Rally race drivers, while racing, are required to keep their vehicle at red line while getting from point A to B in the fastest time possible. Their right foot stays planted on the gas peddle to the floor from the time they pull away to the moment they cross that day's finish line. I can do this with a 5 tonne truck. I have been practising this driving in downtown rush hour traffic with this very large vehicle. When people give me 'the look' as I go around screaming through the gears I try and hand gesture to them that I am pretending to be in the Paris-Dakar rally race, while moving through rush hour traffic in Ottawa. Some of them don't seem to get it. I'm not sure what the smell coming from the vehicle is after I do this for a while.
Speaking of smells, while I am working I have been exposed to a certain odour of late which is very, very disturbing. I will not go into details just yet. I'm going to describe the circumstances of this particular odour when this smell is nothing but a very bad memory. Remind me.
My current employment nonsense is probably the most labour intensive I have ever endured in my life. I don't remember ever having upper body strength like I have right now. The benefit is the physical conditioning I am developing. While enduring this latest job I am also developing a determination like I have never felt before to get out of Ottawa ASAP. I have never been more determined to make somethign happen in my life. It would be straight up delusional behaviour for a person with my employability elsewhere to stay in the life circumstances I am enduring of late here in the nation's capital. You'd have to be nuts to stay here with the level of opportunity available to me elsewhere.
To Vancouver, yet one more time. I'm coming back, gorgeous. We're not done yet.
I am starting to type up the last novel I wrote. I wrote the thing by hand in coffee shops in three different countries. You know, it's not that bad. You forget what you even wrote until you start to go back over it.
Remind me about the smell I am enduring as part of my current employment. You will be revolted on several levels.