Fudge

Ugh. I fear my Ikki-con plans may have just been pre-empted. The president of our office handed me a job to do. This is only the second time in as many years that he’s asked me to help him with something. It’s an ugly job, a water treatment plant, so half the work is on the water, half is on the land. The drillers will be working ten days on, four days off and I’d be there with them to assist or log or supervise, whatever. I got started on the field work this morning, so it wasn’t until I got back in just now that I had a chance to look at the calendar. The drillers start Monday the 15th and following that 10/4 schedule, Ikki falls on days 4-6, right in the middle of their work week.
Crap.
I had been planning on turning in my Ikki vacation request today, but it doesn’t really matter now. When Boss #1 heard that I’d be handling this job, he pulled me aside to remind me of my probationary status. It’s assured that if I drop the ball on this job, I’m out. So I can’t very well tell the president that I need the weekend off to go wear a costume with my friends.
There is a chance that I’ll only be expected to get the drillers started on the job, meaning I'd only have to stay with them the first week. The Pres. didn’t indicate that I’d be on this job full-time, so there might be a chance that I can still go to Ikki. It could go either way right now, but I don’t hold out much hope.
Yeah, it’d suck that I’ll miss out on the cosplay groups I was supposed to do and that I won’t be able to do my panel. But what’d really be an headache is that I’ve got 9 people in the ACDF room. I don’t know how I could organize all that if I’m not there but it’s not like I can just tell them to make other plans, this close to the con.
. . . I don’t know. We’ll just have to see.