11.4.09//I’m Backsies

The last trip we had in our biology class was to the waste water treatment facility.  It was, weird and it sucked because we had an exam that same day for that same class.  When we go there we were given a run through of the facility.  Like the different treatments and steps it takes to get the water clean.  The facility is goes up to tertiary treatment with UV, that means it’s the water good enough for drinking.  Some facilities go up to secondary treatment and that water is only used and good for irrigation purposes.

Our class broke into two groups and I was stuck with the crazy tour guide.  He had a heavy Indian-German (or maybe Indian-French) accent.  We could hardly hear him amongst the loud machines.  At one point he said something and then out of nowhere broke into a laugh.  Guess you had to be there, but it was a loud screeching cackle type of laugh.  Took all of us off guard that someone almost fell back.

We started our long journey at the basement of the facility.  It looked like something out of an action movie where you have the movie star running down a dark, dank corridor with little light.  There were so many ways to get lost, glad we had a tour guide!  The stairs were also steep, almost lost my hard-hat twice trying to go up the stairs while trying not to fall.  During the tour, instead of listening to the guide, some of us talked about the upcoming exam and how we weren’t ready.

I’m extremely sensitive to smells and started to get nauseous and a headache.  Then when we got to the infernal (?) room, where the organic matter or whatever from the water is incinerated at 500 degrees.    Then we went outside where there were giant in ground tanks.  We went to a tank full of shit, or brown liquid stuff.  Then we stood over a tank that had a little water but if one of us dropped, we’d fall 50 feet(?).  I love heights so of course I was leaning and looking over the rails, while making sure my hat doesn’t fall in.  After all that, we thought we were finished and started to take our hats off, but we weren’t done.  We went to the smelliest room of them all…forgot what it was called but a machine was literally grinding pieces of shit…or maybe it was brown solid stuff of the same texture.  The weird part is that when we first walked in, the smell was worse by the door then when we went by the machine.  Either way I was ready to faint and suffocate myself.  Then, whilst in that room, this girl that likes to ask a shit load of questions decided to ask more.  So we’re all ready to faint while the tour guide and her have a lovely conversation about the processes that go on when breaking down the shit (or brown stuff of that same texture).

After that we went to the lab where the water sampling was done.  The guy gave us a boring lecture on how it’s done.  Then he wanted to show us how to do water samples.  Then, he couldn’t find the stuff to do the samples, so know he’s wasting time looking for the material.  We’re like, seriously dude, we’ve done this before and don’t need to see you do it.  After that, we took our hats off again thinking we were done with the damn tour but then we had to go outside to see the UV treatment   When the guy told us we had one more building to go to I said, “Are you serious?!”.  People were laughing, but I was serious.  Then me and my friends started laughing about how this is the longest tour in history.  After the tour another guy talked to the whole class about stuff.  Then we went back to school and then I went home…but not before stopping by Jimmy John’s for a sandwich.  And so begins the story of why I haven’t been, active online or blogging as usual.

When I got home, I tried to study and it was hard.  The tour completely tired me out and the smells gave me a slight headache.  On top of that, I still have four more lectures to study for.  On top of that the schools website said I couldn’t register for a class I clearly should be able to register for (eventually the next day I could register, apparently something was wrong with the system).  Then, on top of that people were asking me/reminding me to do stuff.  Then on top of that, I forgot someone’s birthday.  I don’t put a huge emphasis on birthdays, at one point in my life someone had to remind me of my birthday, but apparently this person puts an emphasis on his birthday and then I felt bad, and I still do.

I deal with pressure fairly well but I don’t deal with being overwhelmed very well.  The difference being that at least under pressure you’re (or maybe just I) are dealing with one task.  Being overwhelmed for me usually deals with more than one tasks, all of which are totally unrelated, that has to be done in one or two days.  So, as always when I’m overwhelmed to the max, I have slight breakdown get back to basics.  Basics for me, is a life without online-socialness.  It even meant not blogging.  Of course I was online and could have written a quick post, but that’s still isn’t basic enough.  Basics is essentially only being online for school purposes (of course I also couldn’t let Google Reader unread sites pile up either).  Also, I had little communication aside from people from school.  I even turned on the TV after 3 months…the true story is that last month I turned on the TV and it was all static so I didn’t feel like figuring out what the problem was and left the TV off lol I’m so lazy.

The next day after the exam and everything was done, I was completely back to normal.  Slowly starting to think I’m some weirdo bipolar freak of nature.  Anyways, slightly enjoying the life offline, and knowing I had more stressful overwhelming days ahead, I stayed offline and I actually planned on staying away for month, but that’s not all that possible for me.  But I have pictures, soon to see in upcoming posts.  Getting back to basics, going through life with little purpose or cause to support is how I best live life.  Now that I’m back, I’ll be back to blogging.  I have other days to blog about…so my next posts will be like playing catchup.  Oh, and here’s a music video for you,