15 hours to go

My last exam is in 16 hours. This is awesome. However, it is not awesome that I am having extreme difficulty trying to study for the exam. It isn't that the information is exceedingly difficult either. It is just very boring. Research Methods has to be one of my least favorite things I have ever had to learn about. Ever. I mean, I understand the need to teach us about research and how to critique it and everything, but it is just tedious.

I have actually gotten bored with the internet while studying for this exam. There is literally nothing left for me to do but write this. Not that this is the last thing I want to do, but it is committing to something that takes time. Time that I should be using studying. So it is much more difficult to justify writing a blog post than to “check out reddit.com for a minute”.

I have grabbed the needed books from the shelf that I will be reading come tomorrow. I have been looking at many many many pictures on flickr. I have been eating well (mainly) and exercising consistently. So far, so good.

So with that, I am going to go through all the notes that I feel are the most important at least three times if not four. As I get to the fourth time through I fully expect to vomit all over myself from the sheer inanity of it all.

Studytime!

Studying has become a state of being for me over the past two weeks. The worst part is, I barely retain any of it at this point. With the amount of time I have spent in front of this computer studying for my Maintenance exam I should definitely get an A. Something tells me this is probably not going to happen. Today I am going to try to just get into some sort of studying trance is somehow remember it all.

We will see how this goes.

Sometimes you just need to have some green tea

I am just about done with this whole, finish University and live a productive life. Thankfully, all I have to do is continue my shut-in/hermit existence for another 2 or so weeks and I am free from the dark and terrible clutches of Helen Glass and her Faculty of social doom and oppression. This is the most work I have ever done for a slightly decreased payoff from the past three years.

On the bright side, I have finally realized that grades do not matter. No matter where I go with nursing in most hospitals my grades will never be looked at. That just leaves the Masters degree, which is still a possibility. At this point, I am not going to bother thinking about the next round of school.

Oh the things I will do when school is done! To be honest I will most likely be wasting my time and doing highly unproductive things, but for the moment I will lie to myself.

The first thing I will do is become a professional photographer during this break. I vow that I will take at least 4 rolls of film on the ol' SLR. Each roll of course will be more impressive than the last until I am riding into next semester with fame and praise while being transported from place to place in a golden chariot.

I will also read at least 4 books. 1. I will finish readings the Children's Hospital by Chris Adrian. This book is amazing and due to its fancy medical language and biblical content I have the inside track on all of the plebs. 2. I will read Les Paradis Artificiels by Baudelaire. What better to read about then a Frenchmans take on both wine and hashish. 3. I will read 1984 by George Orwell. This is because George Orwell is amazing, and also because I can't in good conscience call something Orwellian until I read it. 4. I will try to read The Histories by Herodotus. For no other reason than that history is badass.

I am also going to lose my final 15 lbs, start preparing to do the half marathon this year. Finally, I intend to radicalize myself because I am letting myself get to comfortable in the clutches of corporate everything.

The final thing I will be accomplishing? Posting in the blog consistently.

Enjoy the lack of updates and general failure of all of my intended targets.

Paul O.

New Year

I am back in school now. This is not what I want for right now, but I can't really imagine doing anything else. If I am no at school I am just fucking around at home and going to work at a shitty job. So really, once I think beyond the desire to live a carefree life, it is good that once I think about it school is a much better option.

I am getting back into it pretty well though and have told myself that this year I am going to get a 4.0 GPA. I definitely can do this, I just have to actually do it. So far so decent. I am better prepared than last year, but I can still improve. The important thing will be to actually do my readings on time and do the objectives and questions before the test comes around.

I absolutely have to keep in touch with all of the people who are in completely different sections, as well as friends from before who are in the city and around the world.

One not education related plus about being back in school is that I can start going to the gym, and this time hopefully have the time to actually do it. Considering my goal of being much closer to my peak physical shape by December it should be easier to keep up. It also helps that I am much more motivated.

That's it for now, this will be a huge year, and I will take it on with a positive attitude, a less wasteful (physically and with time) mindset and take advantage of all opportunities.

List for June 9th, 2008

June 9th, 2008

Do situps and pushups

Try to run

Clean up beside night stand

Look up Morocco information at work again

Find Camera/Get phone charger from Heidi’s

Go pick up Gurmeet at 10 and go to White Tower for Breakfast

Go to work at 12:30 till 23:00

Folk Fest

Folk fest is just over a month away now, and I am already getting pretty pumped. Folk Fest is probably the equivalent to Christmas, both in terms of excitement as well as in terms of spirituality. It is more or less paradise. Everyone is friendly and more or less we are all on the same page.

That said, one of my closest friends is probably going to skip out because of his girlfriend/fiancee. This is more or less unacceptable in my opinion.