Jo Knits!

Spinning my head around

Two socks on their way to being done! After trying my best to avoid pooling colors, they sorta grew on me and I am accepting the faith of these very cheerful sock. I ADORE toe up socks and truely enjoy knitting two at the same time on this long circular needle. I never did get a chance to read the MagicLoop book. I am sure there's some tips I would gain to know about. I have actually never had the pleasure of taking a knitting lessons/class in a yarn shop and I feel I could learn so much from one. After alienating just about everyone in Toronto though, I doubt I'll be taking one there anytime soon. Truely I just want to fit in, really, it sounds odd but oh well, there's still a spinning wheel there which my heart is set on. Someday, someday even if I don't have the slightest idea on how to spin.

Thursday both Carl and I went for selection tests for school. We did the Raven test and if passed we'd do a little writting test so they could know more about us. Next week is the one on one interview, then IF accepted we get to run to have our registration approved by someone we never met and who will decide if yes or no the province should allow me to study. THEN, we start school the next monday on the 27th of june. ARGH! I am spinning like crazy. So the Raven test went super well, it's about math and logic if you have those aptitudes in you or not, you could say I do as I got the best score at 58/60. Woohoo! I was relieved to have just passed over the 45/60 mark. Carl passed too and surprisingly enough, I got better than him. When we had done a math test for our inventory job, he had gotten a better score than me. Anyway, we both have our interviews on tuesday afternoon, hope to get an answer on wednesday, then thursday run across town to get approved by the province and friday is a holiday in Quebec. There really isn't much time before the course starts, it's crazy. So by thursday I should know for sure if yes or no I start school the next monday.

Went to the unemployment office to get ridiculed... HA! That of course wasn't a too fun experience, how degrading actually... After an hour the girl's head was spinning and couldn't understand why someone would want to work for the company we did. Uh..... well don't you see that if you give me money and the school accepts me I will never have to go back to inventories? Can't you see that a federal member of the government has all that power in it's hands to change my destiny or not. ARGH! She belittled me for not knowing every little aspect about unemployment and how it works, well uh... I am SO sorry lady for being so... so... so ignorant. SHEESH! Now I get to wait for a phone call, explain myself all over again even though no one will ever understand the whole head over heels situation we've been living with the company. Wait to be accepted or not, stress over being accepted or not with school and if I am not knowing yet if I will be able to live while taking the class. WELL, let's just say I'm keeping all my fingers and toes crossed for the next week. It's hard to calm down as in a snap either my whole life changes once again or nothing does at all and then it's back to square one. I REALLY want to go to school NOW, that would be too perfect and by next year and even before that I could have a good job too.

So what am I going to learn? Well it is not a course or job you often see and it's in a lab. Cool hun? Actually it will be the 1st time in my whole province that a program is made up for this specific job, people have been trained on site in the past. Any ideas? Frankly, I'd be jaw-dropping shocked if anyone found what it was.

Posted by Jo at June 18, 2005 10:22 AM