So here I am. Back from a summer internship at Lazyville Farms. I am back to bring you the freshest content from our college experience years ago. A number of you have placed inquiries as to when the blog would be back up while checking on my well being. I am fine, have been fine, and will be fine, but I sincerely thank all of you for your concern. For the record: Earlier in the summer I was let go from the accounting firm I was with and have been searching for employment and a new career since. It has taken much of my time but hope to be back on track shortly.
Pining away at lost opportunity takes time away from being creative and funny so I wasn't at 100% to bring you the dry sarcasm and witty commentary to which everyone had grown accustomed. Then John Benton threatened to pull my pin if I didn't start writing again, so...here we are.
We are going to try to add a couple weekly themes getting everyone ready for football season, maybe a top ten list or two, but it depends on how much response I get from my emails. If you'd like to participate in any lists or content, please feel free to drop me a line.
Be sure to check out your local Tau Alumni Happy Hour this month and meet up with local Theta Chi alumni celebrities in Tampa, Orlando, or Atlanta. I cannot guarantee that any of these people have committed to the happy hour.
Yes, I know the Atlanta happy hour already happened, but check out the link - That's the punchline.
I have a few emails and pictures of people that sent stuff in from before my computer went down (and there was a direct correlation where your work productivity went up) earlier this summer and we will get to those. Also, if over the summer, you decided that looking at the picture of my broke computer (Thanks, George) everyday was not cutting it and you made a commitment to yourself and to your brotherhood to attend the reunion with some kick ass enthusiasm, share with the rest of us.
The title of this post is a borrowed quote from one of my pledge brother's during a...we'll call it an informal gathering of brothers discussing the status quo of the new member period with the pledges. Or you can call it a line-up. Whatever. The point is, this title was the answer to the question "Do you know why I had you step out?" (Editor's Note for any National member of the Fraternity reading this post: This was not a lineup. The pledges gathered at the house on our own accord in order to ask more questions of the active brotherhood on how we could better serve the house, what few things we had done wrong up to that point in our pledging period, and asked for constructive criticism on how to improve, if in fact, in their opinion, we were going to be able to improve ourselves and the house.)
This picture was taken after five solid days of drinking in Toronto last Christmas. I mean, the only day I was sober was the day after the picture - the day we went to the Maple Leafs game. This picture truly encapsulates what I have felt like many days this summer, without the added bonus of aquavit, whiskey, gin, vermouth, Bailey's, Sleeman's, Glenlevit, or McCalland's. This particular night, there was plenty of celebration of all of those, but during our seven night stay, this was the only night I went to sleep not on my own accord. The Danish had plenty to offer the Irish. Enjoy.
ps: This bathroom has now been renovated to include a heater underneath the tile so I can better enjoy my sleep the Friday after Christmas (that's when the big party is).
pps To any possible future employers: Now, this only happens on vacation. I mean, sure back in college I called this the "Florida Theater Nap", only I was sitting on a loft, there was no bathroom, and I had a Play Station controller in one hand, a spitter in another, and knew I was safe to sleep because my shoes were clearly off. Of all the weird things I do now or did then, that's the strangest habit I picked up in college. About to pass out? Shove those shoes off no matter what. Weird.
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