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03/30/2006
Aaa! Ottawa is turning into Toronto!
Well, as of June 17 this year, it will be mandatory to do 10-digit dialling any time we call a local Ottawa number, which is what's already happening in the Toronto area. As it turns out, apparently we're running out of 613 numbers, so the plan is to begin borrowing 819 numbers (which currently is the area code for Gatineau, just across the river in Quebec). This'll be a pain... Actually, today I was on the bus and Ottawa is starting to get more and more Toronto-esque the more I look at it!
Bummer #2 of the day - yesterday I applied for what would have been a really really cool job in Victoria at the observatory, and spent eons perfecting a cover letter for it, only to find out today from HR that, oh, by the way, that position was supposed to be advertised internally only, so we can't consider the application. (So if it's supposed to be internal, what the heck is it doing on their public careers site??) Anyway, so that really sucks. I wasted a whole bunch of time and energy on something there was never any hope for. At least the HR lady actually wrote back and was honest. I appreciate that. But this is shades of the "we already have someone in mind" rant I went on earlier.
I don't know about everyone else, but for me, there are two types of the "I'm sick of this" syndrome. The first type is temporary. For example, in high school I was playing a Bach suite for the Kiwanis Music festival, and I must've practiced that stuff a million times. Finally, when the time Kiwanis comp was over with, my cello teacher was flipping through my handy-dandy Six Suites for Solo Cello by J.S. Bach, trying to figure out what I should play next. I said to her, "you know what? I just don't want to play any Bach anymore." To really grasp the seriousness of the situation, this was akin to saying to a priest, "I just don't want to read the Bible anymore." Any cellist worth his or her salt plays these suites - they're pretty much the most famous thing ever written for cello. But, I gave it a break, and sure enough, after a while, I enjoyed dabbling in the suites again.
The second type of "I'm sick of this" syndrome is the permanent type. In other words, if I ever experience this again, EVER, it'll be too soon. It's like a light bulb that's burnt out. It doesn't matter how long you wait before trying to light it again, it's still burnt out. Unfortunately for me, this job hunt "game" fits into this category. Every time I do it, I'm immediately sick of it and it just makes me want to be a humour writer (well, at least during those times when I don't feel like crying and/or beating up punching bags...).
Anyway. Well, for good news, looks like spring is officially here! Today was really gorgeous, with the sun shining and the temperature hitting a whole 19 degrees! Wooohoooooo!! :-)
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