Because I care, dammit.

[Shattered Dreamer]

Schooling/Career: Currently unemployed. Graduated with a BA in Irish Law last November but decided not to pursue a career at the Bar because the Barrister training is super expensive (€14,000) & that coupled with the fact it just wasn't for me. I'm on the Back To Education scheme whilst unemployed & I'm currently doing an Office Skills Diploma to pass the time & to aid in my job search.

Love life: Just over 2 months ago was introduced to this awesome chick by a good friend of mine over MSN. We really hit it off, decided to date & I went to visit her & we spent 2 wonderful days together & before I went home agreed to be a couple. 2 days after that (just over a month ago) she dumps me stating she wasn't ready for any type of relationship. 3 weeks ago she started dating someone else!?!? Considered getting back with an old college girlfriend in the aftermath of all this but realized that would be a terrible idea so I didn't bother.

As of right now I would like to meet somebody new but at the same time in light of recent events my pride is somewhat dented & it may take me sometime to get my $h*t together.

Hobbies: Joined 2 new bands. Singing in one & singing & playing rhythm guitar in another. Trying to decide which I like playing with the most. Aside from that I weight train a couple of times a week. I also finally went pro wrestling training! Toughest thing I ever did, got pretty badly banged up too so for now I may give it a miss!

Gaming: Lets see. Finished Killzone 2 last week epic game! Finished Shining Force & I'm almost 3/4 of the way through Shining Force II.

Etc: Moved out of my parents house a little over a month ago & moved back to Dublin! I'm living in an apartment with 2 1st year college students (1 being my best friends younger brother) & they're both really cool guys. It's weird being away from home after 7 months but it was time my life took its next step as I'm almost 22 & given the messy break up amongst other things a fresh start was needed!

How bout that ShlupQuack

[rubah]

Yesterday, I toured NASA; played with the power drill designed to be used on EVAs, stuck my hands in pressurized astronaut gloves, took pix where it looks like I'm wearing a prototype space suit, stood inside a chamber that could kill me (or make the saliva boil on my tongue), walked through a training mock up of Kibo, saw an astronaut be awarded the chance to hang his mission's plaque in Mission Control Center (STS-130), and attended a nerd party with twenty mechanical engineers.

Today, we rode a ferry to Bolivar Peninsula, had some seafood, rode back to Galveston, picked up pretty seashells, then hit up Chinatown for chinese food and (for me) asiacandy.

Tomorrow is a ten hour drive 8)

[Sugpo4]

Schooling/Career: I'm currently working for New South Wales Police in the North West Metro region. Been here for a little over eighteen months now and I've pretty much got the measure of the land. If I face westbound, the only thing that stands between me and the horizon is housing blocks full of human garbage. Walking parasites! Pigeon hearted no hopers and half-awake, half-asleep heroin comas given breath.

I love this place. I got a pocket full of pens (half of them don't work), my handy notebook, a good friend as my partner on the truck and plenty of streets to drive on. My job is the best job. Well, at the moment. >=D

I'm also studying law part time, so when I get sick of standing on this side of the fence, I can defend these grubs/people in court and make a killing doing it. Oh yeah!

Love life: Currently sort-of-maybe-seeing-someone-not-quite-sure. She seems alright and is motivated. She has this really nervous laugh which she uses inappropriately instead of a typical 'um', 'ah', 'er' or when she has nothing else to say though. Makes me think she has a mild case of the 'Spergers.

Hobbies: I like cycling. But I won't wear lycra. EVER. Instead, I wear these 'shy bike shorts'. They're normal shorts with a lycra equivalent underneath! They even have pockets. I also spend time at the gym picking up heavy things, putting them down, picking up heavy things, putting them down, et cetera.

Getting back in to drumming after having sold my kit a few years ago. At the moment, the bottom of my sneakers and a pair of old sticks (mismatched) are doing me fine for practicing rudiments.

Gaming: Mass Effect 2 and Dragon Age are great. BioWare is great in general. FFXIII is on my 'looking forward to but not quite sure what to expect' list. I might even pick up one of the new Pokemon games, Heart Gold or Soul Silver, if I feel like being a fruit.

Etc: I found an old photo album. That brought feelings of nostalgia. Then I thought about all the things I could be nostalgic about in the world, all the has beens and already done thats which I've long forgotten about and ought remember! Then I thought of my time spent on this forum, posting about absolute garbage and thinking it was totally cool because I was e-infamous enough to get banned repeatedly for saying something dumb. It was like I was FIGHTING THE MAN. Except the man was a Final Fantasy discussion forum.

HAH.

[Loony BoB]

You work for the police?

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAH AHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAH AHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAH AHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAH AHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAH AHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA it's great.

[Sugpo4]

Sure do. The government gave me a Glock .45, 30 rounds, an extendable baton, a long baton, pepper spray, handcuffs and an X-26 Taser. And has entrusted me with an original authority to cause Her Majesty The Queen's peace to be preserved in our fine state of New South Wales.

Paraphrased: I have heaps of cool gear and lock up head criminals and sometimes beat them down.

[Loony BoB]

I can't help but adore the irony in all of this.

[Sugpo4]

I know right?! Isn't it like some sort of SICK JOKE?

[Loony BoB]

All I know is that I'm suddenly a little scared to ever go to Australia.

[Rodarian]

Hmmmm I can't remember Sugpo rap but if BoB is laughing, then it must be something quite notorious about him!

[Flying Mullet]

then hit up Chinatown for chinese food and (for me) asiacandy.

Where did you eat?

[Jiro]

All I know is that I'm suddenly a little scared to ever go to Australia.

The rest of the country is safe BoB. Well, relatively.

[Sugpo4]

^ Not really. Pretty much everything in our country is designed to kill you. The natives will spear you, the 'roos will kick you in the face, most of the spiders weigh over a pound and EVERYTHING is poisonous.

Don't come here. You will probably die.

[NorthernChaosGod]

Kudos for surviving in that hole of a country. :P

[Jiro]

^ Not really. Pretty much everything in our country is designed to kill you. The natives will spear you, the 'roos will kick you in the face, most of the spiders weigh over a pound and EVERYTHING is poisonous.

Don't come here. You will probably die.

Don't forget the sharks at our irresistible beaches.

And drop bears. Those things will smurfing maim you and then kill you. I am not joking these things are dangerous. And Yowies, I can't tell whether they're supposed to be dangerous or just a collection of perverted old men. That statue in <del>boganville</del> Kilcoy makes me lean towards the latter.

[Pheesh]

All I know is that I'm suddenly a little scared to ever go to Australia.

^ Not really. Pretty much everything in our country is designed to kill you. The natives will spear you, the 'roos will kick you in the face, most of the spiders weigh over a pound and EVERYTHING is poisonous.

Don't come here. You will probably die.

Don't forget the sharks at our irresistible beaches.

And drop bears. Those things will smurfing maim you and then kill you. I am not joking these things are dangerous. And Yowies, I can't tell whether they're supposed to be dangerous or just a collection of perverted old men. That statue in <del>boganville</del> Kilcoy makes me lean towards the latter.

Weather's nice this time of year though ^^