"they say they're better then you and you agree"
[20 August, 2004 typed at 7:58 p.m.]

and im tired and actuallyl happy (some what) to be in townsville

i left last week to start a weeks (or what i was told might be only three days, which i was hoping for) worth of work and what fucking hell it was!!!

yes yes, oh im complaining about work who would've guessed???

12 hour days first night shifts starting at 5:30pm til 6:00am then switching to day shift and getting up at 5 in the morning working from six til six at night

augh it was pure hell and on top of that, my mobile phone had NOOO receiption which mean i had no calls (meaning that i didnt speak to danielle for a week and trust me that is fucking torture!!!)

so here i am on my 12 hour drive up to no mans fucking land - Karumba (it's in the gulf of australia, close to the northern territory)

yay fun, 12 hours drive, then after that a two hour induction so i can go on the site....

day off

(still not spoken to danielle)

start work (at 4 in the arvo, so those who are ahead with the maths, i worked 14 hours on sunday!)

not so hard you say, maybe - but all the guys ["damo", darren, darryl, dave, matt and chris] are all those trucker/miner types, you know - tis is what there life is they have a wife but they go to remote towns and work three or four motnhs at a time and fuck whoever they can because they dont think their missus is smart enough to find out! and those guys who say "cunt" when refering to things or people, like instead of "hey, where's bob today" it's "where's the old cunt" or instead of "can you get the broom" it's "get the fucking cunt" or "where's that cunt of a broom"

now yeah i not offended by that particular word, but enough of misusing it, use it in context, or dont fucking use it

so these are big macho men guys and me, im gavin brice - little scrawny me!

so i didnt get along with them

"damo" told me i wasnt putting in the effort (like him) and you know why that is....because he's "damo" the fucking incredible and me, im gavin the mild mannered reporter for the daily planet.

my nickname was "princess" (cause i was the femine one [HA!]) and courtney (cause my last name is brice [and that's all they could remember, for some reason it was hard for them to remember gavin] and like the writer Bryce Courtaney [which im surprised they even knew about]

it was shit, yeah i might have got good money (i dont know yet wont find out til i get paid next week)

but it was fucking awful i wish it upon no one, if i had that job for the next couple of months i'd kill myself, it's udderly rediculous that people can live and work there

i missed little things like tv, in Karumba they only have three channels, seven, abc and impaja (a mix of nine and ten) boring, night i was in bed at 8!

i was so tired, but all the boys stayed up and drinked before work the next day!!!!

i miss you danielle

im home

i miss a lot of things

thank u for your kind entries

and the memories

now complaining time is over (im sure during that week i thought of more things to write here, but it's not coming to mind right now)

enjoy the rest of the show

[your exits are here, here and here]

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