Update

Well we are two weeks into school and it is going well. My morning classes are tough only because they are early. I just can't get myself to go to bed early. It's past midnight as I write this haha. I seem to remember my old roommate Dave Anderson going to bed around 10 during his student teaching semester...what a party pooper! jk Dave. I am lacking on sleep but I'm surviving. I did my final undergraduate presentation this morning and it went well. Now I just have to sit through three more days of other peoples' presentations. After that, I will be student teaching the full day at Seward High.

I taught my first classes today in PE. We are starting our basketball unit, conveniently. The classes went fairly well. My cooperating teacher gave me some good pointers after the first class period which I used in the second. Unbelievably, the kids seem to like me and we have a good time.

Preseason basketball is under way and it is pretty exciting. Besides the fact that our guys are not in great shape, we have a lot of talent. We, as coaches, are going to have a lot of options and a lot of experimenting to do before our opening game. We have a 6’8” Serbian transfer from Montana Tech. He scored 20 points against Boise State last year. I think he will easily be top five in the conference in scoring, if not first. It is weird to say that we have a lot of depth at our big positions. Not too many teams at any level can say that they have too many big men. Our situation is kind of the other way around. I have no doubts that it is going to be a better season than the two previous ones in which we won 10 games each.

We started our Intramural 4 on 4 sand volleyball last night and crushed our opponents. I think we have a good chance of winning the whole thing. It kind of depends on how our weakest link, me, comes through in the clutch. Our team includes Leah and me, our good friends Ben and Ashley (engaged- Leah is maid of honor), the women’s basketball coach Drew Olson, and Ben’s sister Faith. Our girls have all played a lot of volleyball in the past and our guys are just good athletes. I hope we can come out on top of the other 21 teams.

Intramural mixed doubles tennis is coming up and I am pumped for that. Since Leah is foregoing her senior year of college tennis because of student teaching next semester, we are able to team up for intramurals. I am 99% sure that we are the two best non-collegiate tennis players on campus. So we should roll. This summer I lost to our men’s number one player 6-2, 6-4, 6-4 and I have improved a lot since. I am just loving tennis right now. I bought a nice new racket on ebay after breaking a string and wearing the grip away. I am waiting anxiously.

I have been missing my friends that have moved on from here even though I haven’t had much free time anyway. Between teaching, classes, basketball, Leah, intramurals, playing tennis here and there with Dusan (the Serbian transfer) and homework, I barely have had time to watch the US Open (Federer is the man!), Football, and Prison Break. I don’t know when I am going to fit in The Office, South Park, and Entourage, which all start up in the next few weeks.

Poker news: I play in very few tourneys when I’m watching football and putting off going to sleep. While I was watching football Sunday afternoon, I took 7th in a $12 180 person sng. I was chip leader with 30, 20, and 10 people left. So that was kind of a disappointing finish. Then that night, I saw that Jon Little (along with Moneymaker, Orel Hershiser, and other online pros that I am familiar with) was still in the 10K WCOOP event with 25 left, so I decided to watch and play another one and I took 3rd. I was chip leader once again with 4 left and lost a huge coin flip. I hate not winning, but profit is profit I guess. It seems that I always do well in those after not playing them for a while. Whenever I just decided to grind in a bunch of those $12 sngs, I suck.

Jon took 7th when he made an interesting call against the chip leader (he was still 2nd or 3rd in chips if he folds the river) with A5 on a 245TQ board. The chip leader had 45. Congrats though to Jon for profiting over 90K.

Well, this was going to be short, but I hate going to sleep. So I rambled.