Still Alive

Yes, I am still alive. I’m just lazy, tired, and generally stressed out. Laboral Experience ended out alright. Took a trip to Michoacan a week after it ended. Then, did nothing for a week and a half.

Sort of annoying, really.

Anyways, a big announcement.
I’ll be back in Canada hopefully by mid-June. Early July at worst. Never if dead.
The special thing about it? I’m moving back there, it’s not just a vacation. So, if any Canadian friends are reading this (you know who you are), please keep it to yourselves until I can make it truly public. That means no telling anyone else unless they were in our class until I give the signal.

That out of the way, I’m off. I’ll post again sometime, maybe, if I don’t forget my password for the three millionth time.

On Appearances

Nothing has taught me more than the experience I had coming into my current school. You shouldn’t judge people on their first appearances. Sometimes you should, like with chavs or emos or wiggers or people of that nature.

But with ‘normal’ people, appearances can be deceptive. Whether it be visual or physical or ‘intellectual’.

A few examples.
My admission test. I horribly failed at the math test. Horribly so. I got less than 30%. I got questions wrong. Some out of sheer stupidity and tiredness, others because my past school didn’t teach me certain equations. Anyways, it was terrible. I felt bad, especially in front of the school administrator.

But there was also a psychoanalytical test. I placed nearly 95% on that one. It showed I had potential. The school saw me, what with my upstanding parents and good appearance and whatnot. They let me in, but I had to take a remedial course on math. Fair enough.

First semester passed. I got a solid 9. (out of 10).
Second semester started. So far, I got a 9 on my first partial. This last partial, I did better than the last partial of the first semester. That is to say, I got a 9.03 (As opposed to a 9.01). Marginally better, but I felt great. Especially since I got two 7s in two classes. If it wasn’t for those two 7s, I would have got a 9.5-ish. Still good.
And I’m the 3rd best student in the class, and in the top 10 of the grade. Amazing, considering I failed the admission test. It makes me feel proud.

Another example.
One of my friends is a real, real metalhead. He’s crazier than our dear Lobster. He hangs out with the people who get 5s and 6s. He got a 9.85. Sure, at first sight you’d say “no way”, but after a day or two, you can totally see how this guy did it. It’s amazing.

My point is that appearances can be deceiving. Hardly a surprising thing, but something I should keep in mind, considering that…

Every year my school sends the Freshmen to work for 10 days as community service. I got stuck at a restaurant named Kamilos (KARNE EN SU JUGO!). Upscaleish, very reputable, and I thankfully got stuck with 2 of my friends. But, everyone has a different working time, and the point is that you should learn what it’s like to work a menial job at minimum wage (where minimum wage here is roughly $5 USD an hour, I think). There’s little to no special treatment. Just free drinks and one free meal a day.
Tomorrow I’m working from 9 to 5. Standard. I’m a bit scared, but I know I shouldn’t be.

Let’s see how it works out.

More Stuffs

Ugh. Wednesday, I’m procrastinating like usual. Out of all the homework, I have French. The one class that gives homework during Exam Week.

Great.

Anyways, have some more photos. I’m awfully bored and want to sort-of-abuse the 3GB limit I have.

D:

Well, after 14 long months, my iPod headphones have died. Add this to a longish list of dead headphones.

They started out well, and they came with my iPod. They’re the comfy newer version, so not many problems there.

That is, until the rubber bits started falling off in April. First the left headphone’s rubber bits were peeling off, or degrading…
Then the headphone jack bits peeled off, leaving naught but a hard plastic nub attached at one end to a jack, and at the other to a wire. Soon the wire started stripping itself for some unknown reason, and now the nub was attached to an inch-long bit of exposed wire followed by insulated wire.
I quickly covered that up with tape.
Then the rest of the left headphone’s rubber bits fell off.
Then the right headphone’s rubber nub at the bottom fell off.
Then the right headphone’s rubbery ear bits fell off.

Today, the right headphone stopped working, followed shortly by the left headphone twenty minutes later.

Oh well, these headphones served me well. I stopped using them from August to October, wherein I bought two other headphones, both of which broke after two weeks, which is also bad, since I was particularly fond of one of them.

It went with me wherever. From planes, to beaches, to beds, to cars, to buses, wherever there was a free headphone jack that emitted a sound signal, basically.

