10 posts from November 2009

WOW, today has been pretty crazy and it’s not even noon yet. Today is registration for the winter quarter day so last night I got all my classes is order so I would be ready right at 8:00 am when the online registration opened. I got up at 6:00am, logged in and got everything ready so all I had to do was hit enter. When 8:00am rolled around I hit enter and bam! Nothing but errors! So I get dressed in about 10 seconds and race down town to school only to find no parking AND 300 people in line ahead of me. NICE! When I finally got up to see someone who could help me the woman says all of the errors are because I was trying to take to many units? I told her I was full time so I should be able to sign up for up to 20 units and I was having issues with 12? She says “oh you are listed as part time”? Huh? Ok, now I get to wait in giant ass line two to get a counselor to change my status to full time. When I got that fixed it was back in to giant ass line 1 to get the rest of my classes. Sheesh! I ended up having breakfast in the school dining facility which isn’t to bad accept the large coffee tastes like it was scalded. I don’t care, I’ll drink it anyway. I only have one more week of class then one final left in this quarter. It’s gone by real fast but I have learned a lot. It’s kind of like trying to take a sip of water from a fire hose but will all of the extra time I invested in my school work the fire hose water doesn’t hurt like it usually does. Next quarter starts up on January 4^th. I will be taking English, Math and PE. Yeah, PE at 42! This might be pretty entertaining.       

WOW, today has been pretty crazy and it’s not even noon yet. Today is registration for the winter quarter day so last night I got all my classes is order so I would be ready right at 8:00 am when the online registration opened. I got up at 6:00am, logged in and got everything ready so all I had to do was hit enter. When 8:00am rolled around I hit enter and bam! Nothing but errors! So I get dressed in about 10 seconds and race down town to school only to find no parking AND 300 people in line ahead of me. NICE! When I finally got up to see someone who could help me the woman says all of the errors are because I was trying to take to many units? I told her I was full time so I should be able to sign up for up to 20 units and I was having issues with 12? She says “oh you are listed as part time”? Huh? Ok, now I get to wait in giant ass line two to get a counselor to change my status to full time. When I got that fixed it was back in to giant ass line 1 to get the rest of my classes. Sheesh! I ended up having breakfast in the school dining facility which isn’t to bad accept the large coffee tastes like it was scalded. I don’t care, I’ll drink it anyway. I only have one more week of class then one final left in this quarter. It’s gone by real fast but I have learned a lot. It’s kind of like trying to take a sip of water from a fire hose but will all of the extra time I invested in my school work the fire hose water doesn’t hurt like it usually does. Next quarter starts up on January 4^th. I will be taking English, Math and PE. Yeah, PE at 42! This might be pretty entertaining.       

Yeah, it’s Monday. This past weekend was WAY to fast for my liking. I finished a few of the things on the list of things to do but most of the weekend was spent doing stupid things. This quarter is almost over. I have this week then Thanksgiving week off then one more week and a final. The winter quarter starts on January 4^th which isn’t very far off. I can’t even pick my winter classes for another two weeks. I think I am going to continue to go part time until I can sign up for financial aid. Classes are pretty expensive right now so I may just pick two classes and maybe get a part time job. My one year waiting period ends right after the winter quarter so I can ramp up after this next one is over. Thank God I decided to wait for a massive depression to go back to school. It seems like 10 years ago they were practically giving money away in buckets. Then again if I went back to school ten years ago my major would have been engineering and I would have ended up hanging myself by now. No offence to any engineers but that’s not my cup of tea and I would have ended up being miserable. This morning is going to be a reading morning. I am taking a study skills class that is turning out to be very enlightening. One of the sections I am reading now has a quick test to see what field of work you may be interested in and I turned out to be a “feeling” type of person which is more suited for people/public type work like nursing of all things. Huh, where was this whacky but very accurate test when I was in high school. Hahhahaahaha. In fact most of the two chapters I have been reading have been right on the money. The other chapter I am starting today is about the effects of stress and how to deal with stress. NICE! Another chapter I could have read about 8 years ago. It could have saved me from spending thousands on blood pressure medicine and doctor visits while Microsoft was slowly draining my soul. hahahahahaha

