glee!

Yesterday I worked through lunch so I could pop next door to the CBC for an early-afternoon meeting with the head librarian. It was to finalise my professional experience class details and set a start date. In just two weeks I'll start working my way towards 3 credits in the media library!

Security clearance! Keys! Access to film-related equipment! The mind reels! (Unintentional nerdiness, I swear...) I'm not sure if it translates well in electronic form, but I'm SO FRICKIN' EXCITED about this.

Obviously, I'm hoping this will open some doors for contract work or some full-time, meaningful work (here or in Toronto), but for now am just open to the experience. One of the perks of working with the head librarian is that he's heavily involved with the CBC's union, so will get an insider's look at the union's issues before actually being in it. And the project is fantastically interesting as well. I'll be looking through old boxes of film reels that people found in abandoned buildings and in basements, and either incorporating them into the collection or finding more appropriate homes for them.

Tonight I'm hoping to meet up with car-driving friends to head out to Coquitlam to the Kwik-E-Mart. It's the only one in Canada, set up to promote the Simpsons' movie. I want Buzz Cola. It will be a full evening, as I'm also going to the Mouse and Bean for a going-away dinner for one of my co-workers. And would like to meet friends for drinks later still, but will depend on the timing of everything else.

Then tomorrow is Harry & the Potters at the Vancouver Public Library. Rock shows at the library are super-fun because there's such a wide range of people that show up and everyone is (mostly) happy to see something unexpected. Case in point: seeing 3-year-olds rockin' out to the Evaporators last year.

Fun times. I'm trying not to think of what's going to happen to balance all the good. I saw my friend Eva on the bus on Wednesday and she said something about my life being pretty good right now, that I have a lot of great stuff happening, and what more could I want? But there's always something that suffers when good things happen in another area of my life. Maybe I can't make everything go right at the same time. For now, it's OK.

Currently listening :
Le Mans / Entresemana
By Le Mans
Release date: 24 March, 1998