It's that time of the year...
When Lianie updates her journal...
Hello....
Still in cow land, with almost no internet access (got "broadband" but it's useless anyway), but at least I'm still alive and well.
What do I have to tell? Hmm... let's see... The conditions at work have changed; I used to work 30 days and have a 10 day break, but now I'm working 6x1; which means I can't go home for a while.
I'm driving pick up trucks now. Since we must drive from station to station to do the sampling and to measure levels in tanks and stuff and it's kinda funny because I'm tiny and those trucks are huge (at least from my point of view) and my friends make fun of me because they say they can't see me driving the truck and they think the truck is haunted or something.
It rains almost every day over here, which can be a good thing or a bad thing. Good because I don't have to climb up those tanks and bad because then I can't take my samples and there's nothing else to do, so I'm basically bored. Like now. Heh.
What else? ... I'm really sad that Knut died :( I made the mistake of watching the video of his death on youtube and I couldn't stop crying for a while. It is not as dramatic as I thought it would be, but it shocked me to see that. I guess I do tend to humanize animals and when they die, I feel really bad,sometimes worse than when someone dies. And I feel terrible about that. Does that make me a bad person? I was transfered to a new station in Castilla, where there are dogs every where. There was this puppy I got attached to, called Wbaldina (because one of the guys I work with is named Jobs Wbaldo Martin and he fed her and he said she was his daughter, so he named her after him), it was so cute and since I have a soft spot for puppies, I let her stay inside the lab so she didn't feel cold at night. She even followed me to take the samples. She was hit by one of the Firefighters trucks the other day during my shift and I thought she was going to die that day, but she didn't, she couldn't walk though, but at least she was alive and we were happy that she was getting better. A few days after that accident, the ambulance ran her over and she crawled to the lab and finally die. Imagine that. I remember sitting outside the lab one night after the accident and even if she couldn't walk, she came to where I was and she wanted to cuddle and I let her cuddle with me for a little while. Poor doggie. She survived the first accident, onl to be hit by the freaking ambulance days later.
Did I mention that I have a new dog? I miss Hazel and Chelsea so much, since I can't go home as much as I'd like and my mom and my brother won't let me bring them here, I decided to get a new dog. It's a Beagle, two months old and cute as hell. And crazy as hell. I named him Inspector Verito, since my position here is field Inspector and I work for Bureau Veritas. Hence the Inspector Verito name. Everyone hates it, but they find it funny. I used to sleep with him, since he's so cuddly, but he peed on the bed twice now, and that's something I don't really appreciate.
Oh, and what do i do to pass the time, since there's almost no internet here? Well, I'm glad you ask. ;-) I got my wii with me and also I got my collection of DVDs. I'm so in love with my latest purchase: Snowy River: The McGregor Saga. I remember watching that show when I was like 15 or something and I remember having a huge crush on Brett Climo and Andrew Clarke. Men, horses, men riding horses and doing manly things like fixing fences and RIDING HORSES!!! Ok. I may have a fetish. But I mainly love the show because of Brett Climo's Character, Colin, the eldest son of the main character, because besides being a terrific actor, the character was kind of angsty. And he had a right to be; I mean, his wife lost their baby, some bandits burnt down his church, he was responsible for his mother's death (it was an accident really, but one that you regret all your life); he felt responsible for his father's blindness and he sacrificed himself for the sake of the town and his family (well,, he only got shot in the leg, but you get my drift). *sighs* I wish more episodes were Colin centric. It would have been awesome. Let me show you my favorite scenes so far:
Hello....
Still in cow land, with almost no internet access (got "broadband" but it's useless anyway), but at least I'm still alive and well.
What do I have to tell? Hmm... let's see... The conditions at work have changed; I used to work 30 days and have a 10 day break, but now I'm working 6x1; which means I can't go home for a while.
I'm driving pick up trucks now. Since we must drive from station to station to do the sampling and to measure levels in tanks and stuff and it's kinda funny because I'm tiny and those trucks are huge (at least from my point of view) and my friends make fun of me because they say they can't see me driving the truck and they think the truck is haunted or something.
It rains almost every day over here, which can be a good thing or a bad thing. Good because I don't have to climb up those tanks and bad because then I can't take my samples and there's nothing else to do, so I'm basically bored. Like now. Heh.
What else? ... I'm really sad that Knut died :( I made the mistake of watching the video of his death on youtube and I couldn't stop crying for a while. It is not as dramatic as I thought it would be, but it shocked me to see that. I guess I do tend to humanize animals and when they die, I feel really bad,sometimes worse than when someone dies. And I feel terrible about that. Does that make me a bad person? I was transfered to a new station in Castilla, where there are dogs every where. There was this puppy I got attached to, called Wbaldina (because one of the guys I work with is named Jobs Wbaldo Martin and he fed her and he said she was his daughter, so he named her after him), it was so cute and since I have a soft spot for puppies, I let her stay inside the lab so she didn't feel cold at night. She even followed me to take the samples. She was hit by one of the Firefighters trucks the other day during my shift and I thought she was going to die that day, but she didn't, she couldn't walk though, but at least she was alive and we were happy that she was getting better. A few days after that accident, the ambulance ran her over and she crawled to the lab and finally die. Imagine that. I remember sitting outside the lab one night after the accident and even if she couldn't walk, she came to where I was and she wanted to cuddle and I let her cuddle with me for a little while. Poor doggie. She survived the first accident, onl to be hit by the freaking ambulance days later.
Did I mention that I have a new dog? I miss Hazel and Chelsea so much, since I can't go home as much as I'd like and my mom and my brother won't let me bring them here, I decided to get a new dog. It's a Beagle, two months old and cute as hell. And crazy as hell. I named him Inspector Verito, since my position here is field Inspector and I work for Bureau Veritas. Hence the Inspector Verito name. Everyone hates it, but they find it funny. I used to sleep with him, since he's so cuddly, but he peed on the bed twice now, and that's something I don't really appreciate.
Oh, and what do i do to pass the time, since there's almost no internet here? Well, I'm glad you ask. ;-) I got my wii with me and also I got my collection of DVDs. I'm so in love with my latest purchase: Snowy River: The McGregor Saga. I remember watching that show when I was like 15 or something and I remember having a huge crush on Brett Climo and Andrew Clarke. Men, horses, men riding horses and doing manly things like fixing fences and RIDING HORSES!!! Ok. I may have a fetish. But I mainly love the show because of Brett Climo's Character, Colin, the eldest son of the main character, because besides being a terrific actor, the character was kind of angsty. And he had a right to be; I mean, his wife lost their baby, some bandits burnt down his church, he was responsible for his mother's death (it was an accident really, but one that you regret all your life); he felt responsible for his father's blindness and he sacrificed himself for the sake of the town and his family (well,, he only got shot in the leg, but you get my drift). *sighs* I wish more episodes were Colin centric. It would have been awesome. Let me show you my favorite scenes so far:
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