live from the women's college world series....

courtesy of graham hays, espn.com:

Player to Watch [in the Women's College World Series]: Jamie Hinshaw

There's nothing flashy about Hinshaw's game, but she's exactly the kind of player likely to come up with key RBIs if Texas A&M ends up making a run in Oklahoma City. A starter in every game Texas A&M has played in her four years in College Station, she hit .305 as a freshman and somehow just kept getting better. A perfect 18-for-18 on stolen bases this season, she hasn't been caught stealing since 2006 and gets on base by virtue of more walks than strikeouts and a .361 average. To top it all of, she is slugging a career-best .519.
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pretty cool. also pretty cool when you're an all-american. congrats best friend!

100 degree weather and lots of softball in my immediate future. catch it on espn.

ps: kelsey told me secretly loves blogs.

life recently and upcoming.

recently:
sunbathed on a beach in mexico for a week. walked across a stage and received a 'business card portfolio' for completing four years of education at UT [apparently, diplomas are no longer the customary item you receive at graduation]. sat on the main mall at UT to take part in what could be the best graduation show ever [i'm pretty sure there's no fireworks show at other colleges]. planned a (somewhat) surprise honeymoon for some awesome people getting married in july. watched my best friend earn a second trip to the women's college world series. hung out with some pretty awesome people.


upcoming:
watch aforementioned best friend compete in the women's college world series. hang out with those pretty awesome people. have my life changed by a pretty awesome God through some pretty awesome sudanese people. go on safari in kenya. watch a couple of friends get married. continue to hang out with those pretty awesome people doing lots of fun stuff. begin law school.
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happy birthday roomie. i am thankful for your twenty two years of life and more than a decade of your friendship.

"He said hello, and I said hi."

So I have become one of those people who blog. I never really thought I would blog, especially after Kelsey declared that people without children have no reason to blog because nobody cares what they are doing. Despite whatever truth there may be to that comment, I have decided to blog. Maybe it's because I have exactly eighty nine days left with little [some might argue no] responsibility, and I've got to fill time somehow. Maybe it's because in exactly eighty nine days, my life as I currently know it will cease to exist, and this medium might be the best way for people to know what's going on in my life should they be interested [however boring that may be Kels]. Secretly, I want to keep Jamie Kim occupied during her Contracts I class next fall...

Honestly, I don't know why I've decided to blog. I joked with Shannon the other day that I should write my treatise; I'm sure all good treatises started as blogs, right?? In any case, I think it might be fun, and as some of you might be shocked to find out, I actually like writing. With the amount of writing I am sure to do in the next three years, writing something other than legal briefs could be a good distraction.

So we will see how this goes. Maybe I'll love it. Maybe you'll love it. Maybe you'll love it, but I'll be tired of writing after my first month in law school and this blog ceases to exist. Maybe that will make some of you happy [Kelsey]. But for now, maybe I'll do this for me and let you read along.