new job

...and i'm moving on the greener pastures, which hopefully won't turn out to be astroturf!

i have been given the job that i went for interview on wednesday as community arts co-ordinator at a high school in st helens, about a 20 minute commute from wavertree by train, and will be putting a specialist visual arts community development plan into action! i hope that means something to everyone ;)

i will be sad to leave nml because i have really enjoyed working here, but with no progress being made because of all the funding issues, it's time to move on. i could feel my mind beginning to dull and getting too used to taking minutes and not contributing. i'm really excited about this and hope it will provide me with lots of opportunity to learn too.

it's a two year contract, which i plan to stick out, so i'll be on this side of the pond for at least that long. it's kind of nice to have my future secured for the next little while as scary as that is for a person who likes change, but it's also kind of nice to have a little stability. now i can start doing things like making commitments to mobile phone contracts and broadband...

another random thought i had this week after a convo i had with sam. i came here partly to get in touch with a part of my roots and ancestry, to feel at home somewhere completely different. yet in some ways, i've never felt more canadian in my life! i know it's probably an obvious one, but to actually *realise* and *understand* that has been different. lovin it...