Well here is the followup to the pig post. Ok so what have I been up to lately. Well I quit my job because I wasn’t getting any work. Probably a bad move seeing as how I haven’t been able to get another one yet. I’ll get one though something will come up. That leads into my next point…I’m moving to Canada for a year. Exactly when will depend on when I get a new job but the date is tentatively for May the 3rd. At the moment its looking like I might to put that back a month or so. Should be good though. I decided to one day last year when I was trying to decide what I would do this year. I knew I wasn’t going to get very good uni results and to be honest I wasn’t sure I really wanted to go to uni this year because I really felt like a break. Then one night I was talking to Karl and he suggested I go to Canada… sounded good haha. I look forward to a cross country Top Gear style Road trip.
I got a few new tattoos too. Black Flag logo and a Sailor Jerry knife with “Don’t Panic. Forty Two” on its banner. Both turned out pretty well but I’m not real happy about the fact that I won’t be able to get anymore until I go to Canada. I know I want to get a few while I’m in Canada but I have no idea what they’ll be yet. I went to bookfest while it was on and now I don’t have to buy anymore books until next year. Managed to finished of a few series and start a couple I wanted to read. Ended up getting 9 books for 60 bucks. Pretty sweet deal.
Apart from that not much is going on. Being unemployed is probably the most boring thing I’ve done in my life. I really need a hobby.
It is 401. I am in the bedroom. I see Crab Nicholson. Yes I know I’ve started a post like this before but I lol when I see Crab Nicholson and I just saw it again. Well as you can tell its 401 and I’m not asleep. I am in fact awake and re watching Dexter Season 1. I once had a rather heated debate about Dexter. It was over whether what he does is justified or not. As you can probably imagine a killer that kills killers who escape justice is a topic that seems to divide people. Especially when those people are law students. I think that what he does is justified. He kills the killers that escape justice but are clearly guilty. It’s not like he was just like “oh I think that guy killed someone he’s dead he is”. Dexter actually does his research first. Although I can understand the other side of the argument about not wanting “an eye for an eye” style justice.
At the moment I’m reading Faith of the Fallen by Terry Goodkind. Its the 6th book in the Sword of Truth series that I’ve slowly been working my way through for about a year or so now. I like Terry Goodkind’s writing, apart from the obvious similarities between the first book of this series and the first book of the Wheel of Time. Although I guess if you look close enough most epic fantasy books have similar story lines. But I have one big problem with fantasy. I’m not sure if I’ve blogged about this before but its still bothering me. In every fantasy book, and even to an extent certain scifi books/movies, the characters always talk about the old days when *insert group of people* were so much more powerful and they did *insert really fantastic feat* and how awesome they were. I want to read books about those people. Not that I don’t enjoy the regular kind of stories it would just be good to read a good with out all the praising of the ancient wizards/jedi/whoever and whining about how awesome they were and how they’ll never been that great. I always find that I read a lot less during the holidays though. Probably because of the fact I rarely catch public transport during them. This isn’t going to help the slowly growing pile of unread books on my books shelf haha.
My sleep pattern has become screwed up again since my last few posts. For some reason I can’t sleep until early in the morning and then I end up sleeping till 11/12. Sucks because I miss half the day. Also sucks because it means I have to go to the gym at night. I have figured out all the times which I can go to the gym and have the place completely to myself though so thats good. No waiting for machines or weights.
Well I can hear birds chirping right now and light just started shining through my window. I should probably try and sleep but I know I won’t be able too. I have to be up in a few hours to go to my defence force recruiting YOU session thing anyway so I’d only get an hour or so of sleep before I had to be up anyway.
I hope you enjoyed this random collection of thoughts…I swear when I began there was some tie between them.
So this week has been pretty awesome. Firstly, I finished my exams so I’m on holiday for the next 3 months. I also finally got my licence so now I can drive where ever I want instead of having to take the god damn bus. Finally, I asked my mum if she could take my boots into the Doc shop and get them stiched up because they had a hole in them…turns out they could stitch them but they’d have to put a new sole on them too and that would mess up the stiching….So she bought me a new pair. A brand new pair of docs. That is so awesome, considering they’re not cheap. There’s been some biiiiiiiiig stuff going on for me lately, well not so much going on as I’ve been thinking about making some bigggg changes. I’m thinking about changing my degree at uni, or possibly dropping out all together for awhile. Even been thinking about joining the army. Uni just isn’t what it used to be anymore. I don’t enjoy any of the subjects I do, I hate all the people I’ve had to work with because all they do is bullshit about what they can do and then fail when the assessments due and I really don’t know if it’s what I want to do anymore. Sure I still like programming and working with computers but can I see myself sitting in a cubicle writing shitty code for the rest of my life…no no I can’t.
Wow, it seems every time I remember to update this blog almost a month has passed. So whats going on in the life of Tom Midson. Well those of your who talk to me often will know this but there’s been a few changes in my life. The first is that I’ve been driving all I can so I can get my god damn licence. I’ve had my learners since I was 18 and its only now that I’m so close to getting it that I actually want my licence.
The other is that my sleep pattern has changed dramatically. My old sleep pattern went something like 2am-10/11am. Now it’s more like 9/10-5. Seeing as how I’ve got all this free time in the morning I’ve been going into uni to early and doing work. I’ve noticed that I’ve been getting a lot more work done…and that my coffee budget has doubled in the last few weeks.
In case your wondering the title of this post comes from Mars, bringer of war by Gustav Holtz. Or rather, it’s from Venture Bros when 21 and 24 sing it.
