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.

I was never much for sleep...

I was never much for sleep. Now that I am in the Faculty of Nursing it
is starting to cause me grief. For the past 2 weeks I have more or
less felt tired all of the time. I feel like I am constantly burning
out. I kind of just ignore it but it is kind of worrying. I keep
thinking that it is the first step into some sort of Chronic Fatigue
hell.

On the other hand, it might just be that I am finally working hard
enough that my poor nutrition is catching up to me. This is forcing me
to continue the whole self improvement thread that this blog was
originally made for. Unfortunately I am apparently not much for
updating.

Anyways I am going to keep this one short and sweet because it is just
a re-entry into blog land that I hope to continue updating.

Lifechanging

I am now officially back in school. I feel hopelessly lost in all of the things that this entails. This is my first year officially in the Nursing faculty and it is hectic. I am going to be working in a hospital starting next Tuesday, and from then on every Wednesday for 12 hours a day. This is really the first real step to the rest of my life. This is where my real education towards becoming a Nurse starts. My personal time is now officially fucked. Oh well though, over the summer I got more than my fill of my shitty job at a phone centre and downtime in which I did little to nothing.

Second Commandment

Well starting today, no more fast food. This is going to be more all encompassing than the last time. The last time around I allowed myself to eat food from work, so this time I am definitely cutting that out as well.

So now chips are gone along with damn dirty fast food. I am pretty excited about all of this, I am excited to do this for good now (or at least until the next folk fest). The environmental reasons to do this are also pretty compelling.

I am hoping to try to kick it up religion style and try to give this more weight, even though I don't really believe in any kind of religion right now. I do however understand the importance of religion, and hope to at least give myself some concrete guidelines to live by. Heres hoping I have will power!