Another meeting, another signal that the engineering people might somehow magically find something for me to do and get me to stay. It’s not certain yet, of course, but the possibility of yet another plan changer is messing up my mind. I don’t know if I should consider this good news or bad news. After booking the plane tickets, I have been mentally preparing to get out of here, and convinced myself that this isn’t such a bad thing after all. So essentially I have already checked out of here. But now with this new development, I don’t know what to think, and what to prepare for. Well, at least my tickets can be cancelled 22 days before departure date, so there’s still about 1 month of buffer to work with.

There was news today that Peter Eastgate is taking a break from poker, having won huge amounts of money in 2008. He now finds no motivation in playing poker, as he is essentially financially set for life. Several similar stories came out in the poker world recently. That got me to wishfully think about this question: what if all of a sudden I have a large amount of money, so large that I would be set for life? What would I be doing? I really don’t know. I guess one would probably go do things that one enjoys doing, even though money is pointless. Maybe I will keep on teaching, as I treasure these student interactions, and that’s something that money can’t buy. But if the job market is going to be remain really tough like now, would I go out of my way to still apply for teaching jobs? That I don’t know again… So why am I thinking of these questions? I don’t know…it’s all pretty pointless, really.

Planning a crazy Saturday. Start driving to Montreal early in the morning, attend a wedding lunch at noon, drive back to Waterloo afterwards.