Here are some weather pictures from the last few weeks.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah I am back to writing something once a week. Right now I am slapping myself and typing at the same time. My birthday went OK I guess. I had an exam on Friday so we all went out to dinner on Friday instead of the 5^th. We went to McGrath’s so I could get some oysters and a beer “like I said it’s down to the simple things”. Everything was going fine until my brother and his family showed up. He dropped everyone off and had to run in to work to restart a test and while he was gone both kids got real wound up and the rest of the evening was like having dinner with two bags full of cats. After sitting there for almost 2 hours I wanted to slam my head in a door a few times to make the pain go away. After dinner I told my mother that I will never be a parent. I couldn’t deal with the wiggly, complainy, screamy years and would probably sell my kids to the highest bidder. I have two major pet peeves when it comes to public places. One being people who talk or disrupt movies and the other people who are loud and disruptive in restaurants. Dinner Friday broke rule number two in to a thousand pieces. Afterward everything was fine; we had cake at home and the kids made me a birthday card which was covered in hand prints which was pretty cool and everyone else got me gift cards. Saturday I went out to lunch with my brother then we went to see Men Who Stare at Goats which was hi-sterical. The rest of the weekend I pretty much spent laying low and not doing to much. Monday I got my exam and the quiz pervious to it and I got an A on both tests. Yesterday, I had Veteran’s Day off so I decided to pool all of my gift cards and pick up a nicer coffee maker and some other stuff. The new coffee maker is pretty nice. I got to leave the house with my own coffee instead of buying some on the way to school.  

If you could only drink one beverage for the rest of your life (not including water), which one would you choose?

Is it me or have all of the “questions of the day” started sounding more like market research questions from some mega tween advertising agency and not from actual VOX users? Did VOX make a deal with the devil in order to pay the bills? HMMmmmm.

OK, here goes another liberry rant.

There are signs ALL over the library stating no food or drinks allowed yet every day I see stupid people with drinks and snacks chomping away right next to one of these 50 or so signs. I guess they are all in the library to brush up on their “how to read a sign and follow directions” skills. Anyway, none of them are as bad as the girl that either sits at the table across the isle from me or behind me every day. She eats SO much food while she’s doing her home work that I’ll call her “Chester the Horse” because she sounds like a horse chewing grass behind me; a horse that is eating grass that is wrapped in cellophane packages. I swear it looks like she has a whole friggin 7-Eleven crammed in her bag. I am surprised she isn’t carrying one of those slushy machines on her back so she can get a frosty beverage when the need arises. Every day she eats the same thing too. The list is as follows:

1- Apple

1 – Package of cheese crackers

1 – Cookie

1 – Small bag of carrots

1 – Bottle of water - which you would think had a nipple on the end of it because she doesn’t just drink from her bottle, she sucks the water out and makes loud slurping noises while she does it. Every time I get distracted by the slurping and look, I get a dirty look in return like “what I’m just trying to make a vacuum, what’s the problem”.

I know it looks like I pay way too much attention to this breaker of the rules but how can I not? She makes so many chomping, crackling, slurping, gurgling, smacking, burping, dripping and sucking noises I can’t believe the rest of the people around me aren’t watching the spectacle as well. She reminds me of a granola version of the orange chicken massacre I saw back at De Anza. They both had the same eating habits accept this one makes a lot more noise and is currently chewing her cud right under a no food or drink sign. Am I the only one who makes these observations? Why am I so fascinated with the quirks of others? Yes, some people irritate me right off the bat but the rest I have to just stop and watch for a bit. Some times I feel like the world is just a big aquarium and I am following the big school of fish in the middle called the general public…..and occasionally tapping on the glass.  

OK, here goes another liberry rant.

