Spring Training Blog

So its definitely been quite a while since I’ve last blogged here. A LOT has been going on.  But here I find myself on spring break, quietly alone, hanging out in a Starbucks on a rainy day, feeling completely at peace with the world, and deciding to take a moment out of my day to write about it all. So sit back, relax, and enjoy as I recount my adventurous of the past month…

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(Wayne’s World, anyone?)

I guess I should have clarified earlier that this is actually Spring Break #2 for me. A good friend on mine who goes to Cal Poly and I decided that we needed to take a vacation, miss an entire week of school, and drive to Arizona. Yes, Arizona. Now what on earth would prompt two guys to take a week off school and drive to the middle of the desert during the last week of March, you ask? The weather? Goodness no. To escape the dreariness of normal college life? No quite. Women? We left them behind. To contrast the beauty of California’s 101 in March with the dullness of Arizona’s 10? Nope. The answer, my friends, is two-fold. Firstly was to get away and have some good, old-fashioned man time. And secondly was SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS SPRING TRAINING BASEBALL!!!! That’s right folks, we drove all the way to Arizona for baseball. And it was glorious!!! I’ve honestly never had such an enjoyable, relaxing experience in my life than I had that week just kicking back, eating junk food, soaking in the sun, and a week’s worth of baseball with a good buddy. In all, we watched six games in five days, even managing to score free tickets to one of those games from a guy I played baseball with as a kid who ended up as the starting pitcher for the Chicago White Sox. That was a fun one to watch. By the end of the week, though, it was definitely feeling like it was time to get back into the real world. Fun time was over, it was time to start cracking down on the craziness that would be the week before my real spring break. Boo that.
Craziness was probably an understatement to describe what lay before me that week. On the top of the priority list was the first half of my Comp Exam, a test that covered every core class of the Psychology Department and was essentially ten finals condensed into 80 multiple-choice questions. We would get two chances to pass it with a 7-% or higher or we wouldn’t be able to graduate. Bummer, huh? Needless to say, I was studying non-stop the few days before it (which included my birthday…), because I surely didn’t get to studying while in Arizona. HA! Afterwards I felt pretty good about it, which worked out because I just found out today that I PASSED IT!!! I am stoked on that right now! Now I just have to worry about the second half coming up next week, which means more studying. I keep telling myself to hang in there and that five weeks from now I’ll be all graduated. What a sweet day that will be!
In the midst of everything else going on, I also started work up again as a server at Tahoe Joe’s Famous Steakhouse (check us out!), began working a few final projects and papers in class in preparation for the final stretch, and, as I mentioned earlier, turned 23. Only five more short weeks and I’m free! Its been a great experience of college at William Jessup University and I’m so glad I ended up here, but I’m ready to move on and see what else is out there for me. God is amazing and continues to reveal different opportunities to me so that I know that whatever happens, I’ll be okay. And that’s a good place to be at.

P.S. About 6 months ago, after converting over to a Mac when my PC crashed, I was desperately trying to get my few thousand songs I had on my iPod (which has also since crashed on me) transferred to my new hard drive. After many unsuccessful attempts, I stumbled upon an application called iPodRip, which for a small price allowed me to get all those songs back incredibly easily. It was incredibly worth it in my mind, as many of those tunes are invaluable to me as representations of different stages of life over the past eight years or so. So thanks iPodRip, I greatly appreciate what you’ve done for me.

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