Break is Over

"Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command." - Alan Watts

Spring Break is not over and it's back to school and work. This is the home stretch and very soon I'll be getting ready for finals. I learned some important lessons over break. I didn't get to take a real trip like I had wanted, but I still got to visit NYC and rest. So for the lessons, first, no matter how much I sleep, I'm always going to be tired. Either I have chronic fatigue syndrome or my diet and lack of enough exercise make me feel like shit day in and day out. I wish I had medical insurance so that I could ask a doctor, but I'm sure I'd get a bullshit response and no good medication to help me out. I also learned that if you ignore your work, it doesn't decrease, but that is a lesson I have never learned, so I guess I didn't really learn it.

So Friday Sarah Beth got in. I had to study for the MPRE and since she took a red eye, she slept for most of the day. At night, I took a break and we all (including Mark, Shawna, and Andrew) went to this Crab place. I'm not a fan of crab, but everyone else is, so it ended up being a messy, but good time. I couldn't get that smell off my hands for a whole day after.

I woke up and took the MPRE in the morning at Howard. After I took the metro to the bus station were I met SB and we took a bus to NYC. I saw "are we there yet?" on the bus and it was the worst movie ever. At the very least, very very bad. We got to NYC and met up with Jorge and Michele. We stayed at Michele's place. She has a very nice studio in Manhattan. It was great seeing my friends again. We had dinner at a Turkish restaurant and went out later at night were we met up with everyone. I can not believe that Jorge woke up the next morning (2hrs of sleep) and ran a half marathon with Michele. I really have no excuses. NYC was fun, we did random sightseeing, but didn't get to go to the zoo.

We took the bus back to DC and Sb left for Miami on Wednesday. I did my best to be a good host and hopefully she had a good time. I was pretty down that I didn't get to go to San Diego like I had planned, but things ended up being allright.

As of late I have been doing a lot of basketball watching. I didn't fill out a bracket, but am glad that George Mason and Texas have both made it to the sweet 16. I was actually rooting for A&M to make it too. GMU will be playing in DC, so maybe I'll be able to get tickets.

I just heard from an old friend recently. Her name is Missy and I met her in high school. There was a point in college when I lost contact with her and always wondered how she was doing. I don't think you could meet a happier person, and genuinely happy, not annoying happy. I knew she got married, but that was the extent I had known. She now has two children and still runs. I used to always ask her to explain to me why she loved running so much, I never could. I'd like to start running more, but there always seem to be an excuse not to. Maybe this will inspire me. Hearing from her really brightened up my day. I'm kind of glad I joined myspace.

Sopranos are back. I can't wait to see how this final season turns out. Sundays are now Sopranos and then Grey's Anatomy. That show has very witty dialouge. I think Prison Break also starts up today, so in a why I'm glad deadwood isn't back because I need to find some time to be a student between all this tv watching.

My nephew JoMichael turned 9 this weekend. These kids get great gifts. I also wouldn't trade my upbringing either. I always put their (nephews and nieces) bdays in my calendar, but somehow I always seem to lose them as well.

Today I got a message from Sissy Call. She was the daughter of the drama teacher at my high school. She lives in Alexandria, VA. This site has been awesome for finding long lost friends. I have lots of questions to ask her.

Today I was talking to my aunt. See, I feel like every since the US elected Bush that the country and gotten worse and worse. Defenders blame 9/11 and the economy, but his decisions have made the worst impact. Scandal after scandal, I mean I've already forgotten about his last 10 screwups with the next 10. I won't list them, but I think even one would sink a democratic president. So my aunt was complaining about gas prices. This is an issue I don't completely blame on Bush, but for a man that took us to war for oil, you'd think at the least we could have cheap gas for all those lives. These are his people, but yeah so I tell her that the high gas prices are like everything else (civil liberties, katrina, lobbying scandals, gun control, failed war on terror, failed war in iraq, and gas prices) is penance for our countries decision to elect him. Her response was that things wouldn't be better with Kerry. She would rather have a terrible now than a theoretical world of Kerry where women can have abortions and the government will have to be separate from religion. What really gets me, is that she is not alone in this thought, a lot of people still think the same way. What else needs to happen to see that this administration is the worst thing that could happen to our country.

At some point you can't wait anymore