Plans for Running Away
Jul. 24th, 2010 01:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
astillarTonight's my last night on night shift. I'll be switching back to days soon. I've got tomorrow (both day and night) off so that I can reset my sleeping schedule. That's 30 hours of free time. Rather than remain under house camp arrest, I think I'm going to make a break for it. I'll 'borrow' a truck and drive in to Fort McMurray. I'm gonna eat real food made by humans for humans, I'm gonna watch 'Inception," and I'm gonna go to Canadian Tire (Canada's equivalent of Wal-Mart, don't ask me about the name) and buy some groceries. Hopefully my temporary ATM card works in town or else it'll be a very short one-way trip.
Normally I wouldn't even consider doing something like this, but the other night when I was drinking rum with my neighbor, he was telling me about all the times he and other co-workers had snuck into town to go get wasted and screw some barfly in the back of the company truck (which is why I now refuse to drive certain vehicles). Apparently almost every time anyone takes a sick day out here, it's not because they're sick, it's because they're hung-over. Here I was, a totally oblivious boy scout because I'm on night shift and have no idea what's really going on.
Now that I know how many times certain bosses of mine have gotten busted for drinking, or run their truck off the road, etc, I feel quite entitled to go into town for a few hours.
All these damn rules are a sham; it's just another scoop of B.S. to add to the pile.
30 Days of Gunnm:
8. Character you look like the most
It's pretty difficult to 'look' like a cyborg, so I'll switch this question up a bit. If I were a cyborg, I think I'd most resemble Snev, the main character of the Ashen Victor story. (Technically it's not from the main Gunnm storyline; it's from a spin-off short story, but let's not split hairs.) He's a player in Motorball, a sport that's kind of like a cross between Formula One racing and gladiatorial combat. He's got natural talent, but has never actually won a race, so he's quite literally a loser. I think I'd look like him. Scrawny, goofy-looking, scruffy hair, beat-up clothes, with a bargain-basement mechanical body. Yup, I think that would be me.
Normally I wouldn't even consider doing something like this, but the other night when I was drinking rum with my neighbor, he was telling me about all the times he and other co-workers had snuck into town to go get wasted and screw some barfly in the back of the company truck (which is why I now refuse to drive certain vehicles). Apparently almost every time anyone takes a sick day out here, it's not because they're sick, it's because they're hung-over. Here I was, a totally oblivious boy scout because I'm on night shift and have no idea what's really going on.
Now that I know how many times certain bosses of mine have gotten busted for drinking, or run their truck off the road, etc, I feel quite entitled to go into town for a few hours.
All these damn rules are a sham; it's just another scoop of B.S. to add to the pile.
30 Days of Gunnm:
8. Character you look like the most
It's pretty difficult to 'look' like a cyborg, so I'll switch this question up a bit. If I were a cyborg, I think I'd most resemble Snev, the main character of the Ashen Victor story. (Technically it's not from the main Gunnm storyline; it's from a spin-off short story, but let's not split hairs.) He's a player in Motorball, a sport that's kind of like a cross between Formula One racing and gladiatorial combat. He's got natural talent, but has never actually won a race, so he's quite literally a loser. I think I'd look like him. Scrawny, goofy-looking, scruffy hair, beat-up clothes, with a bargain-basement mechanical body. Yup, I think that would be me.
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Date: 2010-07-24 09:06 am (UTC)Calling in sick to work when you simply don't feel like working is the BESSSST. Because then you spend your illicit day off worrying about being spotted by coworkers, although it's completely illogical since they're all working.