"He's in a better place now"

[fredxmertz]

I'm going to be offered a swing shift at 'my place o work' I've been working as relief on-call for 4 different programs, and they may still allow me to continue as relief on-call, but unless they make exceptions to allow me to exceed 40 hrs (OVERTIME?!) ain't no thing but a chicken wang.
The schedule is swing shift , 2 pm to 10:30 pm, get this, Wednesday through Saturday. So as if I had any social life before, this is the kiss of death. It will also fuck up my schooling, and all the classes for which I have registered in Fall. Why, you ask? for the benefits of course.

cause the pay ain't much.

Still and all, I'm lucky and i will treat the position with respect, but use it as a stepping stone, trampoline, vault pad, launch pad.

the yard looks like crap and I'm working on it like the Dickens...

This phrase has nothing to do with Charles Dickens. Dickens is a euphemism, specifically a minced-oath, for the word devil, possibly via devilkins. Shakespeare used it in 'the Merry Wives of Windsor, 1600:


...what the deuce?

Comments

[z8z8.livejournal.com]

Man you is real smart and use fancy shmancy words and shit

I is smart

[fredxmertz.livejournal.com]

i used a euphemism.