December-January
Jan. 31st, 2011 07:00 amWell if I'm not kept up by the poison oak during the night I am by cramps instead. The steroid medicine I've been prescribed works well during the day but wears off about 12 hours later. I was also given a prescription anti histamine but it doesn't work so well.
So before the winter holidays started, I don't really remember what went on other than me going to Florida in November. Not too much. What I've always liked about San Jose State is the semester system which I knew I would like a whole lot better than the quarter system. I'm not sure if all CSUs are like this, but San Jose State has this "winter session" that goes on actually between Fall Semester and Spring Semester. Most programs don't have classes offered in winter session so it equals a longer break for us.
I had to watch Burns while my parents went to Colorado for a week. At the same time for 3 days in a row I was recruited to help Jenn's grandma's Honey Baked Ham store during their Christmas rush where they get a ton of business. The work was horrible. I would say that among all the jobs I've ever done, this is probably the 2nd or 3rd worst only because it went on for 3 days and not longer (though the worst job went on for just under 2 weeks I believe). Everyone there was very nice, which helped considering there were some huge douchebags in that Fire Works store I worked at in Florida (the 2 week job).
The job mostly involved me helping to wrap hams in tin foil and lug them to the freezer (about 10 feet away). I'm not used to being on my feet for 12 hours a day, my less carrying heavy hams almost the entire time so it really sucked. I knew the feet would recover fairly quickly, and they did, but the back and neck ache took about 2 weeks to recover from and I was really paranoid I gave myself some kind of permanent injury. I used a variety of therapy pads to help treat it. Some worked better than others.
Justin came over as soon as the Ham Store job was done. I don't think we really did much of anything because I really can't remember anything that we did other than play Donkey Kong. We went to the arcade once in Santa Rosa and once in San Jose and that is probably all that we really did!
At some point in the last few months, either in November or December, I went to visit
soicjuabba in Davis. That visit coincided with this tour of the State Archives I wanted to go to. The tour was really cool and it looks like a really fun place to work. I love huge archives like that. They had this really secret vault which we weren't allowed to go into. I wonder if the archivists even have access to it. It had stuff like the gun that shot Senator Kennedy in it.
Since
soicjuabba lives close to Sacramento, we went to Sutter's Fort, a very old historical settlement founded by John Sutter in the mid 1800s. It became famous as gold was discovered not far from there but actually the gold rush ended up somehow being very detrimental to the Fort and Sutter had to leave. He didn't manage his finances well. It was really cool and I've wanted to go there for a long time.
I can't think of anything else right now, so I leave you with pics from the cat show I went to this weekend. http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v326/MajesticArcanine/Cat%20Show%201-29-11/
So before the winter holidays started, I don't really remember what went on other than me going to Florida in November. Not too much. What I've always liked about San Jose State is the semester system which I knew I would like a whole lot better than the quarter system. I'm not sure if all CSUs are like this, but San Jose State has this "winter session" that goes on actually between Fall Semester and Spring Semester. Most programs don't have classes offered in winter session so it equals a longer break for us.
I had to watch Burns while my parents went to Colorado for a week. At the same time for 3 days in a row I was recruited to help Jenn's grandma's Honey Baked Ham store during their Christmas rush where they get a ton of business. The work was horrible. I would say that among all the jobs I've ever done, this is probably the 2nd or 3rd worst only because it went on for 3 days and not longer (though the worst job went on for just under 2 weeks I believe). Everyone there was very nice, which helped considering there were some huge douchebags in that Fire Works store I worked at in Florida (the 2 week job).
The job mostly involved me helping to wrap hams in tin foil and lug them to the freezer (about 10 feet away). I'm not used to being on my feet for 12 hours a day, my less carrying heavy hams almost the entire time so it really sucked. I knew the feet would recover fairly quickly, and they did, but the back and neck ache took about 2 weeks to recover from and I was really paranoid I gave myself some kind of permanent injury. I used a variety of therapy pads to help treat it. Some worked better than others.
Justin came over as soon as the Ham Store job was done. I don't think we really did much of anything because I really can't remember anything that we did other than play Donkey Kong. We went to the arcade once in Santa Rosa and once in San Jose and that is probably all that we really did!
At some point in the last few months, either in November or December, I went to visit
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I can't think of anything else right now, so I leave you with pics from the cat show I went to this weekend. http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v326/MajesticArcanine/Cat%20Show%201-29-11/