There are signs ALL over the library stating no food or drinks allowed yet every day I see stupid people with drinks and snacks chomping away right next to one of these 50 or so signs. I guess they are all in the library to brush up on their “how to read a sign and follow directions” skills. Anyway, none of them are as bad as the girl that sits either sits at the table across the isle from me or behind me every day. She eats SO much food while she’s doing her home work that I’ll call her “Chester the Horse” because she sounds like a horse chewing grass behind me; a horse that is eating grass that is wrapped in cellophane packages. I swear it looks like she has a whole friggin 7-Eleven crammed in her bag. I am surprised she isn’t carrying one of those slushy machines on her back so she can get a frosty beverage when the need arises. Every day she eats the same thing too. The list is as follows:

1- Apple

1 – Package of cheese crackers

1 – Cookie

1 – Small bag of carrots

1 – Bottle of water - which you would think had a nipple on the end of it because she doesn’t just drink from her bottle, she sucks the water out and makes loud slurping noises while she does it. Every time I get distracted by the slurping and look, I get a dirty look in return like “what I’m just trying to make a vacuum, what’s the problem”.

I know it looks like I pay way too much attention to this breaker of the rules but how can I not? She makes so many chomping, crackling, slurping, gurgling, smacking, burping, dripping and sucking noises I can’t believe the rest of the people around me aren’t watching the spectacle as well. She reminds me of a granola version of the orange chicken massacre I saw back at De Anza. They both had the same eating habits accept this one makes a lot more noise and is currently chewing her cud right under a no food or drink sign. Am I the only one who makes these observations? Why am I so fascinated with the quirks of others? Yes, some people irritate me right off the bat but the rest I have to just stop and watch for a bit. Some times I feel like the world is just a big aquarium and I am following the big school of fish in the middle called the general public…..and occasionally tapping on the glass.  

My phone has the temperament of an eight year old. When ever I have to kill time I like to play Bejeweled but it seems to get irritated with me when I can’t see any moves. I swear I haven’t completed any more than one and a half levels in about 100 games. The screen is only 1 inch by 1 inch so I think it should cut me some slack but no, if it has to show me more than two moves per game I instantly get shut down.  I guess my phone thinks I am too stupid to play Bejeweled and tries to save me the headache and embarrassment by ending the game early. I don’t like mean phones.

Happy-Birthday

So I guess I am another year older today. At least that’s what they say any way. I wouldn’t have believed it either until I pulled out my driver’s license and it started laughing at me. Stupid I.D. card. Oh well. Today I will be celebrating my birthday by sitting on my ass in the school liberry for about four hours catching up on the work I missed from yesterday when I decided to keep my germs to myself and stay home. I wish the rest of the campus would be so greedy and try to keep their disease ridden ass at home when they have a cold. That is something that will probably piss me off for the rest of my life; those inconsiderate bastards that spread their funk because they can’t stay home and get better. Yeah I stayed home yesterday and came back today but I feel 100 times better and my nose is almost completely clear. Everyone keeps asking me what I want to do for my birthday. I keep telling them I don’t know…..Because I really don’t know. The only thing I can really use is cash but that would be an awkward gift from anyone. Maybe all I really need to some alone time with a cup of good coffee and a nice view of a sunset. That’s pretty simple I guess and it doesn’t take up any space in the garage when I am done with it. It’s pretty amazing how your priorities change as you get older. I used to always ask for a 6’blond that was really cute and was strong enough that she could carry me around on her shoulders. I don’t know why but that always seemed like it would be fun. She never seemed to show up though so I gave up on that. I think the coffee and sunset idea is a little more attainable so I’ll go with that. Last Sunday my buddy Hans was in town so he stopped by on the way home up north and we had lunch. We went to the local German restaurant and had some pretty good food and since we ate at the bar, we had a lot of yummy beer and a few stronger drinks. I forgot how fun it was to just hang out at a drinking establishment and “shoot the shite”. I haven’t seen or heard from to many people other than facebook since I moved up here and I was starting to wonder.

The weather this morning is perfect. It’s partly cloudy and in the upper 50’s. It nice and cool but not cool enough that you need to bundle up. The only thing ruining my perfect morning if the FA-18’s that are training today so it sounds like thunder every ten minutes when one of them launches in to the sky from the Portland Airport. I used to think that was pretty cool but lately it’s become a little annoying just because it’s so loud and so often. I guess it’s not so bad since they are keeping any meanies from paying us a visit.