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Yesterday I went for my "going back" interview at Ipsos-Reid, which took all of 15 minutes and started out with them asking me: "What do you need in order to come back to work as quickly and easily as possible?" Now, how many companies would ask you a question like that? So I told them that there was a particular type of study that I find really stressful and would prefer to avoid until I'd been back for a few weeks and had regained some of my confidence. The difficulty is that they have a LOT of that particular study in-house right now, and I'll be unlikely to avoid it. Ah, well. I can still work with this.
Another concession I didn't expect: They're not going to start me out at the bottom of the heap (though I'll still have to go back through core training), but instead will bring me back at the top of the Level 2 interviewer salary range, and if I do well they'll test me back up to Level 3 ASAP. They're also willing to let me work three four-hour shifts a week for the first month I'm back, then two weeks of five-hour shifts, before moving me back up to the regular six-hour shift they require. In short, they've bent over backwards for me -- and boy, do I appreciate it!
After leaving I-R I stopped by the new Millenium Library downtown and applied for a library card (which I'd let lapse a few years ago). Armed with this amazing bit of plastic, I took out two fitness videos to check out: Richard Simmons' "Disco Sweat", because I'd heard so many good things about him in the DBT group, and Jane Fonda's "Step Aerobic and Abdominal Workout". The Jane Fonda video so far is excellent, and I'm definitely considering buying a copy for myself. The Richard Simmons... meh. The first twenty minutes left me very "un-grippED", as Dave Lister would say, but I'll watch a little more of it and see. Also taken out of the library: Cell, by Stephen King, which I read yesterday afternoon and found distinctly unsatisfying, and Anansi Boys, by Neil Gaimen, which at the one hundred page mark is light but amusing.
Yesterday evening I went out to dinner with T&R. We had a great time, and afterwards they were kind enough to take me shopping with them at Sobey's, where I bought many groceries and was able to have them brought home in T&R's car (thanks again, guys!). Now that the apartment is so clean and neat, and we actually have room to pull out the dining room table again, I hope to have them over to dinner here sometime quite soon.
Today: Volunteering at a Winnipeg Humane Society booth in St. Vital Shopping Centre, but before that I have to go to the London Drugs there and order some of those cheap chairs we'd seen in their last flyer. I also hope to check out the shops there for a copy of the Jane Fonda DVD, since the stores I've phoned elsewhere didn't have one.
Lunch and Metformin first. And coffee. Then we'll see about the rest of the day.
Another concession I didn't expect: They're not going to start me out at the bottom of the heap (though I'll still have to go back through core training), but instead will bring me back at the top of the Level 2 interviewer salary range, and if I do well they'll test me back up to Level 3 ASAP. They're also willing to let me work three four-hour shifts a week for the first month I'm back, then two weeks of five-hour shifts, before moving me back up to the regular six-hour shift they require. In short, they've bent over backwards for me -- and boy, do I appreciate it!
After leaving I-R I stopped by the new Millenium Library downtown and applied for a library card (which I'd let lapse a few years ago). Armed with this amazing bit of plastic, I took out two fitness videos to check out: Richard Simmons' "Disco Sweat", because I'd heard so many good things about him in the DBT group, and Jane Fonda's "Step Aerobic and Abdominal Workout". The Jane Fonda video so far is excellent, and I'm definitely considering buying a copy for myself. The Richard Simmons... meh. The first twenty minutes left me very "un-grippED", as Dave Lister would say, but I'll watch a little more of it and see. Also taken out of the library: Cell, by Stephen King, which I read yesterday afternoon and found distinctly unsatisfying, and Anansi Boys, by Neil Gaimen, which at the one hundred page mark is light but amusing.
Yesterday evening I went out to dinner with T&R. We had a great time, and afterwards they were kind enough to take me shopping with them at Sobey's, where I bought many groceries and was able to have them brought home in T&R's car (thanks again, guys!). Now that the apartment is so clean and neat, and we actually have room to pull out the dining room table again, I hope to have them over to dinner here sometime quite soon.
Today: Volunteering at a Winnipeg Humane Society booth in St. Vital Shopping Centre, but before that I have to go to the London Drugs there and order some of those cheap chairs we'd seen in their last flyer. I also hope to check out the shops there for a copy of the Jane Fonda DVD, since the stores I've phoned elsewhere didn't have one.
Lunch and Metformin first. And coffee. Then we'll see about the rest of the day.
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Ugh, Richard Simmonds..LOL, it's everyone's personal opinion, but i own the video tape of "Disco Sweat". The first time i watched it, i couldn't stop cracking up at the corniness of it. The second time, i was convinced Richard was trying to kill me during the workout...it's tough!
Anyhoo, if you end up liking it, if i still have it somewhere you can have it.
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