Life has been so busy for me I have not had time to repost despite the email I received from PK telling me it was almost October waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back when...Haha.  Interesting stuff goin on in the Student Senate, I helped defeat legislation that would have taken away our chaplain.  Every meeting we have a chaplain who gives us a devotion and prayer before starting...Made lots of enemies after speaking out against that bill, but oh well.  Without God we're nothing anyway and besides in the secular view of things they were arguing it took up too much time and business less efficient as well as it was a Christian chaplain.  Few things wrong with this.  One, the devotion and prayer takes up about a minute, sometimes two minutes of our time, so that's a bogus argument.  It has no effect on our efficiency of business.  Two, we don't have it anywhere in our Senate codes that says the chaplain has to be of any religion, it just happens to be a Christian chaplain every time.  This attack on Christianity nationwide has got to end or we're all going to wind up screwed in the end...

RHA Senate and the CCA are kinda chill.  Not much on the national scene with CCA except that I am now the National Vice Chairman...I guess it's OK...It means though that I'm now National Vice Chairman, Southeast Chairman, and South Carolina State Chairman.  Good thing is my position as National Vice Chairman is merely symbolic and I have my work cut out for me as Southeast Chairman because all I'm doing is checking up on the other southeast state chairs.  So, the only work I even do is as state chairman.  I got a job on another campaign for next year.  I'll be part of Eric Bedingfield's staff as he runs for Dan Tripp's seat (Dan's steppin down this year).  So that means I'm working on Bruce's re-election campaign and Eric's campaign, but that's all good because the districts are right next to each other so no traveling or anything for me.  Speaking of our now Statesman Bannister, I got a job with him in second semester when the General Assembly convenes in January. 

Flag football team went 2-2 in the regular season, finished 3-3 overall.  We won our first playoff game by forfeit since the team didn't show.  There were 20 teams in the playoff bracket for our league and we were ranked 13th so we didn't get a bye (the first 12 get a first week bye).  That meant though, that we had to play the #1 team in the 2nd round.  This team was unreal...They had their own coach, I kid you not.  Come on people, this is intramural flag football, back off!  We lost of course to the New England Patriots it seemed...42-8.  It was 26-8 at halftime and you play with a 35 point mercy rule.  We were the first team all year to even score on these guys (got the 2 pt. conversion) much less play a FULL game with them without using the mercy rule (even if they did beat us by 34 pts).  We had the ball first in the first half and drove real well until our QB threw a pick and then the whole game went downhill...Not even Calvin Parks with all his speed and talent could help us out, they stopped him pretty good.  Calvin is gonna try to walk-on the Carolina team by the way.  That's why he transferred in from Mars Hill College.

How bout those Gamecocks?  Been a good Fall really.  White Sox win the World Series, the Panthers are 6-2 and tied with Atlanta for first in the NFC South right now, the Gators are 6-2 and second in the SEC East and of course the Carolina Gamecocks are 6-3.  They've won a school record four straight SEC games after falling 0-3 their first three SEC games to Georgia, Bama, and Auburn all who have a combined record of 24-2.  This is a Carolina team that was demoralized, talent depleted, and written off by everyone before the season began and even more so after losing their first three SEC games to those powerhouse teams.  Spurrier has done an incredible job getting them to where they are and where they are is a good position to upset Florida, finish off a struggling Clemson team and finish the season 8-3 (5-3 in the SEC).  Can't get your hopes high though because you know how it is in Gamecock country, the Cocks always break your hearts (that was before Spurrier and their amazing NIT win last year against St. Jospeh's, but still)...Interesting to see how it will all play out.  I had predicted Carolina would finish the season 6-5 (4-4) and go to a bowl game.  I'd like to be wrong this time...If they can finish 8-3 (5-3) this would have to go down as probably the greatest or one of the greatest seasons in Gamecock history.  Spurrier doesn't even have the players he needs for his offense save Blake Mitchell and Sidney Rice and look at how the offense is producing!  Give 'em about two more years and I think Carolina could be a real contender for an SEC East title.  You have not only Mitchell, Syvelle, Rice, McKinley, and Davis in two years, but you're going to have a host of other underclassmen who will fit Spurrier's offenseivle mold play...It's looking good in Columbia...

Dang it I ain't got time for all this stuff...Summer is supposed to be a time where you chill with your friends, relax, have a job, and take it easy.  Well, as you all know I lost a lot of friends because a stupid fiasco months back.  The only friends I have that have stuck with me all these years are the guys and gals from Cross-Country/Track and church man, but not much time to hang out because yes, I do have a job...Actually two.  I work for my uncle in contracting and do some stuff for the Mauldin Rec. Dept.  I ain't takin it easy, that's for sure...

I got back from D.C. early right?  Long story, ask me bout it sometime if you want to know, but anyway...I didn't understand why that seemed so awesome and full of promise and then just completely fell through while I was up there.  I found out why when I got back.  Hope Community Church, a church ours helped start years ago, was starting up a kids program and Pastor Kenny sent Chris and I over there to help start it and run the kids church this summer.  It had never occurred to me that one of the reasons why I came back home was to do this kids church.  Chris and I were in PK's office one night goin over our stuff real late after youth service for Sunday morning when he just suddenly stopped everything he was doing and said "You know, we weren't even plannin on being here this summer.  I was supposed to be in Lakeland helpin a church there and you were supposed to be in D.C."...God works in pretty interesting ways doesn't He?  The kids service is a blast, we're all having fun and the kids are learning and having a great time.  It's teaching me a lot, especially about ministry because there is no break from that...Chris never goes home, he practically lives at church and whenever I'm not workin for my uncle, I'm over there at the church workin on our stuff for Sunday or at Hope setting up.  I wouldn't stop it for anything though!  Our first Sunday we had only three kids...The next Sunday, after goin out to the neighborhoods knockin on doors and stuff, we had eighteen!!!!  Right now with vacations and guests comin in and out checking out this new kids church, we're averaging about sixteen kids a service which is up from their normal average of about twelve...For those of you not good at statistics, having about an average of four kids more than normal is TREMENDOUS!!! We're plannin a kids crusade right now for the end of July!  We may need YOUR HELP, so PLEASE if we do and you can answer that call, help out!  These kids come from homes without much of anything and many have parents who will never set foot in a church, but they want their kids there.  Those kids could possibly reach their parents at some point!!!! Please help out if you can at all!!! Your world may not have any room for these kids and maybe they won't mean much to you, but I promise you to these kids, you really are their world because by helping you're showing you care and that's something they don't see often.