What a crazy week it has been! With only 15 days standing between me and graduation, I can see the light at the end of the tunnel and that, dear friends, is glorious. In the meantime, I'm working hard to wrap this semester up, I have one major project, one major research paper, 2 exams, and then 2 final exams, it's gonna be a jam packed last week of class and then finals week. But despite the craziness, the last weeks of this semester and subsequently my last weeks of college have been amazing. Great friends, great parties, great conversations, and great nights spent on swings.

On Tuesday, I went up to Dayton, OH with a friend for the Jimmy Eat World & Paramore concert and it was incredible. A band from Arizona, Jimmy's home state, called A Dear & The Headlights opened up and they were pretty good, I struggled to understand the lead singers words but that's OK, they were good. Next up was Paramore and I'll admit it, they surprised me, I was half expecting them to be one of those bands who sounds great on the CD and then in concert they let you down. But Hayley, she lived up to that awesome voice on their albums. I was pleased. And while Paramore is not nearly as seasoned as Jimmy nor as personally anticipated by me as Jimmy they did put on a great show. Jimmy, however, was brilliant. Just brilliant. It was the most simple and straightforward show I have ever seen but by far the best. They came on stage and they played their hearts out, they didn't waste my time with something sycophantic like "your the best crowd on the tour" or something as equally lame. They came to play music and that's what they did. They did have a little bit to say but for the most part, they just played and it was amazing. It's the first concert that I never even thought about looking at the time during, as well as the only concert where my eyes were physically affixed to the stage. They were just SO GOOD. And at the end, when Jim Adkins thanked us for coming out for the show, I really feel like he meant it. Like somewhere inside he is still kinda thinking "People are paying money to come out and see me? That's so cool." Long story short, see Jimmy Eat World if you can, it's totally worth it.

In other half-way neat news, I got to have dinner with the president of my university tonight at his house. Our PRSSA chapter puts on an auction every year where people can win a dinner with the president if they are the highest bidder in their category. And as the president of my school's chapter of PRSSA I get to go, and so I did, and thoroughly enjoyed myself. Gary Ransdell is a pretty cool dude, and his wife Julie -- a doll. But dinner was really delicious and the company as equally delightful. Major kudos to them for opening their home to us, not a lot of university presidents will do that and they not only agreed to it but jumped at the chance and that really says something.
Signing off, I have to go finish my last Biblical Greek homework assignment ever. Praise the Lord!!!!

I Hate Titling My Blogs

I do, I really do hate titling my blogs. It's far too much pressure to be creative and quirky...and some days, much like today, I just can't handle it.

In the mean time, I'm watching the Memphis v. Kansas game and it's driving me insane.  45 seconds on the clock and Memphis is (now) 4 points behind....and I'm basically gonna need them to get their lead back...and now they're 5 points behind...thank you foul shots.

My Dad invited me to participate in his yearly pool that he and his buddies have and so I took him up on the offer.  I'm currently in 2nd place and in order to beat Mr. Larry, Memphis is gonna have to win this game.  And Memphis just missed a 3 pointer with about 12 seconds on the clock, this is not looking good for me.  And Kansas just made a shot from the foul line...I'm gonna go ahead and call this one over.  Time of death: 10:49 PM.

Yeah, it's over.  The Memphis boys, however, don't look nearly as upset about it as I thought they would.  My boys looked absolutely devastated when we lost our Sweet 16 game....I'm still sad about that loss.  We should have won that game, alas, sometimes the cards don't always fall in your favor.  I still love my boys.

Just checked my standings in the bracket as they are now updated and my Dad beat me...I'm in 3rd place, how does that even happen?  He's my Dad, I suppose I'll let him beat me...just this once though.

Laaaame

So, I'm pretty sure that if there were a "Lamest Blogger Ever" award that I would definitely get it. Hands down. It's been nearly another month since I've blogged, which is pretty lame. Over my Spring Break I picked up a real-live paper journal from Borders with the gift card that my kid sister got me for Christmas and thus, I've been writing in that pretty regularly. It's my miniscule attempt to try to help sort things out in my soon to be "adult" brain.

I landed the job with the Air Force that I blogged about in my last entry. In fact, I got the call offering me the job several hours after I had blogged about wanting to hear from them -- hmmm....maybe had I blogged about it sooner it would have been offered to me sooner? I will hopefully start in July and be stationed at Scott AFB, all I'm waiting on now is my orders. I'm a civilian employee so there is no uniform, and no enlistment or anything, but I still have to be issued orders. I am extremely pumped about the job though, and I know that's way nerdy, but it's true. And currently, the only standing in my way is graduation -- and with a mere 32 days between me and May 10th it's hard not to just turn on auto-pilot. In fact, I probably would switch on auto-pilot if it weren't for my Biblical Greek and Press Law classes. There is still far too much work to be done in there to just turn my brain off.

Well I'm off to sleep. Even with the 17 hours (yes, 17 hours) of sleep I got last night I'm still exhausted. Here's to the start of a new week!

P.S. This new WordPress format kind of sucks.