A Day In The Life Of A Peanut Butter Cup

Listen Up!
Yeah... sorry about the massively late post guys. The semester at college this year plus new working at the Meadowlands really sapped my time and energy. Haven't juggled much or even done much to put on youtube. Well hopefully now that the winter is here I'll be keeping up on things. Well since I'm in a ranting/typing kind of mood and there's a lot to talk about, prepare for a big long post!

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Working at the Meadowlands is probably the best damn job I've had overall, it just has not gotten boring or mundane at all since getting the job back at the start of the summer, and in fact I think it's gotten better with the football season. Firstly, they've actually been working to make the stadium better, at least for us. Granted they still have huge policy changes to make for both the employees and the guests, such as allowing us to (officially) take out coats home with us and designate smoking areas inside the stadium for the guests, but they are listening it seems. The employee break room changed from essentially a closet during the summer to the nice big club sized room for the football season, then one day they started offering Meatball Subs in the break room at a reasonable price, and they changed it back to meatballs after they tried doing hot-dogs instead and half of the employees at least complained about it. So things there are great despite the cold weather and the fact I'm on my feet the entire game time and then some. Best job I've had in ages.

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College is almost over :D I have two more classes to take before I have completed my degree in Media Arts, and once those are done next semester I'll be off looking for a full time job while I take a few extra courses I want to take because I'm interested in them :D I'll talk about THIS semesters experience in the next section, as I went on a bit of a big rant :P

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As for other things cuch as juggling, well I seem to haven't had much time to practice recently, but the past times I have this semester have been pretty damn good. I managed a couple of awesome tricks during my ring practice session back in October, managing another 5up180, long run of 5 ring full reverse, 7 ring qualify, and a lot more high numbers tricks, then in November I managed a couple more flashes of 8, along with learning to do awesome head-stall moves with balls, and now in December I have gotten back into Diabolo and am already progressing fast with it. I of course also managed to upload quite a few great videos here at the end of the year.


Daily Life:
College is finally over this semester, and I have to admit, it's a damn miracle I managed to get through my two classes this semester. Oh no I don't mean in terms of grades, my final grades were a C+ and B- for the semester, and no I don't mean the workload, that was actually fairly light and fairly easy, no I'm talking about the professor. She is quite possibly the worst professor I've had. I literally, out of all the bad professors I've had, am hard pressed to remember one worse. From my physics 1 professor who was so boring he couldn't make an experiment where we learned about gravity and parabolic arcs by launching CATAPULTS interesting, to my math professor who was the most uncompromising and least flexible person I've ever met.

What makes her bad do you ask? Simple. She doesn't teach a damn thing. She simply tells you what the assignment is, doesn't even give specifications very often other than that we HAVE to use a certain program even if the job can be done easier and more quickly in photoshop, and then goes away, not even being clear about what the due date is. She doesn't open any book even once, nor does she show you how to do anything or give any tips on designing something. She just gives the assignment and goes away.

Granted, this technique works in a way, the best way to learn something is to screw around and see what works and what doesn't, but we are PAYING her to do.... nothing! That and her attitude too, she blatantly said right out in the middle of one of the last classes "I was the only one willing to teach these courses..." which explained why there was only one option in taking these last few required courses, but it also blatantly says "I'm here because I have to be and don't want to be." which is just BRILLIANT for actually getting students to give a crap, because if the professor doesn't care (which she seemed not to at all) why the hell should we?...

Juggle This:
k, I didn't want to say anything about this situation over at the top 40 jugglers of the year poll but it's been niggling at the back of my mind now for weeks. First I have to make a qualifying statement though.

I don't dislike Wes anymore. For a while I admit I felt like he turned his back on the technical side of juggling in favor of just doing whatever crazy idea pops into his head, and while I still think that's true it's his decision to make and there's no reason for me to feel "betrayed". So I'm simply put, just not a Wes fan anymore :P I don't hate him or anything, he's just another juggler with a style I don't care for, albeit a really good one.

That said! I have absolutely no idea why people CONTINUE to vote for him in the end of the year poll. I had no idea why they did it last year and even moreso this year!

#1. He hasn't put out ANYTHING this year save for 1 video, a trailer, and his 1 pay-to-view video. Hell GATTO's put out a hell of a lot more than that for free, and I'VE put out a hell of a lot more than that, and I'm actually a bit pissed at how little I've been managing to upload the last year or two!

#2. He's already won the #1 spot what, 3 times now? I understand he's immensely inspiring but you really don't want to see anyone else be the #1 juggler besides him? I mean hell, even Thomas Dietz HIMSELF grew tired of being the overall undisputed champion at the WJF after 4 years! I'd MUCH rather see the much deserving Lauge get #1 this year, just like I think Doug Sayers should have been #1 last year.

#3. I can't shake the feeling that people are forgetting this is a top juggler of the YEAR competition, not an overall competition... Everyone votes for simply their favorite jugglers, not the ones who deserved it most over the course of the year. I have to admit, it is tough to not do this, even I may be guilty of it though I make sure to let the jugglers who have a shot at the top ten not be influenced.

For instance this year I didn't vote for Vova because granted while he did put out two r three awesome tricks on video late this year, he hasn't put out compilation video of any sort, and until the WJF Video competitions I even forgot about him for a short time. He wasn't at the WJF and really didn't do much, hence why despite being one of my favorite jugglers and a friend, I didn't cast a vote for him.

I just had to get that all off my mind :P Sorry ^^;;

A Day In The Life Of A Peanut Butter Cup ~ Reeses2150