It's Official: The Good. The Bad. The Great.

Thursday July 15, 2010

I have some Good News and I have some Bad News....

The Good News: The time has finally come. After waiting for over 3 months, I finally received confirmation that I have been granted my 5th year of competition by the NCAA and the CAA. The funny thing is I was sent an email yesterday but overlooked it. In any case, I am so amped about this great news! Good thing I already have one degree. I feel that this process will be a lot smoother because I have already went through it once. Now all I have to do is do it all over again. Reminds me of practice; repetition, repetition, repetition. Secretly, I didn't want to go back to school but I did want to train and compete. I guess that's any athlete right? Can you hear me out there, lol!?


S/N: My uncle told me this morning, "I want to see you on books, television, buses, and on the Whitehouse. As soon as you get on top I want tickets to every meet." I don't know if I can pull off having the Whitehouse paint a mural of me on the outside of it but I believe Lord willing, I can muster appearing on television, lol. The reason I'm laughing because my uncle is the countriest (sp) man in the world. I can barely understand what he says sometimes because of his super think southern accent. Hahah. I can hear him now!

And the bad news....

I don't know what I want to get my Masters Degree in. I want to teach high school but I wasn't sire what. No, I don't want to be physical education teacher. I feel like that would be a cop out as much as I love to workout, I definitely do not want to chase kids all day. Then I thought about teaching History, but I know I would get bored very easily. I need to study something exciting like Pyrotechnics or Chemistry, so that I can make explosions all day!!! Oh yeah I forget I know nothing about Chemistry lol. Can you picture me as the Present Day George Washington Carver? I can. On that note the memory of Mr. Carver reminds me of something he said,

"No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving something behind."

My plan is to leave something behind for the generations behind me. I'm not sure what it will be but I'm sure it will be something great. Make sure you do the same. Challenge yourself today: Try to do something for someone else not to get credit or recognition but because you sincerely want to bring joy to their life.

The Great News is: I'M ALIVE AND SO ARE YOU!!

Signing off, gotta hit the weights,

D