Working away

Work has been keeping me very busy. I started a new contract last week, for a month working on the Ontario election website, moderating comments, posting Your View questions, choosing promos, adding photos and blogs to the site from reporters on the campaign trail, picking pieces from radio and TV and writing features, so far one on faith based schools and one on election promises.

It's been a really strange experience, because I'm working on something so focused. In the past, I've always had at least three or four things on the go during the day, while now I have more things, but they're all related. Election night should be interesting/stressful/crazy/exhilarating! Probably by the time it's over I'll need to sleep for a week. Hopefully I won't have that much time off between gigs though!

I'm still settling into the new apartment and learning to balance life without school, which oddly seems just as busy if not more so! I'm also back on the hockey girl beat, anxiously waiting for the season to begin!

I'm also still settling into this city. There's something incredibly anonymous about living in Toronto, you're one of tens of thousands of people who will sit in that seat on the subway, pass through that gate, hop on that bus and be served by that frantic barrista at starbucks. I miss some Nova Scotian things, like the smell of the salt water, the small squirrels (Ontario squirrels are freakishly large), driving on the twisty, and scary, roads and of course spending time with my friends and family who are still in the province.

Luckily, James, his family, and my friend from home Tyler, are all here and are helping me cope and get by. I keep telling myself that things will be a little easier when I get a permanent job, but I think certain things will always make me a little homesick, like Thanksgiving. I may not have lived full-time at home since I started university four years ago, but I always made it home for pie, turkey and birthday celebrations on Thanksgiving weekend. I'll definitely be working to keep myself busy and distracted that weekend, along with racking up some long distance with at least one call home.

Anyway, it's getting late, and I've been pretty tired recently, so I'm going to sign off for the night.

-J

I'm back...again!

My internet is finally hooked up, so I'm happy to be back online! It was a very long almost two weeks without it...

I'm settling into my new apartment nicely, and am also settling in to a month-long contract for the Ontario election. I'll be posting reporter submissions online, moderating the discussions and doing lots of research. Lots and lots of research.

Anyway, I need to run off to work, but I just wanted to assure you all that I am back online, with hopefully no more interruptions until the next move! And, with hockey season gearing up (Habs play their first exhibition game on the 17th), my hockey girl blog for the Herald is also back.