When your college has become known as being good at dealing with death and tragedy it is not a good thing. Our school knows how to offer help to students dealing with death because we just lost our 7th student in the past 2 years, mostly due to car accidents and suicide. There are only 2,000 students on the entire campus and you get to know ( Read more... )

Today we took out an 8 boat, a 4 boat, and a single for Crew. We all went down, turned around and headed back, Laurie who was in the single got to practice late and didn't get as far but she was just behind our boat when we rounded the last bend in the river. We docked and took the 4 and the 8 into the boat house and there was no sign of her 1000 ( Read more... )

"See, now aren't you glad that you don't live in Florida?" -Lauren VD

Yeah, that's so what I was thinking when we were putting a boat in the water after sweeping the snow off of the dock. That is right us crazy rowers went out on the water yesterday and suprisingly it was the best water we had all week with no wind. Yeah for psychotic athletes!

I think the thing that shakes the ground beneath us the most is when other people do what they need to do for their own sakes. It is shocking stuff that we then have to deal with, when we have our own problems, and then some of us run off to help others through. It seems like the tough stuff that we have to get through in life is usually handed ( Read more... )

My sister bought her house and I spent the day helping her and her fiancee move in. I joked with her that she's 23, getting married and buying a house and I'll be 30 something when that happens. Maybe not, but it'll be long after I'm 23 ( Read more... )

It's Spring Break and what have I been up to? I drove home Friday at 2 and had about 10 mins to stop home before running to St. Francis Xavier to catch the bus for Winter Camp (a high school retreat I helped chaperone). I got home last night and spent some time with my mom, she's been sick a lot lately and I haven't been around for two months. ( Read more... )

I talked to a kid I hardly know last night, he's in middle school and he said that he doesn't want to live anymore. With the proper help that info was told to his parents and he is getting help, but it still scares the crap out of me. Just telling someone in an authoritative position that he had said anything to me was tough, but it was so ( Read more... )

My sister called when I was at dinner. She told me our aunt Betty Jo had a minor stroke on Tuesday night. She lost control of one of her arms and half of her face went numb. They aren't sure why, and she was going in for an MRI, but no word on that yet ( Read more... )

I got new tires ( Read more... )

In a strange way I think I'm happy. I accomplish tons at work, flying through anything they throw at me. I play tag with my co-workers and make numerous smart aleck remarks, probably too often, but it beats just looking at a computer all day. I spend quality time with my family, going to lunch with my sister, my brother's basketball games, and ( Read more... )