Trip To Indy

This week was action packed, action packed! So muched happened in so little time. So there were three big days this week: Thursday, Friday, and Sunday

Thursday we had UCOffee, the last one of the year and pretty big since we havent had one since january. So I had some big things planned. I was going to do one of my signiture DP the Great magic routines, a rediculous awkward dating video, and a salsa routine. The salsa was the biggie. Filming was filming and I got John Hughes to do the editing for me because I knew there was no time for me to do it. So that helped a lot. We ended up working on it tons monday, then some on tuesday and some one weds. We had it down pretty good. It started with Bethany and Mark doing some routine that they had coreographed, then they finished and me and Rina popped in between and did our thing. After that the girls had a mini thing anfd then me and Mark had our little Thing. THen we switched partners and danced in unison, then we switched partners. And then after that Mark drops Bethanie on purpose and takes Rina from me and did this sweet areal move and then I go pick up Bethany for this sweet pose at the end and then get tackled by her boyfriend/my roomate Brad. It was quite the ending we had planned, haha. In fact we added Brad on Weds and we had him work on this sweet aria move himself with Bethany were she ran towards him and jumped and he grabed her waist and brought her up in the air so that she would be parallel with the floor. It was funny because they couldnt get the mechanics down so I tried it with Brad and got him on thefirst try perfect. Its a pretty sweet move.

This week was so packed with basketball as well. now that the season was over we were getting ready to go to the Big Ten Tournament in Indianapolis, indiana. We had a huge win over Minnesota that you will remember from my last post,w hich we really needed to get into the tournament, but nothing was finilized until selection sunday and a win in the first round in the big ten tournament woudl almost seal our chances for the Big Dance. We were preparing for Iowa, so it looked like we had a good shot. So we had practice, then my scout stuff, then other things for th etournament that I had to do. on top of that I got like 10 calls during UCO on weds from Coach Mahoney and his son trying to make a video in tribute of theseasionrs. So I had to walk him through all the steps on how to make a video on a mac and how to edit music and insert it and how to find pictures online and everyhting. Thank God for my iphone because during that meeting of which I missed half of it, I was able to make mutlimple phone calls, text messages, send emails, and get online. I also found some free wifi to help me go fast. Amazing to productivity one can do. But of course I knew that things wouldnt finish as they had hoped, especially when I got a call from coach at 11pm saying that his son, Doland, had gone to bed and couldnt figure out how to save it as a movie file. So Coach saved it to a thumb drive which means it wouldnt work on any other computor since all the files are on that computor. So of course the following day coach gives me the stick, tells me to open what I can and finish the files before he leaves for Indy at 5pm. So there I am trying to get this movie to open with imove and it wouldnt. But I was able to find all the pictures that he had had and they were alll super pixilated. I think he saved the thumb nale versions on google instead of the actual picturtes. So I reverted tot he only thing I relaly knew I had left: make it all over. So I searched for each individual photo that he had in the list and saved them at full size and put hte photos together with smooth transitions and titles and some other speicail effects. I also found two music tracks in the folder so I trimmed them up and put them into one track to fill the whole thing and after working hard at it for about 2 and a half hours I had a full little movie. It was simple, jsut liek Doland had in mind, but it had everything that he wanted. I saved it as a .mov file and put it on the thumb drive and I was a asavior once more. Thank God I didnt have to edit that awkward dating movie.

So Thursday came and the first game against Iowa was that day. i went to Crisler to watch it after I ha all my work done and what a game. We destroyed them. It felt so good. I was also able to lift and then I found one of my new favorite hobbies: shooting. Wel, I already knew I liked to shoot, but I used the rebound gunner that will rebound balls for you and shoot them back at you. It was so relaxing. I was at the top of the key and with the music on and no one else around I was just catch and shoot, catch and shoot. Swish swish swish swish. It was awseome. I loved it. And then we finished them off by liek almost 30, 73-45. Peedi was on fire being 100% in the first half and making our first like 16 points int he game. It was sweet.

sorry about them all being Manny,
he had all the cool action shots

The team knows they played great
and should make the NCAA
Tournament Bid

I finished everything with basketball and was all pumped for the night. I was so so busy that day though running around and getting things done. I had planned to leave Friday morning to go to Indianapolis with 3 other managers to watch the game against Illinois, who was a very good team, for a chance to get to the semifinals on saturday. SO I had to pack and organize and make sure vehicles where good and calsses were exsempt and were got get money for the trip and the whole enchillada. But I also had to get ready for UCOffee. SO I ended up being real late as I got all my stuff prepared for the night and showered and meet up with the girls. We went over with me pumped and ready to perform.

