54 hours...

So here I am only 54 hours from leaving the only place I've ever known. Have you ever been at a time in your life where you feel you need to just stop and soak everything in? Well that's how I feel right now. I felt this way in my last high school soccer game, at both my graduations, when I was initiated into the greatest fraternity in the world, and now that feeling comes upon me again. A turning point, I guess would be the best way to describe the point that I have arrived at in my life. I get to "start over", nobody knows me, nobody cares, nobody is going to feel sorry for me in Texas if I fail. So why then am I going? I enjoy being who I am here, I love the life I have created for myself here in the 'Land of Enchantment'.
I leave behind so much it is hard to image that a better life is awaiting me in the land of cattle and oil. Tonight I went out for possibly the last time with 4 really good friends (Greg, Matt, Sam and Adam) but they are only a small fraction of the amazing friendships I've made here. There are so many more people who have helped create, stabilize and encourage the person I am.
If you were an SAE between 2000 and present you probably had a part in that. A lot of people don't realize how important SAE is to me and will always be. I feel forever indebted to the fraternity and the bonds within that I have made. I watched over my 5 and a 1/2 years as an undergrad and saw many people use the fraternity for the right and many for the wrong reasons. I hope in my heart that I used SAE for the right reasons. It is not for the people who want chicks and beer, you're in college if you can't get those two things without SAE you're pretty much a chump anyway. The people who used SAE for those reasons didn't end up doing to well; they transfered, dropped out, or disappeared. But then there are people who saw SAE for what it truley was, an amazing opportunity to make the most out of the little time in our lives we have between high school dipolma and career. Those days, although sometimes not the most graceful were the greatest days of my life and I thank many important brothers (you know who you are) for that.
For any of you who know me well enough, you understand how important my family is to my life as well. Without those 3 I don't know what or who I would be today. My dad is pretty much my best friend, my mom is...well a mom...the loving, caring, amazing person everyone wants their mother to be and then I have my sister, to whom I wish I could have taught and molded more. I made many mistakes in the last 5-6 years and I have been too busy to sit and guide her along a different path so she doesn't make my mistakes again. I feel as if I have let her down in a way. But fortunately, I feel there isn't much to worry about, she has a solid head on her shoulders and doesn't let the 'unmentionable' side of college life catch up with her.
So tonight I sit in my computer chair with an amazing past, a past I don't think anyone would like to undo, but what lies ahead? I don't know, you don't know, nobody does. But honestly how much better can this day get? I have the love and friendships of those behind me and the opportunity and freedom of my future. Wow! 54 hours...and a turning point.

"One who advances confidently in the directions of his dreams and endeavours to achieve the life in which he has imagined, will achieve success unexpected in common hours" - Henry David Thoreau

What's this?

So on this site you can check in on me from wherever you are in the world. That's an odd concept. Although you can find out what I'm doing anytime you want I think this might be more for me than any of you. I'm 15 days away from being in a place where I know nobody, and have no idea what to do. I will be attending the University of Dallas in Irving, Texas. I will persuing my Master's degree in Sports and Entertainment Management and hopefully will be finding a job out there.
Some things you can expect from this site are updates on what I'm doing, where I'm working, what I think of Texas, any Texan slang I tend to pick up on the way and of course a little humor.
This is a new concept to me and I'm sure I'll get better at this as time goes by but for now this is all you get...stay tuned.