Ok ok ok I can do this. A blog. I know what that is. Or at least I used to. I feel like Erin. This is going to be difficult but I think I can spit out something meaningful on this page.
So as most of you know I get very few days off from work so I am running with that as my excuse. Especially since on the boat there is nowhere for me to run so I will take any opportunity I can get to run with anything. So let's see, since my last post I have been working working working. I am now a Rescue Diver which means I got my Stress and Rescue certification. That class was tons of fun. I don't remember if I talked about this already. We spent all week rescuing pretend panicked snorkellers and pretend missing divers. I am pretty good with the panicked snorkellers but not so much with the missing divers. A couple times I swim right over the divers with their bubbles practically floating up in my face and I somehow still don't spot the missee. But a lot of the time I got to take the roll of panickee and my job then is to cause as much trouble for the unfortunate soul charged to pretend rescue me. I lie docile in the water weakly calling for help. As soon as a rescuer gets close I lunge. Reach for the face and remove their mask and throw it far away. If I can pull some hair in the process I do that. Then I want to get their fins off too while trying to pretend drown them (cuz that's what a real panicked snorkeler would do. They would grab onto anything floating and try and pretty much stand on top of them in the water.) Once their fins are lost then they have no chance against me with my fins. After a while I have to let them drag me back to the boat in the life ring. But they are dragging me back to the boat kicking without fins and every so often I will start kicking slightly and surreptitiously in the opposite direction. A few small kicks with my fins will completely counteract their furious kicking without fins and we will begin moving in the wrong direction and the rescuer can't figure out whats going on. Ahhh good times.
Besides that I have slowly moved up the ranks of Trainee Dive Controllers so that I am more or less the senior TDC on the boat. I get to tell people what to do a little more and get more of the cooler responsibilities and fewer of the shit jobs. That all is good and bad. I miss all my friends who were above me in the trainee totem pole. They are gone now since they finished their trainee program and have their Dive Controller certification. But then new peeps come in and can be pretty cool I guess. But now I am just about done with my traineeship. I have five days this coming week where I help out with an Open Water certification class. Then I take my actual Dive Controller class the last week in May. Then I am out of the water and out of Cairns. FINALLY. No that sounds too ecstatic. I have had a fabulous time in Cairns. I love it here way more than Sydney (though I loved the people I lived with in Sydney way more than the people I live with here). I've pretty much decided that all I want out of a job (and life?) is to be able to wear sandals and a tank top if I so please. And I so please quite often out here.
So once I get my professional diver certification I believe I will be heading off to Western Australia. I don't really know right now but my tentative plan is to see the west and then the north and the rest of the East Coast and then Tasmania and then New Zealand before I head back home in Augustish. It will be a lot and I don't know if I can handle it and I wouldn't be too upset if I got stuck again in one of those places cuz I really liked it and couldn't see all the rest. But I really want to get back to the northern hemisphere for at least a little bit of the summer up there. I would not be happy to go straight from cold winter here to cold autumn there.
Let's see what else is going on here...Like I said it's getting colder. The water has dropped a couple degrees in the last couple weeks which is a big big difference. There were about two people on the boat wearing wetsuits at the beginning of this month and that was because they were doing 8-10 dives per day and thats a lot of body heat dissipating without a wetsuit. But now everybody is bundling up in a wetsuit or two.
Besides Australia stuff I spend my time checking up on my Dodgers and my Lakers and my fav The Stanford Vball Team. All are doing well or did pretty well so I am happy. I got to see a Laker game on tv out here which I loved. I would love it a lot more if they could finish off the rockets. I seem to be missing amazing seasons from all my favorite teams. Way to start playing really well as soon as I leave. And I watched the season finale of The Office last night which I thought was just ok. There were some amazing episodes leading up to the finale but there wasn't any good flow to the season ender. Also is Steve Carrell leaving the show? I thought I heard rumors but I don't know. Anyways I won't ruin anything from the finale in case you haven't seen it. Besides that I went and saw Wolverine in the cinema last week. I thought it wasn't all that good. Too many crappy lines and the plot was pretty bad. If you like Hugh Jackman with his shirt off then it might be the movie for you but I just thought they had a lot of cool characters in the movie but they were only in the movie for a couple minutes here and there. I want more mutants! I'm psyched to see Star Trek though I haven't ever really seen any Star Trek tv or movies before. Alright thats enough from cairns dive central. I'm happy to be back in blogdom. Hopefully Jesse and I can pick up the blogpace now that he has internet and I have more days off the boat. Thank you to everyone who has sent emails with life updates or left messages on the blog. I love you all. And
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