Final St John's Post

My my, I believe it was around this time 5 years ago that I arrived in St John's. Look at me now, leaving around the same time too. It's like an almost perfect book-ends ending eh?

AASQL

  So the thing about my field is that, in the job application process, you do not get an interview first.

  No, no, no. My field is too technical for that. So what they do is that they send you a test, and then you gotta do it and send it back to them before the deadline. The issue with analytics is that every company uses different tools to do their analysis. 

  Good news is that I was given a test (as opposed to outright rejecting me from the application process). The bad news is that I have 72 hours to learn a new data management language so that I could actually do the test.

  As you can guess it, the language I had to learn was SQL (Standard Query Language).

AAR

  Now what?

AAQ

  Now that I think I'm getting better from that entire horrible week of not speaking, well, I guess I just feel a lot more better (physically!)

I think I have laryngitis

  Nothing serious. Diseases always have such scary names but upon checking, laryngitis is kind of like a DLC to the common cold. Not a DLC I want but it's what I get.

  Basically I have all the symptoms of the common cold + I now have puberty voice. My voice is constantly breaking and it sounds horrible. Worse part is at work, where I have to talk. This isn't a big enough of an issue to call in sick (unless I use the term laryngitis, then they'll go "oh no" and probably not knowing what it is).

Down with the Sickness

OOH-WA-AH-AH-AH

  Currently sick. Sore throat, headache, constantly tired, all that jazzz. My phlegm was black as souls.

  I have a few reason why I think I got sick.

AAP, Pretty much nuffin'

  I tried out Brazillian Jiu Jitsu for the first time.

  I've always watched the men aggressively hug each other on the map, but I never got it. So, when I joined the "fundemental class", literally there was only 2 complete newbies, me and this other girl. The other girl came and tried out because her boyfriend brought her here, which means that those 2 will be partnering up.

  So who was I partnered up with? Some guy who's like purple belt. Well, I learn A LOT from him. My aikido days definitely helped with some of the basic movements (like rolling and break falling), but the grappling is insane.

  Needless to say I got my ass handed to me. I lasted like 3 seconds on the mat before needing to tap out cause I'm just constantly getting destroyed by these folks. It was fun though!