Pre-Game Speech

Just when I thought that winter break would last forever, the harsh realities that come with school starting have emerged from the abyss. Books will need to be bought, classes will need to be attended, toleration of classmates will be mandatory. A solid three and a half weeks away from school was definitely something that we all needed, especially myself. Still, I'm excited to get back in the groove of school.

Winter break this year was awesome. I took a little skate trip to D.C. with a friend, threw down on New Year's, created semi-professional relationships with individuals who have the potential to direct me in the right direction in regards to a career, and had an interview for what some would say is my first "actual" job. Quotations around the word actual because of the magnitude that this position (Non-Profit Admin at Think Of Us Organization) would have on my resume and experience for possible careers in the future. It looks like my life is slowly and steadily shaping into a mold that I hadn't planned for, but what's the fun in going into every situation in your life knowing the exact outcome?

I woke up today around 7:20 after falling asleep at 3:30/4ish in the morning, and throttled my way to the library to get an iced coffee from Starbucks (ironically I am in the library now writing this blog post). That cup of coffee held me down for several hours, and by several I mean seven hours. Why did I decide to eat so late? Not a clue, but that Chipotle burrito definitely played its part by filling me up.

Recent efforts have been made on my end to stop eating so much meat/animals and eat more plants. I had to google the difference between being vegan and vegetarian, and hundreds of others probably had to do the same. I get the two so confused just because they both have similar concepts, with one being a more strenuous diet than the other. Whatever.

There's still ice on the ground

I sent in a photo that my friend Dillon took of me doing an ollie to flat in Richmond a couple months ago to several magazines, and one of them already hit me back saying they'll try to get it into an upcoming issue. My reaction? Well for one, I was surprised that they got back to me within a day. The magazine who hit me back so fast is Skate Jawn, based out of Philly. Being that they're east coast, they probably saw "Richmond" in the body of the email I sent them and were like "east coast!". As corny and unlikely as that scenario sounds I hope it went something like that. I have a heavy intuition towards me seeing that picture in an issue of the mag in the near future...

There's still ice on the ground and the local community college and other institutions like Old Dominion University are going back to school today. I cannot relate, due to the fact that VCU doesn't start for another week and I can laugh at those who are tripping on the ice around their campuses until karma hits me with a baseball bat and has me on the ground wallowing in pain. Global warming is real! It's about to be in the low 60's for a day or two this week. Usually, I'd say this is just a normal depiction of typical Virginia weather since we as a state do have a tendency to mix all 4 seasons into 1. But, scientific research says otherwise. We really have to stop killing the earth.

Lastly, the Panthers and Bills lost today. Cam Newton is one of my favorite quarterbacks, and the Bills were in the playoffs for the 1st time in almost 2 decades. My heart and my ego hurt for both of the teams yesterday for a smooth 30 minutes after the game, but then the cold weather outside completely shifted my mind from sympathizing for them to finding ways I could be warmer in a car that took forever to heat up before driving home yesterday. For a lack of better words, it's brick outside.

chamber of reflection

The time is about 5 am and I really don't know why I'm awake to be completely honest. I fell asleep around 9:45, expecting to only arise when the clock turned 7 the next morning. Turns out that I was soundly wrong...

A new year has come upon us! New Year's festivities that happened this past January 1st were jubilant and joyous, nothing that I didn't expect though. I threw a bottle off someone's porch stand, someone accidentally peed on my Dale Earnhardt shirt that my really good friend Heather gave me (it's a staple to my wardrobe), and a bunch of the Midlo gang pulled up out of the abyss. Twas' an exciting night if you were into beer, ladies, screaming, and stepping on people's nice shoes.

School starts in 11 days exactly and I'm more excited than anything. Winter break has treated me well, but I want to be back on the daily grind. As weird as it sounds, going back and forth to school and immediately after to work is easier for me than sitting around and galvanizing with my friends. Let me rephrase that: having a definite schedule for the week is useful for time and money purposes, and I am slowly learning that my friends will (hopefully) be there and understand that we are out here grinding and trying to get this schmoney, education, and rest. Now THAT sounds tons better.

Is it taboo if I leave my room right now, 5:25 AM EST, and make a bowl of Honey Bunches of Oats and wake up everyone in my house with my munching downstairs? Does the fact that I would be using vanilla soy milk make it more feasible? How do I fall back asleep? If there are any suggestions or remedies, please feel free to interject.

Lots of good music has been shown to me in the past couple weeks. RICEWINE, TOPS, Porches, older Mac DeMarco and new Trippie Red have been playing on my Spotify as of late. I've also come to recognize how important music is, man... If you're listening to shitty music you gotta step your game up. But, then again, who am I to tell you if you're music taste is shitty? HA! Do what you want, I'm honestly just rambling at this point.  My stomach is rumbling and I don't know if I can hold off on this bowl of cereal. I think this is my queue to jet!