A government funny.

Best lines from yesterday’s hearings at the Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans:

Hon. Loyola Hearn {Minister, Fisheries and Oceans Canada}:  You talked yourself about being at the christening of the Cape MacKay, and I want to make sure our members don’t think we’re naming our boats after parliamentarians–we’re not, we’re naming them after geographic capes throughout the country, and the ones on the west coast are named after capes.

Hon. Gerry Byrne (Standing Committee Member):
The capes are named after politicians.

Hon. Loyola Hearn: Well, they might have been, you’re probably right, Mr. Byrne.

A decision, half-way in the middle.

Some of you will be glad, some of you will be sad – but I`ve come to the decision that moving is a must at this point, and because of the slow pace of bureaucracy, the move will be to Vancouver in the interim (probably for the next year).

They haven’t said no to Victoria – in fact it looks very plausible – but first a number of things need to be ironed out and I don’t want to sit around the Sunshine Coast all winter waiting for them to get sorted. So Vancouver, December 1st… and I’ve already started looking for a place to live (would also be willing to go for a November 15th move date – my schedule is really stupid in Nov and Dec so the sooner I can do it the better really).

Everything seems very hectic right now and I’m relieved to have come to a decision more than anything else. It’s not even so much a decision as the recognition that all signs are pointing me to Vancouver at the moment (work, union, proximity to friends) and rather than swim upstream, I’m going to let the river carry me a little ways.

So I’m excited with this even though it wasn’t exactly what I was planning for (or maybe especially because it wasn’t what I was planning for). Now onto the onerous job of packing – and paring down (rents have gotten a mite more expensive since I last lived in Van).

Bleah.

Haven’t had the energy to post here this week. Insomnia, weird energy… but actually just fine. You know those weeks… Once I catch up on my sleep I’ll be great.