Life After Basketball

Well I almost forgot I even had this thing, so hey I'll just give a good ole' update about my current life post-basketball...

Here's a random picture of me doing what I do best...nothing.

The short story is:  my life is boring now.  I went from traveling all over the country and being gone every weekend, to being in the same place all the time and not doing anything.  Don't get me wrong, I love Macomb but I guess I've just realized how little there is to do when you're not traveling all the time. 

As soon as the basketball season ended, I basically let myself go.  My hair is pretty long and I went over a month without shaving.  It wasn't a pretty sight.  The good news is that I did finally shave and I'm working on the hair thing (Mom says I need to get it cut before graduation). 

Spring Break in Colorado was nothing short of a blast.  Mega thanks to Dawn for paying for the condo we stayed in!  The weather was perfect all week (not a surprise) and we had a great time.  It was super cool seeing one of my oldest and best friends, Tom O'Malley, who lives/goes to school out there.  We hadn't seen each other in over a year.  It was definitely a great last spring break ever.   

School is basically done for me (graduation is May 12th, so you should come and celebrate with me!) and so I have very little homework.  The day before graduation I'm going to this awards ceremony because I'm graduating Magna Cum Laude.  They're giving me a medallion and some other stuff, so that's cool.  Yes, I plan on wearing it the whole weekend. 

I only have to go to class a total of six times a week and so even that takes up very little of my time.  My main concentration right now is getting a job.  I have my resume together and I'm working on putting together my resume DVD.  I applied for a job in Galesburg, which could be cool because I could stay kind of close to Macomb and my friends, not be too far from home, and be a little closer to Chicago.  Not a bad spot to be in my opinion.  Hopefully I can lock down a job sometime before or soon after graduation because that way I can start looking for a place to live before I become homeless on June 31st (the day our lease for the house ends).  It'll be a sad day when we have to move out of this place :(.  I'm just taking things one step at a time right now and hopefully things work out well! 

Well, that pretty much sums up my life right now, I hope you enjoyed!  I'm looking to make a trip up to the Chicago area sometime soon to visit family, so hopefully I'll be seeing you guys soon! 

-Speaking of family, I have some sad news to report...my beer boot has been broken.  I received this boot as a present from my cousin Pete when I graduated high school and it nearly made it all the way through college.  It was one of my most treasured possessions and so I was sad when it was broken to say the least.  But know that when it was alive, it lived well.-  

I'll end this blog with some wise words from the great Homer Simpson, "Facts are meaningless.  You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!"  Classic.