I’d highly recommend watching the whole show, it’s probably the best cartoon I’ve ever seen.
I haven’t posted in awhile so this is going to be a long one (inb4 TWSS):
Well this has probably been the most stressful week of the semester. A slack partner and a late start have made coding my latest assignment hell. *PREPARE YOURSELF FOR A RANT* I don’t understand why I have to pay, well not pay now but in the future I’m going to have a huge amount of debt to pay off, for subjects where the lectures and tutorials are useless. I’m not being racist (I know people usually use this statement right before they blurt out some extremely racist thing but this isn’t being racist it’s just stating the truth) but I don’t really want to get myself into all this debt when I can’t understand the lecturer or tutorial through their incredibly thick accent, and I know I’m not the only one that thinks this way. I’m not going to use this as an exucse if I do badly in the subject, because I have a textbook I can and do read to learn the material, but it sucks if I wake up early and go to the tutorial particuarly to ask my tutor a question and I can’t understand the answer…maybe I should just email my questions from now on. Topic 2 of the rant is going to be one fulltime workers who bitch about uni students being lazy. So many times I’ve had someone bitch to me that I’m lazy just because I wake up late or I can’t work because of uni. Firstly, the reason I wake up late is becaus I go to bed really late, and during the semester there’s a good chance I go to bed late because I’m either studying or working on an assignment. Sure I might be playing games or watching a movie but I should get time off too right? I don’t have a job right now so I’ve got some free time but when I do I work pretty often. So imagine that you have to go to work right, and then when you’re not at uni you’re at your job and then when you go home from your job you have to study to you keep up with uni. Pretty god damn lazy right? Fuck you. The second point, if I say I can’t work because of uni, it’s because my uni timetable isn’t flexible. Also I’m going to uni to get a real job so I won’t have to keep this shitty part time job for the rest of my life. I think the pic below sums up what I’m saying here:
However, the job hunt is starting to get better. Had an interview last week (didn’t get the job) and I’ve got another one this week with subway….I’m not a huge fan of making sandwiches but I need a job so I’ll take it. Worked there before so I’m pretty sure I’ll get it. This means I’ll be able to get a car and get a place with Sir the Karl. Need a third person though so if anyone is interested let me know.
For everyone I haven’t showed, check out this vid:
I’d highly recommend watching the rest of the Zero Punctuation vids, probably the best game reviews I’ve seen.
Well thats all from Tom Midson. I’ll be trying to post more often from now on now that uni has slowed down a little and if you don’t agree with anything in this post don’t hesitate to STFU because I really don’t care.
I’ve been intending to write this post for a few days now but I keep getting sidetracked. So I loaded up vim so I could type it a bit at a time while I’m working on some uni stuff. As you can tell from the title I’m Tom Midson and I don’t care about your problems. Pretty much I’m sick of waking up/turning on my comp/opening my laptop at anytime during the day and logging onto facebook or checking twitter and seeing another person using these sites to just bitch about their lives. It’s pretty fucking annoying opening facebook and being bombared by status updates about how someone is “having a bad day”. Got some news for you, I bet everyone else is having a shitty day too we don’t need to hear about how bad your day is. Other classics include such updates as “It’s not worth it anymore” and “I’m sick of this shit”. Fucking deal with your problems I don’t want to read about them when I go online. Another great genre of updates are the ones that show how dark/brutal/obscure the person is…yeah dude you’re so brutal you have to tell everyone on the internet how brutal you are (FAIL). I liked it when I first started using twitter and I could follow people and see what they were up too now its just like facebook. Lately I’ve been considering making another account and just following the very few people who post interesting stuff so I won’t be bombarded with bullshit everytime I open twitter.
So I think the main thing I’m trying to say here is STFU ABOUT YOUR PROBLEMS ONLINE I DON’T WANT TO HEAR ABOUT THEM, IF I DID I’D ASK.
Ok rant over. Thanks for the help SJ *poses like Buddy Christ*
In other news uni is going well, which is a good change from previous semesters lol. I’ve managed to cut down my spending on stuff too, which will help me stretch out the last of my money until I can get a new job. It is hard to resist the urge to buy new books though. Only 8 more books and I’ll be caught up with all the books I’ve bought but haven’t read. For some reason I have this urge to by Crime and Punishment, saw a good copy hardcover copy of it in Borders today and it was tough not to buy it. At the moment I’m reading The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolf. While its a pretty good book and has it’s moments, it isn’t the book I thought it would be. Basically it’s about a guy who was a journeyman in the Seekers for Truth and Penitence (Guild of torturers) until he was exiled for killing one of their clients on purpose because he loved her. It’s got a pretty good plot but…it’s no Beyond the Shadows lol. The rest of the books on my list include Dracula, Frankenstein, The complete chronicles of Conan, Necronomicon (a big collection of Lovecraft stories), The Chronicles of Thomas Coveneant, The count of Monte Cristo, a collection of the first 3 Dune novels (of which I’ve read the first) and The Big Sleep (THE BOOK NOT THE FUCKING MOVIE FFS WHY WOULD I WATCH A MOVIE ADAPTION OF IT WHEN I COULD READ THE BOOK).
In other exciting (probably not to you) news I’ve got the first jam with my new possible band members this week. It will be good to play some music up to speed without the bass player bitching about how fast the music is. Also I rewatched the Wayne’s World movies again the other day. I’m pretty sure it’s impossible to tell which one of them is better.
I’ll be writing a real post tonight but for now check this out lol. I’ll give one internet to whoever can tell me the character that the singer from my favorite Hardcore band plays in this vid lol
