Whew!

So I finally had some time to breathe after the beast that was Grad Week. Hello again dear readers. In case you didn't know, I finally graduated from West Point!! Wow it feels so weird being done. I don't miss the institution so much, but I really do miss my friends. My high school friends are great and all, but I've just grown up so much in the past four years that I can't really relate to them as much as I did in the past. To be honest, the thing I'm looking forward to most this summer is my road trip down the East Coast with some of my West Point friends later this summer-- that should be a blast.

So what is this new second lieutenant up to these days? Well, a whole lot of nothing really. For my first few days home, I literally did nothing but slug out as I was just way too exhausted from Grad Week to do anything. I've recently linked up with my best friend who just finished ROTC at USF and we've been going on runs together in the mornings while I do circuit workouts at home in the evening with the hopes that such workouts will put us in good shape for our respective BOLCs.

I've also met up with some old acquaintances such as one of my coworkers whom I worked with when I worked down at the pool. We actually went mini golfing today and ran into a rising cow and his parents. It was kind of neat and really shows how small the world is. I'm meeting up with her again tomorrow to go watch a movie-- anything to kill the time.

I also had dinner with my aunt and her family today and it was the first time my aunt and cousin legally bought me a beer. Still kind of weird though.

My 22nd birthday was also yesterday. It was cool for a variety of reasons:

1) I got free breakfast at Denny's
2) I'm now on the old man PT scale
3) I got to hang out with some old friends and now a Las Vegas trip next weekend is in the works.

All in all, Summer 2011should be a blast. West Point is finally over and life is seemingly finally beginning.

Osama Bin Laden is Dead

Perhaps the death of Osama Bin Laden will give this nation that peace it so longs for-- only time will tell.

It's May 2011

Today is May 1, 2011. I say again, 2011. That means graduation is 20 days away. Who would've thought that this time would finally come? I can still remember back in July 2007 thinking that May 2011 was light years away-- and now it's finally here.

Tomorrow I start my last week of undergraduate education. There's not much left in this school year in terms of actual learning though. Some highlights of this week include submitting my senior thesis and this Model UN thing we're doing in my International Relations class. We're basically pretending we're the UN Security Council discussing Libya. I get to play South Africa, so you can imagine that I'll be bringing in a soccer ball and a vuvuzela to our little mock UN cession tomorrow. Overall, it should be fun.

I also defend my thesis on Friday May 6, 2011. I still don't have any idea on what to call it, so if you have any suggestions for me, feel free to post: my senior thesis topic is the American Airborne on Sicily during WWII.

Wow-- it's already May 2011. Just wow.

Closing Out Part I

With 2010 drawing to a close, it is not only a new year that is upon me. 2011 means that I'll be graduating college soon and entering adulthood. Such a scary thought and an idea that seemed so far away to me as a college freshman. Naturally, there is a sense of excitement: new adventures, new people to meet, new sights and sounds to experience, but at the same time a level of uncertainty looms. What does the future hold?

Welcome readers to my blog. I decided to start this blog on the eve of the new year to document my day to day life with the hopes that maybe someday someone will read it and get a kick out of it. I'll try to blog every day, even if it's just to say that nothing happened. I'm sure there'll be a lot of those.

In any event, I hope you enjoy reading how I Close Out my day.