ON THE FIELD!!!!

People, sometimes good things happen to you...sometimes hard annoying work pays off...Saterday was one of those days.

I got up early to get some work done before having to go to Crystler at 11:45 am to meet the Basketball game for a tailgate party before the game. All I was instucted was to bring kaki pants. Shoes and a short would be provided.

So I got there a little late after I sold my extra football ticket. Sure enough, everyone was there and everyone was happy to see me. I got some of the new addidas polo and some nice Michigan addias running shoes. So yes, I broke my 19 and 1/2 year running steak of not wearing running shoes...but thats besides the point.

Actually, the whole point we were there was not for a tailgate party, but was to help the team in a open gym and then keep the recruting tailgate party from being intruded on by outside people. And it sucked....we just kept people off the bowl of Cristler arena on the outside. And we watched as the families of these 11 recrutes eat and laugh and have a good time. And I had gotten up at 9 and had not eaten and it was 1:45 pm and there was a pile of amazing food a few yards away. And then some of the players invited friends to come over and eat too and it was annoying and baa. But I did my job well. I kept people out. I kept a stait face. And finally, finally at 2:28 pm, Will, the head manager, told us we could eat. I staked a huge plate full of everything that my mind had been dreaming about for the past few hours. And before I knew it, yes, at 2:30 pm, 2 minutes after I had the go ahead, Will tells us that we have to hurry up and go walk the recrutes to Michigan Stadium. So I had to cram that burger down my throwt. My good friend, Chinadue, went up to get a drink after he put own his plate when he was called, so he didnt even get to touch his mountain of food. It was very dissapointing indeed. But not all was in vain...

We walk and lead the recrutes and their family and friends into Cristler arena, around the ark, and into the inner gates of Michigan Stadium. We walk around that rim through the dense crowd to Gate 2. We enter. And we go down. And down. Further and further. Until there was no where else to go. Then we opned the gate and went further till there was the grass beneith our feet...thats right, I was now on the grass, on the field of that that famed Michigan Stadium. I was on the field. I was there at the most glorious place in the entire state of Michigan, and arguably one of the most sacred places in the World. I was there. And I smelt the smell of the turf of the perfect Michigan stadium, the largest Football stadium in the World. I was on the maize and blue lawn. I was in the temple of the College Football gods. I was there. And it was Glorious...






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we ended up loosing the game by 2, the same margine of victory as the loss to Appalacian St. last year. But this time we had virtually no offensive line, and thus no time for the quarterback and no running game, which ment the defense was out on the feild the whole time which made them tired and yeah...we made a come back, but it was not enough to take the lead back from Utah, the team ranked 2 more points ahead of us in the AP poll. But it was all good. I was tired. But Content. And it was all good.... :)

Back to Michigan!

Well ladies and gentlemen, its that time of year again. The time when all your friends are leaving and the city begins to feel empty. But no worries- you always know that you are next. Indeed, the best for last. So finally after finishing a successful season with the Hooks on Monday even though they had a less than successful season, I was able to pack up and grab the last of the things I needed for college on tuesday. After that my family pretty much had a brawl doing whatever they could with me. My dad grilled some burgers and hotdogs outside by the pool and fountain and we had an awesome last dinner together.

Afterwards we all watched the DVD that I had worked so hard for the past 10 hours. It was my life documentary of here in Michigan. I did it during Spring Break last year when the whole place was empty and I had nothing to do. It was a failry successful DVD. The menu was awesome and the content fairly good. I filmed it with my Canon SD1000 second edition (my second, black one), so it was really shaky and the audio wasnt that good, but the special effects was fairly pleasing. My family liked it. I alkso burned a copy for both set of grandparents, so thats cool.

Wedsnesday morning I already had everything packed, so I went to the gym onelast time. Fairly good work out. I am back to 155 lbs, which is just about right for me. I got back, showered, and my mom took me to the airport.

The flight was pretty boring but not too long. I managed to buy 2 sport car magazines, and along with some the Office videos on my iphone, I was good to go on the long boring flight.

