Learning Quota

Supposedly I have reached my learning quota to be granted a Bachelors degree in Political Science. As long as I can spew forth a small portion of my knowledge on two test Monday and Tuesday next week I will have fulfilled my educational quota and I will be certified as a smart person.
4 days and 2 tests to go.

Counting down

One test down this morning – and I think I kicked ass on it.

That leaves:
1 Paper
2 Tests
6 Days until the work is over

Countdown

A quick clarification: I’m not the knucklehead that got involved with in the office here and turned everything shitty. I am the guy that drove his drunk-ass home. And as RSM suggested I’m done trying to be friends with him; I’ll be civil to him at work and if we meet at a bar but I certainly won’t be inviting him along.

On to better news though:
1 Paper to go
3 Tests to go
8 days until finals are over
19 days until graduation
24 or 25 days until I leave town
30 days until the flight back to Alaska

Stupidity

Holy shit! I’ve been surrounded by stupidity these past two days. I’ll comfort myself by remembering:

10 Days until finals are over
21 Days until Graduation
26 or 27 days until I leave this town
32 Days until the flight back to Alaska

Public Service Announcement

Here is the first ever public service announcement from me: Do not date your supervisor or people you supervise at work. When it ends badly (because it will) things will be very awkward. You will find it difficult to communicate even for work-related stuff. People that are friends with both of you will be placed in a bad spot as they attempt to negotiate the minefield that has suddenly been placed in the office.
Should you fail to heed this advice then do not, under any circumstances…. you know… this should be a second public service announcement.
Public Service Announcement #2: After you break it off with someone you’ve been seeing, especially if it was someone you work with – do not, under any circumstances, show up at the bar he/she is at while completely drunk and begin to obnoxiously hit on him/her.
Finally, when I’m DD and take your drunk ass home – a little more respect would be nice.
This public service announcement was brought to you by the letters J and R; and by the number 2.

Garmin Forerunner Review

Through the graciousness of my parents I got one of these bitchin’ little gizmos. Today was my first chance to use the thing and after just one use I think the thing is awesome. It’ll definitely add an element to my runs.
Using the Forerunner is easy; then once you get home you can download the info to your computer. The software provided is mediocre but then you can upload that information to a website and that’s where it gets really cool. Below is a screen shot from the website for the run I just did this afternoon.



When I clicked on the Google Earth link it laid my whole route over their map… awesome stuff. It actually makes it fun to get out there and then be able to look back at the results. Additionally, you can enter your height and weight into the watch and as you go the distance it’ll calculate the calories you’ve burned – so now I know I earned that steak dinner I just finished.

30 days...

Today marks 30 days till I graduate… as long as I pass this damn Philosophy… and the other classes… ugh. I prefer the ’19 days till finals are over’ count.
Not that I'm anxious or anything.

Not the right direction...

As some know I’ve been looking into EMT courses over the summer while I’m in Alaska. I spoke with a friend in Alaska about where she’s been going for her EMT schooling and she gave me some contact info since their website is down right now. A few days later I was talking to her about it again and she said I might qualify to work for them since the company that runs the school also runs a medical transportation flight; in particular I would probably work security but by being on the plane I would get to look over their shoulder and maybe get a little hands-on training once I progressed a little bit. Sounds like a good deal. I thought it was odd that they would need security on such flights but I didn’t really think about it beyond that.

Back on February 9th the FBI kicked in the doors on a company north of Anchorage. I’m not sure about the details because it is a strange story and the prosecutors are still working on their case but here is what I know so far:
The initial raid was for weapons charges; well, weapons and explosives. Additionally I believe there are some money issues. They also had a few jets; some passenger jets but it seems there are at least two fighter jets. Here’s a quote from the Anchorage Daily News: “Kane and the company are charged with illegal possession and transportation of Soviet-era rocket launchers capable of being mounted on its fleet of Czech-made L-39 Albatross jets.” Supposedly the rocket launchers were disabled and were ‘just for show’.
Early reports had quotes from some of the people involved with this company claiming they worked for the CIA and they sometimes went into other countries to snatch people.

