It is FINALLY HERE!  My last term here at NCC.  A lot of people have been pointing it out to me, asking, “can you believe its your last term?”  To be completely honest, it hasn’t hit me yet.  I think about week 6 it will.  Maybe even after this first weekend.

Although we have started taking classes and everything, I have not been fully engaged yet.  This Thursday - Sunday I am working the Shamrock Shuffle Expo in the city for Running Unlimited.  Its very exciting.  I am leaving here tomorrow and won’t be back until Sunday and that makes it very hard to get very involved yet.  I think once this is done, I will be able to settle a little bit.

I have also starting running….. again.  This time since the start of spring break I have run everyday except two over break.  I have been feeling good so far, and want to run a fast 5k in the spring.  I did a mile time trial just to see where I was at.  I ran a 5:06.  I wanted to break 5 but for only two weeks of some 30-45 min runs, I think thats respectable.  Besides my pacing was all off.  I wanted to run 75-75 for a 2:30 half and if I felt like I could move the second half I would.  That is not how it went at all.  I ran a 71 first 400 and I think that made the rest of the mile a mess.  I was still 2:30 at the half but dying rather than coming on.  Oh well… one more month and I will blow that time out of the water.

I need to say goodbye to my friend, Josh Hendricks, who left us here at NCC to move onto bigger and better things.  He was the sports information director here, and has gone to pursue another part of his career.  Good luck, buddy.  I hope to see you around.

Well I think that is it for now, Ill report back later and hopefully there will more to write about once this term gets going.

You know, my real last thought is about my childhood.  For the longest time, my dad would sing me some songs before I went to bed.  We would say a prayer, he would give me a glass of water and he would sing me two songs.  I could remember the first one very easily but the second one eluded me, until Easter.  I finally found out what it was.  I started to think how I looked forward to having this nightly ritual and was a little sad that he doesn’t do that anymore (yeah some of my friends made fun of me for that).  It also made me think about all the fun, innocent things I did in my youth ( so long ago, right?) But now that I am graduating college I really think about how innocent and fun it really was.  I want people to let me know something that they remember from their childhood.  Like walking to school with their brother everyday, or building forts by the creek with friends or living at the pool during the summer break.  I want to know what innocence you are missing.  See-you-bye…

So today I got a Zune. For those of you who do not know what that is, you should. The ipod era might be coming to an end. The Zune is a portable music device just like the ipod except way better. With my Zune I can connect with other Zunes to send and receive music, pictures or other files (kind of like bluetooth). The Zune also is constantly updated when it is connected to the computer so that it is always up to date with the latest firmware and software. I did not like my ipod at all because I always had problems with it. I am definitely excited about my new purchase.

We are about to enter into our finals week. I don’t know how but I made it through this term. My finals schedule is actually going to be very easy because most of my classes required a project or presentation instead of a final test. I definitely like that way better because I have no problem with presentations and I am way better at that than written tests.

Last night I went to the Concert Winds. It was a production performed by the North Central Concert Band. It was awesome! That was actually the first time I have been to a musical production here at NCC. I should have been going the whole time I was here. I guess I thought that I would be bored or something, but the music kept me engaged.

I also had a chance to finally go and see Jesus Christ Superstar, which was the senior musical this year. I thought it was great! I loved it because I look at the production and see that it was my classmates that put it together. They put in so much hard work and time into that and I think it paid off. Congratulations to my friends involved in that.

Well with that in mind I think I am going to get out of here. I have one more project that needs to get done by Tuesday. I have some time but not much. Once I am done with that it is SPRING BREAK, and then on to my last term. That makes me think of one very important question: is it still considered spring break if its not even spring yet? Think about it. See-you-bye…