I was lucky enough to get one of my roomates, David, to come pick me up at the airport, and off we were to Ann Arbor. I just decsided to move in that wedsneday night instead of waiting for Friday which is my move in date. I was able to take everything out of boxes and stuff, which I was really happy about. All the unpacking is complete. And thank God that I learned what to take and what not to take. It helps this time when I am living with 4 other guys in a quad dorm. Oh, and my room mates are awesome. There is David, the senior, Brad, Junior, Ben, Junior, Mark, Sophmore, and me, DP the Great, Sophmore. We call our selves the cool amigos and our quad the Pent-a-Dude. Awesome stuff...esspecially when you enter and see a big screen tv, surround sound system, two friges, 2 couches, and a big Texas flag. Yes, this is the good stuff. I cant wait to see how things roll.

Well, this post was short, but trust me, IM gonna be pouring out stuff ecause when you are at college, life never stopps moving. Ok, guys, leave me your thoughts and chow!

Last Week of Summer!

Guys, I am almost done. A few more days and I am good to go. I have the last home strech of games lasting 7 games. I was fortunate enough to go up to Round Rock the 18th, but starting the 20th through the 25rd, I have a game every day. I will have the 26th, a tuesday to finish up packing, and I leave the 27th Like at 11 am. I will be staying with my God Mother, Mirriam Torrez up in Ann Arbor and my schedualed move in is the 29th, a friday. The 20th is going to be an awesome day because it is the opening football game versus Utah. I had no idea they played football up there, but then again, that is what we said about Appalacian St. Last year.

The week was a long week of games. Unfortunately, car problems didnt help either. I got a nail in my right rear tire on tuesday. I am glad this happened while going to the gym and not while driving my 800 miles around Texas. Then, after it took an hour and a half at the tire store, I had a problem with the ignition/key thingy. It wouldnt turn off. I turned it once, it got stuck, and the key came out, but the engine never stopped. So I had to leave the cool man car running and locked while I did errands at several places. I took it to Pro Drive, the place we get out car fixed by our good friedn Juan, and he took it in. So the next few days at the ball park, I either had to get dropped off and picked up or I had to take the suburban. So it sucked. Big time. Last week here and no car. Bummer.

The last week went by fast. Along with the baseball games and no car, things flew. But my dad did let me drive with him on his porche one day, and it was awesome. Besides that, I cant wait to get out of here. Its hot as hell and the fact that it rained doesnt help the humidity level at all, haha. So next time, Michigan!!!

ROAD TRIP!!!

Well, after a long debate and after trying to convince my parents that the necessity of going to a close friend´s wedding was a great idea but that I didnt have to go, I was finally set free. I had to go to Round Rock, the triple A affiliated with the Astros, the team above us, the Corpus Christi Hooks, needed me to go help them in a mascot day on the 17t of August. I had been looking to going with Edy. They were going to pay for a room and gas and it was gonna be a blast. Well, Casey, my good buddy from High School, was going to move in into college station on the 15th, the frisday before the sunda game. So after much discussion and pursuation, my parents let me go.

This past week was rediculous. I went to a stained and hinder concert, I hung out with Edy and Casey, and then again oe epic night with Edy, Casey, and Austin Arce, another bud from high school and played basketball together. It was my last week off before working again with the hooks and then leaving for Ann Aror, so I had to make it count. It was nearing the end of the week, and I planned to go up with Casey to college station, then go to round rock for the game sunday, and possibly chill in San Antonio on Monday on my way back. But before I knew it, not only Edy and Arce were gonna go with me, but everything took forever to plan at the last minute as we didnt even know we were gonna go till 3pm the day of.

So after getting everything together, us three took off behind Casey who was an hour infront of us. On our way we saw a burning house and that was cool. We finally got there late like at 2 am. We went to eat at ihop. I got to meet Ricky, Casey´s room mate. I called him Ricky Bobby from that will ferrel racing movie, and the nick name caught on. We meet a sherif/cop dude who drove a charger at the ihop. I asked him if he ever gassed it up. He said no. I asked him if he ever drifted, and after looking at me, he said no. The guys thought I was crazy for asking, but I had too, haha.

We stayed up watching dodgeball, which was a stupid movie. oh, and I was the only one who stayed up. I cant go to sleep with the tv on. Everyone fell asleep within the first few minutes. SO I fell asleep at 6:30 am. Casey got us up at 9 am to go to home depot to pick paint for his dorm. Well, we were all tired and I cant even see coulars so I was screwed but we ate at freebirds and it was all good. We painted his room for a while and had a little fun in the process. Later we went to the awesomeness gym they have there in Texas A&M and played some ball. Even though we all sucked hard core from a combination of never playing anymore and harly sleeping, we crushed the opposition. Then we went to eat at a really good pizza place, even though me and ed got competely lost trying to get there.



