Summer Review

Today has been an interesting day and not the best day in my life...

I slept in which felt great (hence why I'm awake now, but still sleepy....makes no sense) but I thought about a lot of stuff today. Here is a breakdown of my thoughts for the day:

• Moving: I have decided that I'm officially moving from the Grove on July 30th and going to head back to Charleston on the 31st....wasn't quite sure what day i was heading back. Looking forward to a mini-vacation in Charleston!
• Summer: This summer has pretty much sucked. Between classes, drama, car problems, computer problems, etc, the summer has sucked. I'm ready for it to be over with and to move into the fall semester and have everyone back to Mobile. I miss hanging out with ALL of my friends. I have enjoyed hanging out with those few that are here but I miss everyone else.

So yeah. It has been a busy, hectic, and lame summer but there were a few good memories in there:

• Toy Story 3 - LOVED IT!!!!!
• Birthday - I have some cool friends in Charleston & Mobile that love me and threw me a great birthday!
• Percy Jackson & The Olympians: very good series and anxious to finish it....just bought the last book today.

That's my summer in a few words and now it is time to finish it off with finals and then a mini-vacation visiting friends and family in CHS and reading "The Last Olympian!"

POTC 4!

In case you haven't heard, they are making a new Pirates of the Caribbean movie entitled: "Pirates of the Caribbean: Stranger Tides." It is due to realease summer 2011 as long as so many other movies!

I'm writing about this because at ComicCon 2010 (a 3-day event of news about super heroes, scifi, horror galore...special news on super hero movies are to be released tomorrow so expect a blog report on that!), Disney releseased a teaser for the new film with Jack Sparrow talking to the ComicCon attendees. It has leaked to the internet and here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldILYNOPskI

Can't wait until next Summer.

Until next time...

X-Men: First Class

I am really considering a movie blog. Recently I have been keeping up with movie news from moviefone.com and one movie that has started to film, that catches my interest is X-Men: First Class.

It is another origin movie just like 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine.' This one looks at the origins of two x-men characters: Magneto & Professor Xavier! Both have great origins, so I'm looking forward to the movie. What really catches my interest is the actors playing in the movie. Here is a breakdown of those on board for the movie (thus far, more may be added):

• Magneto: Michael Fassbender
• Xavier: Jame McAvoy
• Beast: Nicholas Hoult
• Banshee: Caleb Landry Jones
• Havok: Lucas Till
• Emma Frost: Alice Eve
• Mystique: Jennifer Lawrence
• 'Villain': Kevin Bacon....the most interesting by far. the villain is being kept secret for now but rumors are spreading that it might be Mister Sinister.

So it looks like its going to have a lot of good characters. This movie comes out next year...June 3, 2011 is the set release date. A lot of people can be added before then and I hope more character are, the more the merrier!

Gulf Coast Oil Spill

This blog post is mainly for those who do not live on the Gulf Coast...

As everybody who knows, there is an oil spill just off the coast of the Gulf Coast and it has hurt everything related to the gulf coast. If I was to write everything about it, then the post would be several paragraphs long. I would just like to discuss a few things...

What is the beaches like right now??? That is the question I get from most of my friends in SC. Well I have not been to the beach since the oil has washed up on Alabama beaches but I have been meaning to. However I have had friends who have gone and I can just relay what they have said. Right now (as of last Saturday) there is no oil on the beach but you can smell the oil in the air. We are allowed to go into the water, even though there is a health advisory, and after you get out you smell like a car engine. If you dig deep enough into the sand you might find a thin layer of oil that was not able to be cleaned up. That is pretty much what the beaches are like here in Alabama. Of course it might be different if you go to FL, LA, or MS.

The second thing I would like to talk about is the relocation of the sea turtle eggs/nests that are on the gulf coast shores. In Charleston the sea turtles are an important part of the culture so this caught my interest. They are going (and have some already) to move the sea turtle eggs to the Atlantic Coast where the oil will not affect them. Sea turtles eggs are very fragile so they are moving them in styrofoam containers. The only problem they might run into is that according to science tests and observations, sea turtles tend to return to the place where they were born to lay more eggs. So they might return to the Gulf coast and to the oil. I read this on cnn.com so you might want to do a search on that site if you would like more info.

Well thats all I really wanted to talk about in regards to the gulf coast. If you have any questions then just let me know.

summer thus far

Well the Summer is coming to an end soon and I must say that the summer has not been the best of my 21 years of being alive. The movies that came out this summer have been alright, nothing too special (Toy Story 3 was the only exception), not much to do on the weekends since everybody is out of town and/or busy, work has been alright....a few things here and there, grove sucks. My birthday was pretty fun and thats pretty much the only highlight of the summer. As for the rest of the summer I do have a few things to look forward to:

• Moving out - finally get out of the Grove...July 31st can't get here soon enough!
• Going home - I will be headed to Charleston for about two weeks before I have to return for BCM leadership training and the start of the semester
• Gillis - Gillis is coming back from Alaska next weekend for a short while. Get to hang out with them...haven't seen him in a year!

Thats the rest of my summer................................

past week & weekend plans

So far I have had a lot of blog posts about movies....maybe I should do a movie blog??? hahaha.

Well anyways, it has been a very very long week. From here until the end of the summer it is going to be hectic with school work getting busier and busier. However, back to the present...this week I have had a lot on my mind with life in general. I must admit that the summer has not turned out to be what I thought it was going to be. I figured it would be a little more fun being in Alabama with all of my college friends but things have turned around and it is a little boring around here. Sure when I do hang out with my friends I have a blast but I'm beginning to miss home a little and my friends at home.

It stinks living 10 hours away from home. I can't go home on weekends like this one when we have a 3-day holiday. I miss so many cool events at church and major events in my friend's lives. blah.

Back to topic...so yeah the summer has not been what I expected it to be. I go to class and work and then come back to the room and do school work. I will say that I have eaten healthier recently. I'm finally realizing that eating/cooking in my room saves money and makes me healthier, which is a good thing. So far my summer is pretty average and not a real special summer.

So yeah that's mostly my feeling on life right now. I'm going to lunch with Humama tomorrow who is town...pretty stoked about that. A small taste of Charleston has come to Mobile to help me make it through the summer. Also going to see the LAST AIRBENDER tomorrow. I have heard that it wasn't that good but I'm hoping for the best. On Sunday I'm playing the piano at church and no class on Monday. Looks like a good weekend to me!