HUGH SHIELDS!!!

Here's a picture of the guys at SOCO who were the first to find out about our amazing awards!



To sum up my weekend:

Friday night, work. For all your prescription needs, go to your friendly Walgreens. We got robbed at around 5 am, so that was cool. I then headed home for my BIG saturday.

Saturday. Get home at 6:45. Pack for Nashville, take hour and a half power nap. Meet up with Kenny in Cartersville for a trip up I-24 to Franklin (I thought we were in Nashvegas, but really it was Franklin)

We arrive 2 hours ahead of schedule, due to the trip being shorter than expected, and the time echange...change into our freshest attire (I busted out the yellow pants) and go to ritual/banquet.


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Here is where I want to put in that I LOVE MY FRATERNITY! I ran into no less than 6 guys who I ran with at Karnea in Pittsburgh, and several other people who I have met through my travels and experiences in Delta Tau Delta.

Guys who you meet from all over the country will stay in touch with you, you will share good times, get them to visit, and have a life full of memories. Not only will you meet people from your own school, and don't get me wrong, there are no better friends of mine than Epsilon Omega, but the larger brotherhood is amazing!
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On to the banquet....We won EVERYTHING! Ole Blue, or Rick, our chapter advisor, won advisor of the year, we won recruiting, community service, adopt-a-school, etc. And then the big ones came.

Our chapter has been in existance since 1969. We had, until saturday, won any major awards from the national fraternity. The Court of Honor, given to the top 20 chapters: we had never sniffed it.

Hugh Shields, the top 10, we hadn't dared dream of it before. Well, Saturday night that all changed.

Epsilon Omega won our first Hugh Shields! On the Hugh Shields flag, it reads pro ti moi in Greek letters, meaning "First Among Equals."

I'm proud of my chapter, and of my fraternity...now lets go do it again next year!!!

Saturday after the banquet was one major celebration. I stayed up too late, and paid for it Sunday.

I had to drive Sunday, as Kenny drove us up there...I made it to Calhoun before Kenny drove the last 20 miles or so. When I got home at 3:00, I crashed for 8 hours. Monday I slept all day, and here I am on Tuesday, refreshed.

what's going on?

well, I've been slacking...I had a semi-busy weekend last weekend, and will have a great one this weekend. Last friday I was at Alabama visiting the Law School, and loved it. Strange for a Auburn fan to say, but I really enjoyed it.

New acceptances are just DePaul, but I've been offered a scholarship to DePaul, UGA, and Mercer. UGA was 5K, and Mercer and DePaul are 20K each. YAY Scholarships!

I also have started my job. 3rd shift isn't as bad as it seems, but it does take away half of the daytime for you, which stinks.

Tommorow I will head to Nashville for the banquet at Southern Division Conference (SOCO) for the fraternity. If we win Hugh Shields, I'll freak out...

No kayaking to report, it hasnt rained the way we'd like lately.

Diesel 75 for Sale

I'm having trouble sending pictures of my boat out to people, so here they are on here...

Shoot something, Alabama, Job hunting

Well, the lack of rain is making me mad...I want to boat.

Saturday, Evan, Nate, Andrew, Jeremy and I all went to the Adairsville Sporting Range to shoot skeet as well as pistols and a AR-15. It was a blast! I haven't shot my 12 gauge much since I got it, and i didnt even pull it out of the case this fall. I just had no time: football games, fraternity, graduating, etc. all got in the way.

This photo is one from about a year and a half ago, some of the guys went to Brad's farm and shot skeet all afternoon...one of the most fun times I have had with my brothers.

I shot my first assault rifle, the AR-15, which is awesome. No recoil, and pretty accurate. I now want a pistol, so that was a bad thing that came out of Saturday, as I cannot afford a gun at all. I can barely afford to eat and go on my cost-friendly adventures.

In other news, I got into Alabama...I don't remember if I put that on here yet, but it surely is now. And I got a call yesterday saying I got a 17,500 per year scholarship! So Thursday night I will be off to Bama-land to take a visit. Friday is Accepted Students Day. Buy hopefully I will be driving through the rain there and back so I can go boating Saturday.

Job prospects are looking up; right now, I have one offer, and have another pending. Hopefully I can start working sooner rather than later.

Long weekend

Well, I'm doing an awesome job of the two posts per week thing, right? haha.

I left Wednesday afternoon to go to South Carolina for a law school visit. Stayed with my buddy Rob, who is one of Evan's fraternity brothers from NGCSU. We had a grand ole time, and needless to say, we paid for it in the morning.

Thursday brought my law school visit, and it went ok. No tour guide, no one to greet me at 1 when I was suposed to show up, and then it all changed. Did I ever tell you it is a small world? Well, it is.

My info session giver was a friend of Sarah Smith (the woman who I credit my actually attending GSU to, as well as a former employer...she also wrote one of my letters of reccomendation to law school) from undergrad, and is still friends with her today. Hopefully Beth will be the one to assign me scholarships (GOD, if you are reading my blog, make it happen PLEASE!)

Thursday night was standard Statesboro fare, if you hang with the Delts, you know what I mean. Friday was bid day party, standard fare again, except with a really ballin drink machine.

Saturday was EPIC...Savannah and a trip accross the bridge to South Carolina. Details are incriminating...sorry.

SUNDAY!!! This game was amazing. I was saddened that Kurt didn't get a chance to throw a Hail Mary to Larry to win the game. It would have been so dramatic. Oh well. It was still an awesome game that was poorly officiated, and one play kept the Cards from winning...(the James 'I'm a thug who punches cardinals players and no one cares because I'm the Defensive Player of the Year' Harrison Pick-6) I might do a blog on what I think would have occured were it not for that play. Basically the Cards win by 10, and Big Ben is a laughing stock when he throws 3 picks in the 2nd half trying to bring the team back.

Monday brought a visit to Mercer law, it was ok. Nothing special, but if they give me money it might turn into something special. But it will take a truck load...

So that was my week..i'll check in again soon.