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			| sebastian_dangerfield | 01-12-2006 09:51 AM |  
 Everything in Moderation
 
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		| Originally posted by LessinSF
 T-minus mere days until I give notice.  The anticipation and excitement is palpable.  I so did not want to report to work yesterday following porn, gambling, drugs, and booze in Vegas.  I want to be able to abuse myself with complete reckless abandon and sleep as long as I want the next day.  I may become that "dude with the 40 at 7:30 a.m. by the train station," so look for me.
 
 |  Might I suggest the pre-work wake and bake?  I had the good fortune to take a summer off a few years back while still technically working and showing up at the office.  The mild morning bake (just a few hits, nothing to give you that heart-pounding "fuck-this-is-kind and my face feels really hot right now" sort of mild paranoia...  just a few to put you on that "what a joke reality is" cloud) is a lot of fun when you know you're leaving and no one else does.  Just be careful when offering the saccharine laugh at buffoonish office quips not to actually say out loud "God, you're a fucking idiot...  how on earth did you manipulate the pencil through an entire SAT?")  This will get you through a morning of surfing soft core porn and reading about the turn of the century Armenian genocide and Bon Scott's fateful last evening gargling Jack  and deviled egg slurry in his 928 Turbo.   
By lunch you're ready for a scotch (stay away from bourbon until your very last week... leave the "truth serum" for those final moments, when you offer your parting nuggets of wisdom).
 
Leave at 3:30.  Repeat until "cured."
 
Oh, and burn the bridge.  Leave charred toothpicklike remnants.  Having left five jobs on "good terms," I can offer from experience that my greatest regret was not driving the orataory equivalent of a ball peen hammer through the forehead of several people I thought deserved it on the way out.*  People will tell you take the high road, and that "its a small world."  Nonsense.  You're not coming back.  If you can find a way to leave a Cleveland Steamer on the family portrait of one of the bigger jackasses you've suffered over the last decade, do so.  
 
Petty, childish, immature?  Absolutely.  But when the fuck will you get the chance to let your freak flag fly that high?
 
* I did it once actually, but they defused it by actually listening and acknowledging my complaints.   |