I haven't been back home since lst summer, it's about time I go back. Man, every time I go back down there something's changed. It still looks the same though. History repeats itself I suppose. I guess one thing isn't the same at all anymore... Most people I knew are all gone somewhere. Not everybody. What is there to do in that town? I'd go shoot pool a couple times, wander around on the beach maybe...

Then I'd start thinking about other beaches, of driving away on the hot summer asphalt... To Montreal or Vancouver, or Toronto or the Falls... Those are the cities I remember losing myself in, finding myself, whatever.
Where would I go that I haven't been? Point blank, I would go to Greece. Japan, Spain, Italy... Germany. Anywhere. Not too fond of snow though.

I never took a single picture on any of my trips, not even the cross country. I recorded almost everything in writing, when I was capable of writing that is. And that's a very vivid image in my mind.

It's called the red light game, have you ever played it?
You work in a call center, and they have an adavaced under time list you can sign. If work is slow, they send you home in order...
It's known as home early, or the crack list.
It's a game I play very well...hehe.

Can you blame me? Let's see... My friends are next door bbquing in the back yard, there's music and beer waiting for me. I'm weighing it out right now. Work till midnight
So they have this little light on my phone that lights up red when they decide it's time. UHHHHH.

I just finished watching 12 Monkeys before I came to work. I'm going to watch again eventually, it's just one of those movies. The actors did a great job, and the story is a sad one, as is life. A comical tragedy, with a little bit of time travelling. Then I came to work and got schooled at pool, by a couple people who usually don't want to play us because they're tired of getting beat by girls. Must have been their lucky day hehe.

I haven't witnessed the end of the King Kong game yet. I'm anticipating the epic scene at the end, with the tower, and the city and the lady... You know. It's all still in the jungle for now. I played a little bit of Burnout Revenge on PS2 last night. I'm a fan of NFSR or NFSMW... But not so much Driver or GTA, although I really enjoy the weapons. But Burnout how big of a crash can you cause. Now, that's interesting. Another good one is Spartan Total Warrior. The battle scenes are incredible, there's an arena you can fight in, the missions are monumental... Good graphics, lots of gore, and the deco is remarkably accurate. It's a very pretty and bloody game.

I have just completed the viewing of the entire 1st season of Rome, and recommend it to anyone who's intersested in history, war, seasoned debates within a well-versed society, or just plain old decadence. When in Rome...  

Then I got through a half dozen episodes of season 1 of the Sopranos. Funny show, mostly comical. A gangster daddy on prozac with a penchant for strippers. Says he's in the waste management business. It's got the ingredients of a  classic.

Now I don't have cable, I watch all this stuff on DVD. I have a friend, she hooks me up... You know how it is. But yeah, this other friend of mine tapes the OC for me. I watched the first 2 seasons on DVD, I think western culture has made it so that it feels boring to eat supper away from the couch, and with no waves being directed at me. So I watched the OC, and got addicted. Well now season 3 is over and they killed off Marissa. On the series one of the character wrote a comic book (graphic novel, whatever)... I have a t-shirt of the 2 female characters, Cosmo Girl and the magic flask, and Little Miss Vixen. Well Mischa Barton was Cosmo Girl, and now she died in a car crash. So I have a t-shirt of a dead heroine now. Ugh. Memorabillia in the making.

So I bid for my new shift tomorrow. We do that about once a month. I'll be finding out what hours I'll be working and what days I'll have off for the month of July. There are so many ways to screw yourself over at this point it's not funny. If you bid before you're scheduled to work, and forget to call, then you automatically get whatever is left over regardless of seniority.

Yeah, it's happened to me once or twice.

I don't know what I'd like ideally. I'm working 330pm to 12am now, Friday and Saturday off. I don't want to change the days, but I'd love an earlier shift. Like, 1pm to 930pm. Which is what I had a year ago for the entire summer, oddly enough. But every time they hire new people they quit before I can get any kind of seniority. Shitty system if you ask me. Reward those who aren't quitting, no?

Well, that's quite the little rant there. I've taken 3 calls in the half hour that I've been here. One was a UK customer looking for accounts payable, didn't know how she ended up in Canada. The other 2 were pranks. We get them all the time from kids in Quebec on the Super 8 lines, and from British brats in the UK on Ramada.

See, where we work the bilingual lines, and New Brunswick is officially bilingual, if you were to call one of our number between 330pm and about 8pm, there's a 1/4 chance you would get to talk to me. In case you want to try ... lol.

Howard Johnson 1 800 I GO HOJO

Days Inn 1 800 DAYS INN

Super 8 1 800 800 8000

Ramada 1 800 I RAMADA

My name is Sylvie, give me a hint if this is where you found the number :)

Aaarrgh. Wow, 3 entries in one day. Just like old times...lol Here I am with just 27 minutes left. Tick. Tick. tick. Smokes break just don't break it up enough sometimes.

