1st week of RR school/4th of July

currently listening to: Sunset Rubdown-Shut Up I am Dreaming

well if i ever had any doubts about whether the whole RR thing wasn’t for me, those are gone cause I’m definitely liking this.  Took my first “final” and got 97/100, one of the highest in the class.  I’m pretty excited for each day to come as i learn more and more.  can’t wait to actually get outside in the yard and start doing the stuff we are learning.  that’ll happen in week 5 of class. 

From what i’ve gathered in a little over a week, my life will change quite a bit come mid/late august.  if i go to work for BNSF (who runs the course i’m taking), i’d likely start out in places like emporia, newton, or arkansas city rather than KC.  But i can put my name in for a transfer once its available.  That would probably be at least a 6 month wait or so, but it would happen eventually.  Thats fine by me. 

I would be on call 24/7/365.  Planned events will pretty much go by the wayside in day-to-day life.  Anything i’d really want to have a whole day for i’d have to ask off.  work week will likely be well over 50 hours but i’ll be making pretty good $$. 

4th was fun, played some more bad golf over the weekend, and i think thats it for me this year for golf.  that sport just isn’t for me, i’m sticking to bowling.  shot off a lot of fireworks at my uncles house like we do every year, but for the first time ever i managed to see some friends on the 4th.  we were gonna shoot off some more stuff at a friends house in lawrence, but about 30 minutes or so after i got there firetrucks came by because of a bonfire in the backyard (that was perfectly legal, they have them all the time at this house) but whatever, some neighborhood woman freaked out for whatever reason.  so now i have a lot of fireworks leftover.  oh well…next year!