Eric Bailey's

Some folks like to get away, take a holiday from the neighbourhood.
Hop a flight to Miami Beach or to Hollywood.
I'm taking a greyhound on the Hudson river line
I'm in a New York state of mind ...

Well, I gues this is just York (Toronto), but that is where we went for the weekend. Not well planned, not planned much ahead of time, but we threw together a get away. I took a day off work (I really appreciate that for some strange reason) and rushed to Winnipeg to catch a flight to meet up with Erica in the big city. It has been fun to not be on any kind of a schedule, but our own.

We saw two movies on Friday and had dinner with Neil and Darcy. Eamon in the morning was a disturbing little movie about a child who is in control of his family. It was interesting to examin the different behaviors of the mother and the father and the child. In the evening we went to a Gala showing of Max Manus, a World War II hero. I am not big on war movies, but this one was really good. The ending of it spoke to some of the things I have been studying in relation to post-traumatic stress syndrome. Dinner with Neil and Darcy was good as they told us about the different wedding plans that they were making. Keeping the wedding casual, but still a wedding.

Saturday we went to the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) and saw the Dead Sea Scrolls. That was a great experience for me. We then talked about what other displays in the museum we would like to see and decided to head elsewhere. We found a line up for viewing another movie but we did not make it in to that showing so we had some lunch, did some shopping (did not buy much) and then headed back to the hotel for the rest of the day.

Tonight we will fly back to Winnipeg and then drive to Kenora. We will get in late and we both have to work in the morning. I also have to drive to Winnipeg on Monday and Tuesday night for my classes for this year. Back to back classes means I have to be on top of my homework and readings for these classes or I have trouble getting the assignments finished. One class has a weekly assignment based on the reading that I have to do. It is not done yet... I will try to get these things done but the teacher just email one of the readings today so I'm not sure that it will be done for Tuesday. I like vacations, but sometimes it is hard to catch up afterwards.

So today I was finally offered a job. It turns out that this job (which I did apply for this time) was also a job that I had last year. I am doing 1-on-1 work with a child in a school. It is good work and it allows me to get to my classes in Winnipeg as well. In January there will be a problem if the job is still in existence but we will tackle that problem when the time comes.

I am going to start two classes next week. I ordered the texts for the books through the university bookstore over the internet but have not heard anything about my order since that day when I received an email letting me know that they received the order. It has now been two weeks and I do not have my books. I tried calling but just left a message that has not yet been returned. I guess I will be starting without my books. I cannot just go get them because I do not arrive in Winnipeg when the bookstore is open. Hopefully they will work with me again and help me get my books.

Those are some of the stresses that are slowly eating at me.