What a Trip!
Boone, NC. Home of App State, BT, and The Cookout and neighbor to Blowing Rock, Grandfather Mtn. (aka LTR's Middle Earth), and the cave thingy with blind fish. Had I owned a camera this post would be exploding with fabulous pictures but I'll leave you with two: one that is my new background that was edited with my w580i in-phonesoftware and the other is Grandfather Mtn. where we conquered earth, danced on the ice, took our "falling off the cliff" pictures, and I tried to wrestle with a Black Bear but couldn't because "the pathway was icy"... lame! We DID see an otter make a fool of us and two cougars (not the good kind) growl. And o yea, a 3.5 ft golden hawk. I'll throw that one in too.
If you look hard at the mtn photo ==>
You can see some crazy figures on the ridge. That'd be us! Keep tuned for more photos via bloggin' or FB.
Love to all my friends in Boone and especially to anyone who actually reads this :)
-Me

1,729 Reasons to Celebrate

The book-of-face reports to me that I know 1,729 well enough to call them friends. Jigga wah?!

I'm switching back to the Sony Ericsson w580i because my data plan on the crackberry got cancelled making it essentially useless and my phone told me I have 463 phone numbers. Jigga who?!

The book-of-face also tells me I have a grand total of 1279 pictures of me, 16 videos, and 21 invites to events (despite me trying to answer all of the ones I had a week ago).

You might call me cocky for pointing out the big numbers but if you refer to the title of the post I call them out for a much bigger reason than to pet my unique ego.

I've been reading a book called The Perks of Being a Wallflower which is a great n easy read. It reminded me of when I was a wallflower. There are a grand total of 3 or 4 people who know me know who knew me then but I was really a wallflower. I was totally stuck in my head. How did I go from the kid who spent his recesses walking alone and thinking to this 1,729 number? How did my social side get switched around like that? I have no idea but now I think of myself as a "connector" and know so many names of folks it makes me giggle.

Well none the less and always the more I wrote this to take a moment, reflect, and celebrate at the many moments, lives, and relationships that have made my moments, life, and relationships so rich. If these things were currency (and one day they will be) I'd be wealthy. There's not really an appropriate time to point all this out so this time will have to do, eh?

I praise God and thank all of you who've had any effect or impact on me, small or large, positive or negative... thank you for being you to me.

I'm now going to attach pictures of masses of people in which you can find me... kind of the way I think of myself at times.

Here's to the communities who've shaped me and the friends I love.

You are part of me.

What an exciting time!
That is the foremost thought in my head during the last week or so. We have a new President elect of Sigma Pi, I get to start transitioning (for the first time ever) a role of mine to another, a new phase is coming for the fraternity, my life is going to be changing fairly rapidly in the course of the next year or so, @ is full throttle and ALSO has a new President elect, we just celebrated 20 years of having a presence on campus, winter break is setting up to be a great (and expensive :( ) one, I get to see my family!, I'M GOING HOME TO OREGON SOON, we have a new President elect of the USA.... where does the list end? Nowhere, that's where.
With all that being said it is also a stressful time for me. Finances blow, my love life is never fully satisfying or fully fulfilling (?) unless I have a real, monogamous styled relationship (and the bar has now been moved higher than ever), school is relentlessly beating me to a pulp, and that whole "real life" thing that's coming up is killin me.
Well, that's pretty much the updates. I'm trying to be productive and living fully. ciao.