Round Two, ding ding ding.

Hello! It's time for round two, GRE style. Tomorrow morning, I will once again come face to face with the Graduate Record Examination in an attempt to get into the graduate school of my dreams. It's been a rocky two weeks preparing for the rematch, but I think I'm ready for it.

It's also almost time for the elusive fall break, which offers a much needed rest for college students everywhere, especially at Southern Miss. I talked a lot last week about what I'll be doing for this fall break, but I'm going to give you a quick rundown of what I did the past three fall breaks of my college career:

1. Freshman Year - Visited my friends at LSU. Went home. Slept.

2. Sophomore Year - Went home. Slept.

3. Junior Year - Slept.

As you can see, Fall Break is clearly a time for rest. This past weekend I took my fall break early and slept a lot to compensate for my coming activity-filled fall break. Also, after writing "slept" three times (now four times) in a row, it no longer looks like a word in the English language. Does that ever happen to you? Gets me every time.

Before fall break and my second try at the GRE gets underway, I'm going to be enjoying a free dinner at Brownstone's in downtown Hattiesburg provided by my fraternity. It's for members with a 3.0 GPA or higher, and it gives us a chance to celebrate academic excellence and enjoy some great free food. After that, though, it's all night study marathon for my GRE. But not the whole night. I've got to get my sleep on before the big test.

Something that I've really come to love about every semester is new friends. This year I've gotten the chance to make some cool new friends. A few of us have decided very recently to start a band together. The idea of writing and performing songs has gotten me back into my songwriting mood. It now looks like in my free time over fall break I might record a few of my older songs, which I unearthed in my songbook for your listening pleasure (or displeasure.) It'll be up to you to decide.

Well that's it for this week. It's finally time for some Fall Break '09. I'll leave you with the last original song I recorded.  It was for my friend Molly's birthday over the summer. I'll put it on my nifty little song player so you can play it right here: