Summer Time

Yes, finals are over :)

Yes, I am back home for several months :)

Yes...life is so good!

It may be difficult to fully understand how much I like summer. Growing up in southern California fostered this deep deep love of sunshine and such in me, then moving to the midwest forced me to condense my enjoyment of warmth to about 4 months of the year. Don't get me wrong, I love watching the seasons change and enjoying each one as it comes, but summer will always have a special place in my heart.

It doesn't hurt that school doesn't happen during the summer, either :)



Anyways, after talking so much about summer and how I love it, today isn't looking so good. It's about 60 degrees and raining and windy. I got about 25 miles in on the bike this morning, just barely making it back to the garage before the heavens opened up and rain poured down. Since the weather has forced me inside, I figured I would take a chance to sit down and write for a bit here. I am going to talk about 2 things that may or may not be related to each other, and here they are.

1) My summer "jobs"
2) Movies


So here we go

1- This summer I will be working several "jobs". I use this term loosely because I will only be paid for one of them.

a) I will be volunteering 30 hours a week at a community clinic in town that gives healthcare to people without insurance. A majority of these people are homeless, unemployed, and needing help. This clinic is an awesome resource for people to get help, especially people who could not otherwise afford to even have their problems looked at. I will be working in the lab and doing triage, plus helping out at the front desk. I'm sure it will be quite exciting :)

b) Since I will not receive any money at all from this first "job", I am going to need to find a place that will pay me. I will most likely be going back to Cracker Barrel to serve tables, unless I can get hired at someplace like Outback Steakhouse or something. This will be a night job, and probably only about 15 hours per week.

c) Training. I basically need to ride my bike A LOT for the entire summer. I figure that with a half-Ironman triathlon coming up soon, it would behoove me (that means "to give me hooves, in case you were wondering) to get in shape as soon as I can. Looking at my training log, I haven't run for nearly two weeks at this point, so I will probably need to start doing that more often as well.

B) SUBJECT CHANGING TO MOVIES!!!
I saw two movies in these last several days. Since I don't watch movies that often (and because I am secretly a highly paid movie critic), I figured I would write a short review for these two movies (which don't go together at all)

IRONMAN 2:


I had very high expectations going into this movie. I am a huge Ironman fan, watching the first one multiple times and loving it more each time. Suffice it to say that this movie delivered. Sequels have this tendency to suck compared to the first one (ahem, Pirates of the Caribbean). Thankfully, Ironman 2 was just as good as the first one. The plot, while not complex, developed quickly enough to keep me engaged the entire time. The action scenes were sweet, Robert Downey Jr. supplied his usual amount of wisecracks, and things exploded all the time.

All in all, I highly recommend this movie:

Pros:

-Cool cars being driven really fast


Sweet action, stuff blowing up, etc etc
And War Machine makes his appearance


The Black Widow makes an appearance (kicks butt, takes names)
Cons:
I found the movie to be fairly predictable, but i really didn't mind that much.

The Last Song
I saw this movie with my girlfriend and her family last night. I can appropriately summarize this movie with this picture:


Miley Cyrus basically sneers her way through the first 75% of the movie. She is emotionally bipolar the entire time. The plot is also lacking (specifically, most of it happens in the first 30 minutes, then the last hour is very slow)

Pros:
-The guy who plays the dad is very cool, and her younger brother is the cutest kid ever.
-Somebody actually gets beat up, but it only lasts 30 seconds and no one gets excited about it.
-The movie has baby turtles in it. I think my girlfriend wants one for a pet now.


So I am out of time for today. I hope to begin posting more regularly now that school is done.

Adios