Y’know, I was planning to start this off with some sort of witty commentary about how this place is dead and in all probability lead into a terrible zombie pun. Frankly though, it really wasn’t ever a hotspot of activity. My friends and I all aspire to having a multitude of opinions we’d love to express to the world and that could be quite true, but we’re also lazy. Horribly lazy. Most of us have both jobs and work and unsurprisingly making a massive post on a blog site slipped into the ‘extra work’ category in our brains whenever we thought about it.
Furthermore we couldn’t ever get out of that ‘Your blog post must be this long to be good’ mentality. It turns out stacking your own standards against you doesn’t help productivity. Thus without further ado I’m taking back all my apologies about not posting and revoking the promises of being better at it. I suck at committing myself but still want to abuse this place for cathartic-ranty-release every now and then, and by gods I’ll use it for that. On the plus side there’s virtually no chance of anyone ever reading this anymore so I don’t think there’s going to be vast armies of disappointed people.
Anyways: life. Yeah, that thing this was meant to be about originally; random shit happening to me. Loosely described in an attempt to get more practice at writing in some format other than a stream of consciousness (Boy did that ever work!). My job has finally improved – which it saying something; I work at Wal-mart. Granted I have the security position so my job might not be quite as dull as pushing carts around, but I don’t think some one is going to make a movie out of it anytime soon.
Things are looking up since they moved me to the new building. For a bit of background, this was the place I originally applied for because it’s just a 15 minute walk from my house. Once I break out the bike for all intents and purposes there isn’t a commute anymore. My old building was up in Lincoln Fields – a hour long bus ride away in a shittier part of town. In reality I only save maybe an hour of dicking around on a bus each day; even less when you consider the number of times I just drove, but the ability to actually come home for lunch and let off some steam can’t be understated.
The job itself has become more demanding since I moved as management here expects a bit more from their security in the various safety and shrink (Read; theft) meetings. It’s made up for though by the store itself being quieter and the managers themselves being quite likable. All in all it’s worth noting that I was in the process of quitting less than a month before and now am looking for ways to prolong my stay with the company. However, I must admit my working future looks dubious due to the looming advance of University.
(Hurrah! Transition sentences!)
That’s right. Crimino..lo…gy…. er, Law! I’m apparently taking a B.A. in Law now. Who’da thunk it? I’m still gunning for Criminology, but it seems I’m going to have to prove to the world I’m superman or something very near before it’ll let me have it. The situation is, well, weird. My GPA from Police Foundations was too low for me to get into second year Criminology, so Carleton University kindly offered to let me into Law second year instead. It turns out though the B.A. program is open enough that I can make my entire Law year be made out of courses compatible to criminology – in other words, precisely what I applied to take anyways. Furthermore if I managed to bring my GPA up another 0.3 points as measured by that year alone they’ll actually let me into Criminology third year.
So what the hell does all that mean? Well, I don’t waste any time for one thing. If I stay on course I can be done my schooling in three years and still have an impressive if mildly convoluted resume. The break down goes like so:
Police Foundations (Two years)
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B.A. of law (One year)
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If GPA >3.3
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Criminology (Two years)
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Success, fame, and happiness.
All told I get to claim a complete Police Foundations diploma and Criminology degree, effectively six years of school for only having done five.
I’m not certain if I can claim anything in Law if I only do one year of it, but I’m looking into options for third year Criminology. If I can continue to pick courses that work for both of those programs I think I might be able to claim a minor in law (Two year program). This would mean I did the equivalent of eight years of school in five; and yes, that would be stupendous.
Speaking of stupendous stuff, (man, I’m getting so good as this topic changing thing) I went to PAX east again this year. I think I need to make an obligatory note of how fun, amazing, enlightening and over-all awesome it was. I mentioned the last one in another one of my posts a while back concerning communities, and more or less everything in there holds true through to this year. I had a personal moment of ‘hurrah!’ when I managed to run across and talk to the creators of Escape to the Movies (Movie Bob) Brentalfloss, and even one of the Penny Arcade guys; Jerry. I must admit, it was mildly surreal. They aren’t movie-stars or anything and will just about never be recognized outside of ‘internet fame’, so they tend to all be distressingly normal. Nothing throws a fans head through a loop more than finding out the people they eagerly follow turn out to be genuinely nice and humble. Special kudos goes to Movie Bob, who Josh and I interrupted (after angst-ridden hesitation about being annoying) just after he got some food. Really, we did err on the side of annoying fans there, but he seemed still perfectly happy to chat for a while and never blew us off.
I honestly don’t think it’s possible for the guys at Penny-Arcade to put on a bad event at this point, not with the audience they’re dealing with. Now it has without a doubt become an annual thing for my group of friends, and the only difficulty is seeing how many addition people we can bring with us. With any luck next year that number with be in the double digits. We’re looking to have quite the party of people.
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