Rules

So who out there has watched the show NCIS? I am betting most of the people who are reading this have, it is a popular show, and for good reason. It has well developed characters with their own lives outside of the story of the show. They all have some form of back story and individual life which at some point connects to the storyline in the episodes.

But to get to my main point in this post is along with one of the main characters, one of my favorite characters as well, has a long set of rules which come up as one of the side stories. Yes, i am talking about Gibbs. One of the back stories that goes in the show is how Gibbs began coming up with these rules, the rules he has for every single situation no matter what happens.

This gave me the idea, the rather predictable idea i might want to create my own list of rules. This idea evolved into creating not only my own list of rules but writing a blog post to explain each. So yes, i am starting another series of posts here, this time my list of rules for life in university.

Rule 1: You can never have enough booze, ice, or glasses for your party.

This rule come from my first night of working for a catering company here. Namely we ran out of glasses, beer, and then ice. The reason for this rule is simply that when it comes down to it you need lots of glasses for everyone to drink from, lots of booze for them to drink, and lots of ice for chilling and mixing drinks.

Beneath this though is the spirit of the rule which is no matter how much you prepare or spend to get ready there is usually at least one thing that can come up and fuck it all up for you. Instead just accept that there is only a limited amount of control you have and use that. To try and do more will only lead to issues, to assume you have enough will cause something to surprise you and you'll have to find a way to deal with it then.

For example assuming 600 glasses is enough for 300 hipsters and then realizing no, they all want fresh ones so you have to wash enough glasses for both bars as soon as possible. Assume that it wont be enough and be ready for when it isn't.

Now, just for fun go watch this squirrel