Every year I post a list of stuff I have that needs to be completed. I have a crapload of books, video games, movies, and television shows that is taking up a lot of space in my room (and computer). When I finally finish everything (and this will take a great deal of effort on my part to restrain myself from buying more stuff, not to mention a shitload of discipline to start and finish everything), I will throw a massive celebration. My calculations* suggest that in the year 2015, I should be able to finally finish everything that I have bought, this is including possible new purchases that I will be making.
Seriously.
Hopefully me in 2015
I need to set a goal of completing one thing a week (perhaps two weeks for the bigger stuff), so I can get some stuff out of the way. Right now I’m reading A Game of Thrones, which, thankfully, has consumed a big chunk of my life because it’s addictive. The worst is when you’re reluctantly finishing stuff because there’s a certain amount of financial and emotional investment involved. I can’t believe I feel a sense of obligation to these things, but, the Chinese in me just can’t waste money.
*By calculations, I mean completely arbitrary number.
There’s a music piece called “The Typewriter” which actually involves using a typewriter. When I first heard it I thought that they would recreate the sound using some percussion instruments or something. Apparently, they actually used a typewriter!
I was talking to Krishna tonight and he mentioned something about an LOLcat. I told him how much I hated that Internet meme, when he told me that I should just “make a list of all the things I hate”, presumably because he can’t keep track of them anymore. So here’s the list in all its glory! It’s probably incomplete and some of them come with explanations while others are rather self explanatory (or I didn’t bother explaining):
The Long List:
-escalators: when people don’t walk left and stand right.
-lights underneath cars: why do people supe it up like that?
-artsy fartsy people: they’re so elitist
-indie music whores: you know, the people who only listen to bands that aren’t signed to major labels.
-nepotism: it’s rampant in my company and needs to stop. People need to get fired.
-edge 102: I guess I grew out of it. The morning show isn’t that funny and the music sucks.
I’m surprised I could only get to 5. I wonder what else I can think of?
-Chinese people who make other Chinese people look bad.
-humidity. No one likes it actually, I’m not sure why this is on here.
-essays: I used to like them until I got my marks back.
-new Simpsons episodes: they suck now.
-gossipers: who likes them anyway?
I think that’s it for now? I’m sure I can find one more in that list. It’s like, staring right at me, but my mind is tired and I can’t think right now. Acrostic poems? I guess I hate those too. I don’t like poetry in general.
A month back it seemed as if I was heading to Korea for a one year teaching contract. Now, the plans have folded and it’s not very likely that I’ll be going there within the year. Here’s what happened in between:
1.) I was offered a job by my cousin’s friend. She gave me the salary, contract terms, the name of the school, and when she expected all of this to go through. Looking good! All I had to do was look into the visa.
2.) I checked out the E-2 Visa process and it looked like a lengthy process. I would have to: get my academic transcript ($$$), get my degree notarized ($$$), go through an interview with the embassy, as well as pay for the actual visa ($$$). This would have taken some considerable time and money, so I wanted to make sure that I was certainly getting this job. I asked for a job contract.
3.) No reply from their end.
4.) I didn’t want to go around town doing all this stuff without being absolutely certain that I was getting the job. I told them that the embassy would most likely not give me a visa unless I had that contract. This is true because any idiot can print out an email and say that they have a job waiting for them on the other side, but without an actual contract, no one is going to believe you.
5.) I finally get a reply. She informs me that I’m looking at the wrong visa. I’m positive that the E-2 Visa is the right one, but I tell her that regardless of the Visa issues, I need a contract before I can pursue anything. No embassy is going to give someone a visa based on a job someone told them they might get, and I sure as hell am not running around Toronto for nothing. Thankfully I haven’t actually done anything yet.
6.) No reply. At this point I give up. Until I get that contract, nothing happens.
If I’m going to go to Korea, I’m going to go through the normal procedure of going through an organization that sets you up with schools. It’s lengthier, but at least I don’t have to be the one that deals with that bullshit.
Who takes pictures of chairs? What a noob! Now he's going to be a loser and put it on his blog.
Robarts Library is undergoing some renovation. It’s a pain in the ass because sometimes the books that I want are on the 3rd floor (the main stacks are on floors 9 – 12, and the elevator doesn’t stop on the 3rd floor, to get there, you need to take another elevator). I guess the plus side is that this looks awfully cool and makes me wish that I was actually 10 inches tall so I can have a wicked game of hide and seek inside this labyrinth of chairs and desks.
