Update- February 9th

One month down in this semester and I haven't really been blogging whatsoever.  So I guess I will just use this post to update everything that has or is going down.  I have been very busy with classes because I am taking 18 hours.  I have been trying to use my Fridays (since I have no classes) to get ahead on my accounting homework.  I have an assignment due each day in that class and it is very time consuming, so getting it done on Friday really frees up a lot of time during my week.  I have 6 exams over the next 3 weeks, so I will be busy, but I don't see any of them being very difficult.  

Besides school I had a very busy January on the weekends.  My first weekend of the school year I spent skiing in Colorado with my brother and his wife.  It was a blast.  We spent two days at Keystone and one day at Vail.  The weather was perfect and my legs were sore for a long time after I got back.  The following weekend I went to visit two of my friends at Wabash College and had a really good time there. I always enjoy hanging out with them.  The weekend after that was my friend Lane's birthday.  She turned 21 so my friend Chris and I decided to go to Miami (OH) to help her celebrate.  It was a really great time.  I danced at one of the bars for over an hour, which is a huge accomplishment for me because you are lucky to see me dance one time.  It was really a great time.

Since returning to school, this semester I have tried to have a much more open mind towards everything in life.  I am one of the pickiest eaters, but I have been trying a lot of new food lately.  I tried sushi and edamame while I was out in Colorado.  This past weekend I tried shrimp for the first time at my Dad's birthday dinner.  I found all of these things very tasty. As of late I have also been on a huge pepper kick.  I am trying to include serrano and jalapeno peppers in as much of my food as possible.  It is weird because I have never been a fan of spicy food, but peppers have been really enticing lately.  I have also decided that I need to put less what on people's perception of me.  Sure it is important to have a good perception, but I am talking about caring what people think about my actions or the things I say.  I do not need to worry about if someone would make fun of me for something I did or talk shit about me behind my back.  I understand that I can be the bigger person and not let it dictate my actions.  I will keep updated on my progress on keeping an open mind.

There are two awesome things that I am planning for the near future and I am really hoping that I can accomplish both of them.  First off, I am seriously contemplating attempting to write a book.  It would be about college, but have a very different outlook then the typical college advice book.  More to come on that later, but I don't want to reveal too many ideas on my book.  Secondly, I am wanting to travel to Utah during the month of May.  I guess this idea came to me after watching "Into the Wild" and reading the book.  I know that I could not do what Chris McCandless did, but I hope that I can at least mimic it in some sense.  Hopefully, my great friend Michael will be joining me.  If everything works out, I want to spend a large part of my short break between school and my internship hiking through parks in Utah such as Moab and the Narrows.  I feel like it is a necessity before I finish college to go off and do something that I have never done. I think that it would be a very liberating and life altering experience to go out into the wilderness with no real modern amenities.  

OK I have rambled on enough for this post and can't think of anything else to write about.  I will try to write more frequently so my posts will become shorter.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.  Live the life you've imagined. - Henry David Thoreau

Do not be too moral.  You may cheat yourself out of much life.  Aim above morality.  Be not simply good: be good for something.  - HDT

Happiness is only real when shared. - Christopher McCandless