Archive for August, 2009
I think I have found my career choice
This year has really been a time when I have given serious thought to what I wanted to do as a career and what I will study to get into that industry. I still don’t know what I want to study, but I think I have found what I want to do.
Here is a little video that helped confirm my thoughts. I want to be involved in that transition and I think it will be a safe career to go into. What do you rate?
PhD in Procrastination
Right now I really should be doing some work. I have mock exams in two weeks but instead I am here, entertaining you! Not only that, but I don’t charge for this great entertainment. How generous am I?
I am drifting from the point here. O wait… That would imply that I actually had a point to this post. Hmmm. I am not one to lie so therefore I guess I can’t say that I am drifting from the point as that would be a blatant lie because there is no point in this post. Gosh. So that actually leaves this post to go down any road that I wish.
Which road should I take then? “I took the road less traveled and that, that made all the difference.” Can you remember who said that lovely quote? It comes from Dead Poets Society. I bet you didn’t know that one did you? It is a quote that I quite enjoy and attempt to live my life to, but since I am quite lazy and procrastinate a fair amount, I sometimes “forget” that part. You see, working hard now delivers long term results, but being lazy now gives you immediate satisfaction. You see my problem of the great temptation that being thrown at me from the God of Laziness. O the unworldly horrors that I must face at such a young age.
I think I have wondered off on a tangent enough and avoided work for too long tonight. So I am off to maybe sit and stare at a blank screen for a bit, but this actually feels far more productive as I am actually doing something. I am in denial I know.
I hope you week started off well and that hangover from the weekend didn’t make getting up for work/school/nothing too difficult.
Why I love fellow Scots
Pigs Are Taking Over: I need Oinkment
The first thing I do once I am out of bed in the morning, is to watch the news as I eat my breakfast. I enjoy watching Sky News, but that is not the point of the article. Wow, one line and I am already wondering off an a tangent. Focus.
When the world the world was raving on about the “global pandemic” that was Swine Flu, I thought that the Europeans were just being silly and taking things overboard. Now I am not so sure.
My dad returned from Europe ill at the end of June. I got ill straight away and was knocked out for about a week. I virtually never get sick, so this was quite surprising for me with how fit I am as well. Was it Swine Flu? I didn’t think so.
Well, I didn’t think so until 160 boys were absent from my school on Tuesday. Now out of 800 boys, that is a fair percentage. I thought that it was probably a one day bug, but then on Wednesday it was still climbing, and reached about 180. I thought that this couldn’t be, and that surely today would be better. Instead it went past the 200 mark, and actually hit around 230. That is a ridiculous 29%.
I thought we had it rough, but not even close. SACS had 250 boys absent yesterday! Still not amazed at the numbers? Yesterday, Paul Roos had 575 pupils absent. The principal claims that “about half of the pupils were absent”. Holy crap!
I thought that Swine Flu was only overseas, but with 3 confirmed cases at my school, it appears not. I am sure that more than just those 3 have the flu of the pig, but with it costing R800 to get tested, I think many cases will be missed.
