7 days until vacation, but who's counting? There are so many things to be done. Projects to be wrapped up, camping gear to acquire, plans to solidify; plans amorphous and changing....
Days at work pass slowly, there are the moments where I think that I can't leave, there's a recession on and jobs are hard to come by, then there are other moments, more common, where I remember my life and realize that I have to get out of there, whatever the cost. My investment is that of an owner, not an employee...
Things to do: Shrines, Theater, Write (some, more), start/finish book 1, 2, 3, read, listen to music, exercise, go to indy films, house parties, road trips through rural alberta, further afield, paint, there are 1000 reasons to leave the job, very few to stay: the money's good (I'm at work 60 hours a week) .. money's good... The classic conflicted internal dialogue.