WEll i'm up here at a&m in the student computing center writing this blog - i took off from my house at about 10 am - and i got here - i needed to come up here for a few reasons - 1 is to get a shot at the health center - why there? you may ask - because its alot cheaper - esp. for the menigitis shot - so i tossed my new bike in the back of my truck on the way up herre - figuring i'd ride around campus - and thats exactly what did - and it has been one of the coolest things - to ride around-and people just look at me not like a visiting high school student but - as a normal college kid on his way to class - it just amazed me - it really was one of the coolest feelings - and i dunno - maybe i'm just acting like an excited freshman - but thats what i am - and thats ok. i ate lunch at quiznos up here and the girl who had very little clue a/b properly making a quiznos sandwich dumped so much carbonara sauce on it - i thought i was gonna choke - anyhow - i got a permanent assignment - and i'm in crocker - on the north side - and i'm rooming with this guy named george austin mccurry - i havent talked to him yet - but i imagine i will sooner or later-
and i'm not sure if ben and i are going to try and switch but - i'm not sure if we are going to do that -

anyhow - i'm very excited -

its very crazy - this is the last day of july - this is far and away the fastest summer yet - its just flying by - wow

I'm in Hazlett, New Jersey - at my aunts house- and i'm having fun - its been pretty miserable weather herre - but tomorrow i get to go to the beach with my cuzin's and my brother and his gf kelly - yay - and we get to go to the boardwalk as well -

friday i will get to go visit west point - and i'm very excited - hopefully i'll get to see pete and chip and wrendon and adrian - that would make this trip really great -ya know?

fantasy football is starting up and that makes me excited

college is coming up and that makes me excited too - i just wish i knew where i was living - bummer...

i've met alot of people who i'm looking forward to hanging out w/ next year - whoohoo

i'll update my blog at a later time- so check in with it

I just got back from playing wiffle-ball at the church - it was so much fun - we played 2 games and my team won both - it was so fun to play ball again just like when i was a little kid - ghost runners and pegs and everything

anyhow - food time

This is such an exciting time in my life - i'm getting ready to go off to college - and i just got a bike - its a sweet Haro - V1 - and i'm gonna get a computer - i finally broke down and decided on a PC - but i'm gonna get a dell Axim as well -so thats exciting - i think i'm gonna buy myself an IPOD from Mac and some new oakleys with my birthday money and the leftover cash from graduation -

anyhow - i'm ready - ready to go off - ready to start new - ready for a challenge, new people, new places, new everything - and its close enough to home - to make a weekend trip - but far enough away, barely -

i'm ready

This sucks

everyone is getting their housing assignments except for me -i'm really bummed - i just want to be in a dorm - even in a temporary space - and i want to figure it out - i just wanna get it over with - dang...maybe i can room with ben - maybe not - hopefully though i can be exactly where God wants me - and i know that i will - its just such a bummer that i hear stories and stuff - and i'm not in yet - anyhow - i won my 2 games at king of the beach -so i'm in our bracket finals - and hopefully i'll win that tonite

today i was driving along and i saw a sign for "sno-cones" and it pointed down a street - so i turned around and proceeded to support the local industrious attitudes of some young entrepreneurs - i pull up and they charge me 1 dollar for a 'sno-cone' served in a 16 oz. styro. cup - it was mostly ice and it had just a little bit of flavoring - so - it was like slightly flavored ice not a sno cone - but its ok - i was glad to pay them and tip them a quarter each - those young guys are up to something good - keepin out of trouble...ha

anyway - as i was driving along - eating my crushed ice - i started to think - hey - i would expect some young'ns like that to overdo the flavoring

instead - they under-flavored it - bummer...

i'm over at miori's updating and my family just told me that we're going to New York in the next few weeks - yay

update time -

i am up at a&m for my orientation - and i'm having a really good time - surprisingly -

i'm getting really really excited about just like - getting into the world of college - being on my own and meeting SO MANY NEW PEOPLE - its really very cool -

i got my ID today and i signed up for my claim account - so i can access everything like - schedules and stuff - but tomorrow will be the real test at 1:30 when it becomes a crapshoot for classes - its crazy - i'm sure i'll blog at a later time - but i just got back from mission trip in chicago - it was way awesome - definately taken out of my comfort zone was i - walking the streets of englewood ya know - the 3rd roughest neighborhood in America - 1st in chicago - it was quite and experience - stories later