one of my favorite pearl jam videos. not like they have a huge catalog to chose from, but still. it was on the yield album and seth mcfarlane, the guy that did all the spawn stuff as well as i think bought mark mcgwire’s record home run ball did a sick video for the song.
anyway…
the last two days, i have been laid up on the couch, sick, at la casa delYerg with some coughing type of bungarutis. really not all that delectable of a situation, so i am not going to use my descriptive prowess to elaborate. but it gave me a chance to take a look at theYerg.com.
now, i have already transferred all the blogs that i did on myspace to this page. and most of those were nonsensical and fun. i really embraced my randomness and a wide open type of thought patterns. it wasn’t necessarily my hey day since with the randomness, i was all over the place. it makes things a little hard to follow. but it was entertaining complaining.
well, yesterday, i remembered my blogger.com days. this was when AD helped me set up the site on blogger.com and i had a screen door on a wacky little website builder program that fed the whole thing. when i originally started, it was to keep my friends and family apprised of my day to day life down here in charlotte so that they wouldn’t worry about me being so far from home. a lot of the blogs were about me going to play volleyball and then going out for a beer or two afterward.
i read the one blog about how i was amazed that i had gone uptown to connolly’s twice in one month! its weird to think about how much i have evolved since then. a couple of weeks back, i ran into greg (whom i used to play volleyball with) at dilworth neighborhood grill when we were having the Five O’clock Shadow party for Beards BeCAUSE. i had seen him every once in awhile since i quit playing ball about a year and a half ago, but those times were just to say hello and exchange well wishes. this time, i was enjoying the quiet before the storm on one of the events. i got there early and was reflecting over how the night was going to go and what it was going to do for the charity. he and i got to talking and at one point he just stopped me. he said, “dude, you aren’t even the same guy i knew two years ago.” i knew he meant it in a good way. and i was flattered.
this next year, i think, is going to be huge for me. as i continue to be more and more comfortable with who i am and what i am capable of doing, things are going to take off. it makes me think about all those times back in school (all levels) when teachers and then of course my parents would lecture me about not living up to my potential. but you will never hear me say that i have wasted the last 20 or so years of my life. the evolution of me has lead to this…