The magic trick was sweet and simple. It was a mentalism one of me predicting 3 events in sequence and then revealing them at the end. it was really good and I know they all enjoyed it. Bugged me because my mom just send me my battery charger for my camera. But I had just charged it 2 weeks and I haddnt been using it at all. So I fugured I was fine...but now, because not 5 minutes into the routine by battery dies...and that sucked so bad because now I wasnt able to record me, the salsa routine and the comedy act and Ashley playing the violin and the music by will and the illegal immigrants band. I coudlnt film anything and it was really annoying. And on top of that I got so many more calls with basketball. I had to keep texting and calling the whole time for this and than and then the managers and the coaches wanted me to go to the office to get smomething and send this and that to the recruits. It was nuts. And then at the end Mark came over from his exam and we got ready to do the salsa rountine. But that was an event in itself. The Awkward Dating Video Here

Me warming up the crowd before my Magic

So I told you already of the basic game plan of the routine. Mark and Bethany were going to start and then me and Rina were gonna come in. Well, things kinda went nuts haha. I was with Mark int he back and they announced that we were going to do a slasa routine. So I ask Mark were Rina is and he told me to go up and around to the other side adn wait for her by the door. So I ran over, but then when I got by thedoor I see mark there moving some of the instruments out of the way and Rina wasnt comming and I text her and wait and wait and then they start singing the ABCs on the piano or something and I really had to pee and Rina wasnt comming and nothing was hapening and I didnt even know if Bethanie was ready. So i ran ove to the bathroom that was right there and started to pee until I heard the salsa song begin and I was like great Corn so I finished up really fast and ran out the door to the side of the stage and there was Mark looking at the audience all smiling and stuff and then Rina went out and like did a little twirle and a bow and I heard "Daniel! Daniel!" so I thought I had to go out and introduce myself too so I go on the floor and do my little DP hey yeah move and then get off the floor adn watch and then I hear Rina say to me "Dance with me!" and I was like oh geez I guess I have to dance! So I walk over real smooth and begin our routine and int he midst off everything that went by so quickly I totally changed the routine at the end and kept going with material that was uncooreographed and it looked real good. Now I wont say that I messed up and I wont say that i intentionally changed it either, but I will say that things change without me noticing and instead of being like, oh, I messed up, or oh, how do we get back to the routine, I accepted it and embraced it and made the best of it. Its kinda like life: you must accept what you are given and make the best of it. Hahaha. So thats what I did and it was awesome. The rest of the routine worked out for the most part and I was looking good in my outfit. Both me and Mark were wearing kaki pants and I had my ncie mexican shoes and we had black pin stripped shirts that were open with a white undershirt underneath. We had our hear slick and it was good. And the girls had all dressed up and did their hair and had some nice dresses for the thing, but I dont even remembered what they looked like.

So I talkd to my buddies afterwards and told them all about the game that I was going to go to and stuff and then said by to the girls who were going to go on a women´s retreate and then had to take off with Bethie. She brought me over to Crisler to get some stuff and thent o the office. I finally got back to my room to see the historic Syracus win in 6 overtimes. I got to see the 3rd-6th overtime and it was intence. So intence, but it kinda became a joke as they kepted being tied and tied.

I didn't go to class at all. I just had morning prayer ate and packed up. Andrew was supposed tinpick me up at 11:15 and then josh and Steve at 11:30. Well he was so where to be found and a large part badto do because I had his phone. He left it at crisler the night before. He finally came right atlfter noon because he had to bring his room mate to he emergency room for cutting his finger with the razor. We finally left and it was a bunch of fun. We talked a lot of basketball and other things. We stopes at mcdonalds for the first time in forever with me. Then I got 2 full throttle juices or ehatver at a gas station only to find them really dirty.

