Whitey Bulger?!

So if any of you have been watching the news, the infamous and elusive Whitey Bulger has been arrested and more importantly has been found! After hiding for however many years and managing to lay low and off of the FBI's most wanted list it absolutely blows my mind that he has finally been caught. I figured he was on an island somewhere sipping piña coloadas and swimming in his money. I think that after dodging the authorities for so long they should just let the guy off a little and maybe learn from him, he's doing something right!

The race game

Yesterday morning on the way to work I was listening to the Ramiro and pebbles radio show on jamn 94.5, this may have been my first mistake. Regardless, a segment of the show was devoted to this game that cannot remember the exact name of. The host would tell a story that happened in the news, and then the caller would guess who's "people" this was. The three classifications were of the three people in the studio, white, black, and Hispanic. This sort of garbage makes my blood boil, not for being racist or being whatever you may call it but for the sole reason that the radio host who decided to play the game would be the first one to cry and pull the race card in any possible situation he could. This is something that I have a major problem with, you want to be equal and want to not be regarded as different, yet you are the one promoting the difference. Call me an asshole, call me a racist, call it what you want, but it makes my blood boil.

True Life: Narratives are what makes our lives

Looking back on my life, I find it really (awkwardly) interesting to think about the countless decisions I have made hat have brought me to where I am today. Not to ring my own bell here too much but I am more than content with where I am right now due to the choices I have made to set myself up and shape me into who I am today. Clearly I have strayed from the path a little in getting there , as exemplified perfectly by me screwing around all semester and having to take summer courses, but regardless, I feel that I am pretty content with where I am. Right now, I have an awesome job, soon to be college graduate, have an awesome girlfriend who I have known since seventh grade, and this new relationship just started last summer, strange I know, but all due to some small decisions. But regardless I have a pretty bright future with multiple option in the next 5-7 months. All of this is due to the fact that I have made so so many small decisions that have shaped me into who I am and where I am in life today. Examine your own life and just think about all of the change and decisions that you have made, some if not most of which seemed minuscule and irrelevant at the time, that have brought you to where you are today. I do this from time to time and it's certainly a confidence booster and a good check on yourself to know that you're headed in the right direction, and it's all because of you.

I don't think were in Kansas anymore

My parents live in central Massachusetts and I am staying there before I move down to the cape for the summer. Im sure it isn't news to any of you who have turned on a television or talked to another human being today, that there was some pretty crazy weather. I know that from time to time we get some intense weather in new England, and sometimes we are issued tornado watches. But this time tornado warnings were issued suggesting that one had been spotted or that there is definite possibility of it happening. Of all places, central Massachusetts, so strange. As we listened to the weather channel and how close the severe weather was, my family walked outside and I have some pretty moving video on my phone of clouds just spinning so fast and coming in from ever direction. Leaves fell from the sky as well, not ,eaves blowing off trees, I'm talking it was raining leaves, as in leaves from trees miles away that were picked up and dropped. I just went and got gas in the next town over quick and took the back way home and all you can smell is fresh cut trees. Nearly every house on that road had a tree in it or in front of it, all of the telephone poles were either snapped in half or bent over.
It is just crazy to think that in the area we live in where our worst threat is extreme cold and blizzards, we are facing tornadoes now.

One thing I will never do...

As the end of my college career quickly approaches, I am planning for the next step in the game: finding a job.  I must have sent a cover letter and resume to over 200 places already and have made a little progress.  The issue is, is that I am planning on moving to South Florida and I have a lot of family down there to help me get adjusted to the area, visit for interviews, etc.  I visited in early April and went for a few interviews at some private beach clubs that are similar to the one I work at up here now.  After I came back I had a few, what I though were, very promising leads with people who seemed very sincere and interested in adding me to their team.  That impression changed as the weeks went by after coming back.  With this situation and with others it blows my mind and is one of the most frustrating things to me that people will ignore phone calls and emails.  In this age we live in most people wont go 5 minutes without knowing they have an email, message, or call.  One thing that I know that I will never do is not get back to people or worse, ignore them.  Even if the answer is something that needs to be looked into, or isn't urgent at the time, it takes 30 seconds to write an email and say :"hey look, I got your email and I really don't know, let me get back to you in a few days?".  This quick 30, less than, 15 second email is something that will keep me from wanting to put my head through wall waiting on a response.  I guess everyone has their quirks, and maybe this is mine, but I know one thing for sure, and its that I will always get back to people as if they were standing in front of me.