Jiu Jitsu and more

I am so excited, I have discovered that I am now training under one of the best instructors for what I want to do.

I am meeting him tomorrow for a drive to Brandon to train under a legendary instrustor, and then a 3-4 hour session of practice at a Dojang (martial arts gym). After that, lunch and then back home for UFC. I will write a review of that as well.

I am excited for tomorrow even if I have to get up at 5:30Am to meet him at 6:00Am so we can be to Brandon by 7:00Am. Fun Fun.

I also have a tournament on July 21, 2007 with the NAGA (North American Grappling Association) nagafighter.com . Over a thousand competitors, time to train. Class tonight early bed and then class tomorrow. I love this sport!

Virginia Tech... RIP

With 32 dead as of this post and 20+ people injured, the worst shooting in U.S. History has taken place at Virginia Tech.

What drives people to do this? What was the reason that no students were notified until two hours after the first shooting? What was the main failure?

This is a tragedy, and my prayers go out to the families, and as student of a college I feel for them. This is mighty scary when I think of how open our campus is, and sit and wonder how many copycats will come out of this.

To those killed, God Speed.
To those injured, Get well.
To those families, Our prayers are with you.
To those in charge, Our prayers are with you as well.

Daniel

PROM!

It is time for prom... now let's just go with the assumption that I can dance... which is an assumption that I am not sure that we can make but whatever, this is still a nerve racking day. I get to go down to Port Charlotte and see my G/f, and ALL of her friends. It should be good though.

I will let everyone know how it goes.

In other news, traffic school is done, and finals are almost here for this semester. It will be nice to get this semester overwith, I could use a few week break before I have summer semester.

Ahh the life of a busy 19 year old.

Schools in session

Well it finally happened... my driving record is no longer clean. This is so bad because I know what the speed is on that road. I drive it every day, and any other day I would of been fine doing the speed limit. But today I was on the phone and the officer caught me 17 over. 47 in a 30. Well time for traffic school, this should take off all the points and reduce the fine, but none the less I am frustrated. Not at the officer or at anyone else, but at myself.

How is it that we can get so caught up in one thing that a temporary lack of focus catches us 185.50 in the hole?

Applications and rain

So I have spent today filling out my application of transfer to UCF. What a long and informative process, all I have left though is the Essay and a few mundane numbers to look up relating to courses I am/will be taking.

Now that that is almost done, and I got prom shopping done yesterday, all I have to focus on is... the rest of my To Do List.

I don't normally make these, but seeing as how I needed to keep track of everything that was overwhelming me I decided to. Blame my Girl Friend for instilling that idea in me.

All that is left:
School work; Math Project, Feature Story, persuasive speech
Martial Arts; Decide to switch or stay in this current form.
Finish the Essay to UCF
Go to Prom and have a good time
Clean my room (Just moved a new computer into here which will make it easier to do homework... but harder right now with all of the things I had to move on my bed. Until I can clean that, I will just sleep in my Computer chair.)
Register for Summer and Fall classes at MCC
Find a topic that local people all around the country would like to read in a weekly column


There is more including finishing a few songs that are in the works... and to start and finish a short story, but those don't really have dead lines.

Other than that it is raining which limits what I can do outside... so it will be inside conditioning work today.

I sit in awe and think...

I am listening to Brand New and their song Jesus Christ. This song has totally blown me away the past couple of days. I can not get enough of it. This song really has me sitting and thinking about a lot about my faith and a lot about life. This is the first song in quite some time to do this for me. Here are the lyrics what do you think?

If you click on this link: www.myspace.com/shmanny and scroll down you can hit play to listen to it.

Band: Brand New
Song: Jesus Christ

Jesus Christ that's a pretty face
The kind you'd find on someone that could save
If they don't put me away O' it'll be a miracle

Do you believe you're missing out?
That everything good is happening somewhere else
But with nobody in your bed
The night's hard to get through.
And I will die all aloneAnd when I arrive I won't know anyone.

Well Jesus Christ, I'm alone again.
So what did you do those three days you were dead?
Cause this problem's gonna last
More than the weekend.

Well Jesus Christ I'm not scared to die,
I'm a little bit scared of what comes after.
Do I get the gold chariot,
Do I float through the ceiling?

Do I divide and fall apart?
Cause my bright is too slight to hold back all my dark
And this ship went down in sight of land.
And at the gates does Thomas ask to see my hands?

(Interlude)

I know you're coming in the night like a thief,
But I've had some time alone to hold my lions at bay
I know you think that I'm someone you can trust,
But I'm scared I'll get scared
and I swear I'll try to nail you back up.
So do you think that we could work out a psalm?
So I'll know it's you and that it's over so I won't even try.
I know you're coming for the people like me.
But we all got wood and nails
we try n' tear down hate and factory.
Yeah we all got wood and nails
don't tear down hate n' factory.
Yeah we all got wood and nails
And we sleep inside of this machine.

As I look on a new possible place to play and talk to people about God, this song pretty much sums up the way a lot of us feel.

Daniel

First for now...

I might as well introduce myself. My name is Daniel. Who knows who will read this eventually so I might as well start with the basics. I am a 19 year old college student of Journalism/communications. I am also severly interested in Music and MMA. I have played music most of my life, the MMA is a new thing of about 6 months, but I still want to pursue it.

I am currently going to use this blog to comment on current events, ( there is a scholarship that requires it) and also for training updates with my Martial Arts training, as well as music reviews and other things I find worthy enough of being on my blog.

For those who read this... Hello, leave me a comment and I will get to know you as I get to know this thing.