My New Office

The same bus picks us up from camp and we travel the same route everyday. The same driver and the same passengers. We take our dark ride at 5:15AM every morning traveling along the coast. As we ride, I sit peacfully fully alert to the vivid orange glow coming from all the ships and the jetty bouncing off the water as we near our destination.
5:30Am We pull up to the Super Office which is a 2 story green building. This building is comprised of appoximately 40 modular units with external stair wells on each side of the building. Not the best looking building but pretty standard on the island. The color is a dark green which is quickly turning to red. The coast facing windows all have cyclone Metal Screens but it doesnt matter they all are quickly building their usual red film. The island is like the rest of the outback covered in rich red dirt which covers everything.
5:35AM Our bus drops us off on the coast side right by the stairs next to the bathroom. The Bathroom is located in a separate Module building right outside our office on the coast side. All bathrooms are like this on the island execpt at CAMP. I head up stairs and as I enter I stop at the Crib. The Crib (BREAKROOM) is a 25'x15' room which includes a coffee machine, 2 double door clear glass standing 6ft tall Commercial Fridges. 2 Boxes of nonstop cookies which I have to pass on all day like much of the island. A drink machine with 4 spouts (water, 3 different types of some AUSTRAILAN KOOL AID MIXES, Usually one of them is diet) a commercial microwave, a commercial clearglass sliding door oven, a hot water dispenser, and a sink. This is pretty standard in office Cribs. There is one upstairs and one exactly the same downstairs.
Well after dropping off lunch in the fridge I make my way to my office. The Wall opposite of the coast consists of Enclosed offices for the PICs (People in Charge). I walk past them and find my way to my chair. My office is on the wall side with a window view of the project going on right outside our office. I have partitions on 2 sides and the wall to my back is the side of an enclosed office. I sit with one other person (Another Planner, Nice Filipino guy I can hardly understand and who is tired of seeing pictures of Rachel and Deer) at our 2 corners in this large Space. Along the full wall we have 4 huge cabinets that are 5 feet tall for plans and a huge whiteboard on the wall above that. My corner desk consists of a standard Dell computer with 2 17-in monitors so that I can read my schedules. To my left I have pictures of family, Savana, and Rachel along with random certificates and my Diploma. To my right I have schedules and other various important boring stuff I need to look at a quick glance. I have a nice office phone but was unable to convince them I needed international calling. Probably a good thing because I'd probably talk to rachel the whole time.
7:00AM well as usual, Im capping off my emails by now and wondering what my day will consist of.
7:15AM I ease out onto the stairs and take in the sunrise over the water and jetty. The orange glow slowly disappears as the sun rises and I take in the fresh salty air that fills the world around me. This is one thing I dont think I will ever stop appreciating out here. Something about the ocean filled with big ships right outside my office is my favorite part about this island.
7:30AM By this time I usually wonder down stairs to the exact same layout to find my bosses and talk about he usual stuff. FOOTBALL, HUNTING, ME RUNNING OUT OF SKOAL, WHEN WE GETTING OFF THE ISLAND, the usual.
9:00AM There is no standard day out here so some days consist of meetings and some dont. I usually view contractors schedule and do reports on them. I put finishing touches on my KJV (kellog joint venture) schedules and that usually takes me to lunch time.
12AM Nothing snazzy happens as usual and I find the little lunch that I packed for myself. I spend this time eating at my desk and cruising the net for useless forums and news so that I keepup with the world. Sometime around 3Pm after about my 5th dip of the day I start wrapping up whatever paperwork found its way onto my desk. Im usually exhausted because my day starts @ 230AM and starting ot feel the exhaustion. I mindlessly drift away and await for my chariot at 5PM sharp.
445PM Sure enough I got through another day and I ease down stairs to find the same people I arrived with. We wait on the same bus that drops us off and I find myself kicking pebbles with mindless conversation about the day to others.
5PM RIght on time, I step on to the bus and say AFTERNOON MATE to the same driver who takes us to and from everyday. I take my seat and take in ALL AUSTRALIA OFFERS. we head down the Coast with the sun drifting away at our back.
ANOTHER DAY IS DONE HERE ON BARROW ISLAND.