First and foremost, let’s not forget the history of today… Be sure to say a prayer in whatever religion or manner that you subscribe to. If you’re not religious, then at least have a deep thought about the events of three years ago – it’s the least that we can do.

Some of you might notice that my latest post about the great gyms at Rutgers University, the classes that I’m taking, and just what I’ve been up to this past week is gone! The server people moved us to a different machine in their database…just so happens that yours truly updated during the move! They’re looking for that lost update, but I told them not to go nuts over it – I mean it’s just a blog entry!

Tomorrow’s update will talk a bit about what I did all day today (basically it’ll be about the regional conference that I attended/hosted for my fraternity this morning).

However, I figure that today I would just talk briefly about my comings and goings in the past few days.

• I got a job at the Ocean Place Spa and Resort on the beautiful Atlantic Ocean in Long Branch, NJ. I start next Friday doing some Front Desk work – it should be a nice change of feeling from my latest job (working in the real estate office for two years). The real estate office had its ups and downs (mostly downs), but one of the things that made it difficult to really enjoy was the fact that the Owner worked there in the office as well as the Financial Administrator and both were aged 45 and 65, respectively. It makes it tough for them to relate to my 23-year old issues and concerns, but they did a fine job. However, the new job has a Front Desk Manager who is 27, two Assistant Managers who are 24 and 25, and a front desk staff who range in age between 21 and 24. Not bad! Bottom Line: It should be a lot of fun (and it’s only part-time for two or three days per week!).
• I took a dip in the gym’s pool today for the first time in at least three weeks (probably longer). I have to say that it was extremely refreshing. You all know that I was swimming everyday for the longest time, but in the past few weeks between planning today’s conference, getting ready for going to Grad School, getting a job at the hotel, preparing for my guys to all move back into the area, and dealing with life in general it’s been hard to find an extra hour or two in my day to jump in the pool! When I did get in the water today, though, that feeling of, “Ahhh, nice” came back. I like swimming – I’m going to start swimming more again.
• Homework! Damn it! I’m 23 friggin years old and I’ve got friggin homework to do! The bulk of the rest of my weekend is going to be spent doing the work for only TWO of my classes for this coming week. Sucks, doesn’t it? But hey, like I said to my friends the other day – I’ll put in the extra hardwork for the next year and a half to make a butt-ton more money for the next 50 years of my life!
• Make a comment! What are you waiting for? Give me a great caption or idea on the picture that I posted the other day! For those of you who are wondering, the guy in the picture is a good friend of mine and an active reader of the blog so you can be sure that your comments are being read! Click here to see the post or scroll down to view it.
• New ads on the blog. You might have noticed that if you click a link on this page it takes you to an advertisement and THEN to the page that you originally intended to go to. It’s a new form of advertising that Mamma.com is offering (our advertisers) and I figured why not give it a shot, huh? Feel free to let me know your thoughts on it. Running a site is expensive business these days – especially one that isn’t out to make money like TBL. Just to make money to pay the bills is hard enough alone!

That’s what I got. I’ll be back tomorrow with a few thoughts on my regional conference!