This Week In History... This Should be Two Entries But Screw IT...
What a week this has been. A mix of fucked up ness. And funny ironies. And then the usual Charli's group members are total cunts and are leaving her to do the work again...
I guess we'll start chronologicall...
Monday:
Well this whole week at school was Foundation Week and thus mandatory attendence of the opening ceremonies... (WHICH BLAH!) Like I said I'm in this supercool club where we learn to be kinda like EMTs. It's totally valid since I have this fear of being on the scene of an accident and not being able to do anything. (I mean I've actual had that experience, but it was just like dizziness but still I didn't know what to do and was like FAIL! How much more if someone was bleeding all over the place?) I do believe I have a pre-hero complex and want to save everyone. Which totally comes into play into this entry...
Anyway, we medics were meant to roam the parade for people feeling faint and call for the ambulence to go pick up people... I WAS LIKE THE ONLY ONE ROAMING. I ran up and down that parade march. And it was hot as hell. I did chase down the ambulance at one point to come pick up someone with a sprained ankle...
Right, so my college decided to start up an International Students Organization (unofficially called the Fil Am club, since there's only one non-American member from Saudi...). So foundation week is also where the organizations do most of their fundraising. The Stupid thing is the more funds you have, the more aide you get... so we get shit right now despite the Admin wanting this org to exist...
More exposition... all the Fil-Ams are at the booth (Photo Booth where we'll greenscreen you to anywhere in the world...) when the English Club dare booth ropes Pat into doing a dare. DANCE IN FRONT OF EVERYONE PRESENT! So Adrian decides to back him up... They get a girl in the Dance Troupe to join them...:
Recipe For BADNESS STORM:
-The announcer says the Fil-Ams are going to dance
-The Deans of the colleges are there as well as all the professors, and the employees plus an assload of students... As well as the President of the School
-Adrian asks if he can pick the girl up
-Janica is filming the dancing
-Adrian picks up the girl and wraps her legs around him and proceeds to faux fuck right then and there...
-Everyone is shocked and going HOLY CRAP! I can't believe ADRIAN DID THAT
Step 1: Everyone forms the opinion that Americans are immoral sex pervs...
Step 2: The girl starts crying because she's ashamed...
Step 3: English Club members and FilAms tell Adrian to apologize.
Step 4: The girl is still crying
Step 5: All the Fil-Ams get mad at Adrian
Step 6: The girl is still crying
Step 7: The advisor of the dance troupe is pissed off.
Step 8: The girl is still crying
Step 9: No one wants to talk to Adrian at all except for me and Eliza, but even she is upset and basically advises Adrian to fuck off.
Step 10: The girl is still crying and the advisor wants Adrian to aplogize to the whole school...
Step 11: Adrian feels like crap...
- Adrian, you should, know makes me think of a violent Tracey Jordan... He's just as unpredictable and say things without thinking and some people are scared of him just cuz of some vibe he gives off. But in that moment when Eliza and I told him to go off some place to wait for things to cool off, I just saw how vurnerable he was... Like I don't know...
Eliza: I don't think you should be around the Fil-Ams right now. It looks bad for the organization..
Charli: Yeah...
Adrian: But where will I go! (He said this with such aguish. It shook me up... This total tough guy from Jersey was breaking down in front of me. I could tell he was feeling like he didn't have a friend in the whole world...Everyone just like abandonned him. And I felt that yeah, what he did was stupid and he knows what he did was stupid so that's when you need people the most. When it seems that every thing is burning down around you, you need someone to tell you can rebuild... I really didn't know what to do or what to say...
And in that same tone of voice, Adrian asked me to go with him. I could hear the despair and it totally cut me up inside. So I took him to sit in a stairwell that no one was really using. We just sat there in silence. He would lean his head on my arm. And I just wanted so badly to make everything better... From time to time, I would go check on what was happening. The girl was still crying and all the Fil-Ams were still pissed off. Those who were officers held a meeting and decided to vote Adrian out of the ISO. Then Adrian was told to go to the gym to make the apology... so we trek up there and wait... And I think of the worst case scenario for him, which is getting kicked out. Coming to the Philippines is like the end of the line. You fuck it up and its over. No Future For You.
So we get the word that Adrian won't get to make the apology until Thursday. I tell him he should call it a day and go home. He wants advice on what he should do, so I get Gian for him. Gian is the president of ISO and was the male Fil-Am least upset with Adrian. Gian and Adrian have a man to man chat and Adrian totally breaks down and cries. I start two tear up as well and just rub his back to try to comfort him... Gian and I walk him to his car. This drama happened the whole day.
