Goodbye Summer; Up The Hill I Go

Well school starts soon. A lot sooner than I would like but oh well...it's no big deal.

I'm ready for school to start and move on with the next phase of my life...I guess. This summer has been very simple and stress free which is what I was hoping for. After a very stressful senior year, and last couple months of my senior year, I was VERY ready for the summer to be here and let me live a life without so many responsibilities. I knew that this summer woudl be my last chance, as I will now have to be in charge of everything in my life, rather than only some things.

I learned a lot this summer. Personal issues came up with me, and my friends; me and my family; and most importantly, me and me. All I know is that it's definitely time to start college and start building a career in whatever it is I want to do. Got it? Good?

Anyway I will be updating after the first couple days of classes and such. Maybe earlier if something ridiculous happens.

Long Time No Blog

Well it's been an awfully long while since I have written in this thing!! I have had a lot going on and not enough time or energy to sit down and write all about it.

College starts next Saturday for me...well I move in atleast. I'm really excited, but a little nervous at the same time. I can't wait to see what happens, but I would much rather be back in high school...I think. High school and middle school are so routine. I know exactly what is going to happen each day and what I would have to deal with. College I don't think that's the case ya know?

Some of my friends that are going away are:
Brittney Tyler - Seton Hill University, Greensburg, PA
Lee Brooks - James Madison University, Virginia
Mike Lewis - Grinnell College, Iowa

I mean people are packin' their shit and leavin' ya know?

Oh well, school is cool, and stay in school and all that. I love you all, and I will update later. :D

Baltimore and Washington, D.C.

Well this weekend was rather eventful.

Jenessa and I went to Baltimore to see an O's game, which turned out to be a lot more fun than I was expecting, because the last time I was at a pro baseball game I wasn't sure how it worked. So we did that and then met up with Brittney, Kristin, Brittney's dad, Kristin's dad, and Kristin's brother at the Cheap Trick concert that was behing held right outside the stadium for anyone who wanted to go. I thought it was going to be fun but it was really loud and I was starving, so we left.

We went to my Dad's house in Glen Burnie and got pizza and stayed the night there, and then the next day went to D.C.

We woke up at 9:00 and rode down towards D.C. and caught the metro in to the city. The metro was full of very rude people that wouldn't help us out because we had no clue what to do! There was this really nice girl that finally helped us. Other than that everyone was being jerkish. So, we got off at the Smithsonian and hung out down there. We went to the World War II Memorial, which is amazing! I highly recommend anyone that is interested in history or just to pay respect to the people that died for us, to go down and visit it. It's a VERY beautiful memorial.

So we went there, and we went to the Air and Space Museum, and we went to the national museum of natural history, and we walked in front of the White House where a protest for peace was going on. I took a few pictures, so hopefully they will turn out.

Well, I am really tired from playing tennis in the hot ass sun, so I am gonna go take a nap. Adios my friends!

The Freezing Weather Depresses Me

Well today it was like 27 degrees or something like that. It's really frustrating. It's starting to feel like back to school time, and that's not a feeling I want to feel.

I went to FSU tonight to play tennis with Danny, Derek, and Karen and it was SOO cold...and on top of that, the draining sound of drums and the unbelievably annoying Dr. Beat were playing in the background while a band camp practiced in the Bobcat Stadium. I love marching band, but the summer is still here and I don't want to deal with hearing the noises I dreaded hearing everyday during band "camp" last summer.

I realized how much I miss being the drum major too. Danny, one of the guys I played tennis with tonight, is the drum major for Beall, the high school in Frostburg. I'm happy for him and he seems to be really excited about it.

I miss Maria being there to laugh at me when something happens that drum majors aren't supposed to laugh at. I miss all the times I directed with her at games. I miss all the hard work that we put in to the show that made it such a success. I miss a lot of things. The weather, alongside with the fact that, that will never happen again depresses me beyond belief.

HOWEVER...
I don't miss Mr. Kauffman screaming in to the loudspeaker.
I don't miss the times I would get dehyrdated and almost pass out on the podium during rehearsals in the stadium.
I don't miss Killer Monarch Butterflies attacking me on the podium in 'mid-direction' and then telling Mr. Kauffman that's what made me lose my balance, and then no one in the band seeing the damn butterfly.
I don't miss the fact that I would get yelled at when I wore sandels to rehearsal instead of tennis shoes, because my sandels matched and my tennis shoes didn't. (yeah it sounds girly but looking good is part of the act...I have to set examples HAHAHA )

All in all I miss being in high school, and it sucks. I didn't think I would, but times were so much easier then. There are plenty of pros to college (such as the fact that I am getting $700 back per semester to spend whichever way I please). I just seem to always focus on the cons, which is a recipe for disaster.

I never thought I'd say this but I actually think that I am losing interest in tennis as well. I mean I LOVE it and for some reason it's taken my No.1 priority in my life for the past couple years...but when I am playing I don't have to same urge to win as I used to. I need new people to play and I need it to be really hot out so it feels like the summer when I am playing.

I hope you all had a wonderful summer...I definitely did, I'm just not ready to let it go yet. :S