Rest in peace, my headphones. Tomorrow you shall be replaced, hopefully by sturdier headphones.

Phwar.

I’m alive, and doing really well so far. Surgery went fine. Some interesting stories:

They gave me an epidural along with a general anesthesia. The epidural was for afterwards, since it would hurt like hell. Anyways, I couldn’t feel or move anything below my waist. It was a bit creepy, since I kept punching my leg and I could feel nothing. When the sensation came back, very gradually, it felt like all hell. It’s like when your foot falls asleep and when it wakes up you feel that weird pins-and-needles feeling. Except, for everything below the waist. Ugh.

I also have a severe case of needle phobia. When the sensation came back and I was in pain again, they gave me two options: Tough it out for 4 hours until they could give me something via I.V, or get a single non-IV injection in the arm.

I toughed it out.

I.Vs are generally fine after they stick it in your hand. That is, until you get up and find that the bag of saline doesn’t have enough pressure left to make sure your blood doesn’t go backwards into the I.V. Yuck.

Now I’m lying in bed (I really need to thank my brother for giving me this laptop).
Expect more blog entries. I actually had two great ideas but lost them. That notepad-and-pencil idea seems to be good right about now…

Finished!

I’m officially finished the first semester at school. I don’t know how I did it. Seriously.

Because I’m having my surgery in 3 days, during exam week, I had to do all my exams and end-of-semester work this week (as in, the week that passed). I just finished handing in my last Ethics homework thing over the school network, and I’m done. Done.

So, some schedule goodies! You’ll see how busy I was these past two days.

Ungh Angh.

Okay, I haven’t posted recently because I have a lot on my mind. I am posting this in a small break between homework. I have about 3 pages of written work to do. After that, I have 26 pages of written work and 3 pages of typed work tomorrow. I have 3 exams tomorrow, and another 3 on Friday.

I have just lost a piece of food on the desk that is my bed.

I am looking forward to the weekend.

Then Tuesday I have surgery scheduled. The good news is that the Hospital has a wireless network, so I can bring my laptop to the place while I’m healing. Nice, eh?

Urgh.

Pictures!

Okay, these are pictures from 1 month (!!!) ago. I know, I’m a lazy prick.
More after the jump.

>_>

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Good news: I bought Ace Combat 6.

Bad news: It was a defective disc and the Xbox 360 will not detect it most of the time. When it does work, the audio is all wonky and won’t load all of the time.

Worse news: Pilonidal Cyst is back. Surgery likely to be done in December.

Annoyance: I have a gauze on my ass that’s soaked in my blood. Damned biopsy.

Promise: I’ll have the money charts out soon, I promise!

Picture:

End: Done. <3 you JTanczos.

Launching in…

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Damn, kids today have shitty music. What is this shit? Green Day? My Chemical Romance? Rap!?

I’m okay with that, I guess. To each their own, but I’d know I’d explode from all that bad music. XKCD agrees.

And don’t get me started on their categorization methods. Practically every kid over here has an iPod, so eventually they ask “Can I see the songs on your iPod?”
They then browse through the songs on the All Songs category.
Why? WHY!? I’ve got 1400+ songs on there, and the titles alone won’t tell you shit about the music! Why not go to my meticulously-organized Albums category, or the Artist Category? Heaven forbid they go to Composers and Genres!

Then when I catch a glimpse at their screens, they always seem to play songs with the All Songs category on Shuffle. I don’t get this. Any good artist worth their money will eventually have a song that’s tied in with another to make the album/EP/LP more listenable and have a better mood. I guess they don’t have such stringent criteria. How can they, if they listen to their cheaply-pirated garbage?

About that!
What do you expect from Limewire, really? You download a random-ass song from a random-ass person. The tags are all messed up, the “artist” is spelt wrong, the song is in lower-case letters. I guess they can’t categorize by Artist after all. Not while the same artist has 8 different spellings.

Do these kids not care about order? How the hell are they going to get along in life?

Please, everyone who reads this, do me a favor. Go to your iPod/Zune/whatever, and CATEGORIZE things, for God’s sake! Add some album art, make sure everything is in its right place!
If you don’t have a portable music player, organize your computer and its files! Do a little folder-pushing, a little Ctrl+V and Ctrl+C functions! You’ll be amazed at how it’s easier to find things!

This may have just been OCD on my part, but seriously, organize your life!

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