Music is my constant…I know alot of people say that, so it’s really no biggie, but I realize that I give music so much of my thought that it usually keeps me from investing too much of my thought into other things, or people.  Yes, I know that when I get fired, dumped, robbed, kicked, etc…, I’ll be able to lose my mind on a drumset, or track down some great music, and smile again.

So much has been changing for me lately.  Change, in general, is typically a fun thing and it usually leads us to becoming better, stronger, more interesting people.  I feel like I’m beginning to become somewhat more selfish lately.  Note: This is coming from someone who has ‘taken one for the team’ his whole life, so I’m not exactly destroying any lives here; but, I am starting to realize what I want in life, and finding ways to personally achieve these goals.

In the last few weeks, I went through the gruesome process of getting back into the University of Illinois.  Academically, (I’ll come out and say it) I feel like a complete fuckup.  I started my undergraduate education in 1999.  Comically, U of I has become an even better institution than when I went there…I squeezed in as a transfer student in 2001, there’s no chance I would have been accepted by today’s standards, but if I finish my last four classes with a ‘B’ average, I’ll be wearing a cap and gown…joke of my life : )