I go home with two lessons... I'm fiercely loyal to my friends. I think I would probably get jail time for being an accomplice to a crime. And two, do my current friends have my back? I know they do but my faith in them has kinda faltered.
Wednsday
The next time I see Adrian. And Memphis and Kim. Memphis is the most pissed off with Adrian. Which is awkward as hell because we have every class together. I'm the only one talking to Adrian... Adrian disappears before I can ask him if he needs me during lunch. So I go with Mark and Kim... And Karl, who is the biggest dick/ brownoser ever. Yeah Karl of Stupid Questions About Me Being Vegan...
Following conversation at lunch:
Me eatting my yummy scrambled tofu
Kim, apparently inspired by me, brings up that she tried to go without meat for just one week: So yeah I couldn't even go one day since I ate Spam for breakfast.
Me internally annoyed because don't fucking tell me it's hard to give up meat. (That's the worst thing for a vegan to hear. BECAUSE IT ISN'T! Hard is learning how to walk again after a drunk driver hits you. Hard is having to adjust to life back home after being on the frontlines. Hard is having to bury your only child. Compared to that I'd say veganism is easy. SO SUCK IT! Remember when Kirsten said you couldn't wake up and go vegan and I was like "I DID!" Totally awesome. Word, I think that being vegan has matured me since before I was easily swayed by mob rule and would give up something I believed in just not to draw attention to myself.)
Karl, the dick that he is, bring up Adrian: So did you see Adrian?
Memphis: Well yeah. We DO have classes together. But he knows not to go near me right now.
Kim:I couldn't talk to him. It's awkward.*turns to me* How come you can talk to him.
Memphis: Because Charli isn't mean enough to tell him to fuck off.
Me*thinking* Yeah. Cuz if I was I'd tell Karl's fatass to fuck off all the time Instead, I said.: Yeah. That's not who I am. Plus, I couldn't do that to someone that really needed someone... except maybe Karl...
Karl proceeds to talk about how stupid Adrian is in way that just make me think about how badly he wants to be accepted so he deflects and points out how other people are different. I believe this is a defense mechanism because he's obese, but he still sounds like such a tool... Thus part of why I cant' stand him. I mean yeah, if you feel bad about being overweight you do something about it. Otherwise rock the body you have and don't give a fuck about what other people think about you.
I'm just going to shit on Karl for the rest of this entry.
Karl repeatedly says he wants to go back on his diet (Um... yeah. That's such a good idea since it worked so well the first time... WHEN WILL PEOPLE LEARN THAT DIETS DON"T WORK! You have to make lifestyle changes!) He says he wants to eat healthy but then he goes and buys not one but two ENERGY DRINKS. Do you know how much useless calories are in that. We have a nutrition course this year, FUCKING READ AHEAD. Even now we had a lecture to find the calories needed to be consumed in order to maintain your body weight. To lose weight you eat less than that amount and exercise. Those two cans were 160 kcals each... I can't take him seriously...
Then Karl goes and buys one of those Twlight books. I tell him he's the only guy I know that reads them. The four of us talk about vampire mythoses. Memphis says he likes Anne Rice. I threw down Buffy, Amelia Atwater Rhodes and Perfect Creature. We then talk about books. He then recommends Angels & Demons to me. I'm like Yeah... Pass. I do want to read Twilight though... To see how crappy it is...
Thursday:
Memphis, Kim, Adrian, this girl Janelle, and I have a group report to do for nutrition. I'm like this is toally awkward... Kim only relays to me and Janelle where we're going to work on the report. (Krispy Kreme at MOA due to FREE WIFI). So I can hear Janelle telling Adrian. Adrian then explains why it will be awkward to her. After class Adrian asks Memphis about what he should do for the report. Memphis is pretty nice to him about it. Adrian has to miss the meeting though because of the apology...which never happens since admin cancels on him again. So the report is on a case study where the subject has steroid induced diabetes. We have to do an assessment, a diagnosis, an implementation, basically the whole nursing process... Bottom line was the lady was screwed.
Overweight and Hispanic are factors more likely to get diabetes. Even if she didn't have diabetes caused by talking prescription steroids, she would have developed it. So to maintain her diabetes, she had to lose weight and was told to only eat 1,200 calories a day which is 400 less calories than her needed daily calories. We had to rate one of her meals to see if she was learning... But word I added all that up and BAM that whole meal was more then 1200 calories... WTF! Way to drop a glucose bomb and overwhelm your insulin resistant body... She was also meant to be a nurse. YOU SHOULD KNOW BETTER! GOD fictional lady... go buy a clue.
