Wow, my first every Pistons playoff game and not only that it was the series clincher! The Pistons definitely went all out on how to get the fans to go to games. It was cool getting autographs from Barbara Farris and Ruth Riley. Man it was funny because I think I was the only one who knew who Ruth Riley is. So yeah it may be the WNBA but it's still ball and these ladies got game too. Then let's move on to the Automotion and I got some of their autographs. I kept using my charm on Vanessa who is an OU graduate too. Yeah, I said some pretty stupid stuff to her because it was like yeah she's a cheerleader and all I could think of was, "yeah I love your work in the calendar." Although I never seen it but just know that one exists and she tells me that she is in the month of May, so I had to look that up. I also got a pic with Vanessa and her cheergal, Heather. Man I wonder if Vanessa still goes to OU, she can cheer for any of the IM teams I play for anyday :)

After the game was over, since I'm hardcore like that I stayed till practically I was one of the last to leave the Palace. I mean the Pistons left sooner than I did! I got a chance to say hi to Terry Porter, Damon Jones, and Brevin Night. I got Micheal Redd's autograph! However, I was disappointed at how the first 3 Bucks just blew the fans off. I mean whether they were Pistons fans or not, they are still a fan of the game as well. Once my sis and I walked out, we walked to the Pistons car garage. There we saw Darvin and my sis got an up close and personal pic of him driving off. My sis took a pic of Tay getting in his Yukon then we got a pic of his license plate so we can stalk him, although his plate is Kentucky still. We saw the Pit Bulls, Big Nasty, Rip, Ben, and Chauncey follow suit in their rides. I even got George Blaha's autograph in the garage. Also, as I was standing in the isle way watching some of the Bucks come back out, guess who touches me on the shoulder? Pudge! I was just chilling and he tapped me to move over so he could get to the Pistons locker room. I was in shock that Pudge was that close to me and I just froze.

Finally, my sis and I also purchased Game 1 tickets against the Nets this Monday nite! The best seat for 2 people, get this, is section 219 and the same fricking row. Not only that, prices go up and we had to shell out $45 per ticket. Gosh, I really hope to run into Vanessa again!

I'm Outstanding

This Friday will mark my last class at Mott Community College up in Lapeer. My heart for the most part really changed with how I perceived Lapeer peeps. My first day of class there, my goal throughout the semester was, you don't bother me and I won't bother you. It was like give me the syllabus and I'll turn in everything. So I'm sitting in class on my first day in January, and there is this one kid, Steve who just non-stop talks and disrupts the class. Sound familar to myself eh? Well their is a difference when I'm goofing off and Steve is goofing off. When he tries to make a joke, no one laughs but him, I mean even the prof doesn't laugh! Now that's bad and just looking at him on that first day, I thought to myself that this proves my theory about how there is no signs of life in Lapeer.

However, as the semester went on I kept staring at Steve and he would notice. The stare down I gave to him was, yeah you're stupid kid and you need to shut up. Halfway through the semester though, I don't know what happened but I finally came out of my anti-social shell. I let out a jokey joke since what Steve said that day was absolutely retarded and the class was cracking up. Well surprised at first because it was like my first words in class. From that day on, all of a sudden I was nominated as the class leader. Everyone in class was chatting away with me and I felt stupid for having that perception of them.

A couple of weeks ago, I arrived to class 2 hours late because I had a meeting at OU. When I walked in though, the ovation I got from peep's was unexpected and I felt it from the bottom of my heart. I guess, me being gone for those 2 hours was where the class had to put up with Steve's stupidity in search of attention.

What I'll miss about this class is first my great prof. I loved dogging her about her beloved Spartans.

2nd thing is, my crew - M. Dodds, Jodi, Em, Linda, Jeff, Chris, Mara, Misty, and Matt. Yeah the total class size was only 15 since 25 plus dropped as the semester went on.

Finally, the last thing I'll miss about this class is the chance of just slamming Steve every time he opens his mouth for attention. I feel bad for the rest of the MCC students who have to put up with him in class.

Anything Goes

So I am currently putting my Grandpa's 80th B-Day bash on tape now. As I am watching it, I started laughing still because of all my random comments. I never knew that Si and Ro's parents were tight with my grandparents. I also never knew some of the CBC peeps were close to them as well. It was wierd that night because I walked in and my Uncle asks me to be the MC with my cousin Fred too. I let Fred go MC first because he's young and I've always been in the spotlight at these family things. However, people there were like almost booing him because he wasn't loud enough and was getting even more nervous. So he quickly handed me the mike, and my first lines to those haters out there, were "Hey y'all better listen up because I'm rockin the mike now so here this." That got the peeps listening up, but yeah peeps need to back off my cuz. Actually, when I had the mike, I just wanted to bust out some Rock lines but I knew it was my G-Pa's day so I didn't want to ruin it.

