Hello webodrome!
Been a while. Here's the big stories, in a nutshell:
Graduation - Just got back last night from mine and Alyssa's BEd Grad. It was an OK ceremony, but I was quite profoundly upset by the honorary degree recipient's speech. Actually, to qualify that: I was upset by the introduction to the honorary degree recipient's speech. The actual guy, a certain Grand Chief of the local first nations people in the area, had some very provocative and encouraging things to say, even if my natural inclination is to urge people making a speech at a grad ceremony to not just seize upon the microphone as a license to extoll their mandate. It wasn't that bad. No, but the local area chief who introduced him did not just take as long as the recipients speech, but read the program aloud to an audience roasting in their chairs and also told a number of stories only barely describing his character and at least one of which being massively offensive and inappropriate, no matter the public function.
But I digress. Crossing the stage is cool and it was nice to get a handshake from the President again. Mostly it was nice to get the piece of paper. it looks nice on my shelf next to the undergrad. If anyone knows how to do degree framing that's classy but inexpensive, drop me a line or comment or something.
Work - I'm not doing much of it right now, though I have solid leads for supply teaching in summer school as well as maybe a little part time census enumerator work. So one way or another I'll keep myself busy in July. It wouldn't be very professional of me to comment on my current tutoring client's progress, but since exams are on the rather imminent horizon I'm sure anyone would expect tension levels to be high.
Love - She's far away and I miss her. Even though I saw her yesterday.
Hobbies - My novel has completely failed to progress so far this spring despite my most earnest expectations of it growing in leaps and bounds. I know I'm more than half-way, but I haven't really planned out the next few chapters in much detail and so I feel more improvisational than normal whenever I open it up to poke at it. I rode my bike a bit today. Or, rather, I stumbled off my bike, walked it to the gas station to fill up the very flat tires, got back on, rode to the bank, discovering that the tires were not by far the biggest problem, and walked it most of the way back from the drugstore internally debating whether or not I'll need it that much this summer anyway. It's probably worth the bother to tighten things up, but I can only go cap in hand to my Dad to ask him to help me fix things before I begin to feel anemic and incompetent. Which, to be fair, I am if I can't even fix my own bicycle.
The Excellent Adventure Preparation - is continuing well. I am given to understand that most of my papers are in good order, and short of finding a flat to live in (which at this time of year would be impractical even if I were only moving to Mississauga) I'm well on my way to moving successfully.
Film Review: Planet of the Apes. There are a lot of primates in this movie and many of them talk. The ones that don't talk can fly spaceships. Riddle me that one, Batman. I only made it halfway through but my initial reactions are not good, and I begin to suspect that I ought to have watched this when it first came out and not so many years after the fact.
This about concludes the news thus far. 'Til the next time I manage to muster my creative faculties, Ciao!
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