Life update

I figured I should talk to you readers about my current issues with posting regularly. Being an adult really sucks for me lately. Responsibility has really been piling up.

For those of you who don’t know I made the decision to go back to school. I had expressed some dissatisfaction with my job to my manager in the fall. Being 35 and having the same job title as Beaker from the Muppets was getting me down. She was extremely supportive and directed me to a course I could take to advance in the lab. She even helped me secure funding to be reimbursed for the course if I complete it.

I’m less than a month from completing the course and I’m more than a little stressed. The work is getting steadily more difficult and intense. At least it’s also getting more fascinating. By the end of the course I will be a certified tissue specialist. Meaning I will be recovering and processing human tissue for transplant: a considerable step up from lab assistant.

Now I’m working full time, going to school, working on our new home, on top of the usual other family commitments. Some things are falling through the cracks. Right now school and work are my biggest priorities so I apologize if I don’t post as often in the next while.

The course ends on May 25^th so I should be gold after that. I took that week off of work so I can go all hermit at home with my studies and really hit the books for the big final exam.

You know what really sucks about this? I had to miss out on the Calgary Expo last weekend. My Facebook feed is full of friends posting about it. I keep seeing them with Bruce Campbell, The Doctor (Matt Smith) and Amy Pond, the cast of Aliens, Alfonso Riberio, Danny Glover, and the Highlander Adrian Paul. At least staying home means I didn’t spend my money... or the banks money. And I worked on Ocular transplant stuff so I kept it nerdy and interesting. The wife… she really wanted to go too. But she has some plague and is a total snot machine. So I guess it worked out for the best... sorta kinda...

Ah well, there’s always Edmonton Expo in the fall. I really hope Sigourney Weaver comes to that. She’s one of my big celebrity crushes; same with Karen Gillian (Amy Pond.) Matt Smith would be cool but Tom Baker is my Doctor.

Well, I'm working on a few board game reviews but nothing is quite done yet. Hopefully I will have one up soon.

Thanks for your patience and once again sorry for my lack of updates!