It's sad to see too that the Showcase Cinemas in the Heights is officially closed due to better theatres. That was the first theatre where I saw my first movie with my sis and mom, I think it was like Lost and Found or some Disney cartoon. I saw T-2 twice there and the last movie I saw there was The Wedding Planner with Wendy. I remember the time where I purchased a ticket to Up Close and Personal, so I could sneak in with my cuz's crew so I could go see Hellraiser. It was funny because the guy looked at it and did not believe it so I ended up refunding the ticket and went elsewhere to see PinHead. But Showcase was the place where you can see 5 movies in a day for the price of one ticket! It was the place where I took my Tara Lipinski look-a-like girl Natalie to see Grease and she got me into watching musicals. So many memories there, but after saying all this I feel like a sellout too. Cuz I am one of those who went to Palladium or AMC to see a movie, gosh I feel so low. Eastside memories baby!

Don't Tell Me

So what do you do when you have a bunch of crazy Pistons fans watchin Game 2? It sucked that they lost, but as die hard fans as we are, we go and buy tickets for Game 5! It was insane because all you could see was everybody hitting up everybody on the cellie to see who wants in for Game 5. We got to the point of calling up the G-Force in Chitown, and we were close to calling Emoy in Beantown or the Liu's in DC. My first playoff game ever, this is exciting!

Errr the Hudson River series looks like a sweeper. I wanted the Knicks and Nets to play all 7 games too because of the cross rivials.

Oh great my sis is home once again and she tells me I have to babysit Leonardo. Tonight I also found myself rooting for Shi Ann for the first time ever in Survivor. I'm upset I only have 2 of my picks left in Amber and Rupert, but I can see myself rooting for Shi Ann too. I like her now because she is the total underdog in this season. I was talking to Sister Cat the other day and some others, their is still a part of me that wants to audition for Survivor 10. I really wanna see how far I can go, but this is something that I'll still need to think about.

I Don't Wanna Know

Finally, yesterday was a chance where I could just sleep and rest what felt like my broken body. I'm thankful for getting majority of my finals before finals week has started. Although, it would seem like I produced no fruit what so ever yesterday, I had a lot of thoughts looming in my near future. Yeah, so I slept the day away, as Monday I slept for 18 of the 24 hours.

As of today, my traveling plans is in high gear. I'll be heading back to NYC in about a month from now, and on Memorial Day I'll probably head down to Myrtle Beach to see my sis. After that, July 4th weekend, I've purchased a ticket to fly out to the west coast. During that weekend, I'll be flying out to Seattle and I'll rent a car and drive up to Vancouver too. In mid July, I'll head down to Kentucky and to visit E. Kou from there I'll make my way to Columbus to Bob's open house thingy. To cap off the summer will be the annual CCUC tournament to Chicago, which I recieved an email about the other day. I'll probably squeeze in at least a trip to Toronto and maybe one more trip to NYC.

With all this driving around, the tough part is maintaining my balance in life such as my relationship with God, CBC ministries, school, ACA, and sports. I learned this past Sunday that this year, I will have more responsibilities at ACA this summer. I was bummed to find out why, is that one of my bosses Tracy will not be here due to visa probs. I had a good talk with her last night because I'm gonna miss working with her for the first time this summer. No doubt did she do a lot for the kids and the organization. She always played the bad guy to the kids, so that they will listen to the counselors so we look like the good guys. I look forward to the challenge in stepping into her role now, but it would be nice if she was there. So I start work earlier than any of the other counselors at the beginning of June instead of the end of June.

Speaking of another challenge, I got a call the other day from my cuz. Lately, we've been playing against Paul's fam in b-ball. Which I finally got paid for winning, however week after week they always bring someone new to play against me. I learned this past weekend, that the next time we faceoff, I'll be facing a whole new squad. It's kind of immature in a way because it's like back then when two 2nd graders get in a fight, and one of them loses. The loser goes and grabs a 5th grader to fight the 2nd grader, and then the one upmanship begins. Oh well, it's another challenge I look forward to.

Come Clean