some of you may have heard but i bought a Detroit Lions jersey, finally. It's an XL black (alternate) jersey featuring Kevin Smith, this past year's rookie running back. It's exciting and quite overdue. We now have a new head coach who has recently hired an assistant head coach/defensive coordinator. New off. coordinator too. I may not even be around for the draft if i'm out west, and that kills me. i'll find a way to stay on top.
I had been neglecting Randall this semester a bit because of my roommates so after doing laundry late last night him and i went to the prayer cabin to talk. we talked until about 1:30 in the mornin. way overdue. probably end up doing more of that this semester.
snowboarding is getting pretty exciting. there is so much snow here. the other day i tried the following tricks for the first times: frontflip, backflip, misty, and a fs rodeo. after many tries the only one i landed was the frontflip. pretty neat. but i slammed so many times so hard in the process of these all. i rode for 4 and a half hours around the lodge tryin stuff. so that whole time included hiking between runs, and major bails cause of the new tricks. i don't have very good invert air awareness yet. you just huck it and try to make sense of where you are...until you land on your head or something and realize you need more flip and less spin or whatever the case may be. i think i'm like the only person here who doesn't really like riding powder or the peak of the mountain (panoramic). first of all, its almost always a windy white out up there with blistering cold temps. second, i don't know how to ride powder that well yet or maybe i do but i just do it sloppy. you have lean back real far to keep you nose from gettin buried while you ride. this is why i hate it. you have to work SO so hard the whole time. first of all you have all the pressure on your back leg so it gets exhausted, then the snow is all chopped and mounded in areas and you can't see it cause its overcast and snowing much of the time (at least at the top of the mountain. it gets better as you head down). so you're legs are almost cramping but you can't let down your guard because if you do you're 100% edge-catch bound. especially when you're already tired and sore before you even ride. anyways. i'm pretty conscious about my whining so i just try to stay quiet. my ideal day is either in the park, or on more average sized groomed runs (which still almost always have a ton of powder on em) because i like making my own fun. instead of riding stupid hard you have the option of bouncing in and out of trees, hittin jumps, tryin butters/slides, ridin switch, or just mellow riding to rest your legs. i just like the options of doin what i feel like. double blacks that are all powder with messy conditions don't really allow for it. but everyone loves it. and HARDcore tree runs. its just not me. and that's ok. sometimes when we're doin a session as a group i still care what people think. not to the extent that its juvenile, but it helps to push me. when it comes to back country though, i could care less if people think or say that i suck. i honestly don't care on how i'm graded her anymore on that.
push up challenge is now up to 100 per day. it doesn't seem like much, i know, but our muscles are all ripped up. we're tired. so its quite a toll each day.
we had a sleep over last night in our room. we have dance parties almost every night. we finally ordered our glow in the dark stars yesterday too for our room. so they should be here in a few days. i think we got like a thousand! i'll take a picture or something ok? i think the footy pajamas are a no go. they're like 40 bucks min. that's just too much for jams.
Jen is officially coming out to visit me! she booked her flights yesterday and is gunna come check out what i've been up too. it'll be nice to get a visitor. if anyone wants to come hang out just let me know, we could arrange something.
Jon that was a fantastic story about your latest project. haha. by the time you brought everything way out front i just imagine noise at -100 db...no actually i imagine you just mastered it like anything else based on what your standard is for good, cause apparently the dude just wanted to be able to hear everything. glad home church is working out so well.
my business blood is catching up to me. i've become an entrepreneur here at school. actually, its eric and i. i mean, its kind of a joke because its so small scale, but its also pretty fun. what we're doing is we're selling hot dogs and hamburgers at the school down in our dorm. eric has a george forman grill. so we went grocery shopping, got all we needed and then i created a spreadsheet that included our cost, markup, profit, quantity sold, amount invested by us, a current inventory of our goods and a couple other things. its rather functional. i guess cost accounting and excel courses came in handy for something. we call it EJ (edge) Burgers, based off our names. sounds intriguing though. and i mean, they're good! real juicy. we have cheese, sauteed onions, condiments, spices, bbq sauce - and i accounted the price into everything. so when we start cookin some up it just fills the entire basement, and everyone gets hungry. we've made like 12 bucks so far in profit. it's only been a few days though. it's really quite menial, but we enjoy it. we're gunna target the groups of kids that come in on weekends too. you remember when you were in high school on youth trips and mom slipped you a couple twenties...those kids get hungry at night and have some greens. you'd be surprised at how hungry homeboys get at 11pm after a workout session. we picked a good market with an appropriate product. haha.
summer plans still in limbo. waiting for a response to my application for tree planting.
after that rough day of riding on monday that i talked about earlier i layed low all afternoon until the evening when we went and played volleyball at the public school. im really not that good. i used to have some game because of beach volleyball in the summer but this was bad. i think it was because of my aches, or maybe the cruise ships attached to my feet that i call skate shoes. noooottt ideal for jumpin n stuff m k? can't complain about the exercise though.
did i tell you guys about the doll we have in our room? i don't think so. we named her matilda. she appeared one morning because sara gave it to Ian to put in my bed and freak me out. it fell off and i never even saw it that day. but that was like 2 weeks ago and she's still around. its one of those dolls where when its laying down its eyes are closed but then pop open when you put her upright. so we put her in random unsuspecting places in our room or bathroom or shower to sketch each other out. sometimes it'll just get thrown onto someones bed late at night too or something. man its creepy. but then there are other days we just use her as a blowdart target. we have two blowguns. we tried to kill the fox once but failed. he's a crafty one.
i dunno, do you guys want updates on what i'm up too? or are you here for substance? it just feels like i'm hangin out right now tryin to enjoy myself. its not as shallow or reckless as what the sentence might have implied in the summer though. i'm trying to take things a bit more serious this semester but i'm still not thinkin all that much. so i don't have much to offer. i guess maybe i should read more, that would spark opinions and thoughts in me. i can't say whether that will happen for sure because its rather unappealing, but it would be a step. still doin real good though. tryin to stay active, figure out summer plans, and learn to love people. those are sort of the priorities right now.
J.R.
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