Kept going. Had fun in the car. We stopped just outside of Indy and I found bawls! Ahhh! So so good! A d they had the rootbeer knew too. In cans and bottles! Feels like heveh. So I got 2 of the root beers one original and some new stuff called pure energy. Re root beer tastes just like ibc. Pure energy tastes like orange bawls. Pretty good. I have already spent $20 on energy drinks and bawls today...wow.

Everything a man would ever want:
Pure Energy and a pair of Bawls

We got in the city and we were looking for josh's reporter uncle hotel and we in The most getto área in Indy. So getto. The Indiana womens prison was right there. There were dudes who looked like they haddebt taken a shower in a year. There were crack ladies walking on the streets and it was nutty. Steve liked it though. We just went back to the Conseco filed house and parked in a structure. We walks over saw BT and eddie George and walked in and it was awesome.






The game was annoying. We were competeative in the first only down by one at the half. I got this big pecan ice cream which was a mistake because I couodn finish it before the second half started and it was super sweet. But then we got tired in the second becase of the game the day before against Iowa and they were hitting teir shots and we weren't. Really annoying. And then we fell apart and were down by 20. Then we made a run fir it and got within 7 and then stu missed a transition quick 3 and manny turned it over andrhey hit another shot and it was all over an we lost 60-50.






But the night was not over. Us 4 went over to a pub really close by called oreileys. It was alright, nice spot. I was really upset for a while. I lost my game of pool even though I was up the whole game. Andrew and josh went to move the car and ended up getting no where with hotels until matt dupree gave us one because the roof fell on him in his so they changed him to another and gave him a complementary party suit. But this is completley unofficial. Unofficial. We did not get get a room from Matt, ok? They finially came back with Will and aj and mikey and it was all over. Mahoney was already there and tom was there and everyone had a good time talking and just having fun. By now Steve already had 6 of those big things which was the equivelent of 3 beers. He spent all his money in beers last night. Haha. I saw steve to over to talk to this group of people and so I followed him and before I knew it I was friends with 2 guys from Indiana and one from purdue who were all 32ish and it wad aweomse. They loved me. We talked a long time about everything to sports to eceonomy to college and the tournament. Then AJ And steve and andrew joined us and we talked Michigan and Indiana basketball and then I did some coin magic fir them and they loved it. Us managers were gonna leave and so we got will and mikey and AJ with us ad left. They guy has my numberto meet up with me next gear. He told me good luck, keep what you are doing and enjoy life while you are still in college.



Us 5 had a blast walkig down the street to stake and shake and wow it was so so so good. I cant believe we never did this before. We got here and my thing was so good. It was like a burger with toast and wow. It was a pretty getto old school place but all good. We lauged so hard. It was a great night and I was glad I was able to stay with the boys out there. We really ahd fun times and great memories. Too bad we lost, but hey, we should make it to the tournament.




Video of Indy Pole Here Soon....

Which is the next thing that happened this week that was huge: Selection Sunday. This is the big day, when nothing else matters and all focus is on CBS. Well of course I was completely loaded. I had practice in the morning. Then I had to run, yes, run over to St. Mary for Chatechism. Then I ran back to south quad to take a shower and change. And then I did a fast walk back to Chrisler, just in time to get my blue brother hood shirt on and enter the stadium with the team. I sat there on teh edge with the team in the middle. And the the anticipation started...and it took forever, and ever. They went through the first 3 sections and down to the last one...and we waited and waited and literally there were 3 spots left and finally they called us! And people were going nuts! And the team jumped up as if from a cannon and were going bonkers and I joined in the fun and after all that Beilein got the mic and said "wow, after all the excitment...anyone know who we are playing?" No one knew. Hahah. But we are the 10th seed playing 9th seed Clemson on Thursday in Kansas City Missouri, and hwo knows where that is. Apparently its somewhere in the middle of the US, in one of those unimportant states. Its 12 hour drive and immediately all the managers wanted to go and I was hesitating a little bit because of the drive and since I just got back from Indy and I had an exam and papers and stuff, but they were all 100% convinced, so I guess I might have to do some re-planning, dont you think?


Selection sunday clips:



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Dodge Ball Anyone?

Well, we are back from spring break, but a lot of stuff has gone down. I was really scared to go back to classes because it was so much fun just doing my thing and I didnt want to work anymore on my studies. But alas that day did finally come, but it didnt turn out too bad. I didnt have that much school work so I still was able to get my DP Groove on and the rest is history.

