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Both of my regular readers have probably been wondering what became of me. Major changes have taken place here in The Swamp and I’m just starting to get my head above water.
The biggest change is that I’m now retired. The last day I went to work at the university was Thursday of Easter week-end. I’m still officially on payroll until the end of May, but I’m at home burning up my accrued holidays.
I never really intended to leave SFU. For twenty-four years it seemed like the coolest place to work in the whole world. Things started to change last New Year. I need to have one more adventure in my life and it seemed obvious that if I didn’t get at it soon I’d miss the boat. Marilyn is totally supportive and the money sitch is okay. Around the first of March I suddenly realized the time had arrived and went out for coffee with my supervisor and gave her the news.
Right now it just seems like I’m on holidays or sick leave. One of these days its going to sink in and I’ll realize emotionally that I’m never going back. That will be unsettling, I’m sure, but it hasn’t happened yet.
There are a lot of things I want to do, mainly to do with internet marketing. So far, because of the holiday syndrome, I haven’t really gotten down to it. For now I’m just coasting.
Another major change that has happened with us is that we have a new dog. We didn’t think we were ready for this step, although we had started to talk about it. Seven days ago, a friend who breeds West Highland Terriers came over and offered us a puppy. She couched it as a personal favor to her if we would take this pup off her hands. We had been saying that when we were meant to have another dog one would appear, and now it had. So we said yes.
Since then, of course, it has been a whirl of house-breaking, training and integrating the new little girl with our three tomcats. Thank goodness they are all used to dogs and they are teaching her what her place in the pecking order is without drawing blood. That could change, but she’s a quick study and so far things are going well. She is also having to learn what horses are all about. Truthfully she was more impressed by the horses than the cats.
The new pup (still unnamed) is very energetic, very intelligent and a natural retriever. This marks a big change from Saddie who was much too dignified to fetch. We’re glad she likes to chase flying objects, as that means we can give her all the exercise she needs with minimal exertion ourselves.
Posted by: swampy | 05-04-2009 | 03:05 PM
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