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Stephen & Elisabeth in England
Monday, 29 January 2007
Winding down
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Topic: Stephen Says
Huh. It feels like the blog is winding down a little bit. We always planned for it to be a 5 year project that spanned our five years in England, however over the last 6-8 weeks there hasn't been much activity either from Elisabeth and myself or from our visitors (down from over 300 a day [yikes!] to twenty-four [mostly Elisabeth and myself]). So what does this mean?

Does the blog have a mind of its own and is it telling us something?

As some of you out there may be aware, I'm going to be effectively demoted in April (or earlier) thanks to one of my favorite pieces of beaurocratic jargon: 'management inefficiency.' In other words, had upper management been efficient and confirmed my post months ago instead of dragging their feet, forgetting and {insert any other random excuse in here}, and I'm losing my position to someone who is less skilled and appropriate for the position.

As it is, I'm 95% likely to be leaving the job when she comes in since I've been effectively rendered useless(I'm using the time in Egypt to formalize my final decision - I don't want to be too spontanious with this - that's what got us coming to England in the first place). And since that means that I'll have to find a job in our last year here (Which will be tedious and I'd only most likely be there for a maximum of 9 months anyway) and since Elisabeth isn't exactly married to her job, there's no reason why we don't move back to Canada this spring/ summer.

Elisabeth has been considering this longer than I have and says it would be amazingly easy to just pack up and go (keep in mind that she works in shipping) with just a few weeks notice.

The downside is that we've started to put down roots here and we'll really miss our friends but that's really the only negative. Anyway, things to ponder...

Posted by oz/rexcats at 11:44 AM GMT
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Monday, 29 January 2007 - 9:15 PM GMT

Name: Sean


Sorry about the lack of comments, I was in barbados until yesterday.

Whats with Egypt, did you mention that in a previous post.

Why dont you spend some time looking though the postings in Canada, if you 2 find something you like, why not come back sooner.

The only reason I see to stay (besides missing friends) is if you were able to save some money, which goes alot farther in Canada.

Sean

Monday, 29 January 2007 - 10:10 PM GMT

Name: Stephen

Update for Sean of the Caribbean:

-We're off to Luxor for a week in early March. Yay!
-I've been looking at postings in Toronto and they're juicy. Very juicy. So the temptation is to come back prior to my sisters wedding which we would come over for anyway.
-And to be honest, there's not too much in England right now. It's just that moving continents is such a pain in the ass.

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