Suzy has this awful habit of sitting across the room from me and just staring. You know Suzy, she has creepy coal eyes and she sort of tilts her head downward a little to give it the freshly-possessed look. Her left ear cocks back a little and no matter how slowly and casually you glance up from your reading those flat black eyes are just waiting to meet yours. I like thinking these dogs keep my safe but now I'm not so sure. I feel like Suzy would grow thumbs in the night just to wield an axe. Must be Wednesday night. These poor dogs get zero attention Monday through Thursday. Literally two short (ten minute) walks in the morning and night. I am in the house with them whenever I am not at work (or at the Chicken on Thursdays) and they sleep in my room but we don't really interact. Sometimes I tell Suzy to stop liking her butt or Charlie to stop licking his long-gone balls. Or I tell them to get away from me when I put on my jacket. They know we're going on a walk when that happens but I can't handle the sudden sea of fur that is all around me when they know they get to leave them house. It's weird that they know the difference between any of my jackets that I wear and my work clothes that I leave in the morning in. They are never excited to see those.
Today was a good day at work. We were able to work out. And then drilled for about three hours. We got in some good reps. I really enjoy my crew. We are low-drama, low-key and have high expectations of each other and ourselves. And everyone is pretty honest and says what they think so it all works out. I think we'll do well at finals but that's two weeks down the pipe still. Thank god. I have not even touched on my tool talks or knots beyond real basic stuff. And we have individual skills we seriously need to work on. I sort of can't believe how much we have to fit in to the next two weeks. Thinking about it stresses me out so I choose to not think and just accept that it will all happen as it's supposed to. I need to keep the fire burning (no pun intended) and not bail on my enthusiasm. It's been a long haul and we are no where near the end but it's nerve-wrecking and exciting to be so close to a mile marker. We watched the class ahead of us take their final today, in preparation to move to the truck (the last stage of training). I watch those guys doing stuff and feel a little overwhelmed but I know that I felt the same way when I showed up three months ago and they were where we are now, practicing for their finals and I wanted to barf when I saw what they were doing then, sure I'd never get it. I guess when you give your life over to this stuff gets done. I don't know what else I thought would happen when I signed up to live and breathe this job for the next year plus. Sometimes I'm just surprised when I look back and see where we came from.
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