/blog {words}Unnecessary Self Promotion

I have been drowned in school work for the last five weeks. I haven’t done much on the updating front unless it happened to fall into the 140 characters or less realm of twitter. Those aren’t real updates. They are notifications. They are blurbs about what I am thinking, or what I have done. They have no emotion. They have no inner thought.

I look at these updates as more of a manifestation of my inner thinking, my feelings, and generally the thought I had leading up to making the large post. Sometimes, no matter how busy one may be, writing out these things comes out of the necessity to get things off their mind. This is one of those times.

I want to preface the remaining paragraphs of this post by saying I am fine. There is nothing wrong with me. No doomed sense of security. There are no LiveJournal drama cases that I wish to emo out. Call me crazy. I just wanted to write.

I had some things I wanted to share, but I don’t feel like pulling them all together right now. I might save this as a draft and put those items in this post later, but then again, maybe I will just update instead. I may never publish if I put it in a draft…

Ok, so that paragraph above, I ended up saving it as a draft, and guess what? It is three days later and I am just now picking this up to finish where I left off. I know myself a little too well. In fact, I scare myself with how lazy I can be in the update realm. It isn’t important really.

I think I meant this update to be about me. What have I been doing? Well, let’s do the 4 week catch up.

I have, of course, been swamped in school work. I occasionally come up for air and breath, see my friends, and before I get to have a ton of fun, I am back at it again. I have been generally sleeping about 4 to maybe 5 hours a night during the week. I try to do much more than that on the weekends.

Last week I went to Perdido Bay. It was a group of friends, invited to stay at one of their family’s homes. Very nice. It took place during the middle of a tropical depression, but the weather didn’t hinder out ability to have fun. Auburn won their game that night, and Alabama lost theirs. The games were a bit of a highlight for me, but cooking and hanging out with friends that I don’t normally spend that much time around was also appealing. Emily, Trey, thank you for having us down there. Bo, Lindsay, Melissa, Scott, Chris, thank you for the great time.

I came back from that trip to a lot of work I needed to finish. I had two papers and two presentations that week. The irony of all this is that was just the tip of the iceberg. As much as I would love to elaborate, I will save all of those taking their incredibly precious time and not. Plus, the less said, the more spoken. At least it sounded good at the time.

Friday I met up with Lisa. She and I are working on a presentation for a Global Trade and Finance class. We are doing on U.S. sanctions in Myanmar (Burma). I got to catch up with what she has been doing over the last 6 years. Apparently, it was quite a bit of moving around the country. Now comes the title line. “So I am in Montgomery, and I drive a Geo Prism.” Beautifully put.

This weekend was fun for the most part. Bret and Mike came over yesterday to watch the Alabama game. They lost. It wasn’t as big a disappointment for Bret as I assumed it would be. After that game, Auburn came on. It was refreshing to see a game so invigorating.  I don’t even know if that last sentence made sense. Regardless, that game was fun. The first half was amazing. The second half brought the fear of another loss. But in the end, it all worked out. Thank you Auburn for winning a game few thought you would win, including me.

After the game, Colette came over, Bret and Mike left, and Seth and Crystal came over. In that order. We ended up going to 1048 to see the Moonshine Cherry Band. Yet another good gig for them.

I had a lot of fun. Now I must complete the work for all of the classes that I have ending this week. Three of my four classes are coming to an end this week. I will be back to myself again soon. Then Thanksgiving and Christmas and New Year’s will come and go, and I will be back at it again.