Aaaaaand, I'm back.

So, I was going to stop blogging for the day, but now I am at home, alone of course, and I have nothing worth while to occupy my time. I have eating (which occurs all too often due to my boredom/depression), TV and Wii. I have already WiiFit-ed today for an hour or so, and just can't take it burning into my eyeballs any longer. My final option is to drink all the beer in my fridge, but since it's barely 4 pm, I think that may be jumping the gun. I figure I will catch up on my TiVo-ed movies... I recently recorded "The Other Boelyn Girl", "Walk Hard" and "Babel"... none of which I have seen. First, I have to watch "Big Love"... it's my big love.

I figure since I am new at this, I need to talk a little about myself. I am originally from Hockessin, Delaware... a little town between Newark and Wilmington. It was a good place to grow up, but I don't see myself ever going back to live there for good. I grew up near Amish Country, I can walk to the PA line from my parents' house and I love the breakfast meat scrapple.

I went to a public high school, AI duPont HS (the Tigers!). It was considered the private school of public schools, and the kids that went there proved the stereotype daily. The high school has this amazing marching band (more amazing because of the band director) and I was given the opportunity to travel extensively. I went to London twice, Ireland, the Rose Bowl in California... the band has also been to Arizona, Florida, and Italy. I was a twirler. I have since decided that band and volleyball were the best things to come out of going to AI.

I was (am, I suppose) a volleyball player. I began playing my freshman year of high school, played all year long, every year and was voted First-Team All-State my senior year. I worked really hard, and I feel like I really deserved the award. I am still proud of it. When I came to college, I began playing club volleyball, and after 2 semesters became President of the club. I was president for 3 semesters, before handing off and stepping down. It was worse than a sorority. I now volunteer coach for a local community rec league and I LOVE IT.

I recently graduated from East Carolina University with a BS in Exercise Physiology... Hence the unemployment, and the worthless degree. For the most part, I love North Carolina. I miss my family though... My dad (whom I just began getting along with), my amazing mother (who is my best friend in the world), and my two sisters... Elise, 24 (almost 25 and in med school at Jefferson), and Rachel, 17 (and just getting her license... SCARY!)

The best thing that has come out of going to ECU, besides the people that I have met, is the chance to learn how to scuba-dive. I have had the most amazing times underwater... Touching sharks, spearfishing, collecting shells and sharks teeth that no else can get. It's one thing to be at the ocean, and it's a total other thing to be 100 feet below the surface, where all you can hear is yourself breathing.

I have spent thousands on gear and trips. While I have not been diving in some time, my favorite place in the world is still under water. I have seen sharks, sea turtles, octopus, hundreds of different types of fish and schools of thousands of fish swimming by. While I have never been anywhere more exotic than the Florida Keys, the NC "Graveyard of the Atlantic" has been perfect for me.

I have developed an obsession with sharks, marine life and the silence of being underwater. But besides a reverence for the ocean, I have met amazing people... Some of my best friends down here.

I think the ocean is what I would miss most if I moved away. I could never live in the mountains, it's claustrophobic. I want water for as far as I can see.

"The ocean moans over dead men's bones."