Back to School

Getting back to school after the break was really tough. (Hence why I have missed a few days for blogs). There were many assignments due and not alot of time to do them in. I ended up losing alot of sleep which made work much harder to do. But I survived and I can relax a bit this weekend.
Lee Escalante (the brother/son who just had a kid almost 2 months ago) came into town on business. He was a pretty cool guy. He looked like a the stage between Jaime and Lorenzo except Lee is the shortest.
Lee took Fae, Jaime, and myself to see the movie Kick Ass. The movie was hilarious, entertaining, dark, and gritty. A good cross of Superbad and Sin City. I would NOT recommend this movie younger audiences.

I am getting more and more frustrated at the Australian school system and it's lack of effort on the side of the teachers. Outside of lecture hours they are unavailable and during lecture hours they are lazy, boring, and obviously don't care about the students. (save for the Nura Gili professor who happens to be the youngest, but I guess the school system hasn't drained him of energy yet). After finding out that I did not get into grad school, all I really care about is just passing classes. High marks or not, it won't really matter to the business world. They are high enough.

Lastly I made a videogame looking picture of myself based on Megaman and Megaman X

BLARGLE BLARGLE BLARGLE

So I don't know if I mentioned it all yet, but.
I didn't get into grad school. Purdue flat out said no. (well actually they said "if [200] other people decide not to go.") IUPUI said I need to basically complete at least 2 more years of Biomedical specific education (which may or may not be covered by financial aid). You know what? It's no big deal. It's fine. I was just trying to leave grad school as a viable option. The thing I'm pretty pissed about is A. how long it took for them to get back to me and B. that they told me to apply, spend the time, effort, and money to make the process go through even though they more or less knew I was not qualified. THAT is what pisses me off.
NOW I'm 6 months behind. I need to start looking for a job. AND/OR I need to contact electrical engineering to look at THEIR grad program. But to be honest I'm pretty pissed off at the whole system and just want to graduate already and find a job. I'll probably end up getting a mostly crappy job (IF I get one that is) for at least the first year or two. I am not entirely sure what the future entails all I know is I'm mad as hell.

Mom's B-day

Today is Mom's Birthday. So Happy Birthday mom.

Other than that, I can't wait for this week to end so I can get back in to school and don't have to work so much.

Except I'm behind on all my school work because I've had to work so much...

Surfing and Bartending

So today I went to the beach and had a surfing lesson. First off, the beach itself was amazing. The sand was really soft and I saw a few kids making small castles (makes me want to make some myself). Second, surfing is HAAAAARD. The wet suit chaffed a bit cause of the sand getting in. I use a foam board which is softer and easier to use than the smaller fiberglass ones. There were about 15 students. 3 other guys my age. 3 younger guys and then 1 old lady and 8 12-16 year old girls who all knew each other. It was pretty bad getting showed up by little girls. The waves were really good today. The instructor was stressing how nice it was today for us. I of course was smart and picked a day with good weather. The waves did get pretty big at times. Taller from peak to valley than I was. And when that hits you, it sends you flying back 20 feet, but its pretty awesome. It doesn't hurt its just stunning and you are shocked there is so much force.

The one thing I really learned was that there is ALOT of paddling with your arms. Paddle out to the water, paddle over the big waves you can't ride yet, paddle with the wave when the right size comes, fall off and repeat. Oh and now you've drifted so paddle closer. My arms were dying. Next time I go I'm going to eat lots of carbs and protein in the morning for energy. Overall though I had an amazing time. I would do it again in a heartbeat, if i had the time and the weather was decent.

At work today I was the main bartender for the first time. Making all the items as they come up. Although I did not work on cocktails or coffee (those take too much time for the main bartender) it went really well. I did have to ask for help when we got slammed but that is to be expected. I was really happy with the way today went, in fact even my trainer was impressed.
Now I'm exausted from everything so I'm going to sleep for forever.

Easter sunday and lazy monday

Easter morning started off with some boiled eggs to go with my cereal. After that around noon many parts of the Escalante family came over to Irma's and they had the family Easter party here. Fae and I being the two oldest tried to help out entertaining some of the kids although we tried to kill each other with a game similar to tether ball. I hung out with more of the boy kids and they put God Of War 3 on the tv, although I don't see why their parents bought them such a viscerally brutal and graphic game. Afterwards I skated off to the bus for work.

Work was probably one of the busiest Sundays we've had. Alot of people I guess wanted to celebrate Christ's Risening with a big plate of ribs. That and everyone has monday off.

I have monday off too. Because its a public holiday there is a huge surcharge to the service industry like restaurants, which means if I WAS working I'd make double time and a half but I didnt. :(
I went grocery shopping and bought some lolli snakes which are the Aussie answer to gummi worms. And they are amazing. I could eat them all day.

I am being weary of Fae though. She seems to be getting sick. I am trying to stay out of the same room as her for a bit cause I don't want to miss work again!

Austrlia has small balls.

So yesterday was good friday. Work closes 2 days out of the year. One of them is Christmas, the other is good friday. So every year work holds a big party on good friday. This year we went lawn bowling. I had never been lawn bowling before. It was really crazy. The ball is lopsided so it curves. And the object is to get close to the white ball out in the middle of the end of your lane. Kind of like a rolling version of horse shoes.

Nearly all of the floor staff was there. Id say the split is 60% guys 40% girls. and half of those girls are part of management and are in their mid thirties. It was interesting to see everyone outside of work. There was alot of drinking. I didn't drink so much because I wasn't crazy nor do I like paying so much. I did enjoy billiards and the bowling though.

I left around 9:30 and grabbed the bus back to QVB. By the time I finally got home it was around 10:30 and I just drank water watched a bit of tv. Talked to annie before she headed off to a group meeting and went to sleep.


oh yeah and both the billiard balls and the bowling balls are small.

Good... thursday?

So its the day before good friday. School today was slightly more tolerable in my aviation class because the information we gathered as a group finally shut up my idiotic professor. English class is akin to trying to fir a spoon in my nose. I really don't understand why it's necessary to relearn so many remedial things, but hey at least it isn't hard (unlike nose-spooning). I was rushed as usual ome to work and had to shave when I got there and only had 10 minutes to eat so I was a bit slower than usual being I didn't get as much energy. I mentioned to some people as we were changing to street clothes that I was trying to work out. The french girl innocently but very blatantly said "good you need it." Everybody laughed including myself, to which she followed up "So do I my arms are like Zpaghetti." Well I guess that means I just have to try harder at working out :(

Also when I was skating to the bus I had to bail because some jerks nearly tackled me. 2 other foreign (possibly italian or french) couples noticed my skates and were asking me where I got them from, after I said I'm American there was this "oh..." like you just found out that your best friend is dating a physically handicapped person. Anyhoo skated on my merry way.

Btw, Australia please keep your smelly people off of the bus. Three times today, pungently stinky people sat too close to my proximity. 5 minute ride no problem. 45 minute ride... This is just ridiculous...