I had the interview this morning and it was super easy, I talked to the head children's librarian for about fifteen minutes and then she said the job was mine if I wanted it. Turns out the only other person they were considering doesn't have a SIN card and thus can't work in Canada. She goes to school with me, we're in several discussion groups ( Read more... )

Tomorrow morning I have an interview for a very part-time position (3.5hrs/week) in the children's section of the Jewish Public Library. It has the potential for more hours later, i.e. summer job, and takes what I have on my resume now (lots of work with children) and puts it into a library, which is kind of what I need. Yay!

"At the end of the day though, watching Dion on stage, I couldn’t help but be amazed at his physical presence. The Liberals went into this convention with a host of choices. They could have gone with a battle-tested politician, a former athlete, a world famous academic or a food bank founder from the West; at the end of the day they choose the nerd ( Read more... )

Today was freezing rain and inside-out umbrellas and puddles that encompass the entire intersection. How does one design an intersection that becomes one gigantic puddle? It is mind-boggling ( Read more... )

• My parents and sister were in town for the weekend, so we did lots of eating and shopping and now I have new clothes and vegetables and pasta. And I got to see Jim Cuddy with the parents and Ron Sexsmith with Lisa. Jim Cuddy had Anne Lindsay touring with him. Ron had Tim Bovaconti and Mark Mariash and Dave. It's so nice to see random Toronto ( Read more... )

Pop Montreal is fantastic! I saw Ramblin' Jack Elliot on Wednesday, and he was amazing, and two of the three groups before him were good too. And last night I saw Spiral Beach, Torngat, the Hyzologists, and the first three songs of Cuff the Duke's set, because at that point it was after 1 and I was falling asleep. And tonight I am going to see a ( Read more... )

• Actual exchange from class this morning:
  Prof: Why do we study the national bibliographies of Britain, France, and the US?
  Student: Because we lack a national identity?
  (That was not the correct answer, however true it may be.)
• I was just practicing and the building manager came up and told me that I can't play here any more. Which I think is ( Read more... )

Malcom Arnold is dead! He was 88, and, apparently, a Sir ( Read more... )

School is finally starting to be busy! We have all realized that hey, October, when stuff is due, is really not so far away any more. So I am going to be working on a database project on American history 1850-1900ish with a girl from New Jersey (there are a lot of Americans here) and a flow-chart-thingy-about-a-fake-library project with a guy who ( Read more... )

I thought today was supposed to be Twitch City day. But Amazon now says that it is being released on October 17.

(I downloaded it before I left Toronto and it's fantastic. Don McKellar is totally awesome. But I want real copies! With rumoured commentaries!)