Forsaken Faith

On Friday I gave my manager my letter of resignation. I was frightened to do it because I didn’t want to be yelled at but as soon as I did I knew all of my fears were for nought (hah, a little olde English for ye on this fine Sunday!). She was really nice and did the fake sympathetic discussion with me, you know the one, where she uses her soft voice and makes it seem like we’re just the best of friends and she’ll miss me so very much. Pfft. I know she’s probably happy to be rid of me. So that is that. The next time I’m in Toronto I’ll be looking for a job. My plan is to print off a bunch of resumes and go from shop to shop handing them out. It’ll be gruelling and probably not fun at all but hopefully I’ll end up with a few interviews by the end of it. I know they’ve probably all stocked up for the Christmas holidays already (they all seem to hire extra temp workers around this time) but it doesn’t hurt to start looking now. As soon as I have a job in Toronto I can start looking for an apartment in Toronto.

So other than that, I guess life is grand. I’m done exams, I’ve got the rest of December to finish working and spend the rest of the holidays with my lovely family. Gord’s leaving for Winnipeg on the 23rd so I’ve got a limited time with him as well. I won’t get to see him for Christmas or New Year’s which really sucks but there’s nothing I can do about it. I can’t go to Winnipeg with him, flights are all booked up the wazoo and I’ve got my family to think about as well.

A very happy birthday goes to my dear friend Leah. She turns twenty today, so everyone go wish her a happy birthday
Moving is never easy

Excuse my dust. I’ve moved servers (ie, I’ve moved web-hosting companies) so things are a little wonky-looking right now. Pay no attention to the funky strings occuring around the site. That just means I haven’t gotten around to fixing that just yet. Oh, and nothing other than the blog has been imported. I’ll let you know when that’s up.

God, this was (almost) more effort than it was worth :S

ETA: the rest of the website apart from the collective is back up and running. It’s past midnight. I couldn’t be less inclined to do anything else right now.

Happy first anniversary, Gloryfades.org
Goodbye childhood, I knew thee well

It’s my birthday. I’m now twenty years old. It’s also quarter to four in the morning. So I’m going to sleep! Gnight!
Messiness

You should see my desk right now. It’s strewn with papers and a fifty-six page timetable calendar from McMaster. I’m so glad I found this thing. I don’t understand why Ryerson wouldn’t schedule all of it’s classes for Fall, Winter and Spring semesters like this. That way you can pick and choose when you want your classes, instead of waiting until you’re given your schedule to find out when Ryerson thinks you should have your classes. God, it’s so frustrating.

I’m mainly frustrated, though, because my school hours and my work hours are conflicting. I don’t know if I can keep my job at the bank and I’ve only worked three days :S Thus far, though, I have missed two classes and will miss another two on Friday. There’s only four weeks left in this semester, but I honestly don’t know if I can stick it out that long without going to all of my classes. Haha, I can hear some of you laughing … Not like you’d go anyway … yeah, well at least it’s on my terms when I don’t go, not the banks

That being said, I’m not having a terrible time at work. It’s been mostly all training these past three days and promises to be more training for the next few weeks. The first two days I stood behind a real CSR (customer care representative) and watched her do her thing. Yesterday I sat in an office for four hours working on these training programs on a computer. I went nearly bug-eyed by the end of the shift cause it was so boring. Today promises to be another fun five hours of that sort of thing. I’m nervous because I have to finally confront my boss about these hours and I’m frightened of how angry she’ll be. It took them so long to get my ass into this job and now I’m not going to even be able to work it? Oh man, they’ll blow up, I can feel it.

So I have emailed all of the professors of the courses I wish to take at McMaster in January. They are all history courses:

+ Early Modern Britain
+ Historical Antecedents of Globalization
+ Introduction to the History of Art (guilty pleasure, I love art! )
+ Europe from 1789 – 1945
+ The United States in the 60s

Hopefully all of them are transferable. Cross your fingers for me guys!
Work, school, rinse, repeat

Okay, so I haven’t posted an update here in… a very long time. *sigh* I apologize, honestly, but between being busy with a number of things, forgetting to post here when I updated, and putting it off once the updates had piled up, it just didn’t happen. One of my New Years resolutions was to finally post an update here, though, so here we have it. I just want to note, though, that when I say something is “new,” I mean that it’s new since the last actual update which was on July 22nd, 2004. So “new” could have been six months ago or longer, as some of these are. When reading the update, keep in mind this covers updates I should have posted over the past six months.

