updates...
school finished yesterday for the last real term. Still waiting on one grade, but should be another straight A term. Passed the research class so now the last term is going to be finishing my research project and defending my project. Should be pretty easy as I am confident with what I have put together so far. Then I am done. Will have a masters degree and the debt to prove it, question is now what to do with it...
I have started working at Smart Karate teaching martial arts to kids. I think through them I am going to be able to get a black belt in karate, although to be honest I'm not sure what that would be worth at this point in my martial arts progression. Some of the knowledge, self-defense and weapons stuff is fun, but a lot of the abstract and fancy kicks that they teach for the higher level belts is really not that useful. Plus having the belt doesn't get me more MMA matches... but who knows. Would be fun to have, but would prefer one in BJJ. That might take a few more years, or a decade.
The dive job has been going better since the new captain, George has been handling more of the admin duties. Staffing seems to be running better as well since they removed one of the divers and replaced him with a string of new people, they never seem to last that long. One of the current divers is going to be sailing a boat that he made from Hawaii to the mainland. When he takes off I am going to move to three days a week from two. But at the moment he is waiting for a window in the weather. Between that and Smart Karate I am almost to a real number of hours working in a week. Not quite, I want to ease myself into it.
I think I will try to get myself one more fight to try and redeem the loss from January. Maybe in May or June when I can really dedicate myself to work and training without the third distraction of school. Not sure what kind of schedule I will have once I start the hunt for a real job or something that might use either Chinese or psych so I want to get another fight in while I know I have the time for a good training camp.
Last real update is that Marina and I will be moving together and got word today on an apartment on liholiho street. Going to be signing the papers in a couple days, trip to the big island to see my mom and then time to move in. The Robert place house is starting to wrap up and slowly cleaning out the house. At least stocking the kitchen should be pretty easy. Pics of the new place to come.
school finished yesterday for the last real term. Still waiting on one grade, but should be another straight A term. Passed the research class so now the last term is going to be finishing my research project and defending my project. Should be pretty easy as I am confident with what I have put together so far. Then I am done. Will have a masters degree and the debt to prove it, question is now what to do with it...
I have started working at Smart Karate teaching martial arts to kids. I think through them I am going to be able to get a black belt in karate, although to be honest I'm not sure what that would be worth at this point in my martial arts progression. Some of the knowledge, self-defense and weapons stuff is fun, but a lot of the abstract and fancy kicks that they teach for the higher level belts is really not that useful. Plus having the belt doesn't get me more MMA matches... but who knows. Would be fun to have, but would prefer one in BJJ. That might take a few more years, or a decade.
The dive job has been going better since the new captain, George has been handling more of the admin duties. Staffing seems to be running better as well since they removed one of the divers and replaced him with a string of new people, they never seem to last that long. One of the current divers is going to be sailing a boat that he made from Hawaii to the mainland. When he takes off I am going to move to three days a week from two. But at the moment he is waiting for a window in the weather. Between that and Smart Karate I am almost to a real number of hours working in a week. Not quite, I want to ease myself into it.
I think I will try to get myself one more fight to try and redeem the loss from January. Maybe in May or June when I can really dedicate myself to work and training without the third distraction of school. Not sure what kind of schedule I will have once I start the hunt for a real job or something that might use either Chinese or psych so I want to get another fight in while I know I have the time for a good training camp.
Last real update is that Marina and I will be moving together and got word today on an apartment on liholiho street. Going to be signing the papers in a couple days, trip to the big island to see my mom and then time to move in. The Robert place house is starting to wrap up and slowly cleaning out the house. At least stocking the kitchen should be pretty easy. Pics of the new place to come.
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