The (brief) return

OK, so it's been quite a while since I've posted on here. Quite a while meaning oh, a little more than five months. A lot has happened. For the short rundown, here we go (in convenient list format, if I can remember the code):

• I did, in fact, turn 21, and Hell has been unleashed upon the known universe.


• I left for a Dow Jones Newspaper Fund copy-editing internship in Bradenton, Fla. (just south of the Tampa Bay area)


• I completed said internship, and while I was there, the Lightning won the last Stanley Cup for a good long time, Reagan died, and Hurricane Charley rolled through just as I was leaving.


• I returned to school, and to my old hot spots.


• I started a diet and workout regimen to lose the extra weight I put on not eating right or exercising down in Florida.


• I returned to my favorite bar, and ended up visiting so much in the past three weeks of school that my friend and I have been offered the doorman job on Thursdays and Fridays (we worked together last night, when the Tigers blew a fuckin' tire on national TV and the damn Pats won on a missed Vanderjadt field goal. Read those last four words again. He goes 38-for-38 last season, and can't make a 48-yarder to tie the game. It looked horrible just coming off his foot. Also, my friend's fantasy team, which I have invested time and money in, has Edgerrin James, who scored 0 touchdowns but managed to fumble twice in the Indy loss. Fan-fucking-tastic.)


• I started hanging out with girls (Girls!) at the bar and elsewhere, even befriending one of the waitresses at said bar.


• School started.

So, a lot can happen in five months. Take, for instance, Ken Jennings winning an unprecidented 75 episodes of "Jeopardy!" in a row, and taking home more than $2.5 million after finally falling in a taping this week, to be aired in mid-October. I'm at the point in my life where I need to finish school only because I need the degree. I have all the training I could possibly get from here, and I'm ready to be thrown to the wolves, but I have to go through the motions to make sure I get that piece of parchment with my name on it and a degree and several fancy signatures. Good times.

Class is gonna start, so that's all for now, but I thought it might be good to check in after five friggin' months. So, the return is complete. Now, if the Rams can just beat the Cardinals Sunday and if the baseball Cardinals can keep the cruise control on, this will be one hell of a September. Later.