My Fun-Filled Weekend

Friday night started off great with family night with SigEp. I love the family, Untouchables, I am in and look forward to family nights every year. This is the time when some of the alumni come out of the houses and step away from their families for a night. The night usually starts with just SigEps and then throughout the night a few girls are called and they come hang out with us. Overall, fun night.

Saturday we had our date party, Cowboys. It was a cowboy themed party and everyone brought a date. It was hosted at one of my brothers' parents house. We had a bonfire, DJ, dance ground, and hay bails to sit on. I had fun dancing with some of the best looking cowgirls there that night. I am not going to lie, it was difficult to dance with my knee, but I discarded the pain for the girls, lol. Anyways date parties are always a blast until its time to leave. The bus ride home has some effect on everyone that makes them want to go to bed, even though its only 12:00. Regardless, we got everyone safe rides home and the night turned into a success.

Sunday was not as much fun as I sat around the Gamma Phi Beta sorority house doing homework all day. Regardless, it was a fun weekend and cannot wait until our Formal Date Party. Hope everyone had an equally fun weekend.

Floyd


Here is one pic, more to come:

Class is Canceled

Well it is Thursday night and I just got an e-mail saying my English class is canceled for tomorrow. This was great news seeing as how I would have had a paper due. I figured since I am no longer working on the paper I would make a post.

Last week I started a new job at Abercrombie and Fitch. Now this was not meant for a serious job by any means, but a temp job until I found a real one. The job was presented to me and almost forced upon me. I was merely shopping for clothes with a buddy of mine when jobs were offered to us on the spot. I thought I could have a fun time working there since our managers are ridiculously cool. Well, it turns out our managers are overly obsessed with us and want us working more than we are scheduled. My friend Maks and I laugh at his obsessiveness, which really helps us get through the 4 hour shifts. Haha we truly have a fun time working there, if only the pay was better.

This Saturday SigEp is hosting our date party called Cowboys, I have an awesome date and will be sure to have pictures and more details on Sunday.

Floyd

Knee Update

With 2 weeks down one would have thought I would be able to bend my knee again, wrong. I have been seeing my Physical Therapist but have little to no movement in my knee. I must admit the treatment of my Orthopedic Surgeon and the exercises my PT has assigned have helped tremendously. My OS actually stuck a needle in my leg and ejected most of the extra fluid my knee had accrued. This was an extremely painful procedure, especially for one who absolutely despises needles. Unfortunately, the swelling has returned and will probably have to get more ejected. Last time he took so much out, he made me eat sugar so I would not pass out. I have until next Monday to get the swelling down; lots of ice and anti-inflammatory pills for the next couple of days. Anyways I have to wear my knee immobilizer for the next 3 weeks, this means I wont be able to walk normal for 3 weeks. I will get over it though, lol.

Floyd

Fall Semester

With classes well underway this semester I have established grades as well as credibility with my teachers. If any of you new readers have taken the time to go back and read some of my old post, you would have realized I struggled in my first year of college. With poor grades, I had a lot to complain about and wrote about it in my blogs. This semester has been a 100% turnaround grade wise. I have all A's and one B, and the B is only 1% from an A. I have re-focused my aspirations in life and have been studying more. As some of you know, I lost my scholarship last year due to grades and getting a 4.0 this semester should re-qualify myself for scholarship. I have a lot to work for this semester and have been doing everything possible to get it done. Enough about my school work, how have your classes been going? If you are a senior in high school, how are you enjoying your final year? and how is your college search going? Just leave a comment and I will make sure to respond to it.

Floyd

Season Ending Injury

So last Friday I played Kansas State University in a club soccer game. The game was going great until a series of unfortunate event occurred to me. I was almost knocked out by teammate as we collided heads. I saw stars and others heard the hit. They wondered how I was not on the ground with a concussion. Then , about two minutes later I leaped to block a shot and on my way down twisted my knee and dislocated my patella. There are many different kinds of dislocations with the knee, mine was the worst. My knee cap was off to the side of my leg, just chilling there by itself. 911 was called and when they arrived there, they just started walking to me. They took their time with everything. I delayed the soccer game 30 minutes because that is how long it took them to get me onto a stretcher. 2 firetrucks, 2 police cars, and one ambulance showed up to assist me. It was ridiculous. I wanted to pop my knee back into place myself but they told me i had to wait until I got to the ER. I didnt even need to go to the hospital. All I had to do was straighten my knee out and the knee would have gone back into place, yet I had to wait over an hour with my knee out of place before a doctor could tell me to straighten my leg. The doctor did not do anything to assist the knee while I straightened, it was stupid going to the ER. I could have done everything myself. This was the 5th time I have done this to the same left knee. I just call my physical therapist and then he helps me out. I have never gone to the hospital before. I probably seem like I am pissed but its because I really am. I know more about knee's than the medics or whatever they are called that tried to help me. Anyways, I am seeing a PT now and will hopefully be able to walk again soon.

Floyd

Greek Week finals

Saturday was the final day for Greek Week 2008 and this was a big relief. I enjoyed taking the responsibility for SigEp but at the same time did not enjoy how the week was run. It was unorganized and point system seemed off to me and many others. Needless to say, SigEp did not win, but its alright. We are not losing any sleep over it, lol. Friday was the most intense day of the week. We had chariot races between all the houses, this consisted of using a bed or couch or anything really to race an obstacle course. We did not start building our chariot until after 6:00 and the race was at 7:00. Everyone else had started days in advance and were finished before we even started. Somehow we were able to finish the chariot in time. Being the Greek god, I had to ride on the chariot while others pushed. I had a scheduling conflict as I had a soccer game vs K-state at 7:00 as well. I played a little bit of soccer, had the coach take me out so I could race, raced, then right back onto the soccer field. Fortunately for me, the race was just outside the parking lot of the soccer field. We ended up taking 2nd place and that really made the other houses mad because of the lack of time we put into ours and the excessive amount of time they put into their chariots. It doesn't really matter because we all had fun doing it. But will talk about the soccer game and my season ending injury next time.

Floyd

Greek Week

Alright, if you couldnt tell already I am very pressed for time so these next few blogs will not be very long. We are in the midst of Greek Week and I was elected to represent SigEp to be out Greek god. I am the main guy in charge of everything. I have to organize and get guys to participate in the various activities they have for the week. I will have the most difficulty with the talent show portion of week. I will most likely get some guys to sing some N Sync song or something along those lines, just to be funny. The only problem is I dont have time as I have a 7 page paper due Friday. I will let you know more details about Greek Week later on.

Floyd