I've been kinda offline cause it feels like I don't have a lot of free time lately. So instead of an entry with one specific topic this is going to be a mash up of my last two weeks.
My interview went well with Nova Scotia Power and I left unsure if I would get a job offer. Not that I felt like I messed any one question up, but I was very clear to the panel that I hoped to stay at my current job until the end of January (and they were hoping to fill their position within the next couple of weeks) and the guy I would be reporting to was someone I went thru grade school with and never was really friends with. I played with the idea of whether I could work for someone I grew up with but today I got a call that they hired internally so my decision was made for me. The HR contact was nice enough to let me know they were impressed with my interview and would contact me if another competition arose.
In relation to legal issues I have decided to drop the last issue I have with the divorce. I spent a lot of time wondering if I would be making a big mistake but thought realistically about the money I would spend for the chance to get what I want when William will soon become more vocal about what he wants and we'll have to listen to a larger extend. I'm not sure how quickly things will move now but we'll see.
This past weekend was a little crazy. Let's start with Friday... I attended guerrilla gayfare. What is guerrilla gayfare you may ask? It's when the gay community decide to all arrive at a "non-gay" bar all wearing the same color, or ugly Christmas sweaters this month, and go out to make a few new friends. I didn't have an ugly Christmas sweater so I attached a fabric advent calendar to my shirt and headed out with my friends. We enjoyed some drinks, chatted to lots of people and danced to the live band... and heck, we even had a doctor buy a round of Stella for us. Not a bad night.
Saturday I did some Christmas shopping with my Ma and had a nap in the late afternoon. Soon the text messages were coming in asking me to head out to retro night at the Paragon. It's probably one of my favorite events here in Halifax so I couldn't turn it down. We danced to music we grew up on and sweated our asses off. A new friend of mine decided to join us but sadly didn't make it until the end of retro night (2am) so we went on to Reflections to dance for a couple more hours. This is the point where I should have gone home... but since he had made the effort I went. We were having a great time and I ran into some friends I haven't seen in a while and around 3:30 am he started passing out on the dance floor... I tried to get him to leave and in doing so a "friend" of his joined us asking where we were going and insisting he was a boyfriend. They had some words and things were getting very serious. I took my friend out in the hopes of getting out before things got messy. Once outside I asked if he would be okay and he said he thought so, we took off and about half a block later all hell broke loose. His "friend" showed up and started yelling at him again, and got in my face at one point, before beating this poor guy. Punching, kicking and dragging the guy into the street by his hair before throwing him to the ground. I had no idea what to do, and I'm no a fighter so sadly I only had the option of calling 911... police statements were given and by around 4:30am I was home crawling in bed while shaking my head. WTF is wrong with people?
Sunday morning I was up at 9am and headed out to get William from his Mom's to take him to my work kids Christmas party. It was at Winter Wonderland, which is a huge indoor event full of bouncy castles, carnival games, Santa Claus and cookie decorating. William had a blast and I loved watching him have such a good time with the other kids.
And then back to work... my week has been nuts. Deadlines are all merging together, tempers are flaring and we are all trying to focus on the task at hand... wrapping up the company in a professional manner. To say that the drinks at our Christmas party on Friday will go down easy will be an understatement.
Well I should take off... I'll try and get back sooner this time.
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