I'm going swimming after work with some friends, should be a good time. The wicked part is her bf is the security guard for their building, which means vip+after hours access to the pool and sauna. Bonus. Hotbox the sauna once in a while, who's gonna say anything? Her neighbours are all seniors who can't be bothered with the swimming pool. Mmm... and my bf made me a kickass looking sandwich, that I (stupidly) left in the car. I can't wait to go eat it. Yeah, I know, I shouldn't swim right after eating. Uh huh.

I can't imagine how bored I would be if I had to stay here another 4 hours. The world would feel my pain then. At one point I had 5 blogs from different hosts with different usernames... Then one day I said *fuck it* I'm going blogless for a while. If I have anything interesting to say I post on blogger now, and if not and I just want to kill/destroy time, then I post here. (19 effin minutes to go)

I think I am getting a tattoo tomorrow. It would be my first one. My friend's cousin just opened shop in the city, he's sort of working with a mentor I guess you could say. Until his "internship" is over he is doing some for free for his friends, and she said she would hook me up with him. I'd be getting a triquetra with a circle on the back of my neck, just beneath the hairline. It's an ancient celtic symbol that represents eternal life, and the 3 levels of being... Physical , mental, and spiritual. It's nice, I'll post a picture when I get it done.

Ever waited for anything at all? Seems the last minutes stretch out for hours. How come when you're having a great time the seconds don't do that uh? Oh well. Time for me to pack up.

Nothing much going on here... What's happening is every single person who sits around me is off today and I am bored as hell. SO I just got back from break, and that *fresh air* really does wonders. I actually quit smoking cigarettes for a couple months, in the beginning of 2006. It's those smoky late night poker games that get to me in the end. You're having a drink, and you justify yourself by thinking, with all the smoke in the room, who are you to not have a filter?? Riiight.

What do you do when you have 2 hours and 45 loong minutes left to your shift , but no work coming in? Yeah I guess it's not a bad job. You should hear me on some of these international calls... Man, you tell these people you're bilingual and they go off in Spanish, German or Italian. Japanese is great. I get an interpreter on the line, I say something and he translates it immediately so I'm picking up on accents and the basics, like numbers and greetings.

I was thinking over the weekend, why exactly do I hate my job? Is it just because it's work? Cause it isn't even really that.  And the shift is actually pretty sweet. Most people would hate working till midnight, but I love it. I get to sleep in and get stuff done in the afternoon, and by the time I'm off (which is usually early) the parties are just getting started. And Fridays and Saturdays off , you really can't complain. I only have to be in by 330pm on Sundays. The kicker is I can get any day or partial day off that I want. That's when you go all crazy, and see your paycheck get seriously down sized. Let's just say in the 2 years that I've worked here, I must have hit 80 hours twice. Curse those sunny days :)

I heard on the radio today that new studies have proven that working on a weekend day is bad for your health. Statistics show that it negatively impacts your happiness and social comfort. Well, that's a shocker. War isn't exactly soothing either, but I don't see us stopping that economy-booster. As a matter of fact, where the fuck do those researchers get the ideas for these studies anyway? "New study shows alcohol induces hangover." Come to think of it, to hell with the studies. I can think of a few useful ways to use the government grants. Like giving it back to the taxpayers for instance.

Hmm... I suppose if I'm gonna get all political and shit, I should hit up MY SOCIOPOLITICAL DISCUSSION PAGE uh?

I was on a ravenous munch yesterday and I created this recipe. I cooked up some chicken breasts, surrounded them with mushrooms and green onions, added some pasta and covered in with cream of mushroom. Add 1 garlic clove, salt and pepper, and cover casserole in cheese. Bake. Mmm... Next time add bacon. The chicken carbonara sub at quizno's is amazing.

Later. I've driven myself to hunger.

No seriously. It's Sunday and there's no one here, that's what I get for wanting Fridays off. I should be working till midnight, but someone took the last 4 hours off my hands. Ugh. Just empty aisles around me ,and no work to do. At least I'm making money.

T'was my buddy's birthday this weekend. He had a bonfire/bbq going on, which inevitably turned into a cash game of poker. Unlike in the tournament style game, you don't play heads up to the death, you cash out when you're up or you lose. That's a certainty. It's usually a 20$ buy in so if you can cash out with more than 50$ you're doing pretty good. I was too hammered to do that much apparently lol. I was also too hammered to realise I even had beer left, and wondred where I got that retardedly strong white russian. Come to think of it, I rememebr mixing it, but I doubt those were the ingredients in any real drink...

There was a community fair in town as well , that's all I have been seeing from my bedroom window for a week now. They had the zipper, the chaos and a huge bell thing called the freak out. I had to go down on friday, I got a bracelet and it was a blast.

45 minutes till my smoke break... What would I do without the internet?? My bf rented a game for the gamecube last night, it's the King Kong one, and it's just like being in a movie, the controls and graphics are pretty good. There's no gauges or health bars or stats or lettering on the screen.

Well, this grows old. I'm out.