Monday I had my men´s group and that was really good. All of them but me and Mark went on the trip to Mexico so they were tellingus about it and how much fun it was. Too bad I didnt go, but my work here was good and necessary and heck I can go to mexico for a fraction of a cost that they went.

Tuesday I was able to hang ut with my boys Mikey, Stu Dougless, and Zack Novak at outback and we had some good good times. I tell you what, Novak is hilarious. A lof of peple know him as a hard basketball player, but outside the cout not only oes he shrink 2 inches but he is descivious and funny as heck. It was great.

Weds the quest began for the salsa routine. The following week was UCOffee and Mark had the genious ide of getting me and him and Rina and Brad´s girlfriend Bethany to do a salsa routine. We are all pretty good at salsa and we all enjoy it so it worked out. Mark had to teach me this rountine that was pretty intesnce and there were so many spins and moves it was great but a little tricky to memorize and even worse to keep on the beat. Rina and me and the openeing routine and it was sweet.

Thursday was Mark´s birthday. He turned 20. Wow, very old. And what is worse is that in less than a moneth I will be 20 as well. Haha. SO in honor of the man who like to "lets get drink!", we took him to a pub in Dexter only to get to see the seniors drink and nun for us young bioys. So what did we do for hisb birthday? We locked him in the trunk as we drove half an houir to dextor. He liekd the firt minute of it and then it got old real fast, but too late, there was no room in the front and he was already inn there. It was the 5 pentadudes with the addition to our 6th man, Alex Killpatrick. Good times, and the watress was really nicw over there at the pub. Very relaxful. That spot in Dexter reminded me of Fredricksburg in Texas, but not as Texasny, jsut real homey. It was a good time and we got to Honor mark there. I ordered this like pinapple burger and then I got a burger that was real good but I didnt realize tll I was half way done that there was no pinapple! I was just that hungry and it was that good. But then the waiter came by and weas like, we gave the wrong burger. She gave me the real pinapple one and he asked for the other one that was half way done. I was like, do you really want this? I caught her off guard and she was like, well, not really. SO I kept it. Thats how you do thiongs. I teel you what, haha. Good night.

Friday things only got better. It was dodgeball night. I got back latef rom basketball and Mark was in charge wof the dodgeball night with UCO with Bethie to help him, but at the same time he had his birthday dinner with his parents that night at 6 and the dodgeball was at 8. BUt they didnt come by to pick him uup till 7:20, and he was pissed. But he had to go, and then gave me the reaigns to go. ANd I was like, what? I am in charg eof what? I am playing call of duty online and you want me to do waaa??? But its all good. In like half an hour I got like 8 phnoenc calls and then was told to make a mix tape and then to dress up and then alex came by and left and then Rina came by to help me out and then we ended up dressing the exact same, that was my costume. Over there it was ultimate frenzy. I had so much fun. I just dominated it was so good...unitl I would have some fun and get in the front and be stupid and then I would get out and and I was done for cause we didnt have guys wheoo were good at catching. We had a wak night. And then it started to get late, so we called a best of 3 match. And it was war. In the first we fought and fought and then they wereable to take over and get the momentum and they beat us. In the second we started going and the same thing happened. They had like 9 and we had 3 and they were just going and the next thing you know we catch one and the MVP came back in and it was all over! That was mee by the way, cause when I came in I motavated my team like no ones business and I just started to launch the, suckers and getting one at a time out. The last girl was from hindsdale and she was justblocking all my shots. I was chugging the, hard too and my elbow started to urt. But then we finally got her. Then it was the tie beaker 3rd round. ANd it was going good, reall good, so good in fact that at one point we were loosing some and I hit a big basket by landing a ball in the basketb on the other side of the court and all our people came back in and we took over and won. What a dramatic come back from behind for the win! And then I got to talk to Jon and Ashley and RIna and a few others and it was great. But it wasnt over...not by a long shot.



