Tomorrow, that superjock that I call my sister will be paddling a dragonboat across some lake in Guelph. Kick some ass Jenn!

I, on the other hand, am chilling in Waterloo this weekend. I think Christine and I are finally going to go to Victoria Park (it's about time right Kev?).

On Thursday, Classwave had to fire some employees. That was just kind of weird for me. I mean, I know that these things happen from time to time in a business, but I didn't really experience very much of that at IBM (which is the only other place I've worked). What did happen at IBM was that my office mate, Gabrielle, who was a contract worker, didn't have his contract renewed at the end of his term. He was gone before I knew it and no one really mentioned it. It was like "see ya", and then everyone just turned around and started working again like nothing happened. It was more of the same at Classwave, but I think some people were really affected by seeing their collegues leave. I think it'll all get back to normal in a day or two.

I'm not sure what I'm saying. Maybe just that it is a shame. I know that these things happen in a business. It's just that if you work at a place for a long time, you like to feel that the people that you work with are more than just co-workers. You'd like to think that they'd be the kind of people that would say, "If he's going then I'm going too!", but I suppose this happens very rarely. It's not personal, it's just business. People at work may become your friends, but they're still there to work, and very rarely does it develop much further than that. I think everyone understands that. I guess I just hope that if it ever happens to me, people don't just turn around and keep working like nothing happened.

On Friday, I had lunch with two of the oldest friends I have (old with respect to the time I've known them, not their ages): Amina and Snehal. I've been seeing Amina semi-regularily because she works at my building, but I haven't seen Snehal in ages. I guess we kind of lost contact after high school. Both of them are really good friends of mine though. I get the feeling that even if I didn't see them for 10 years, we could get together and it would be like old times. It really makes me think about the difference between friends and acquaintances.