The Paper Train Express : January 2013

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LAST TIME ON A VERY SPECIAL PTE POST

yeah so I've been rather sick for a bit now, but have finally been getting better.
I also have had a Clone High phase, leading to a (rather inevitable) phase dedicated to the band "Abandoned Pools".
I'd actually known about this show for a long time but had never really taken the time to actually sit down and watch it. Liked it hella more this time, very witty show. This also happens to be my first shift from a 'herp derp animez only' when it comes to studying animation.

I'll never be able to be a soap opera Tv watcher at this rate ._.

Also Calgary Trip coming this February likely to mess up seeing anyone during reading week at all.
WHY IS BEING HERE ASDFPOAKFSDPOFAKSDPFASDFASDF

More news later

have a picture

crack

My health finally caught up with me, which caused me to take a (one and only I'll have for the next 6 months) sick day.

Picture this: Saturday morning wake up kinda feel off, but decide should work anyway. So I walk headwind 25 minutes to a bus stop. Why? cuz the stop next to my house isnt running. Why? cuz its a Saturday morning so thats a thing transit decided. By the time I make it to the stop, the snow chunks mixed with my flickering eyelashes leads to a layer of ice over the base of my eyelashes, making vision near zero. finally making it to a bus stand, I wipe the ice out. And wait 25 more minutes for a bus. But it doesn't end there.

So then I work my 6-hour shift, which consists of lots of walking as well as going outside because its a half-outdoor job. In any weather. So that (unsurprisingly) tires me out. Bearing it to the end is painful as standing itself becomes a chore.

then comes the trek home. by now (5 at night - darkness in winter), both buses that take me home are running normally. Well...sort of. Running saturday hours. Each bus ends up taking me another 30 minutes of waiting outside in painfully cold weather. So now I've been cold and tired out.... for over 8 hours.

Finally get home, crash. 8pm. I don't sleep at 8pm. Ever.

I'm out. gone for the night, don't wake for 12 hours. When I do, I feel worse than sin. An intense headache spanning over half my skull, chills and fevers switching back and forth, body aches, coughing up, the whole works. I thought at first, I was exaggerating, that this was just something that I'd just get rid of by going about my day, going to work again and repeating essentially Saturday.

However, taking a shower is what changed my mind. Upon just turning on the shower head, the steam caused my headache to irritate and become even more intense, causing me to almost slam my head into a wall. After a few deep breaths, I calmed down. But decided to call in sick and take the day off.

Finally managed to after groggy back and forth with roommate, crashed sometime before 10 and didnt wake up until 8 that night. Felt much better but still off, but decided couldnt afford any more days off.

So even today I'm still not 100%, but I'm going to keep going, not because of some personal 'I need to persevere' thing, but just because I can't afford to slow down.

I want to pass off a shift or two to coworkers, but not even sure if I can afford to do that.

Hometown, you are a hard city.

what the luck

lately my luck has been all over the place, from inexplicably good to dastardly bad.

bad side (tuesday)
>bus never shows up
>nearly late to class
>walk in cold weather to next bus stop 20 minutes away
>heavy winds
>finally get to school, plan is to have pizza for supper
>pizza place just closes as I arrive
>chips for dinner
>go to class
>bring laptop to make note taking easier
>laptop is dead
>no charger cuz wrong backpack
>notes by hand

good side (today)
> next day buses all show up early and I catch em
> catch connecting routes within 2 minutes each time
> sunny day
> find out shift may have been shortened, less work to do next work day
> short lines or front of lines for all the food places
> first on busses
> early to all classes

magnets in the atmosphere

HOME DERPO FOREVER

hey lets have a legit PTE post oh ok

So it started when I went to uni and talked to an advisor cuz I did bad in one of my past courses and was afraid I wasnt actually supposed to be able to attend the next stage class cuz of it.

Turns out that was true and that I was going to be booted out of that class within the next two weeks. So I have now dropped that class before it could drop me.

We also discussed my plans for architecture and for business.

In terms of architecture, based on how my marks went and how the program works, I'd have a Bachelor of Arts Degree before I could even hope to get accepted into architecture.
5 years minimum if I pulled off a bunch of A-grade and B-Grade courses before I get in.

SO LONG STORY SHORT THE ARCHITECTURE PLAN IS KINDA

Business is a different story. I'm missing a few courses but its not as hardcore over GPA, meaning a few A-Grade and B-Grade courses could lead to somewhere...
...Eventually.

I also mentioned the fact I work and the whole New City deal and the city battle and all that.

Basically some courses I've taken have been completely unrelated to what I'm aiming for, and above that, much more difficult than courses I need to be taking. Add that with the fact I work way too much, feel pressure from friends and family over cities and decisions, and its nothing short of a miracle that I'm still stable. As the adviser said, "Something's gotta give".

Add all this together and you have why I have been looking at New City. I have been slammed on multiple occasions for even thinking about going back, but with how things have shaped up and how the opportunities in New City are looking, its kinda looking like staying here means dead end job while slowly plowing through uni aiming for business.

Now then, I presume even with all this laid out, I'll still get slammed, so I open the debate over New City Vs. Hometown to you, the PTErs. I'd be interested in knowing your concerns and thoughts over this.