Unofficially, I drove Rina´s car on the ski trip. Well,s he said never again and commented on that she has never let someone drive it before and she was scared about it. SO I tried totake her keys, and in the fun she gave me half of her keys, the part that didnt have her car key. Clever, but dont worry, I get her back. SO we are in, a car of 4 girls and one dude, and wehre having a good time and I atp her horn and stuff and it was great. Well, they drop me off at south quad, but in my sleek illusionist style, I keep the keys and go bck to my room....yeah. Well, I get this call liek 20 minutes later from this super angry Rina..."Do you have my keys!?..Maybe...I am outside my house and I have no keys!" Hung up...woops. My bad, hahaha. Then I get this death treat text from Bethis saying "do not go to bed"...oh dear. So I am there in my room for a while, desciding not to shower yet to see what goes down. I am there reading the news paper 40 minutes after I get that text and then I see Rina and Bethie storm into the room looking super mad and demand the keys. I point over to my desk and the storm out. Not to bad, I htought, I didnt even have to put down the paper...and then they stpor in at full speed with cans of silly string in their hands and it was all over! They just covered me all over and it was just all over the floor and coach and my hair, but with my ultimate strength I was able to pin them down on the coach and take them off . It was great until mark came and tackled me and let them finish spraying. y then I was too tired. It was rediculous, especially cleaning that all up.



Saturday we had liturgy of the hours and that was reallygood and then we went to eat at Franks, this little resturant where this short guy named frank makes every single meal there ver. It is really well known, but it was my first time there. It was great fun. Will Cannon´s parents came by and I explained to them the importane of Michigan basketball. I also used some of my moves to steal both Ahsley´s and Kevin Daulburg´s cell pones several times. Speaking of Kevin, he had this ideaof making a video for UCOffee about the awekwardness of dating and wanted me to star in it, which means nothing of my abilities of course. So we filmed there some and it was goood. Then The game against Minnesota started and I followed the first half on my phone. I got Kevin to drop me off at Crisler to watch the rest.

Now lets look at the significance of this game. This game was a must win. Minnesota was a good team. We beat them at home by 20. But they are still good. The Barn, where they play, is one of the most difficult adn whild place to play in all the nation. The floor is lifted up so that the players are sitting on the bench as if it was a dugout in baseball. It is big and packed and loud, and they have an excelent streak. Also, this team was 30-1 with a lead in the half at home. And that is how it was, us down by 1, at the half. But then comming back formt he half, they took off, absolutely took off. We were down by liek 16 and I saw trouble. I thought our team would step it up, I was for sure that we wouldnt let this slip from our graps. I started to get intence in the game, feeling like i was grinding every point as they were. And finally we had our run and came back and Lavel made a few shots and we caught up. With a few minutes left we tied and then took a 2 point lead. Then Manny hit a gutsy 3 pointer and we were up by 5. Then by 3. And with a few seconds left, Wallbrook took the ball past half court with 4.1 seconds and at that moment the coach calls a timeout as Wallbrook took a step back from CJ and made a nothing but net 3pointer! But the timeout was called before! So we got lucky with that 3 not counting. Would the coach be regretting the timeout? I dont think so. ANy coach would call a time out there and he should not be hit for the call. But either way, They inbounded the ball and Novak did a good job of keeping Wesbrook infront of him who actually lost he ball and the time expired. Wow. What a close finish. Wonderful, we finished our season with the one thing we couldnt do all year: winning a big conference road game. Wonderful.






Oh, and what do you think to T.O getting "laid off" from the Cowboys? Wild...
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3957410

Sweet Pre-Spring Break Week! 9th-15th Feb 09

What a week! I love these little gem weeks when you do just about everything imaginable in a short time span!

Tuesday we played against Michigan State. Now this was a dissapoinment. We had all been working so hard for this game. Well, for the most part that is. And hten State came in and was playing on the top of their game. Both teams were struggling scoring, but they were just mearcyless on the defensive end. They are so big and play so quickly that they completely shut out our offense. You can see that my the fact that we only had 15 in the first half! And Manny had his second bucket of the game wit a few inutes left in the game! They really shut manny out, but also our wings. They played a 2-3 defense, and since they were so big and quick they could cover the open 3 in a heart beat. So we ahd no open 3s, all contested, leaving us with a 4-24 3-point shooting. The only force we had, surprising ly enough for his small size, was Peedi, Deshawn Sims. He was the only one making consistent baskets, and it was impressive to have him shoot at such a high percentage. All in all, it was very dissapointing, and so much drama happened on the bench with cups spilling, running out of towels and players throwing up and bleeding; it was a mess. I yelled so hard and got intot he game so much that by the end of the game, and when I finally had to accept defeate, I was dead, truely worn out completely, as if I had played in the game. We will have to win on Sunda against Northwestern.

