day eighteen: work work work

I have been a terrible, terrible blogger, but life got pretty slow here for awhile I didn’t feel I had a lot to write about. However, things should be picking up soon. I started work last night at the Arctic Ventures, which is one of the ‘department stores’ up here. I work in the video rental place there three to four evenings a week. The pay is pretty solid. In fact, I get paid twice what I did working last summer, when I did a whole lot more work. Places in Iqaluit often offer really good incentives for people to come work for them. The North Mart here, which is essentially the territorial version of Wal-Mart, offers a great salary, $1000 a month grocery allowance, and free housing to its full-time employees. Not bad, eh? Lots of places here offer housing, the airlines, government jobs, etc. If you don’t mind the winters or the isolation, it’s really not a bad place to work.

My day job is coming along slowly. There’s a lot of long drawn out hiring processes that drive everyone crazy and that have kept me in hiring limbo for the last two weeks. Oh well. Let’s all cross our fingers and hope that I start soon.

Dave is here now, keeping me company. We’ve been watching movies and grocery shopping. Dave has informed me that salsa is not all that more expensive here in Iqaluit than it is down south. Good to know!

Since I have yet another day off (it does get boring here after awhile with nothing to do) I’m going to read. I’m currently working on my fifth book of the summer. I just finished The In-Between World of Vikram Lall by MG Vassanji and it was excellent. I’m now working on The Children of Men by PD James. It’s good, but so far not meeting the standards set by Vassanji’s book or Disgrace, that I finished earlier.