The whole time we were working on this case study I was grossed out by all the boxes of Krispy Kreme people were walking out of the store with. Because WORD, you eat a hella sugar filled coffee with like a donut and then two dozen to take home with you. UH, no wonder type II diabetes is on the rise. I loss count of all the fat people in there. This one guy had like three original glazed donuts. This other group of overweight males had one member ask where his free sample was and he had one of those cheesecake ones. He said this after a barista dropped off their donuts at their table... WHAT THE FUCK. That's so fucked up. This particular store is a drive-thru as well. SO FUCKING GROSSED OUT! So I had to mention the irony of us working on the case study at Krispy Kreme.
Also Memphis was nice and bought me a donut but he probably remember I was vegan and played it off like he ment to eat two donuts... He gets it but Kim kept offering me chocolate. Which I wouldn't eat since Cadbury did recall their products cuz of China...
This brings up how I don't trust fat people to be nurses. Overweight people are more likely to be diagnosed with chronic diseases. Why should I listen to you about treating hypertension when you yourself have it. It's called PREVENTION BITCHES! Plus your ass needs to run to a patient that is coding. You're also on your feet your 18 hour shift so that extra weight is a bitch to your knees. Sup joint pain and arthiritis.
Also, we're celebrating Thanksgiving this Saturday... and the vegan is in charge of the turkey. YES. It's totally stupid of me. And makes me feel guilty. I'm trying to play if off by saying I'm not paying for it, nor am I cooking it, I'm bring a vegan chili and vegan pudding, and I'm sure as hell not going to eat it. See I'm in charge of it because 1) I'm the only one with connections to the expat community. My mom's friend from the Embassy was going to cook it at her house. Note the WAS. So now I'm going to oversee the cooking of it. And I feel terrible. But who am I to deny the comforts of home? I hate those people that push shit on you, so I'm not going to. UGH. BUT POOR TURKEY! And I totally learned from my mom that if you don't thaw the turkey correctly, you can get salmonella. Which would be kinda hilarious if I were staring in a vegan movie. "why are all the Fil-Ams sick except for you?" "Well, what the hell does a vegan know about cooking a turkey... Very little I guess." Anyway, I'm such an enabler and all the hardcore vegans are like WTF... I know I suck... But no one else has ovens!
PS: That white cop from the If I Were A Boy video is smoking HOT! I do love a man in uniform...
Speaking of cops... I watched a Cold Case episode that I so need to recap for y'all. Remind me.
I guess we'll start chronologicall...
Monday:
Well this whole week at school was Foundation Week and thus mandatory attendence of the opening ceremonies... (WHICH BLAH!) Like I said I'm in this supercool club where we learn to be kinda like EMTs. It's totally valid since I have this fear of being on the scene of an accident and not being able to do anything. (I mean I've actual had that experience, but it was just like dizziness but still I didn't know what to do and was like FAIL! How much more if someone was bleeding all over the place?) I do believe I have a pre-hero complex and want to save everyone. Which totally comes into play into this entry...
Anyway, we medics were meant to roam the parade for people feeling faint and call for the ambulence to go pick up people... I WAS LIKE THE ONLY ONE ROAMING. I ran up and down that parade march. And it was hot as hell. I did chase down the ambulance at one point to come pick up someone with a sprained ankle...
Right, so my college decided to start up an International Students Organization (unofficially called the Fil Am club, since there's only one non-American member from Saudi...). So foundation week is also where the organizations do most of their fundraising. The Stupid thing is the more funds you have, the more aide you get... so we get shit right now despite the Admin wanting this org to exist...
More exposition... all the Fil-Ams are at the booth (Photo Booth where we'll greenscreen you to anywhere in the world...) when the English Club dare booth ropes Pat into doing a dare. DANCE IN FRONT OF EVERYONE PRESENT! So Adrian decides to back him up... They get a girl in the Dance Troupe to join them...:
Recipe For BADNESS STORM:
-The announcer says the Fil-Ams are going to dance
-The Deans of the colleges are there as well as all the professors, and the employees plus an assload of students... As well as the President of the School
-Adrian asks if he can pick the girl up
-Janica is filming the dancing
-Adrian picks up the girl and wraps her legs around him and proceeds to faux fuck right then and there...
-Everyone is shocked and going HOLY CRAP! I can't believe ADRIAN DID THAT
Step 1: Everyone forms the opinion that Americans are immoral sex pervs...
Step 2: The girl starts crying because she's ashamed...
Step 3: English Club members and FilAms tell Adrian to apologize.
Step 4: The girl is still crying
Step 5: All the Fil-Ams get mad at Adrian
Step 6: The girl is still crying
Step 7: The advisor of the dance troupe is pissed off.
