yes.

let us not forget

i would go to bed soon so i can wake up early in the morning, but this seems worth staying up a little bit to say...

georgia tech fans, let's not be so short-minded.
let's not hate scott blair. let's give him a break.

i mean, really, i understand that he missed the one point that the world had its attention on. one extra point kick. but on the counter, what led to him having to kick that? isn't that just as important?

stats: georgia tech had 4 turnovers that game: 3 fumbles and threw one interception. i believe uga had managed to convert 21 points off our turnovers. so then the question comes, offense, what up with that? if we played better, didn't have so many turnovers, if our defense could stop georgia's offense (which looked really good today, let's face it) maybe we would have been ahead. if our offense wouldn't get beat by georgia's defense, we could have scored ahead. if nesbitt didn't tackle that hokies player, maybe we could have scored more. maybe, maybe maybe.

what happened to, "be a team player -- it diffuses the blame"? what happened to support?
and you know, honestly, rivalry can only provide so much trash talk. is it really necessary to stoop so low as to call one school a "cesspool of the south?" tech, we're not that great either.

"we're a 70-30 ratio of boys to girls, but since half of our guys don't leave their dorms anyway, we're closer to being 50-50."

and so on.

i may be defending uga because i want to go there next year, but regardless. after four years and a bit, it gets a little tiring.

6 miles!

and three big black guys complimented me about it!

i mean, really, how often do you get complimented by black guys on fitness?

this has become a really awesome saturday.

checks and balances for the turkey

so one of the things i decided to do this week was to run a grand total of 30 miles on the treadmill between monday and sunday. theoretically, this shouldn't be TOO bad -- it's only running 4 and a bit miles every day. however, procrastination is the devil, and so while i did get to a great start on monday, tuesday and wednesday i certainly did not run and really didn't have much of an excuse for it. so wednesday night came about (where i probably should have run a couple miles to make a ding on the numbers i had to run, which had turned to 5 and a bit), and it wasn't looking any better. i started pushing yesterday, and today, i ran a total of 7.15 miles (5 miles in the morning, 2 in the evening). i've now got 14.92 miles left between saturday, sunday to complete this.

this was all inspired after an ultimate tournament and i felt like the least fit person on the field. part of me thinks this might be detrimental before the tournament next saturday, but you know, i need to stop making excuses, so here i am. whether i complete my goal by sunday, i've learned that (at least on a treadmill), 3 miles is not my limit. it's been a good time to fulfill my other goal for this week which was to stop making excuses about my lack of learning about God each day. i didn't realize how refreshing it is to listen to a sermon while running. it definitely takes the passiveness portion out of it. guess i can't do that on sundays though. hm.

this semester has been rough. gotta keep going though. almost there.

maybe even one day, a tambourine

"You can't just buy me a guitar every time you screw up, you know?"

"Yeah, I know...

...

...But then, you know, there's always drums, and bass, and maybe even one day a tambourine. "

being told that you are preferred to work with over the smartest person ever is quite a compliment.

"peaches," new heights

You say good morning, and good evening
The day is done, and you've come to find
The words are fleeting, I hear your quiet breathing
Is something wrong?

You come on two knees, with more than two needs
Finding that it's all too easy
To be helped and found
You slept and he said

It is in you, to carry on
It is in you, to lay down fears that hold
It is in you, to find your way home

Daylight's coming, the sun is blazing
New beginnings seep into you
But in the end it's distant shadows
That finally overwhelm your senses
And this time around
Is it love that you crown?
And this time around
You'll be more than who you are

Could you find yourself a way home?