It’s a crazy story in true Alaska tradition and it goes way beyond this… but this morning I started to put a few names together and began wondering some thoughts. I quickly got online and asked my friend in Alaska if the EMT company she recommended has ties to this company. “Yep, that’s the one.”
Great. My end goal is to become a federal agent and here she is trying to get me to work for a company that is being investigated by the feds. That’s not the way to start the career.

Broke Foot

One of the reasons I quit running a couple of years ago is that I broke my foot. It’s also the reason I was worried two weeks ago when I injured the same foot… fortunately things are fine now. Below is a picture of my foot the day after I broke it.

You can see how the bandage (the Doc first thought it was just sprained) kept the bruising from fully forming. Also you can notice a few of my toes are black.
I wish I had a better picture, or even one with my good foot in it so you could see just how extremely swollen it is.

Apocalyptic Signs

Fat Kid broke me. I was just looking to make a good five mile run (about two miles further than anything I’ve run in the past three years). Getting close to the end she said “So, you wanna go on campus?” I found out she was serious.
It was a perfect day for a run though. It was a little chilly but once you started running you didn’t notice it at all. The first half mile sucked because it’s mostly up hill but the rest of it was pretty flat. 61 minutes and 6.5 miles further we decided we needed to get something to eat. We showed up at Café 210 still in our sweaty clothes and order up a pitcher of water and two beers.
Sitting outside was a good idea till we finally cooled off, then it just got cold.
And as one sign of the apocalypse – I ate the broccoli! I actually ate something that was green other than lettuce!
Something is definitely off kilter with the world – I ran further than anytime in the past four years and I ate something green. Start stocking up on emergency rations.

Lines

Line of the night from yesterday:

T: “I swear, if two of my ex-girlfriends got together and had a baby it would look just like her.”
A: “Go talk to her.”
T: “No; that wouldn’t be a good pick-up line.”

Rants

There’s been a couple of things I’ve wanted to rant about this week but then I get busy and forget about it. Two of them I’ve finally remembered:

1. Other people putting music on their website. I know this will piss off a few of my friends but oh well, I’m throwing it out there. A lot of people enjoy putting music on their website, especially those with a myspace site. Great, so you like the music and you want to share it. My problem with it is that normally I have music already playing on my computer. Then I click on your page and I get your music on top of my music. Counting Crows or Backstreet Boys music doesn’t mesh well with my music.
2. The second rant is about the douche bag in my philosophy class that while outside decided to light the incense stick. This past week has been really nice and sunny. For the rest of the semester when we have a sunny day I’ll ask the prof if we can move class outside. While we were outside Friday this dip-shit pulls out and incense stick and lights it up. I asked to be outside because of the sunshine and the fresh air. Incense sticks are for fuckers that can’t keep their place clean and/or smoke pot – in short they are for places that stink. And this fucker wanted to ruin the fresh air by lighting his stink stick.
3. This one isn’t from this week, but it is a rant of mine that I’ve had for a while: I like wearing khakis. Only problem is that some super-natural force in the world keeps me from owning more that one pair. As soon as I purchase a second pair one of them will get a stain that won’t come out. It never fails. I’ve finally given up on buying a second pair… for the rest of my life I shall be a one khaki guy.


Then there were a few observations made this week. In particular one was that every day some people from one group or another are handing out flyers… sometimes they are ads for new products, ads for groups around campus, or this week it was mostly “Vote Tweedle-dee and Tweedle-dumb for USG.” (That’s not the real names but it should have been because they had some loud crap music playing at their booth.) I don’t know if it’s something about me but rarely do people try to hand me these papers when I walk by. Perhaps I look pissed off; perhaps I just look unfriendly… I just think it’s funny that they rarely try to hand me their garbage.