jd yates

As I continue to make efforts to get myself back into the swing of writing regularly, I’ll attempt to give a quick and dirty accounting of what’s been happening in my life recently:

In regards to school: Finished up my one remaining class for the Spring after dropping French like a douche. I’ve come to the conclusion that foreign language classes are not meant to be taken online. English grade was decent, which I’m pleased about, but somehow managed to make me feel busy the entire semester. Lots of worthless little assignments.

The bigger news on this front is that I finally submitted my application to SMU. It’s been about 10 days and I’m absolutely wracked with anxiety. Hopefully I’ll get an answer soon… In the case that it’s positive the next hurdle will be to figure out how to pay for it. But I’ll cross that bridge when (read: if) I come to it.

About work: I finally finished a huge project for my mom, which is a massive weight off my shoulders. It was my primary source of distraction and frustration over the Spring and I’m ecstatic to have it behind me. Between that and school being out for the summer I’ll have plenty of time to re-focus on my marketing duties at the restaurant, which I’m certain will alleviate some of this guilt.

Regarding life, in general: This will be the summer in which I make up for all the traveling I haven’t been doing. Just returned from a week in San Francisco with Aaron. It was incredible and not what I expected and gave me the opportunity to turn a lot of digital friendships into real ones. (Twitter-speak: @aarontait, @airrun, @markmancao, @tristanchoi, @kenshi23, etc…). We all went out and got housed for Aaron’s birthday and it was a fantastic time. I got to do some great sightseeing too, but nothing too touristy which is perfect. All the photos are on Facebook, and they’re epic. I’ll write in more detail on this later, for sure, for that is the only way to do it true justice.

In a few weeks I’m headed up to Beaver Creek for a few days in the mountains. This’ll be an interesting trip cuz I’m not really sure what I’ve gotten myself into. I’ll be spending 10 days with the aunt I’ve barely spoken to since we fell out last year (she organized and paid for everyone’s trip). On the upside my brother will be there, so surely we’ll find something fun with which to occupy ourselves.

Sometime later in the year I may have another opportunity to travel on the cheap, so I’m making a list of potential destinations. Miami sits pretty high on the list, since my chances of seeing beaches this summer are looking pretty slim. Also, Chicago because I’ve never been, and New York because I’ve been dying to go back since the moment I left. We shall see.

As far as my personal life is concerned: It’s kept me busy to say the least. Have already spent ample pool time and patio time this spring. This weather is my favorite and I can hardly say no to getting out in it. I have great friends, as always. And naturally fail utterly at relationships. This is a fact I’ve very nearly come to terms with… and then not so much. It probably deserves its own post… never to be published.

On today: I’m stuck indoors. A trip out on Jake’s boat yesterday left me without about an ounce of flesh from my shin after I accidentally kicked the prop underwater. It hurts a bit and I’m trying not to walk on it too much. See Facebook and Twitpic for gory gross-out photos. The upside of this particular event is that it gave me time and a bit of motivation to finally re-launch the blog on the new domain. Welcome back me!

This has certainly gone on long enough. If you’ve made it this far *applause* and thanks! I’ll get into more detail and more recent events in the next post.