First there is some news and updates involving my hostees. Lena has opened four new sites on her subdomains: Gift From God (the namelisting for the name Jonas), Down to Earth (the namelisting for the name Jarod), Voice of God (the fanlisting for Metatron) and Splendidly Equine (the fanlisting for Blue Roan Horses). Heather of Man Behind the Mask has moved her blog/personal site A Face in the Crowd here, and Ingrid (a hostee who had just recently moved in) has moved her fanlisting collective to her own brand new domain and renamed it fanFANfan. Sarah moved her fanlistings that were hosted here to her own domain Fire-whisky.net, and A Single Spark, Winter’s Kagome/Sesshoumaru fansite, has been moved to Winter’s new domain Eternal Adoration.

Next there is the fanlisting front. Many changes have taken place since I last updated — new fanlistings, adopted fanlistings, given away fanlistings, a new collective, and new fl collective layouts to name a few. As to the collectives, Grins and Lies has been skinned and has a new layout featuring Stephen Dorff, while Painted Blind simply has a new layout featuring Orlando Bloom as Will Turner, Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Swann and Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean. With the branching off and opening of The Anime Fanlistings Network from TheFanlistings.org, I opened up a new fanlisting collective entirely for my anime/manga related fanlistings. It’s called Forgotten Lore after a line from Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven, and it currently has two skins. Both skins are anime/manga related, of course, one being of characters from Tokyo Mew Mew and the other with characters from Chobits.

As to individual fanlistings, I decided to wait and give them an update of their own later, since I have to update my collective as well.

Finally, I’ve cleaned out my affiliates list and removed any that were dead links or that didn’t have Forsaken Faith as an affiliate. I also updated two of the affiliate links: Jaded-desire.net became Mindless-fury.net and Toxic-bliss.org became Gloryfades.org.

And I think that’s everything, excepting the fanlistings of course.

Happy Thanksgiving to all my fellow Canadians I hope you’re spending it well with someone you love and cherish. I’ll be at home with my family and my boyfriend. Life can’t get better than this, I don’t think :grouphug:

my niece and nephew

Oh and if you’re not spending this weekend getting stuffed with turkey, potatoes and other assorted holiday foods, please do go and see Serenity cause it’s a kickass movie based on a kickass show. Who knew a tiny Star Wars-hater like me could fall so madly in love with such a stunning parrallel?
Work-a-day

Hey! Thanks for all the sentiments and congratulatory pats on the back, everyone. :grouphug: To be quite honest, I thought no one went here anymore Boy is my face red now! Or rad. Ya, it’s rad too God these smilies make me want to cringe. I found some new ones that are more awesome, so be on the lookout for those. They’ll be coming shortly.

So what’s new in my life, I hear you ask? Lots of stuff! I’m officially disease free, although Gord now has taken on the burden of wrestling with that hairy woman-beast that is, was rather, my cold Thanks, baby. You’re awesome Seriously though, let’s all wish him well so that we can go back to the smooches. Cause those are always fun!

As you can tell, I’m in a cheerful mood. No real reason why, per say, just had an okay day, you know? Those are always nice. I made it to class on time and listened to 80% of it. The windbag tends to go on, though, so the remainder of the time I spent lavishing attention on my enourmous muffin and catching up on notes from other classes that I had skipped out on :S

Last Friday I got some good news: I have a job at CIBC! I’m now officially – well, starting October 17, I will be a customer service representative. Basically, I handle all the person-to-person banking stuff, if you don’t feel like going to the ABM/ATM/whatever. Fun stuff! I actually handed in my letter of resignation to McDonalds yesterday and it was anticlimactic. There was no one there to accept it! :headwall: The head manager phoned me about a half hour later and asked me to clarify whether I meant October 3 was my last day, or whether I was letting her know on October 3 that I was resigning. :doh: Officially, my last day will be the 16th. My first day at CIBC is on the 17th! Seriously, and I just found out I got the job on Friday. All of this is moving waaay too fast.

