Oh, I'm Ready For It, Come On, Bring It

I've got that Cobra Starship song Bring It from the Snakes On A Plane soundtrack stuck in my head >_> Yea, that's right. Motherfucking snakes on a motherfucking plane, bitches XD Ah, good times. Beerfest was also highly entertaining. Did I already mention this in a previous blog? I think I did.

I did not mention, however, the trailer for a movie called The Fountain we saw while waiting for Beerfest to commence. It comes out soon, and I most definately need to see it. It deals with immortality and reincarnation and it seems other things like soul mates and the fountain of youth and all sorts of goodies. And it seems to take place in three different time frames....around the time of The Explorations (i.e. Chris Colombus, etc), The Present, and sometime in The Future. It gave me chills. It's stuff Sean and I used to ramble on about for hours all the time back in the day. It obviously caught his attention as much as it did mine. And as a bonus, as if it were necessary, Hugh Jackman (sp?) is the male lead, and he ain't bad looking at all lol.

Man, my feet hurt horribly tonight from work. Moreso than they have to date. Definately can't wait for my last day there. Though I will miss some of the people. On the other hand, this new "supervisor" or "asst. manager" or whatever he is, they transferred over from another store for no clear reason is a complete douche bag and prick (everyone agrees), and I suspect he thinks he's rather macho, and he makes everyone unhappy when he's at work. So yea, I won't have to deal with him much longer if and when I start at that Nella place. I don't care if I get paid 25 cents less or if I can only work 20 something hours a week, it will be a nice break from Wendy's, and if it doesn't look too promising, I can finally pursue a job at the PAC like I've been saying I was going to for weeks now.

Speaking of the future, it's taken two big turns. First off, Michael was saying that he was going to transfer to another Job Corps in New Jersey they saw while in NJ for that Academic Olympics competition, because it was 100x better situated than his, obviously, and had a lot of different opportunities. For example, he could do the 6 months Microsoft Engineer ceritifcation program, and come out assured a job wherever he wanted to go, and/or 36 credits worth to any college, and also a free year of college to any college in NJ. So he was like, I'm gonna go and at least do the Microsoft certification, because with the Cisco program he wasn't guaranteed a job, and he'd have to find one on his own. Not to mention he wouldn't get anything towards college with it. Thus, instead of him coming down here by the end of the year for us to move in together and all that jazz, he was gonna go do that and then come down here, or maybe me go up there for awhile somehow. I was left dazed and confused, not to mention a bit upset about crushed plans, but I got over it, and we started seeing how and when we could visit each other in this situation.

And then topsy-turvey #2. Yesterday morning I'm emailing back and forth with him when he tells me that Martel, his roommate asked him what his aspirations were in life, etc, what he wanted to do, etc. He said he didn't really have any. And Martel was all, what? You gotta have something you want to do that you know would make you happy doing for the rest of your life! Thus, Michael remembered his deep affinity for dinosaur bones, and realized and remembered he had wanted to be a Paleontologist. Boom, I get an email from him saying he's going to find a way to get enrolled for Spring semester at UF (University of Florida) up in Gainsville where he will Major in Zoology or whatever and then get a Master's in Paleontology through the Florida Museum of Natural History (I think that's the name), which is the subsequent step in that route. o_o; Ok, wtf, how do you go from Cisco and computer repair and networking to Microsoft Engineer to Paleontologist I don't know, but wow, it sure took me for a spin. So now, considering he gets accepted and all, he will be in Gainsville, at far more easy access next year. And, if I bring my grades up like planned at USF (and well, I guess if I don't I'd still be doing it anyway) this Spring, I'll be applying for a transfer to UF (which I will hopefully get, though after reading through the UF website, it left me discouraged :-\ ) to join him and so we can help each other out and keep each other on track.....support is a good thing. Plus supposedly the Art programs at UF are better than the ones at USF. I could believe that. So yea....I may not be living in Tampa anymore next year.....

I know it sounds crazy, and it would really suck to not be minutes away from Yany and Sean and everyone else anymore, but I'd have Michael, and I know a lot of people up at UF already anyway (it -is- the IB school of choice for those who want easy free college) and I don't know. I don't really feel anything really holding me back at the moment. Maybe it's just super momentum from all the ideas and plans trying to form and everything else that's making me feel so decisive, I dunno. But hey, UF was the school I really wanted to go to at first. USF was a last minute "oh, nevermind, this is easier and more convenient" choice. Not a bad one, and I was already familiar and comfortable there, but oh well. We'll see though, because I don't know what'll happen if I don't bring my grades up enough (but I have to, and I will, but you know, it's still a possibility out there) or if I just don't get accepted to UF, at least right away. I think if I got denied at this stage, that I would wait till I had two years worth/60 or whatever credits under my belt because they say you have a better chance to get accepted as a Junior transfer than a freshmen or sophomore transfer....*sighs* Craziness.

I'm waiting to see what Yany and Sean and everyone else is going to say. I must say though, that I always wanted Michael to go to college, and the fact that he's rediscovered what he wants to do in life that would make him happy and is ready to pursue it and go to college and all that jazz makes me happy. Plus, how awesome would it be to be able to say you personally know a Paleontologist? XD Not to mention that if we ended up staying together for a really long time, I could follow him around traveling to dig sites, and I could help dig and also use my Photography to take pictures and all that jazz, and/or even write articles or something. It would be pretty cool if you ask me, especially since the 3rd thing I've always had an interest in is Archaeology, which is the human equivalent of Paleontology. I still don't know if I can rule that one out as a possible field of study for me....I'm gonna take another Anthropology class if possible to see what I think about it more.

Ok, enough rambling for now. I really need to get to bed x_x