Oh Father.

Don't get me wrong, I love my dad. He's a great guy, definitely has his priorities straight, takes care of us, raised us well, provided us with every opportunity we ever needed and wanted, and spent countless hours being a father. Etc etc etc we love you Dad.

BUT, sometimes, the things he says are really ridiculous.

We're talking about my upcoming job at Applebee's, and here are a few of the things he asked me. Now, these may not seem that ridiculous out of context. But my dad HAS seen where I am going to work. And I have told him these things before.

Dad
are you out in the open like at earls or joey tomatoes

Dad
do you have a head chef like in hells kitchen

Dad
did they tell you your hourly pay

He also has a habit of narrating to me what him, my mom, and brother have been doing, like so:

Dad
its been raining here in calgary steady for the past few days, michael did not work yesterday, but worked the afternoon today

Dad
connie and gordon, were in town today, visiting their son kevin, and went to supper with them at chianti's on 17th avenue, michael, and kevin's finance joined us

Dad
oh, no offers on the mazda yet, may have to lower the price

I don't know, correct me if I'm wrong, but this is a little weird. I hope my parents understand when I am less than enthused to talk to them sometimes. Anyone else got any weird parent stories?

Anywho, I need to be getting to bed, hopefully my sleep schedule will sort it out before Friday.

Later Days,
- J

The Beginning of the End.

Hello,

So the time has come. I am trying to study, obviously I am not doing a very good job. My math test is less than 48 hours away and I'm cracking open the books for the first time in about a week. It's so difficult to force myself to study for this test when I just want my summer to finally start. I haven't really had any REAL time off for almost a year.

The worst part is that this test is worth 60% of my mark in this class, one I NEED to pass to get anything done in the fall. On the brighter side, I do understand pretty much all of the concepts and I just need to do a bit of review of everything, I also did pretty well on my midterms in this class, so that bodes well for me. I just don't care anymore about this class. Just be gone Math 122, be gone!


I got a reply from the Martlet lady today, she said that everything looks good and that she'll be sending my reviews onto the editing and then back to me if I have to change anything. So this is positive. Perhaps I'll take another break from studying later and do another review.

Also! I want your feedback on my reviews or posts! Tell me what you think! If you are actually reading this that is. Just give me a sign!

I have my orientation for Applebee's tonight. The resturaunt I shall be working at in the fall. It'll be interesting to meet some of my coworkers and see what this place is all about. After trying so hard all summer to find a job, and now, at the end of my summer finally getting one, really sucks. So blah. It's even worse because our training got pushed back another week, and then we open on the 22nd, which is the same weekend that my brother comes to visit. So I'll have to see when my shifts are so that we can actually hang out for most of that time. I feel like I'm gonna get trained to work here, and then have to take the first two weeks off for vacation, since I want to go back to Calgary around the 27th of August.

Speaking of my brother, he just got an apartment in Edmonton for the upcoming school year as he's attending U of A. And my parents were up there co-signing for him or something or other, and they called me later yesterday evening, saying they felt bad about me living in my situation and my brother living in this 'palace.' And then my brother made this whole big deal about my parents making a big deal, and now it's my fault that I live where I do. I think my family needs to calm down and realize that it doesn't really matter to me where I live and if my brother and I are equal. I've gotten the short end of the stick before and I'm sure he has too, but that's not really something I want to bring up and get everyone into a big huff about. My living conditions may suck and I may not have all these luxuries that my brother is going to get, but that's fine with me. I'm surviving, I've got all that I need.

On another note! JuST Be, the fashion blog that I have started with my girlfriend and roommate is starting to really get going. We posted the link on our Facebook's, and got 120 views yesterday alone! Hopefully some of you reading this now either came FROM that blog, or will go to it after you read this one! http://jstb.wordpress.com I find it's hard to spread the word on blogs and get other people, that you don't know to read them. But hopefully more people will read both of my blogs!

I picked up some photos from Black's yesterday too! They're in the side on my flickr --> or on facebook if you are coming from there!

Anywho, I should really get back to studying my logic laws and converses, inverses, and contrapositives.

Later days,

- J