There I am on the bench

Weds I jsut studied all day. I had a stats exam for thursday and I had to be ready for it. Well, Thurday ame about and I didnt have nearly as much time that day as expected to study, which was a big annoyance as I had to cram in a lot of material and 2 practice exams in 2 short hours. Then I ran over to the undergraduate science building to take my exam. Now I was getting the concepts down, but I still had a difficult time distinguishing between what formulas to use, because we have like 4 different formulas to find th sample mean of a population proportion, so to know which one to use in a given question was difficult. I have no idea what I got, but we will see.

Right after the exam I literally ran over tto the dorm to meet up with my room mates to go to the Red Wings Hockey Game! I didnt really get to eat. I just went inot the caferteria to make a big turkey sandwitch and walked right back out. Ben got 4 slices of pizza and walked out. We all waddled over to David´s dads car and took off. We had 6 strong: me, david, ben, mark, alex, and todd (a dude that will live in the quad next year). I had tons of energy in the car and alex and mark took turns playing the beer pong application game on my iPhone. We drove to Detroit and thats when I saw a border patrol SUV and I was dazzeled to see one from all the way from Texas up in Detroit. That was until I was educated that they have a border patrol for Canada as well and that there was Canada across the Detroit River...wow, I had no idea.

The game was pretty fun. It is much better watching it live. I had a bunch of fun yelling the whole game. I was still horse from the MSU game so I am pretty sure my voice is getting wore every day progressibvly. My bad. But it was tons and tons of fun. We all placed bets who would make the first score and I picked #26 because that was my football number in high school. It was some ceck republic dude but low and behold he scored first! So I got a free pretzel from my firneds which I shared to everyone. The Wings ended up wining 4-2. Yeah, Go Wings!

Friday was a whole different ball game. And it was freakin sweet. Mark Pressprich, my good friend Mark, haha, well he told me as we were driving up Thursday that since I actually had nothing going on Friday night, that I ahd to go dancing with him, salsa dancing that is, the best type of dancing around. Well, I havent been salsa dancing in a while, alothough I love it, so I said sure, I would go. And wow, what a night! Originally it was going to me me, mark, Rina, and Bethie, but then their friend Adam from high school came and then Ashely showed up later at the Heidlerberg. And what a night! I was going all out with my moves. I danced with some of the loacals early on and then when it got dense and sweety around I sticked with out 3 girls and just had one of the most liberating fun on the dance floor I have every had. It was great to dance with them 3 and me and Mark had an asolute blast. We danced till like 2 and then we went outside to discover it was snowing again! It had just all melted away a few days ago, but now we had this thin layer of soft white snow.


We were kinda hungry and didnt want the night to end,s o we all drive over to Pizza House. Haha, we had so much fun as we talked about basketball (that was my fault, but hey, it was NBA AllStar weekend), school, nutrition, and NFP (Haha, I am not kidding). We kept having fun and being goofy and trying eachother´s deserts and wow, another great night was in development. Me and Mark were just going all out and yeah, awesome. I love going to bed at 4.

Which, speaking of which, we had to get up bright and early on saterday for the Valentine´s Girls Breakfast! So I hardl slept at all, my voice was gone, I was beggining to feel a little sick, and my knee was gone, and with little sleep I troddled over with Ben to Campus Chaple. I set up some of the food and coffe and I was in charge of entertaining the laddies as they got some pancakes and tried to pour the coffee. And then I joined Ben and Will to sing some songs to the ladies and it was awesome, hahaaha. And poor Mark slept in. We all knew he would. After that I got Alex tot drop me off at Crisler Arena for some practice. And after practice, inspired by the NBA Slam Dunk Contest that was going down tongith, all the players gave a few tries themselves at Dunking the ball, which led to us managers attempting to do as well. Haha, epic failier. After that I lifted even though I was feeling a bit tired.