Step 8: The girl is still crying
Step 9: No one wants to talk to Adrian at all except for me and Eliza, but even she is upset and basically advises Adrian to fuck off.
Step 10: The girl is still crying and the advisor wants Adrian to aplogize to the whole school...
Step 11: Adrian feels like crap...
- Adrian, you should, know makes me think of a violent Tracey Jordan... He's just as unpredictable and say things without thinking and some people are scared of him just cuz of some vibe he gives off. But in that moment when Eliza and I told him to go off some place to wait for things to cool off, I just saw how vurnerable he was... Like I don't know...
Eliza: I don't think you should be around the Fil-Ams right now. It looks bad for the organization..
Charli: Yeah...
Adrian: But where will I go! (He said this with such aguish. It shook me up... This total tough guy from Jersey was breaking down in front of me. I could tell he was feeling like he didn't have a friend in the whole world...Everyone just like abandonned him. And I felt that yeah, what he did was stupid and he knows what he did was stupid so that's when you need people the most. When it seems that every thing is burning down around you, you need someone to tell you can rebuild... I really didn't know what to do or what to say...
And in that same tone of voice, Adrian asked me to go with him. I could hear the despair and it totally cut me up inside. So I took him to sit in a stairwell that no one was really using. We just sat there in silence. He would lean his head on my arm. And I just wanted so badly to make everything better... From time to time, I would go check on what was happening. The girl was still crying and all the Fil-Ams were still pissed off. Those who were officers held a meeting and decided to vote Adrian out of the ISO. Then Adrian was told to go to the gym to make the apology... so we trek up there and wait... And I think of the worst case scenario for him, which is getting kicked out. Coming to the Philippines is like the end of the line. You fuck it up and its over. No Future For You.
So we get the word that Adrian won't get to make the apology until Thursday. I tell him he should call it a day and go home. He wants advice on what he should do, so I get Gian for him. Gian is the president of ISO and was the male Fil-Am least upset with Adrian. Gian and Adrian have a man to man chat and Adrian totally breaks down and cries. I start two tear up as well and just rub his back to try to comfort him... Gian and I walk him to his car. This drama happened the whole day.
I go home with two lessons... I'm fiercely loyal to my friends. I think I would probably get jail time for being an accomplice to a crime. And two, do my current friends have my back? I know they do but my faith in them has kinda faltered.
Wednsday
The next time I see Adrian. And Memphis and Kim. Memphis is the most pissed off with Adrian. Which is awkward as hell because we have every class together. I'm the only one talking to Adrian... Adrian disappears before I can ask him if he needs me during lunch. So I go with Mark and Kim... And Karl, who is the biggest dick/ brownoser ever. Yeah Karl of Stupid Questions About Me Being Vegan...
Following conversation at lunch:
Me eatting my yummy scrambled tofu
Kim, apparently inspired by me, brings up that she tried to go without meat for just one week: So yeah I couldn't even go one day since I ate Spam for breakfast.
Me internally annoyed because don't fucking tell me it's hard to give up meat. (That's the worst thing for a vegan to hear. BECAUSE IT ISN'T! Hard is learning how to walk again after a drunk driver hits you. Hard is having to adjust to life back home after being on the frontlines. Hard is having to bury your only child. Compared to that I'd say veganism is easy. SO SUCK IT! Remember when Kirsten said you couldn't wake up and go vegan and I was like "I DID!" Totally awesome. Word, I think that being vegan has matured me since before I was easily swayed by mob rule and would give up something I believed in just not to draw attention to myself.)
Karl, the dick that he is, bring up Adrian: So did you see Adrian?
Memphis: Well yeah. We DO have classes together. But he knows not to go near me right now.
Kim:I couldn't talk to him. It's awkward.*turns to me* How come you can talk to him.
Memphis: Because Charli isn't mean enough to tell him to fuck off.
Me*thinking* Yeah. Cuz if I was I'd tell Karl's fatass to fuck off all the time Instead, I said.: Yeah. That's not who I am. Plus, I couldn't do that to someone that really needed someone... except maybe Karl...
Karl proceeds to talk about how stupid Adrian is in way that just make me think about how badly he wants to be accepted so he deflects and points out how other people are different. I believe this is a defense mechanism because he's obese, but he still sounds like such a tool... Thus part of why I cant' stand him. I mean yeah, if you feel bad about being overweight you do something about it. Otherwise rock the body you have and don't give a fuck about what other people think about you.
I'm just going to shit on Karl for the rest of this entry.
