I still have nightmares about the day I was told I wasn't making conference. It's silly, considering it was in college, and I'm no longer in college. But the fact remains: I swore I'd qualify for NCAA Conference Championships, and I couldn't. I vowed to go in college because I was one spot on the team away in high school. Failure at every last ( Read more... )

So, I learned something cool the other day. Gabby was at Nationals in 2006, sitting in the audience as a spectator. I asked if she took any photos, and sure enough, there was one of me on stage, with Justin. Two of me, actually.

I wonder if I would have had a crush on her back then?

Live, laugh, love,
Didroy

I've thought about it a lot, and I've decided that I need to work on something: my fear of competition ( Read more... )

Gabby: My parents are hoping to meet you soon. They think it's a "bad sign" that I always come out to Boston to visit you ( Read more... )

We all have little things here and there that remind us of our childhood, and for that reason they're pretty difficult to let go of. I've got more than I can count, but off the top of my head: my duct tape wallet, my hobo clothes with the thousand holes apiece, and my stuffed Zubat from an old KFC promotion, to name a few. But I think I'd also put ( Read more... )

A few days ago, I did something I haven't done in about four months. I went to Chipotle ( Read more... )

I did it. It took me a while, but I did it. I remembered the formula to Aldoberto's burrito. And not only did I remember it, but I made it better. That's right: he started it, but I perfected it. This actually happened a while ago, but for reasons I'll explain below I've been putting off a journal entry about it ( Read more... )

Qdoba Corporate has been changing all sorts of things lately. We're now required to leave all food uncovered to show the customer what they're selecting - at the expense of some freshness, which is solved by asking us to order and make twice as much food. The kitchen staff has a lot of new rules about where they can leave containers to dry after ( Read more... )

Since clearly not enough people have visited me this season yet, Colin came from D.C. to hang out with Coffin and me for a week. But, since I work evenings at Qdoba right now, he spends a lot of time at the apartment watching the HIMYM DVDs, which Nathan brought back on his visit.

[late at nightMe: Honey, I'm home ( Read more... )

Yesterday was a day set in stone sometime last summer. Specifically, June 12. Er, let me start over. Ahem. Kids, it was the summer of 2010, and I was competing in the Pokémon Northeastern Regional Championships...The previous week I had done particularly poorly, and so I was trying anything I could do to pep-talk myself back to the top 16 - what I ( Read more... )