Frustration

Yesterday was a nightmare, well most of it anyway.  I work full time and have decided it's a brilliant time to go back to school and finish up my engineering degree.  Apparently if you work full time, you are screwed.  I had to take a math placement exam and the assessment center is not after work hours friendly by any means.  In fact if you can't get there by 3PM you are toast.  I called before I drove up there and was told they took walk-ins until 7PM, I left work and drove immediately there only to find out you need to check in by 3PM for the 5PM test.   After missing the first time, I left work early and arrived at 12PM only to find out the test wasn't until 5PM.  I don't understand why the girls on the phone could not explain this information to me, as I asked several questions regarding how the test works. So essentially they have set times for exams only, therefore don't take any walk-ins and fill that puppy up!!!!!!  After finally taking the test, I had to go see a counselor with the test results and my transcript to get cleared for my class.  Of course that wasn't easy too, I had to go back and forth between departments because apparently nobody wants to do their job and tries to shuffle the work elsewhere.  Absolutely ridiculous.  All of that ate of my afternoon and now things that were supposed to happen yesterday are going to happen today and I've had to cancel fun plans for tonight :(.  Wow, that was a whole paragraph of complaining, I swear I'm over it now.

But alas, all was not lost yesterday.  My friend Lamont goes to Mt. Sac as well so I met up with him.  We caught up while I waited for the counselor and then we went on a mini adventure!!!!!  We drove to Rowland Heights and got hot pot or shabu shabu.  I've never had it before and holy shatner was it good.  Fantastic food, but the night was made by the most excellent company.  Definitely going to go back to that restaurant.  Of course if I ever go back to that specific place, I'll have to invite Lamont because we discovered it together and that's common discoverer decency. 

Anyway today I am busting out the final portion of this project for work, I think I can get it all cleaned up on my end by the end of business.  I also submitted a resume to Conoco Phillips for pipe and pressure vessel inspection, I don't want to change jobs but I'm interested in that field and think potentially it could open up new revenue for my current company.  I'm just testing out the water and doing my research.  After work, I've got to meet with my SCUBA instructor to go over some information and then it's off to the gym.

My gym has a Commitment Club you can make if you go 14 times in a month.  One of my goals this year was to make that club every month, I am on track to do it if I work out twice tonight.  So tonight is the night of the double WOD, and I think I shall be very tired indeed.

That's all for now...oooh, the only bonus of wasting time yesterday waiting was I got to read a lot of my book, which is The Game of Thrones.  I'm excited about that.

Wander on my friends, wander on.