In Memoriam

Fourteen young women were killed on this date eighteen years ago. They were in the wrong place at the wrong time, and most importantly they were the wrong gender.

Geneviève Bergeron, 21
Hélène Colgan, 23
Nathalie Croteau, 23
Barbara Daigneault, 22
Anne-Marie Edward, 21
Maud Haviernick, 29
Barbara Maria Klucznik, 31
Maryse Laganière, 25
Maryse Leclair, 23
Anne-Marie Lemay, 27
Sonia Pelletier, 23
Michèle Richard, 21
Annie St-Arneault, 23
Annie Turcotte, 21

Today is Canada's National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. For those of you who are curious, here is the Wikepedia article on the Polytechnique Massacre.

Hauling myself up from where I fell off the face of the planet

*hoists self back onto planet*

I've just spent the last four days in a very frustrating training session for the Police Records and Occurrences System. If I have to hear the words "that's just how the system works" one more time, I will scream. Also, when I took my online exam today, the "submit" button malfunctioned and destroyed my test results, so I have to go back and take the exam again. This was in spite of my best efforts to make sure that the data wouldn't be lost, as the same thing had happened to another girl five minutes before. So I asked the instructor to make sure I'd done everything right before hitting "submit" and I still got screwed.

Bah, humbug.


Don't worry, I still like my job. I'm just looking forward to the time when I will have all my passwords, access codes, and exam grades, and not be subjected to administrative BS on a regular basis.


Not too much to report otherwise. Good things are happening outside of work. Friends, theatre, birthdays. Perhaps when I have energy this weekend I will write up a longer post. :)