Truth and Reconciliation Day 2021

So.

Here we are. Canada's first edition of the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation. One more of the Calls to Action at least partially addressed, if not yet permanently resolved.

Meanwhile, I'm washing my compression socks and bracing for a French-language skills test later this morning as part of my job-searching process. House chores and job hunting never end while I'm still theoretically employable and yet still unemployed. And there are other health issues to be addressed as this day continues.

It's a federal holiday today in Canada, and while the city's respecting the occasion, the province isn't all the way "there" yet.

More later on, okay?

French Tests and Font Design

Okay, the French-literacy skills test is over. I think I've washed out of consideration for that job, and frankly, I'm okay with that. I do NOT want to mess up on a clerical job at a hospital in either official language.

Next topic...font design. I'm attending Typewknd 2021 off and on from today through Sunday as part of my learning process re: graphic design in general and typographic design in particular. They'll be posting the individual lectures on their YouTube account in the weeks ahead.

Right now as I type this entry, the topic is "Designing a Feminist Devenagari Typeface".

JOBS: Linguistic Mistakes On My Part

I did wash out on the French test this morning.

Frankly, it was and still is the responsible thing for this particular employer to do, and - more importantly - the kind thing to do. Hospitals in the National Capital Region on either side of the Québec-Ontario border absolutely need fluently bilingual people filling their public-facing job categories.

Eventually, you'd ideally want to have everyone on such a payroll to have at least one additional language on their resumé, too, since we are both a national capital region - with the international traffic you'd expect because of embassies, consulates, legations, etc., as well as respecting our treaty duties to our Indigenous relations. Around Ottawa, that would imply a need for Anishnaabemowin, the Haudenosonee languages, some people with Inuktut fluency as well because of the back-and-forth medical traffic between Ottawa and Iqaluit.

I have no regrets about this, except that I have neglected keeping up my French-language skills since moving here from Saskatchewan. That's my mistake to own.

Back to watching videos on Clip Studio Paint, font design via Typewknd, and other chores tonight...