Let me just break in right here for a special announcment: College Station has ALL the Girls...no joke. The girls here are amazing! Under my calculations, 90% are cute and 49.67% are plain hot. I am not joking. I have never seen so many amazing girls in my life! It seems every girl I saw was just the cutest ever! I ahd no idea what to do! I just wanted to stay there! Haha. Its a known fact that Michigan is not known for their girls because you have to be smart to get there. Really smart. All the pretty girls got o Michigan State because it is an easy school and a party school. Therefore Michigan suffers...but let me tell you what, College Station in no way is suffering! It is...a wonderland! Hahaha. Truely amazing! Im gonna have to visit more often! ...ok, back to my story...

After we ate pizza, we went to shower and went to this awesom club there. It was a bit off campus but it was a huge place filled with people and just a great atmosefear for dancing. We were able tos neak Edy into the 18 and up club with a friend´s ID that didnt even look like Edy. The place was good but I only got one dance. I was kinda depressed, but you do what you do. I have been practicing dancing, now I just got to practice asking girls our to dance, haha, something we never did in Annapolis. Baaa. I was kinda pissed, but whatever. It was probobly the amount of pretty girls that threw me off. Haha

That night me, Edy, and Arce went to get some snacks at the only place open at that hour, McDonalds. Then we watched some retarted movie, I forgot what it is called. Some looser is going to gyp the special olympics, haha. And we died. I woke up bright and early to go to mass. I found where the St. Mary in College Station was on my iphone. But I got lost trying to get there and found our I was going to completely opposite directions from some nice baptsits. So I went to mass and it was full under construction. It was packed but I was able to sneak into the 4th row. And low and behold, I was sitting 3 people down from one of my old friends from phillips and he was my neighbor when I grew up and went to school with im for a year at Most Precious Blood, Anthony Legamaro. I talked to him and then talked to the young preist who celebrated mass. I told him that I was from the St Mary in Ann Arbor and that we send them our greetings. He thought that was the coolest thing. I really enjoyed mass. It was packed to the brim, and yet it wasnt as charasmatic type as the one in Ann Arbor, it was loaded with students, tons of pretty girls, and even some of the mass parts where the same. I cant wait to get back to Ann Arbor...After mass I chatted up with him and took off. Back at the dorms, us 3 guys got ready to go. We grabbed casey, went to some mexican resturant in my car, dropped him off, pumped the music, waved to the girls and left.



The drive to Round Rock was about 2 hours, much longer than we expected, but we got there on time. We were lucky that Rust the Hook, one of our 2 mascots, did a good representation of us and won the Mascot Home Run Derby. He was 8 for 8 in the first round and had the farthest hit ball i the championship round. Kudos to him. The game was a bunch of fun, and I know Edy adn Arce loved officially being able to go wherever they wanted and saving 50% off with my money on whatever food they wanted. I showed them how to drive the stick on the cool man car after the game and then went to the hotel.


We were staying at the Hilton Gardens, all room payed. And let me tell you what, what an amazing hotel it was! Truly awesome! THe coolest beds and all. Haha. I got cleaned up and we watched a little of Johnson in gymnastics and then took off. Plan was: drop off ed with his brother in law, Derick, at his house in fploversvill that was 20 minutes away, and then me and arce go to a local club for round 2. Well, it was gonna work till all the local clubs sucked, har core. ONe had only 8 old men in it playing loud music and rinking, and the other one wasnt even in the location it was supposed to be. But whatever, I was dead tired, and after watching a little Jack Ass 2 in Derick´s awesome house, we went back to the hotel and crashed...

But I forgot to telly uo something! The lawfirm I was working for needed its documents read for Monday´s deposition! They were supposed to be done before monday but Casey had no internet in his dorm and I was screwed. I had 200 documents to read, about 4-6 hours of work. But we had none! So monday morning I got up early and read documents, even though they were past due...only to find another 200 assigned to me! Crap. So I worked hard and got 100 done. Right before we had to go, they where showing table tennis on the olympics, and since I had been waiting the whole olympics to watch it, I watched a bit, told Carlos to record the rest at home, and we left.

