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Does anyone else think the Jonas Brothers and Hannah Montanah are just totally awesome right now?

Rando Post

I don't know if I am a particularly fidgety person, but I have the toughest time keeping my hands still while I'm studying. I made a conscious effort tonight to avoid touching my face while I was reading about financial investing.

Also random, but for some reason, after I have posted, my blog doesn't seem to update and show the new post for at least 2 days. This is weird.

Spring Break

I ventured home for the past week to enjoy Spring Break. While many of my friends opted for exotic trips to Cancun or Puerto Vallarta, I felt going home would be a nice break from the hustle and bustle of the Academy. I spent pretty much the whole week relaxing-spending time with family and friends, watching movies, visiting the gym, and of course- eating to excess.

I will miss Oregon until the next time I am home, which is looking more and more like Thanksgiving. I am currently looking for a 3-day weekend between now and then that I might be able to fly home for a nice visit.

WTF?

I did my laundry yesterday, using Tide detergent. As I got back to my room and started to fold my laundry and put it away, I smelled a shirt as I put it away. It smelled like Chinese food. I then smelled a towel to see if it smelled the same. Yep. No Bueno!

Sean' Sheltered Life

Call it what you want, but attending the Air Force Academy sometimes makes me feel like I am five years old. Around a year ago, the Comm people (Communications Squadron) started a war on cadet's, blocking numerous legitimate websites. Here is just a partial list of the websites which the Academy feels are inappropriate for the Cadet Wing:

• myspace.com
• youtube.com
• break.com
• flickr.com
• postsecret.blogspot.com
• vimeo.com
  
• thesuperficial.com
• and a host of others

Attempting to visit any of the aforementioned sites leads to the following screen...


Suck!

Where have you been?

To all my loyal readers (Molly and my critic-Anonymous[see prior post comments]), I apologize for my period of absence. February was a busy month! To start the month off, I was part of the 50th annual Academy Assembly, which hosted more than 100 delegates from over 15 countries to discuss a relevant topic-dismantling terrorism. This program for which I am the CFO made NY Times headlines by inviting 3 ex-terrorists/reformed fundamentalist Christians to come talk to the delegates. To close out the week, Steve Emerson came to talk about radical Islam's role in terrorism today. He was blunt, truthful, and full of facts. Despite this, he still managed to piss off our entire Muslim population (15 kids). Despite these tense times, I enjoyed the week, including free $30 and $45 plate meals where I got to show off my new suit.

I turned the big 21 on February 17th, and celebrated at Old Chicago's, a wonderful pizza place, with several of my closest friends. I am not afraid to boast that I am a lightweight, and got quite a buzz after 5 drinks. I ended up having close to 9 on the night including some drinks with great names-kamikaze (picture), scooby snacks, four horsemen (yuck!), muff diver (hehe) , soco lime , Irish Car bomb, and a few more.
Unfortunately the excitedness of being 21 was short lived. Although I am 21, I am still a cadet, and thus have school work. I have had 6 tests, 4 quizzes, and 1 project due in the past two weeks, thus my absence from the blogging game. I am back though. 18 days until Spring Break, and in my opinion a well deserved break. Exciting plans anyone?

I've always wondered what happened to the loser's hats after they lost the Super Bowl, or any other major sporting event. This gives the answer. It seems like this stuff would be worth some money if you could get your hands on it.

I'm goinst to be an ol man YO?

21 on Sunday? Can this be the best year ever? Most likely yes!

My Confession

I thought I might disappoint a few of you in writing this....but then I thought about it, and I really don't care.

I have to admit an obsession of mine; one I've had for about 4 years now. So here it goes. S.O.B.: I love The O.C.! I feel like I know all the characters, and that we are practically family after all the drama we have been through together.

Phew. That feels better. I am in the middle of watching Season 4 right now (on DVD of course) and it is glorious!

Spaceships

I just read Stephanie's post about some jerk that told her SR-71 an was flying overhead, when it was probably just an EMB 120 flying into Medford International Airport. Which, speaking of, why is it an "international" airport. I'm pretty sure it flies to SF, PDX, Las Vegas, Seattle, and Denver, which are all within the borders of our country....except maybe Denver. It might be gifted to Mexico along with Texas if Hillary Clinton becomes president. But anyways, I have a similar story about some know it all telling me ridiculous stories about the wild blue yonder.




does not equal






One day, in Kindergarten, it was almost lunch time, which meant it was time to clean up the wood block station, where myself and one Aidan Morrell were playing. For some reason or another I remember that it was his turn to pick them up. But then he made me a promise. Aidan had this really smart older brother, made, who he convinced me was building a spaceship. Well he made me a one time offer, that if I helped him pick up the wood blocks, that I would get a premium seat on his brother's spaceship. Being no dummy, I helped the kid out. His older brother was really smart. Needless to say, it never worked out, and I'm still pissed.

Superbowl Predictions

Patriots: 34
Giants: 24

The commercials will be lackluster, and less creative than years past.

Papa's Got a New Suit

I bought my first suit a couple of weeks back. After picking it up this afternoon, I thought I'd try it on, and see how it looked. Answer: Good. Real Good. P.S. I don't think paisley has ever looked this good.

Knives and Fighting

This kid leans over to me in the middle of one of my classes the other day and asks "Hey, you got a knife" - pointing to a long string he is trying to cut away from his sock. At first, I was honored that he might consider me the type of person that might carry around a pocket knife, ya know, just for the heck of it. Even though I have never carried a knife, I replied, "not on me", like I have a whole collection back in my room.

Good news to report. On Tuesday, I finished my last super intense PE class for the rest of my time here at the Academy. Unarmed Combat 2, was the follow on the Unarmed Combat 1, which I took last semester. Now, I have PE classes like racquetball, Golf, and SCUBA to fill my physical fitness requirements. Tight.

F*** being sick

Every winter, in the January/February time frame I get a cold that won't go away. We're talking like two weeks and no sign of relief. I take a multivitamin, I take echinacea, I sleep a good amount on the weekends at least. Well, I'm in that sickness slump and trying desperately to get out of it. It doesn't help when you are outside constantly, the temperature is like 15 degrees, but then the wind is like f.u., thats not nearly cold enough so I'm going to blow ice particles into your face at like 50 miles per hour! Yea, thats probably keeping me hella sick.

In other news, I'm in the process of picking out my AFSC (Air Force Specialty Code), in other words, the job I will have for the next 4-5 years, at least. I'm pretty excited about the idea of actually having a job and not being in school...until I decide to get my MBA that is.

For A Good Life

I'm sure everyone wonders at some point what success in life means for them (besides having an A-list blog). I think this list does a pretty good job at summing up many of the things I find really important. What does success mean to you?

The Ugly Duckling Blog

Sometimes I wish I had the creative capacity (and time) to create funny anti-smoking campaigns, or find cool links on the in-ter-net. Unfortunately I spend my time with mundane tasks like aeronautical engineering and managerial accounting.

I don't think anyone wants a blog about the manometry equation or comptrollers. Right?

In Case You Were Wondering

$10,000 invested in AAPL (Apple) 5 years ago....

worth $241,000 today. Thats ballin' straight up.

Fall Term

After missing my flight back to school and living without the internet for a day, I got some pleasant news. I had my best semester yet at USAFA. This is the my tally from fall semester.

Leaving

I think leaving home gets harder every time, I just get better at dealing with it.