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Farewell to Nova Scotia, the sea-bound coast,
Let your mountains dark and dreary be...
Okay, okay. Wrong place, I know, but I've had that song stuck in my head for hours.
Finally I'm done school and moving back from Ontario to Montreal. Tomorrow. But I've been here for a year and a half. I'll miss it here: the people, the cat, the university and its library, the bus stop only three minutes away, the milder winter, teaching (as I did for two semesters), even just being a student - the sense of being a student, not necessarily the actual work. Quite.
And I am going to feel strange moving back to my parent's house, though I miss them. I'd feel more independent, etc., moving to a part of the city I liked better, like Parc Ex, but I have to get a job and pay off my debt to them first. $6,000, which seems both pathetic and insurmountable right now. They expect it back, but at least they don't charge interest. I'm lucky I can avoid banks to some degree.
So, e_o_i the (almost) Master of Arts returns to her modest ancestral home tomorrow. She shall begin paying off her debt by helping edit her father's book, have a brief break to celebrate the birthday of the "irresponsible protagonist of the New Testament" (or so Ezra Pound calls him), and then fling herself into the job market, hoping that an above-average level of education in an irrelevant subject will be seen as an asset. That's the plan, anyway.
Bye, Ontario, you over-standardized yet friendly place. Hello, Quebec, home of cheaper grocery prices and petty language politics (and the petulant whines of English speakers as well, I'm afraid). Hello, generalizations. Bye, generalizations.
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rubydee
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best of luck
hello_quebec
keep blathering
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e_o_i
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Thanks.
It's colder here, but maybe we'll have a white_christmas. Irritating song, but the snow IS aesthetically pleasing.
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Doesn't being butchered and turned into a man-god against your will make you less of a protagonist than a victim?
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I don't know, Dafreman, I've never had that experience. I also don't know what Jesus would think of Christianity. The phrase "irresponsible protagonist of the Old Testament" just struck me as funny.
Good news for me: I finally have a full-time job. In Quebec! In English (mostly)! Editor for a children's book publisher - I start in two weeks. I feel like I'm trading one kind of freedom for another, but this thing seems good so far.
So praise Jesus for small miracles, why not? Or Ezra Pound if you like, though he was a bit too prejudiced against Jews and adverbs for my taste. (Including Jesus, apparently. Who is an adverb, evidently.)
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i was talking to some friends about the anxiety of leaving the city of my adult life to go back to grad_school. in the same moment I remembered they left their home provinces for Ontario, they said "it's not that far."
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which is to say, I think i'd have great troubles saying farewell to ontario, or at least this corner of it that i've made my home.
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congratulations, e_o_i. that would be a dream job for me as well. also curious which publisher, but understandable if you'd rather keep that info under wraps.
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Thanks! It's a small company so you probably wouldn't know the name. I also didn't name which school I went to last year - it was nothing particularly prestigious (good English program though).
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i also work for a small publisher, so it's possible i'd know the name. i almost prefer some of the publishing mandates and books of the smaller companies.
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