I booked my flight yesterday. One-way to Toronto at 5:30 AM on Saturday October 1. It's all happening.
I have 11 days of work left, and am now down to 35 days left in Manitoba. Holy smokes, folks. I'm so stoked! All sorts of things are beginning to appear in varying degrees of changing perspectives. What I've been dealing with at work, for example: we have these (meaningless waste-of-time) stand-up meetings every morning to discuss what we've all got going in terms of workload. Where these meetings used to frustrate the hell out of my colleague and I for ten minutes every morning - and involved all manner of quick eye-rolling glance-exchanges - we had our stand-up this morning and I felt entirely unaffected by the end of it. Indifferent, I suppose, would be more accurate. It's not that I've decided to stop doing any actual work, or slack off until the end of my days here or anything. I have voluntarily undertaken the task of writing a standard operating procedures document for future use of all admins who may come to be employed in this office, as well as for my colleague who is still relatively new here. This was entirely my idea, one last thing I can contribute to this place, as the transfer of most administrative business knowledge lies with me, and if I didn't take the time to do this they might end up dealing with some significant gaps in my absence. As I believe I have mentioned, I'd like to leave here with a smidgeon of integrity still intact. But the series of events that have occurred in my life over the past month have helped me step back and take in the bigger picture; what is and is not of consequence to me in the grand scheme. Stand-up meetings about ensuring that the financial reports in this office are being reviewed just don't fit into that grand scheme anymore. Insert sigh of contentment/relief here. And I suppose that this is really more about the fact that, now that I've had some time to digest my situation, the negative opinions of me that certain people hold and have expressed in varying degrees of passive aggression, seem to matter less every day. I may still be the pink elephant in the room, but I just don't care anymore. Great feeling.
Onwards and upwards. In order to maintain this momentum I've developed I need to make a list of things that I have to accomplish before I go. I did this just before I left for Congo and it helped. If it ain't broke...
1. Choose the clothes I'm taking with me. This will be a major undertaking. I've decided that I am only bringing one suitcase full of clothing. I also happen to own so many garments that I could clothe all of the inhabitants of... oh, let's say Portage la Prairie. Everything I don't bring is being donated to the Main Street Project. Should be a van-full at least.
2. Go through the rest of my belongings and decide what else I'm bringing with me.
3. Donate, store, or sell the rest.
4. Decide what I'm going to try to sell, what I'm going to sell it for (nothing I own is really worth more than about $50), and where I'm going to advertise it (likely Kijiji).
5. FIND A NEW HOME FOR MY DARLING MINOU. If anyone knows a place that would be good for a cat matching this description: http://winnipeg.kijiji.ca/c-pets-to-give-or-donate-Gorgeous-5-year-old-female-cat-looking-for-indoor-outdoor-home-W0QQAdIdZ306268146 please let me know.
6. Find a place to store what I can't bring but want to keep. There won't be much in this category, but I'd like to keep the kitchen ware I don't bring, and my antique dresser, and a few boxes of books... I have family out of town who have offered me some storage space, but no truck to haul it out with...
7. Get my EI application in as soon as humanly possible after my last day of work.
8. Give Canada Post my forwarding address.
These all seem like much more important issues to deal with. It's all I've got for now, but I'm sure the list will lengthen.
It's all happening.
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