It’s sort of nice that I got this really great job, but on the other hand, it makes me kinda cringe. Mostly because I had intended on moving to Toronto for the remainder of the school year. Now that I have this job, I can’t go. I can’t pass up such good money :greedy: I’ll be set for the summer months and maybe even after school. At the very least, it’ll be a great job to have once I graduate and I need to start looking for a “career” :X

Maybe I can get transfered to a Toronto branch after this year? I suppose only time will tell. I feel like this is a new chapter in my life. Heck, I know this is a new chapter in my life. I’m no longer working at McDonalds … do you know how happy that makes me? I’ve been bitching about that job for four years before realizing that I need to actively do something about it. Now that I’m leaving though … I can’t help but be scared. I’ve never left McDonalds. :headwall:

Today I am a Canadian citizen! Wait, no not yet. I have to go to my ceremony, but in an hour’s time, I will be a Canadian citizen! It’s too exciting for words

It’s too bad I have the flu to dampen my spirits I’m gonna sound like a drowned cat when I sing the national anthem!
Work Promotions are Better than You Think

Talking to Imke on AIM today, I realized that I don’t blog enough. I know it’s not crucial for me to document every minute of my life, but it’s nice to keep one updated on one’s life, I suppose, no?

I have some great news that came to me last week: I got promoted at work. Part of me knew I was going to get promoted, but I still couldn’t help feeling really happy about it. It’s nice to be recognized for your contributions, even if it’s long overdue. You see, folks, I’ve worked there for four years. I have only myself to blame for working there for so long. Now, though, I have been trying hard to find a new job. The closest I have come is this CIBC gig, which is sitting in limbo right now. I gave the manager my references and she never got back to me. It’s been over a week since I gave her the numbers, so I don’t know what she’s waiting for. I called her again today, so hopefully, I’ll get an answer soon.

In other news, this Wednesday I am going to become a Canadian citizen. I took the test a few weeks ago and figured I wouldn’t hear back from the government for a few months more because of all the bureaucracy involved, but surprisingly, we got a summons to appear next week to take our Oath! I’m really excited about this because I’ve lived in Canada for fifteen years now and I’m finally gonna be able to enjoy everything, not just some things, about being a Canadian. I can visit the United States if I want … I can vote in the next election! This is all very exciting stuff

So that has been my life in a nutshell for the past little while. I bought a t-shirt a little while ago:

I bought it actually in August, but after I sent them an email asking when I’d be receiving my shirt, I learned all August orders would be shipped out in September sooo here I sit waiting, heh.
Tonight has been an amalgamation

I’ve had a lovely time doing surprisingly not much tonight. The following words describe tonight perfectly:

Indian Summer, Church & Wellesley, Indian cigarettes, TIFF, Rodney Carvalho (I hope you google yourself, you silly fuck), Hong Kong action flicks, dogwalkers, ‘Apartment for Rent’, spanking, discourse on one-night stands, ‘Cube’, vibrators, to rush or not to rush, techno beats, transvestites.

It was a good night. I had a lot of fun for not much money and I got to see my baby.
Wake me up when September ends

Well, summertime is over. With it goes the vacation, the warmth, a job at McDonalds (perhaps).

Today I had an interview at CIBC for a customer care representative position. An hour later I had to work an eight hour shift at McDonalds. It clearly outlined how much I hate my current job. I really hope I get this new job, even though the hours are completely unrealistic. I’d virtually be quitting school to take on this job, but I’m willing to do it, I think. I can always go back in January, couldn’t I? I need to get away from McDonalds so badly, it isn’t even funny. I almost forget, though, that I also have an interview on September 6 at lululemon athletica, a clothing store in the West Mall, in Etobicoke. That would probably be more of a realistic job; their hours would probably be closer to part-time than CIBC. Still, I was given this shot by a friend of my mother’s. If I don’t accept the position, I would be making her look bad, I think, which I really don’t want to do.

That is, if I get the job. I’ll hear back early next week, I was told. I have the whole weekend to sweat over it. Great!