In TO but not really in TO
OK, just to clarify: I'm in the Toronto AREA but not in Toronto. I'm in King City, trapped at a conference centre (note the Frenchy spelling) in the suburbs. (Note to potential house robbers: my very large dog, my very smart sister, and her very large dog are ALL staying at my house whilst I'm away. So don't even try it.)
And I can't socialize at all because I am doing a training program from 8 in the morning to approx 10 at night with almost no breaks. I am not exaggerating. We are eating all our meals together (except bfast, which I boycott by eating a protein bar in my room). I'm so tired I'm about to fall over. I'm on a one-hour break now before dinner, and trying to fit in some email/blogging but really wanting a nap. Mostly I'm enjoying being ALONE for a little while.
I like people and everything, and fully half the group is Québécois, so we have the fabulous guy-with-french-accent factor in spades. (And, by the way, those guys know how to party. The night before last, one of them ended up in the pond. Very entertaining.)
However, as someone used to living alone, and working solo most of the time, the all day, all night interactive group thing is working me over.
Luckily, after here I go to see Clare at Big Table Farm, and we are going to have some serious chill time. Can't wait!
6 comments:
That does not even sound kinda fun...enjoy the farm though!
can't wait till you get here... a cup of worm tea by the wood stove...pedicures..home cooked meals and a whole lot of girl talk : ) ...
OHMYGOD... I just checked out Clare's website. She is living the life! How cool is that??
Even though it's incredibly hard work and from sun up to sun down you're working... life on a farm still has that great American Dream appeal.
Have loads of fun!
I hate training conferences. Eww! Come home soon!
Forced hours-long face-to-face with coworkers = gruesome.
Too bad that Clare is going to serve you worm tea instead of warm tea.
If you are sick of the all day interaction, just wait until you are a single mom. I am a very social person, but lived alone for years. Now that I am a mom, I don't miss socializing (I just socializ with other people with 2 year olds). I miss having time alone! I sometimes miss working until my work is done rather than running out the door in time to get to daycare. I miss going to the gym after work and picking up take-out food that I eat on the couch in front of a movie. I do think I am psychotic to miss the boring, mundane, solitary things of not being a mom, but that's what I miss. Of course, none of those things broguth me half as much joy as my daughter, but I do think about them.
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