maine

whee its been a while since I've been able to sit down and do a little brain-dump on the ol' blog..my parents dont have internet anymore, and the neighbors' signal was too weak, so we had an epic journey around the town to findi nternet. we went to a few coffeeshops hoping to have luck, starbucks charges you an arm and a leg, a place we found called joe's java shack advertised free internet, but it was a shitty signal. We finally gave up and went to the library, we didn't realize they had wireless internet though and spent the first day there on their shitty old computers. Which brings me to my beef with the library. The next day we decided to try to find wireless and yes..they had internet...anyways we sat down in an area in the children's section next to some other computers that weren't being used..kevin was on my laptop for a while, and I decided to sit down at one of the unused computers in that section (there were probably 15 computers in the room, none of them being used by anybody) anyways i got halfway through my thank-you email to the chiropractor I visited, and some lady (I assume the librarian or whatever) came over and informed me that if I wanted to use a computer, I had to 'use the ones upstairs'. That pissed me off...normally it makes sense, the ones in the children's section weren't password protected, they want kids to have a chance bla bla..but the computers in the kids section were a LOT better, they had computer screens you could actually see, and were faster. anyways, that disgruntled me a bit. I guess on principle, it makes sense, if they let one adult use the kid computers, then they have to let everybody, and then the kids couldn't get on to learn their ABCs or whatever. it just pissed me off. Anyways we found internet, but I wasn't in a bloggy mood in maine. Speaking of maine, we had an awesome time! We found a great restaurant in bangor, paddy murphys. It is an irish pub-type place, but they have other stuff on the menu too. I had an asian salad the first time we went (the waitress was dissapointed when I ordered it, since kevin had ordered the guinness stew right before me, which excited her to no end) anyways the salad was good, kevins stew was amazing (as reported by him, I dont eat beef) um ash had a sandwich with fries..the fries were awesome, kind of lightly battered and with lots of fun spices...anyways we went again on sunday, I had a turkey pesto sandwich with sweet potato fries (again, not terribly irish, but very good) kevin had fish and chips (all you can eat on sundays! he could only do two servings, but it was a valiant effort) ash had some chicken wrap with sweet potatoes, she and I both got beer as well..I got allagash white, she got blue bear blueberry...maine has a lot of microbreweries, with lots of good beer. Lets see what else did we do? went to acadia twice..the second time we went with my buds emily and scott, went up an epic trail, complete with ladders and rails to climb up this cool ravine that was carved out by a stream we had to walk up to follow the trail..discovered peanut butter and banana sandwiches are ideal trail food, drove down for the day so I could shadow the chiropractor (which was awesome. She uses activator, and watching her work made me think that crap actually does something. I think I'm going to maybe use activator in my practice? Definitely if I work with her) she had a beautiful office, right downtown in a awesome town in southern maine. I can't divulge details, I had to sign a confidentiality agreement, I would say its in one of the nicest areas of the state. Anyways, it would be great if that worked out. I am antsy to graduate and start practicing, only 6ish more months! I'm a little nervous for part 4, I'm not too good with practical exams, but I'm gonna study hard for the practice exam thsi weekend, that will hopefully help me focus my studying a little so i will be good to go for actual exam...eek! anyways I'm all blogged out, kind of hungry, gonna go see what kevin has in his kitchen..ta