We went to eat at ihop, got some gas, and jammed up on our way back until they fell asleep. So lets get this strait: I had hardly slept the entire week. I had gotten up early saterday to get paint that I couldnt even see, got up early sunday to go to church when no one else got up, and got up early monday to do documents. And now I was driving home and they were asleep again, and whenever they woke up they complained of us getting there quick because they were tired...yeah, whatever. But, alas, we made it. We did go through Austin and San Antonio before arriving back to Corpus at a little after 4pm. I got home like at 5 and I was dead the entire time. I ate, watched some of the recorded ping pong and some of the live olympics, and went to bed. After over 800 miles of driving in 4 days (even though I didnt drive saterday), I finally could go to sweet bed to sleep...

BATMAN the DARK KNIGHT, Table Tennis, and All Most End of Summer

August 2nd

Well, people, summer is getting closer and closer to being over. I am really excited to get back to Michigan. I just want to get out of here, leave family, car, worries behind and start my second life in Ann Arbor once again. I cannot wait for the freedom I will once again have that I cherished so much my first year.

Let me just talk about Batman, the Dark Knight for a moment....it is the best movie I have ever seen in my life! Literally! It was amazing. I saw it once with Casey, then a second time with Edy, and then a third myself. I even bought a poster. I absolutely love it. The movie is everything Batman was supposed to be. The joker was everything he was created to be: a genius yet insane character who did evil for the pure joy of doing it. He was twisted, yet his methods were off the charts genius. The plot was so real, and so life like. The drama was real life obsticales that everyone has to go through. Does one step up and continue what he has been striving his whole life for or does he give in when the times get beyond comprehensible? Do you keep fighting or give in when failure seems inevitable? And the true side of humanity was displayed sever times, most notably on the two ships scene. That scene and the interrogation scene were my favorite parts of the whole movie. My favorite action scene definitely had to be his trip to Hong Kong. Wow. This movie definitely hit everything, from superb action and fighting, to deep morals, to dark humanity. It hit everything. And in the end, the Joker was waving his hair and smiling happily out the cop car window, and that image wil always resound in my mind in this epic movie to be remember for all time...





I have about 2 home game stands totaling 13 games, so having that extra $1000+ is going to be really nice. I am just about done with this darn Accounting Course at TAMUCC. Its getting really annoying because its all pushed into a few days. I took my second midterm this past weds and take my final this upcoming thursday. After all this accounting I am thinking of starting to invest in stocks. I talked to Edy and my dad about it, and there is a good chance I might do that. Dont tell anyone, but my plan right now is to buy some stocks to invest in, keep working for the lawfirm during the school year, and hopefully, if all works out and my dad doesnt disown me, buy a sport motorcycle next sumer. Edy has been getting me all up about bikes because he wanted one. He just bought a fairly nice hyndai car. He hopes to fix it up, use it his senior year, sell it for profit, and buy a bike himself.

I forgot to tell you that the past few weeks I have been practicing Table Tennis Hard Core to get ready for the tournament at TAMUCC on the 31st of July. See, I knew taking this class was good for something! I bought myself a really nice raquet from KillerSpin and practiced a lot on my serve and forehand. Anyhow, I went to the tournament and completely dominated. I won every single game and match, going undefeated to the very end. So, ladies and Gentlemen, after my first table tennis tournament, I am champion. Hopefully I will sign up for the USATT soon. I will keep you up to date.



¡¿Whoes Your Daddy?!

Second Hand Scenerade Concert

July 14th

I am sorry that I didnt post this earlier, But I went with Casry, a High School Grad bud to the Second Hand Senerade concert on the July the 14th. It was a really fun concert. It was under this roof, in a small stage at Brewsters Street, which is right next to Whataberger Field where I work baseball games. It was super hot in there, and it was packed with a bunch of 14 year olds, but besides that, the 5 bands who played were very entertaining. Each band had a different style which I liked. I hadnt heard like any of the music, but I had a lot of fun. Second Hand Senerade did a good concert. It was like just the right length and they did a good job playing the 2 songs that I did know...Your Call and Fall for Me...