After 4 days, four flight attempts and about 19,684 ounces of stress, Shay finally made it to Kelowna on Saturday afternoon. It was Shay’s first time flying, and she was by herself, and she just happened to be flying during, from what I understand, Kelowna’s earliest and heaviest fog in quite some time. It was very frustrating and stressful for both of us, and she has vowed never to travel by plane on her own again. The pair of times she got sent back to Calgary, Trudy, my dad’s girlfriend was awesome enough to pick her up from the airport and drive her home, but it was quite the clusterfuck. We’re just glad, and her family and friends are too, that she made it safe and sound.
You’d think after the beginning of our relationship, where we could only visit sporadically (the longest time spent together being about 10 days, I think) that I wouldn’t miss her too badly, but I do. I miss having her lying in bed with me at night. I miss having her on the couch beside me, even if we aren’t talking. As scared as I was about her moving out here and us getting our own place, I’m glad we did it, glad we are where we are, and not having her home with me makes it feel empty, even with Oscar, Felix and Bowser. I feel like I’m missing a little bit of myself. I can’t even bring myself to sleep in the middle of the bed; I keep to my side and leave hers for when she gets back to fill it. I really care about her, and I’m glad things have worked out swimmingly to this point.
I had a job interview scheduled for today with a different department in Telus, but it got cancelled. This normally wouldn’t bother me too much except for the fact that I wasn’t told about it until half an hour after the interview was supposed to start. I set up the interview last Wednesday, and the person doing the interview got back to my manager to say that last Friday was the last day for people to come in for interviews for this hiring round. The problem is my manager did not pass that on to me. She did not come to see me at my workstation, she did not send an email, leave a voicemail in my work voicemail or call my cell phone to tell me this, and the person who set up the interview said that my manager said that I didn’t have desktop email through the Telus intranet so she had no way to get a hold of me, even though my desktop email works fine. So I got there at around 12:40 and waited in the foyer until 1:30 with no word from the interviewer at all, when the interview was supposed to start at 1:00pm. I call her, and she tells me about people having to be in by Friday and that she told my manager that, and then I told her that the information was not passed on to me. I’m pretty choked about the whole situation, but the one saving grace is that my name is on the list for the next hiring round, which is in March.
Other than this, nothing much is new. I’m planning on getting a haircut at some point, maybe on Saturday if the barber shop near our place is open. One of the users at Near Fantastica has sent me a song that I’m working out a bassline for, and has invited me for a jam at the end of the month, which is pretty exciting. I haven’t played with anybody in around a year and I’ve been itching to jam with the Thunderbird, seeing as I bought it last year after wanting since I was 15 years old. It’s an exciting prospect to jam, and hopefully we get along and click well musically and it becomes a regular thing.
I’ve also starting reading Ender in Exile by Orson Scott Card. I’m a huge fan of all the books in the Ender universe, so to finally have a book that bridges the gap between not only Ender’s Game and Speaker for the Dead, but also details what happens to characters that were prominent in the Shadow books. If you’re not familiar with the Ender universe, that probably means a whole bunch of nothing to you, but for me, it’s exciting. For those who may be slightly interested, this is a timeline of the Ender universe.
That’s really about all I have to say for the time being. I have a wonky work schedule this week so I hope I can find time to do some things I had planned, such as making myself decent meals for work and doing some cleaning beyond the dishes and the tidying of our bedroom and living room area. We will just have to see what happens and what I can manage to get done.
