The 50th State

Tomorrow I leave for Hawaii. Excited? You bet. I don't know much about the place, but I intend to learn. By learn, I mean sit on a beach and drink for seven days straight. Of course, no trip to anywhere would be worth anything without the obligatory touristic bits. Sheri and I will take a helicopter tour of Maui, snorkel, maybe parasail, definitely get sunburned - a well-rounded vacation.
Have fun on the mainland, suckers!

The Shield

Well, it's official: Executive Producer/Creator Shawn Ryan has announced a seventh and final season of The Shield. Apparently, he thought of a great ending for the series and needed one more season to put it all together. For those who know about this fantastic show, I need not explain what makes it the greatest action serial on television. If you haven't seen The Shield, I suggest you get with it. It has everything you could want - an intense storyline, shaky camera work, gut-wrenching plot twists.

Like many TV shows, however, it doesn't find it's feet right away. After episode four or five the dialogue becomes better and plots and sub-plots more tightly wound.

To adequately describe the show in these few words would be impossible. If you trust me (and my judgement) you'll look into it.

Season six begins in January on, as always, FX.

The Acceptance

So, this is what I recieved about a week and a half ago. It's part of my University of Washington acceptance packet. That's right, I'm headed back to school. I'll start in late September. Put plainly, I have only a few more months to be completely lazy before being completely stressed out. I plan to attend full time and will major in English. I'm not sure what I want to do, but I can't let that forever keep me from returning.

The Trip

Where's the best place to be if you love onions and wine? That's right, Walla Walla. Oddly enough, no one has invented an onion wine. If they had, even fewer people would inhabit this small city. Lucky for me, there were two and a half people I really wanted to spend time with in "the town so nice they named it twice": Jamie, Wes, and Dylan. Dylan's the little guy pictured above. He's damn near the cutest kid I ever laid eyes on. I had a great, but short time and had to head back to rain central. These guys are soon moving to Michigan and I may not see them for a while, but it's good to know that despite time and distance apart we are still as good of friends as ever.