Karl repeatedly says he wants to go back on his diet (Um... yeah. That's such a good idea since it worked so well the first time... WHEN WILL PEOPLE LEARN THAT DIETS DON"T WORK! You have to make lifestyle changes!) He says he wants to eat healthy but then he goes and buys not one but two ENERGY DRINKS. Do you know how much useless calories are in that. We have a nutrition course this year, FUCKING READ AHEAD. Even now we had a lecture to find the calories needed to be consumed in order to maintain your body weight. To lose weight you eat less than that amount and exercise. Those two cans were 160 kcals each... I can't take him seriously...
Then Karl goes and buys one of those Twlight books. I tell him he's the only guy I know that reads them. The four of us talk about vampire mythoses. Memphis says he likes Anne Rice. I threw down Buffy, Amelia Atwater Rhodes and Perfect Creature. We then talk about books. He then recommends Angels & Demons to me. I'm like Yeah... Pass. I do want to read Twilight though... To see how crappy it is...
Thursday:
Memphis, Kim, Adrian, this girl Janelle, and I have a group report to do for nutrition. I'm like this is toally awkward... Kim only relays to me and Janelle where we're going to work on the report. (Krispy Kreme at MOA due to FREE WIFI). So I can hear Janelle telling Adrian. Adrian then explains why it will be awkward to her. After class Adrian asks Memphis about what he should do for the report. Memphis is pretty nice to him about it. Adrian has to miss the meeting though because of the apology...which never happens since admin cancels on him again. So the report is on a case study where the subject has steroid induced diabetes. We have to do an assessment, a diagnosis, an implementation, basically the whole nursing process... Bottom line was the lady was screwed.
Overweight and Hispanic are factors more likely to get diabetes. Even if she didn't have diabetes caused by talking prescription steroids, she would have developed it. So to maintain her diabetes, she had to lose weight and was told to only eat 1,200 calories a day which is 400 less calories than her needed daily calories. We had to rate one of her meals to see if she was learning... But word I added all that up and BAM that whole meal was more then 1200 calories... WTF! Way to drop a glucose bomb and overwhelm your insulin resistant body... She was also meant to be a nurse. YOU SHOULD KNOW BETTER! GOD fictional lady... go buy a clue.
The whole time we were working on this case study I was grossed out by all the boxes of Krispy Kreme people were walking out of the store with. Because WORD, you eat a hella sugar filled coffee with like a donut and then two dozen to take home with you. UH, no wonder type II diabetes is on the rise. I loss count of all the fat people in there. This one guy had like three original glazed donuts. This other group of overweight males had one member ask where his free sample was and he had one of those cheesecake ones. He said this after a barista dropped off their donuts at their table... WHAT THE FUCK. That's so fucked up. This particular store is a drive-thru as well. SO FUCKING GROSSED OUT! So I had to mention the irony of us working on the case study at Krispy Kreme.
Also Memphis was nice and bought me a donut but he probably remember I was vegan and played it off like he ment to eat two donuts... He gets it but Kim kept offering me chocolate. Which I wouldn't eat since Cadbury did recall their products cuz of China...
This brings up how I don't trust fat people to be nurses. Overweight people are more likely to be diagnosed with chronic diseases. Why should I listen to you about treating hypertension when you yourself have it. It's called PREVENTION BITCHES! Plus your ass needs to run to a patient that is coding. You're also on your feet your 18 hour shift so that extra weight is a bitch to your knees. Sup joint pain and arthiritis.
Also, we're celebrating Thanksgiving this Saturday... and the vegan is in charge of the turkey. YES. It's totally stupid of me. And makes me feel guilty. I'm trying to play if off by saying I'm not paying for it, nor am I cooking it, I'm bring a vegan chili and vegan pudding, and I'm sure as hell not going to eat it. See I'm in charge of it because 1) I'm the only one with connections to the expat community. My mom's friend from the Embassy was going to cook it at her house. Note the WAS. So now I'm going to oversee the cooking of it. And I feel terrible. But who am I to deny the comforts of home? I hate those people that push shit on you, so I'm not going to. UGH. BUT POOR TURKEY! And I totally learned from my mom that if you don't thaw the turkey correctly, you can get salmonella. Which would be kinda hilarious if I were staring in a vegan movie. "why are all the Fil-Ams sick except for you?" "Well, what the hell does a vegan know about cooking a turkey... Very little I guess." Anyway, I'm such an enabler and all the hardcore vegans are like WTF... I know I suck... But no one else has ovens!
PS: That white cop from the If I Were A Boy video is smoking HOT! I do love a man in uniform...
Speaking of cops... I watched a Cold Case episode that I so need to recap for y'all. Remind me.