Leaving the house requires dressing for an Arctic expedition. Toque, scarf, snow-pants, parka, mittens, make sure there are no cracks between clothing. My toque is recalcitrant, and gets stuck somehow, so that when I walk my hood pushes the toque over my eyes. Which then means that my glasses fog up. If I stop to adjust things and take my mittens off, my hands start to turn numb within seconds. Add to this that it's dark and you can't see the dips in the snow, and you have a picture of me, the crazy white woman lurching around the streets with my hat over my eyes and my glasses frozen up. When I come inside, the dogs rush me, and I either can't see to fight them off, or, if I took off my glasses and put them in the front pocket of my parka, I'm worried Joeby will put his paw on them and break them. So I generally come in yelling, my hair frozen, trying to get my mittens off. (The ATV will no longer start and anyway the streets are too icy, so we're all on foot unless my kindly neighbours offer to drive us, as they did to Cubs the other night, luxury).

After my fantastic day last Friday, I figured it would be hard to go back to being second banana, and it was. I've been fighting the urge to tell my boss to take a long walk off a short pier, in not so nice language... Interestingly enough, one of the evaluations at the end of the workshop had the answer to the question "What would you like to see done differently in the workshop" that he would have liked to have heard more from me...

Anyway. There are no more workshops until the middle of January, so I'm off to work for the Government of Nunavut again, doing HR stuff on contract for a few weeks. Apparently I even get an office. Not someone else's this time. So that should be fun. I also followed another lead on a full-time job today, and had a promising response, but I'm not going to say anything else about it lest I jinx myself. Although I love the clients, I'm unsure as to the long-term viability of working there, and when my co-worker advised me to take any full-time employment that was offered to me elsewhere, earlier on this week, I decided to take his advice.

We had a graduation ceremony for our three-week program today, and it left me very drained. I'm looking forward to the weekend, to decompress and watch the Tragically Hip concert DVD that came in the mail this week from my in-laws for my birthday.