Lily Springs and Naked Ed

As I said last weekend I went canoeing down the Santa Fe River. Halfway through the trip we saw a sign that said "Lily Springs" and the spring was back in a little cove, so we wanted to go see what it was. As we were going we saw signs saying home of Naked Ed and different sayings that he had made, but I didn't think anything of it. I just thought it was probably some guy's nickname. When we got there, we saw a guy sitting behind a dock, so the guys went to talk to him. We noticed that they talked for a second, walked to this little hut, and then walked back to talk to him again. When Mallory and I walked over to talk to everyone, we soon found out why it was the home of Naked Ed!!! He was completely naked!! For the second time on this trip, I almost had a heart attack!! He was very nice and talked to us for several minutes, but I couldn't hardly say anything because I was still too shocked!

Canoeing on the Santa Fe River

This past weekend I went on my first camping trip! It was actually really fun! I honestly didn't know how I would handle the whole experience because I am sort of a wimp when it comes to creepy crawly things and bugs! The first night I did refuse to take a shower at the campground because there was a huge shower in the bathroom, but the next night after being on the river all day I felt gross enough to suck it up! I was very proud of myself!!
On Saturday I went on my first canoeing trip, and I must say it was quite an adventure!! We canoed for 6 hours down the Santa Fe River, but surprisingly it wasn't as tiring as I thought it would be. About 30 minutes into the trip we saw a 5 feet alligator up on the bank! Of course the guys with us wanted to get closer and try to see it move, so needless to say we went closer! Instead of going up the bank like the guys thought it would, the alligator jumped into the water 5 feet away from our canoe!!! I almost had a heart attack!!! This was just the beginning of the events that were to unfold.

This was getting a little too close for comfort!

My reaction when the alligator jumped into the water!

Spring Break Revelations

So while I was sitting at home over Spring Break doing absolutely nothing I realized several things!

1) I am having a major case of senioritis and I am becoming a very bad procastinator!
2) I only have 30 days of class left at UGA!
3) I am going home and will no longer be living with my closest friends in 55 days!

These realizations brought me to several conclusions! The first of which is that I still have a little further to go and there is no point in messing up my grades this late in the game, so I better just deal with it. Secondly, there are still a lot of things that I want to do before I leave Athens. For this reason, I started a "Before Graduation" to-do-lists for my roommates and me. Right now it is relatively short, but it growing daily and I can't wait to start marking things off!!!

Charter is extremely annoying

I have been trying to post a video of my roommate singing to my blog for the past hour, but my internet is being incredibly slow and it will not upload!! The point of this blog was going to be to tell you that we are making my roommate Allison tryout for American Idol, but with my internet being completely retarded I can't really prove how good she is so you will have to take my word for it until I can get somewhere with a better connection. I don't understand how Charter can be our only option in Athens! How many times a day do I have to reset my router for them to understand that our internet is simply not working correctly? It takes two minutes to pull up my email!! I feel like I am back in the days of dial-up, and I am not very happy about it!!

Wow...I feel old!

Last week I turned 23! Whoa... that sounds really old! Last night my friends and I went to celebrate my birthday. I decided that I wanted to go to Agua Linda which turned into a pretty memorable experience! My roommate got them to sing to me, but this was no normal "happy birthday to you"... it was the loud singing/shouting and the sombrero! I was thoroughly caught off guard and a little embarrassed at the same time, but it was fun! We were planning on going out, but the plans soon changed to dinner and a movie. It is very easy these days for us to just throw out the idea of going downtown. We usually try to convince ourselves that it is because we are getting too mature and growing out of that scene, but in reality it is because when we go out we don't know anyone and it makes us feel old!

This would be my luck!

Last weekend I went to a basketball at home and my boss's brother-in-law was there!! I went over to speak to him and we talked for a few minutes about what I was doing and what I wanted to do after I graduate. Finally, he said, "Did you know you called Dill's phone last week?" OH MY GOSH!! I thought I was going to die! I didn't know what to say and he started laughing! He told me that they had laughed about it all week!!! I was so embarrassed! I was really hoping that he would never know who it was, but that would never be my luck! At least he wasn't mad!!

Not a good way to start in the working world!

Of course as I said before, I am beginning to get stressed out about job hunting. Well today I did not make the greatest move along that journey!! I was calling some of my friends to remind them about a party my roommates and I are throwing on Saturday. My boss from the place I interned with this summer coincidently has the same name as one of my friends! I called my boss and proceeded to get agitated when he didn't know who I was because I thought it was my friend!!! I quickly hung up because I was making him irritated too!! I was MORTIFIED!!! So from this I learned another important lesson in getting ready for the job world... put people in your phone's contact list very descriptively!!