Ah, so much to say, so much to say. An extremely interesting week it has been around these parts. I started my job on Tuesday, and learned how to file and how to stuff envelopes. Everyone else I'm working with seems to hate filing a lot, but I don't mind it. While it is boring, it is also mindless, and not really all that bad. Apparently they also want to train me to do reception, so I can cover the phones during lunch time. Eventually I'll even start doing school tours. Such a scary concept. So that seems that it will be goiing well, and I'll be working somedays with Michelle, one of my roommates from my first year at Nipissing. I'm pretty happy about that, because she is a good friend and I hardly ever see her anymore, since we don't have any classes together.

Things seem to be coming together very well on all fronts. While the news of exactly what would be happening with the Hibou was demoralizing in many ways, the pheonix is nearly ready to rise from the ashes: Benjamin and I have nearly completely the first issue of Magma; and more than that, I was able to use my contacts from Canadian University Press to help us (potentially) procure membership from them, which goes a long way for us as publishers. We get tonnes of resources form other papers across Canada, and more than that, we also have access to lawyers. It also lens quite a lot of legitimacy to our enterprise. Huzzah.

I have also begun, once again, to learn how to drive, a frightening prospect. In about 35 days, I will be twenty-one, so I figure by that point I really ought to know how to drive. It's going surprisingly well. So I may become mobile before the year's end.

I've also launched a new web-based endeavour: an academic blog entitled Academia Nuts which can be found at http://academianuts.blogspot.com. It's quite different from this place--in that it focusses specifically on school, but I hope that at least some of you will find it suitably interesting.

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