Welcome to October!
Darcy and I went to Dania Beach last Saturday and enjoyed the water. It was nice not to have to worry about sea lice, sewage from cruise ships, man of wars, or riptides. Florida beaches leave a lot to be desired - believe me. I'll take the Oregon Coast any day of the year! Today the library hosted the second annual faculty reception. Nice idea in theory but many Nova faculty are adjuncts and don't really appreciate what the library offers. We teach classes and purchase thousands of books but faculty either don't care or don't understand what we do. I talked to two adjuncts who had never been to the library before! Plus it's hard to get a hold of faculty to organize classes or get their input for new books. Enough bitching - I hate doing it! We've had a lot of rain recently so the ants are coming out of the woodwork. But these aren't the little sugar ants - they are normal black ants. They're all over the bloody kitchen counter.
I've bought my airplane tickets to visit my brother Craig in Denver in November. I haven't seen him since his wedding in summer 2000. Then Darcy and I are flying home for Christmas (Dec. 23 to Jan. 3). In order for both of us to fly on those days I had to use up all my United airmiles (80,000). Oh well, I'll just continue to put all my purchases on my United air miles credit card. Anyway I have two nice vacations coming up to wind down the year.
Darcy continues to look for jobs but there just aren't a hell of a lot in small market Canada. Don't think there are too many in the Pacific northwest either. So we may be here for another year. As a last resort the annual ALA conference is in Orlando next June. So we can drive up the road and check out the job fair there.
I'm still working out a bit (twice a week) but not enough as I would like. The humidity kills me so I'm lethargic much of the time. Temperate, year round active outdoor life style my ass! I can't belive how many brochures here say that (including Nova's!). That may be true only if you like water sports. Temperatures still hover around plus 30 celcius - where's fall? Hockey season is gearing up so I'm looking forward to listening to Oilers games on the web on 630CHED. Well, I guess it's time to go home, work out a bit and watch Enterprise. The show sucks but as a diehard Star Trek fan I record each episode. Until next time...
posted by Michael at 6:38 PM
