Brad’s Life

BYX Island Party picturesare up! Yaaaaaaaaaaay! Man, this year was awesome. Bands were great. I got to be stage manager, even though I didn’t have a clue what I was doing. Great times, great times.

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Privacy what? I WANT GMAIL!!!!! When can I do the stinking beta? Maybe I don’t really want it so much as I just don’t want to not have the choice. I dunno. Give me a shot at it and we’ll find out, eh?

So I just read about Chris Pirillo’s divorce. It apparently happened forever ago, but I didn’t know anything until I was reading his weblog this morning and he mentioned his girlfriend. I thought, “Wait a minute, isn’t he married?” Apparently he and Gretchen split some time last year. How sad. For anyone who doesn’t know (again, like it matters, I’m the only one reading this blog so far as I know), Chris Pirillo is the author of the Lockergnome website, newsletters, etc. He is a great geek, and I’ve been subscribed to his stuff as long as I’ve had email. It kills me to know that I missed this news, first of all, but also to know that it happened. It’s kinda crappy when anything bad happens to someone you respect, and Chris has had a bad enough run of it lately. All sorts of problems when he was at TechTV, most of which I don’t even understand, and then this stuff with Gretchen. I know that something like half of all marriages these days end in divorce, but someone has to be the other half, right? I’m sure planning on staying married ” ’till death do us part.” I don’t think there’s anything so crazy about that, either. Why is it so much harder for couples to stay together? Or is it that it’s just so much easier to get divorced now? i.e., Is it just that now, in modern society, divorce doesn’t have the heavy negative weight that it used to, so people who used to just stick it out when it got crappy now just pull the ejection seat lever? I don’t know, just food for thought.

So here I am, true to form, months after my last entry, and back again. I’ve got to start picking this thing up. Maybe it’ll be a good release for me when I’m sick of everything. Doesn’t really matter what I type, since I’m the only one who knows it exists.

I’ll tell you this, I am tired of school. I don’t want to go to one more class. Yes, I know, I only have one week left. But I don’t know if I can handle that week. Seems like all I ever do anymore is work and go to class, with a little bit of sleep thrown in every now and then. What’s a boy to do?

No, really, what am I to do? I’m starting to get worried that this whole Baylor Med School thing isn’t going to pan out this fall. Then what? I might be working at good ole’ McAlister’s for a while yet, at least until I can apply to a bunch more schools and see what happens there. Stress, stress. It’s rough knowing exactly how your life is going to go for 21+ years until everything just suddenly flops.

Oh, in old news, married life is wonderful. Jenn is a great girl, but we already knew that. It’s always nice getting to come home with her at the end of the night. She’s great company, always has been. Now I just don’t have to tear myself away when it’s time for bed. We’re not perfect, I guess we have “fight”-ish things now and then, but we’re always good about talking out what we want without completely pissing the other off, and we’re really great at working our problems out. We DO have about 1 million pieces of china, though, if anyone needs some.