The verdict

Spent a night thinking about it. I decided that between going on talking about nothing or starting to share personal thoughts and experiences, I'd rather say nothing. This blog's hyperextended life is at an end.

Beginning of the end?

As I think about it more and more, I seem to be attracted to the idea of retiring the blog. I don't post much, and when I do, it's normally things of relatively small impact. The usual blog fodder, bikes and cameras, are being pushed to the wayside. That's not all of it. Even the health of my car, which I loved so much, is deteriorating. Schoolwork is redundant and unexciting.

I suppose this the problem with a blog: I am capable of expressing myself freely, but I really can't (or perhaps shouldn't). So now that all these other things are being dropped, there's not much left for me to write about. I'd like to sooner quit writing than write about nothing.

What are the major things that I've learned and have forced me to grow in the last couple of years? Most of them are things I'm not at liberty to let the whole world know, if the whole world even cares. If you can identify with me, learn from me, or teach me, let's skip the blog and get to know each other.

Enigmatic Sayings of the Prodigious

This is a list of a few of the sayings of Professor James Gothard of my business law class (MGMT 455).

Unfortunately, the list is by no means exhaustive and they lack context.

"I have my hands around Ben's neck, I'm bashing his head on the ground, blood is splattering up on my shirt, he's yelling at me to stop, everyone is screaming, I'm laughing..."

"...Involuntary intoxication. After one hundred years of practicing law, I still don't know what that means."

"There are winners and losers in life. And, well, you're a loser."

"That's a legal term, by the way."

"Satan doesn't get a free bite."

"If you don't understand a test question, don't raise your hand and ask me about it. If it looks stupid, it probably is. That's a legal term."

"Trust me, I'm a lawyer."

"I put both my elbows on my desk, leaned forward, and told my client, 'You're a loser.'"

"So what do we do? Oh, come on, this is America! We sue everyone."

"For those of you in the back, that says one hundred quadrillion dollars."

"I just love the feeling of squeezing Ben's neck in my hands... I want to go and finish the job."