MLK Weekend...

STUDIO 48 – Ok, today is the day that we celebrate Dr. MLK Jr’s birthday. So in honor of this day I will open this Blog with an obligatory MLK day joke. “Today is a day of remembrance, of celebration, of honorarium, and of eating fried chicken, watermelon, chitterlings, and drinking Kool-Aid.” There, now that we have moved past that...

I feel like I spent the majority of this weekend on the road and that is because, well, I did. I went home Friday to watch my brother play basketball. Unless something strange happens, that will be the last game that I ever see him play because of my busy schedule, so I felt obliged to make the trip. He played a few minutes and the team looked sharp and upset cross-town (and by town, I mean village) foe Flowery Branch. They are 4-1 in region and tied for the lead.
On Saturday, I got to see my good friend Steven. He goes to school in Virginia, so we rarely get to hang out outside of some lake days during the summer when he is back in Georgia. This trip was different because he brought a girl with him. For those of you who don’t know him, dating the same girl to the point that he feels comfortable introducing her to his family is quite a mature step. We have both been accused of kinda... “dating-around” in the past (that’s a play on “sleeping-around” for those of you who didn’t catch that. But I don’t sleep-around, so I was a date-slut of sorts in the past). Heck, I guess the past is truly coming to an end, whatever that means. Her family is from Texas and her brother wants to attend the Univer$ity of Georg!a as soon as he graduates high school, so I brought her down here to show her around a little bit. It was the coldest it has been in quite sometime, so the majority of our tour was done inside of while driving. She is a music major so I took them out to East Campus to show her ‘The Hugh’. She was very impressed with the facilities. I think the size of the campus overwhelmed her. All-in-all, it was a good trip I could not be more excited for my friend. She is awesome and a great compliment for him. Upon returning to Gaines-Vegas, we decided to go to a local establishment and enjoy each others company and some good food. Afterwards, we went to Lakewood and (this may sound childish and immature) played Sardines. For those of you who don’t know, the game of Sardines is the inverse of hide-N-seek. One person hides and everyone else searches, only when you find the person that is hiding, you hide with them. This continues until there is one poor soul still searching and noticing that everyone else is gone. Oh, did I mention that the game is played in complete darkness? It is called sardines because the hiding spot gets pretty crammed as more and more individuals attempt to hide there. I returned back home around 1:00.
On Sunday, I was scheduled to speak to the college ministry at Lakewood. I got there on time and with no drama. I delivered my short, but poignant devotional, did some meet-N-greet with some people that I rarely get to see, and then had to get out of there. I changed into my basketball band uniform while driving (very briskly) down 129 to Athens. I made it to Stegeman to catch the bus to the Russell Athletic College Shoot-Out at the Gwinnett Center Arena in Duluth. The Lady Dawgs blew out the University of Miami (AKA “The U” for a bunch of tools on ESPN). The day was fun and I enjoyed the company immensely and even had a brief moment with Mr. K-ck. Maybe I should get off his back a little bit, he is still learning after all and he is very cool to talk to. I really do enjoy the people in RedCo@ts, but the people have never been an issue.
Today, I have been kinda lazy. I slept in, and then played Ultimate at SECP. It was very enjoyable. If I keep this up, I might get back into decent shape after all.
Tomorrow promises to be a LONG day as I will leave Studio 48 around 9:30 AM and not return until around Midnight. Wow, if I make it through this semester in one piece, I will have some amazing character built up.