I got back to the dorm like at 4pm. I took a shower and got some reading done and then Bethie came by to pick me up. We drove over to Borders in Ipsi where Rina works and did some of my History489 reading there...well, for a little, till I got distracted and wondered around the building, looked at sport car magazines (Top Gear, yeah!), tasted some hazlenut coffe and talked to Rina and Bethie. And then Mark joined us all of assudent, ready fot eh night. That night was the 80´s Valentine´s dance at St Mary, the one I made the poster for that was all over campus. He showed up with his look and was ready to go. We were laughing at this book called "How to get girls" that was written by a 9 year old! Hahaha. Check out an exlusive border´s interview here.

We drove back to the PentaDude and chilled ther trying to watch the NBA 3-point shooting contest and Slam Dunk contest, But it was taking forever tog et there and they had all their NBA Cares propoganda and it was really annoying so we just goofed off as I tried to get a costume up for the 80´s theme. I ended up wearing my one pair of jeans, stealing Bethie´s shirt (I kid you not), my gradnfather`s orange shirt and my saxophone tie around my head. It was epic. Haha, and together me and Mark went to conquer the land of the 80s. Ashely was there and so was my catechism partner Danny, and me and MArk were goffing off the whole night. The cool thing is that since none of us were there in the 80s, we can pull off whatever rediculous dance we want and get away with it, haha. And that is exsactly what we and mark did. But alas, because of the fatige, little sleep, working out, malnutrition (I forgot to eat lunch or dinner, haha, I know), no voice, little sickness, and the fact that we were up and slasing all night last night, we left early, haha, but not by much. I just wanted to sit down. So me and Mark, AKA Los Charros Borachos (thats right, and dont you forget!) went back tot he PentaDude and then killed some Nazi Sombes on Call of Duty IV World at War on the PS3. We ended up staying late anyways. But hey, it was fun.
Sunday....sunday sunday. It was one of those days that I got up and had hours blocked off for work, but since I finally had some time to myself, the first in weeks, and since I actually got to pull out my bible and devotional and spend some quality time with God, well, lets just say I lost about 3 hours doing that, haha, woops. Not really a bad thing, but I did loose a lot of time. And then I had to get ready for my afternoon living at St Marys. So I packed up my belongings and get my lesson plan ready and went for the large afternnoon. I had cathecism class with Danny and the kids, but the annoying this was that the Northwestern game was on and I couldnt watch it! We had to beat these guys! So I followed the entire game on my iPhone, but the game took foever! It went into my NCSA meeting, and since the game was close the entire game, it just kept getting longer and longer. The last 2 minutes felt like every rebound they would call a time out,a dn then there was a foul, and then we were up by 5, and then, woops, lets make them tied. And then alas, overtime. Overtime! Ahhh! I cant even watch the game! I am watching it closely on my phone and not even paying attention tot he meeting. I just kept nodding my head and tried to keep the facial exressions to a minimum. It was a constant struggle between hypervenelating and acting as chill as possible. And then we finally won and I just felt so relieved, like haha I was feeling relaxed. We won, and thats all that mattered. I played saxophone at mass with my hourse voice and then went back to the PentaDude where one more epic adventure awaited me.

Well, here is the deal. On Friday David turned 23, yes, I know, it is very old, but I non-the-less speak the truth. So the girls (rina and bethie) were going to make their epic cake for him, but the old man desided he was too old for school and took off Friday afternoon to go home. So we had to call that off. But the girls would not give up, no they wouldnt. So they reschedualed for Sunady night at 10ish. They showed up with this insane red flannel shirt cake, haha, and they brought Ashely along with them. But then we couldnt figure out when he would come back. And so we messed around with duck tape and fighting off the girls with their weird ways and watching the slam dunk highlights. And then Alex and Ben came back,s aying that they had men´s group and that David was talking and would probobly take forever. So in anticipation, and in our preparedness (is that a word?) he finally came and we busted out the cake and the knife and the fun and wow, it was so glorious. I even had an old man poem written for him with the aid of my new rhyming dictionary and that was pretty cool as well. All in all, it was great to have the trio girls over att he PentaDude and messing around with cake and duck tape, I mean, you cant go wrong with that. Haha. And then when they left us dudes could not end the night and so the Nazi Sombe slaing ensued and then I finally put all my stuff online and it was one amazing week. Wow. Haha. Cheers -DP


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