the poblano pepper and it burned a bit. Lesson learned.

Tuckey paillard and white wine sauce

1 week

The students arrive in one week. Still lots to do!

Today was overcast so my laundry is taking a long time to dry. I went to Shoppers and Loblaws to pick up supplies.

Now that the sun is starting to peek out, I will try to clean the windows and have another load of laundry to go out.

interviews

We are working on interviews for hiring for September. That will take up much of tomorrow as well. The course website needs to be updated. There are lots of emails to be answered. I also need to go through our survey results to see which students have not yet completed it and may not be attending. Also, have a long list of things to do on my list!

long day

I woke up today at 4am because my computer decided it didn't shut down properly and it needed to be re-shut down. Then it decided it needed a new PIN. At 4am. Seriously.

But then I couldn't get back to sleep so I got up and tried to hurry in to work due to the impending storm. I almost made it, just in the work parking lot when the heavens opened. But I still got soaked as it came down very hard.

Then I didn't want to go to lunch until Tabitha got back as it was her defence day and she is now Dr. Tabitha. But then I got caught up in other things and didn't take lunch and then was going to leave for CR early and pick up a bite to eat but then things got busy again. So it wasn't a good food day. I will try to do better tomorrow.

1 Church, 2 services

Today we added a 9am service so we have 2 identical services- one at 9am and one at 11am. I was the host so I was there just after 8am. It was a lot of fun. Easier because it was the first one, so groundbreaking. It could become tiring to do every week, we'll see how it goes.

It was overcast in the morning but sunny in the afternoon so I got a load of laundry hung out.

Then in the evening we did some CR leadership training. We had some yummy taco soup to start and then looked at improving processes and doing some other training. So a busy but good day.

Tomorrow, we are running some workshops on our first Assignment.