Mardi Gras

Well its Mardi Gras weekend here in New Orleans, which is always a huge deal here. I do love how the city likes to celebrate as a community but I never get too excited for Mardi Gras other than the extra time off. Once you’ve been to a couple of parades you’ve seen them all in my opinion. It also rained pretty hard here yesterday postponing a lot of the parades. I went to grab lunch from Crabby Jacks (a local poboy shop) yesterday and the place was packed then when I left it was pouring down rain. With the down time I have been using a lot of it organizing a lot of things. With graduation coming up I am drafting some cover letters for different opportunities. I know I’d like to work in athletics and right now I am looking for openings where I can learn and gain experience for a career in the field. As far as the semester goes things are going pretty well. I am making some progress in my training and classes are going well. Our first outdoor meet will be in San Diego, which will be here soon. Looking forward to perfecting my technique and then competing over Spring Break in San Diego. 

Cold Front in Nola

This weekend has been the coldest yet this year but still managed to have a pretty active weekend doing some things I do not normally get to do. Saturday morning I went on 2 hour bike ride then played softball for about 2 hours then played tennis for another 2 hours. Pretty productive day. On my bike ride I had never seen so many ducks in one pond over in Audubon Park. We had a group play softball on the quad behind Bruff and played two games. First game was first to 15 and the second one was first to 11. I was fortunate enough to be on the winning side both times and the Jon Frano was the unfortunate one to be on the losing side both times. I still had a lot of energy so got some people to play tennis. I hadn't played in awhile so it was fun playing again. On top of that I got a couple more recommendations for my UT-Austin application. Practice went really well this week and I'm in good health. Showing a lot of progress in the long jump and got some decent hurdle work in as well. Practicing my footwork for the javelin was challenging but got some good reps in this week. Excited to keep working at it and accomplishing the goals I have set for this season.

The Fly

Pond at Audubon

More Ducks

My future dog one day...

This week in Nola

I went to the Mat Kearney concert Tuesday at the House of Blues with one of my roommates. We got there a little late but we had a blast. Fun times and definitely would like to see another one of his shows. Schools gone well have my first quiz and test of the semester this week. I am really enjoying my real estate class this semester. Professor Aguilar is very entertaining and I feel like I am learning a lot in that class. I watched the Super Bowl earlier and was really pulling for the Patriots to win it, I'm a big fan of Robert Kraft and it was crushing to see the clip of him watching the very last play of the game. Still a great season and pretty cool how they dedicated their season to his wife. Getting ready for another week of training and hoping to make improvements to get ready for the outdoor season. 

Mat Kearney at House of Blues in Nola