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I AM BACK IN BLACKSBURG!!

It feels great being back and I am already having an awesome time. Last night I was asked to dinner by Caitlyn, Lauren, and Stephanie and I thought it was just going to be like the four of us and maybe a few other people. It ended up being, me, Stephanie, Caitlyn, Lauren, Cory, Cory's brother Rory, Elizabeth, Stephen, Special K, Stephanie, Chris, Kate, Jan Michael, and Maura. Freaking awesome time! And as we were walking out we saw B. Wood, Dane, Mike and Krista at another booth. Again, freaking awesome...I cannot wait until Thursday and back at band :-)

The drive back to Tech took me about 6 hours thanks to traffic between home and Richmond. I had to go up 143 to Busch Gardens to avoid a back-up and then there were two accidents two miles between each other right before 295 which was awesome. And I had two people from UVA cut me off between Richmond and Staunton which just added to my love of that school...

POOKUMS=licence plate of person from UVA who cut me off....yea just going to leave it at that...lol

Not going to lie...I am very excited about this coming year and I cannot wait for everyone else to get back up here. I have already been out with a bunch of MVs and went downtown with Jonnny. This week is going to be a blast...

Also, at Sharkey's last night I saw Bill Roth, the voice of the Hokies...AWESOME!...I love this town.

Two Weeks!!!!

I am counting down the days till I go back to school. Two weeks and I will be back at Tech. I cannot wait!

Right now I am house sitting my brother's house while he is on his honeymoon. He is enjoying a week down in Florida at Disney World and Universal Studios. But I get the house all to myself and get to experience what it's like to be back at school away from the rents for a while. Don't get me wrong, I love my parents but I also like being on my own.

The wedding went really well. The biggest thing that went wrong was that the wedding cake was like a half an hour late getting to the reception. So in others words there were no real problems that happened. We did have a drill sergeant of a wedding coordinator at the church. It was very comical to me and a bunch of my friends. I felt like I was learning drill at the rehearsal and I started counting in my head when I had to make turns and stuff. Hopefully I didn't mess up too badly for her...lol. 

But I have to say the funniest thing was a comment from my Dad. We shows up the the rehearsal dinner early to set up and they offered us something to drink. My dad had a beer and this was the conversation my dad and mom had...

Mom: "Well I think we should head to the church. Do you want some gum to cover up that beer smell before you walk into the church?"

Dad: "Why? Jesus made water into wine and I'm sure his breath smelled like alcohol from time to time."

Freaking hilarious.

I'M BACK!

Hey everyone! Long time since I have updated this thing. So here we go again...

Well my brother is getting married this weekend and everyone in this house is starting to get stressed out about everything. I just finished a slide show that will be shown at the rehearsal dinner. It's pretty good. Not really as flashy as some of the other shows I have done, but I think it will work great. So now that that show is out of the way, that is one less thing my mom can "remind" me about...lol. 

I am best man at the wedding and I think I am ready for it. All I have to do is make sure my brother is there...right? Haha... I know I have a few more things to do but I am good and should be ready for my toast and all. 

In other news, I am ready to get back to school for my final senior year...yea Mr. 5th Year here...lol. Oh well, I love Tech and cannot wait to get back up there. I am really excited about the house, marching band, football, and seeing all my friends again. 

SILENCE!....I kill you....

Just chilling in my apartment right now watching Jeff Dunham's stand up. If you do not know who he is look him up on YouTube. He does stand up with puppets and all and it is hilarious. Watch Achmed the Dead Terrorist and you will understand why he is really funny. If you can also probably catch him again on Comedy Central.

With that little aside, school is kicking my ass right now. I only have a half week left and cannot wait for it to be over. This coming up Thursday is the grand opening of our new Building Construction building, Bishop-Favrao. All the donors are going to be there to see it and enjoy free food and open bar. All I know is that I will be all over that open bar..lol. I have to give a tour to some people from the Associated Building Contractors since they gave me a very nice scholarship for next year, but that should be fun. I am looking forward to the free food and music that will be there...did I mention the open bar?...lol

Tomorrow is my concert for Campus Band. I am really nervous about it, not because my part is hard, but because our percussion section is not the greatest in the world. There is going to be one song that will probably fall apart and it is not going to be pretty. Other than that it should be a good concert. The concert is at 3:00 is anyone is interested..lol.

My parents are coming up again this weekend for the concert. It's been pretty sweet seeing them these past two weekends. I haven't seen them since spring break and it's good to see them...plus the free dinners :-)

If anyone is interested I have a Twitter account now. I am still trying to figure out how to use all of its features but I have the basics down. Check it out if you want.... http://twitter.com/bose2k4

Here we go...

So I have noticed a lot of people have a blog here on blogger.com and I have decided to give it a try to see how all this goes. Welcome to my little piece of the internet and hope you enjoy my somewhat interesting life...haha.

Today was nothing special. The biggest thing to happen is my starting this blog. I have decided to start using the BT as much as possible to hopefully save on gas and I think it has been a good move on my part. Hopefully, next year I am going to apply to work for the BT. Stephen has gotten me interested in working for them and the thought of me driving a bus is just funny to me. We'll see how that goes and hopefully I will be driving around Blacksburg in a shinny, somewhat new, 40 foot bus. 

The biggest thing that is going on right now is the one year anniversary of the shootings here on campus. I cannot believe that a year has passed since last April. Since the start of the week all I can think about is how I felt after hearing of the news. I sat in my dorm room just watching the TV, hoping to hear good news. Tomorrow the Governor and President Steager are talking to the campus on the Drillfield in front of the memorial, and then tomorrow night is the candle light vigil. The MVs are meeting at War Memorial before the vigil and I think I am going to meet up with them. I know I was not apart of the MVs when all this happened, but I see them as one of my families here at Tech and I want to support them as much as I can.

That's it for now...

We are the Hokies.

We will prevail,

We will prevail,

We will prevail,

We are Virginia Tech.

       - Nikki Giovanni