Life is rough
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mousmeTaking a moment before heading out with my coworkers for dinner.
So after an incredibly stressful first day at the Summit (it involved my trying to get back to the hotel to get something important I forgot for work and getting the runaround, among other highlights), I went for a run and just spent the last hour and a half sitting on the back steps of my hotel with all my coworkers, drinking beer and getting to know each other.
Yeah, I could get used to this.
Barrie is both more interesting and more provincial than I originally thought. It's kind of brain-breaking.
Travel yesterday went off almost without a hitch, although when we finally got to our destination we were told we couldn't be accredited because we were lacking a form of ID that's only ever given to permanent civilian members (let's recall that Phnee et al. are all still temporary civilian employees). It has since mostly been cleared up with our Boss o' Bosses™, but we still don't have badges that let us in and out of our assigned building unimpeded.
That's bureaucracy for you.
Otherwise, everyone here is super, super nice. One of the other operators is a girl I met last year in Ottawa during my operator's training course, and it was really fun to see her again. We're not on the same shift, but I'm sure we'll get the opportunity to chat again soon.
There are tentative plans for our day off to go to Wasaga beach, which is apparently the longest inland freshwater beach in the world, and absolutely gorgeous. I'm looking forward to it tremendously.
In completely random news, if any of you are looking for a terrible, terrible sci fi movie to watch, allow me to recommend Stonehenge Apocalypse, in which Stonehenge, Electromagnetic Fields, and Corny Egyptian Hieroglyphics unite in an attempt to destroy the world! It's so awful it tips gleefully over the edge and right into awesome. In short: THERE IS A ROBOT HEAD ON THE MOON, YOUR ARGUMENT IS INVALID. Yes, you read that right.
Okay, dinner in ten. Take care everyone!
So after an incredibly stressful first day at the Summit (it involved my trying to get back to the hotel to get something important I forgot for work and getting the runaround, among other highlights), I went for a run and just spent the last hour and a half sitting on the back steps of my hotel with all my coworkers, drinking beer and getting to know each other.
Yeah, I could get used to this.
Barrie is both more interesting and more provincial than I originally thought. It's kind of brain-breaking.
Travel yesterday went off almost without a hitch, although when we finally got to our destination we were told we couldn't be accredited because we were lacking a form of ID that's only ever given to permanent civilian members (let's recall that Phnee et al. are all still temporary civilian employees). It has since mostly been cleared up with our Boss o' Bosses™, but we still don't have badges that let us in and out of our assigned building unimpeded.
That's bureaucracy for you.
Otherwise, everyone here is super, super nice. One of the other operators is a girl I met last year in Ottawa during my operator's training course, and it was really fun to see her again. We're not on the same shift, but I'm sure we'll get the opportunity to chat again soon.
There are tentative plans for our day off to go to Wasaga beach, which is apparently the longest inland freshwater beach in the world, and absolutely gorgeous. I'm looking forward to it tremendously.
In completely random news, if any of you are looking for a terrible, terrible sci fi movie to watch, allow me to recommend Stonehenge Apocalypse, in which Stonehenge, Electromagnetic Fields, and Corny Egyptian Hieroglyphics unite in an attempt to destroy the world! It's so awful it tips gleefully over the edge and right into awesome. In short: THERE IS A ROBOT HEAD ON THE MOON, YOUR ARGUMENT IS INVALID. Yes, you read that right.
Okay, dinner in ten. Take care everyone!
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Wasaga; my grandmother lives there.
Date: 2010-06-18 04:51 pm (UTC)no subject
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