Expecto Patronum!

Oh Harry Potter. I bet my Patronus would be in the form of either a black lab (Hope) or cat (Tigger). Though if it came in the form of Hope it would probably just run away from the Dementors.
Yeah I just spent the weekend watching a Harry Potter marathon. Really I will never get tired of reading those books or watching the movies. especially starting from The Prisoner of Azkaban and on. When things started to get really dark and scary. From the previews of the final movie it is going to be out of control. I don't know if I can really wait til like June 17th. That's a long ways away. Perhaps I'll reread the books to get ready for it. Yup, I have a lot going on in my life. Can you believe I don't have a girlfriend? Crazy huh...
So I just realized that it's been almost a month since I last posted here. My apologies to all those out there. Yup, all 10 or so of you that occasionally skim through this blog. I want to say it's because I have been so freaking busy these past weeks that I barely have the time to sit down and write. That would only be partially true. Most of my time this past month has been busy. I've been subbing and coaching a lot. But I was on break from subbing all last week so I probably could have fit it into my schedule. But to be honest I've been offline a lot lately.
A really good Pink Floyd song just came on. I pretty much am at the mercy of the radio since a month and a half ago one of the rapscallions here spilled beer onto my ihome and you can no longer use the ipod feature. This is annoying since the sole purpose of these things is to play your ipods on these. What can you do though...
Aaaaannnnyyyyway,
What's been new? Well I finally booked my ticket home for May 4th, landing in Worcester May 5th around 5pm. So anyone looking to pick up an out of work Maui bum from Logan Airport feel free to ring me up. I'm pretty excited to get back home. Maui is great and all. The weather is usually perfect but this is a place one wants to be on vacation here or just staying for an extended period of time without working too much. Having to work 40-50 hours a week between subbing and coaching kind of cramps into one's schedule. I also miss the friends and family. Sitting around playing Mario Cart, trips to The Boynton and Water Street. The usual. The countdown is on though. About 6 weeks then I'll be in Worcester.
Coaching is going alright. These kids seem to hate training though. I get a lot complaining from them and they always seem to be on vacation it looks like. Last week most of them were away for interm. This means they were all on service trips off island or something like that. I was left with one freshman "sprinter" who most girls are faster than. And he did nothing but whine and complain the entire time. This week they are all on spring break an I had 4 kids show up today. Maybe 5 tomorrow if I'm lucky. They complain when practice runs more than an hour. These kids have no idea what I could be making them do. 10 minute warm ups are too much for them. It's al about the Benjamins though. The Benjamins I won't see until after the season is over sadly. But it'll be a nice fat paycheck.
I survived the Tsunami, barely. Of course I would get sick the night of it. While the rest of my roommates all took off into the pineapple fields to party I spent the night sick in bed listening to the warning sirens going off between midnight and like 4 AM. Though I did really appreciate all the texts and phone calls from those worried back east. Even though they kept waking me up I'll forgive them all. Really though nothing came of the tsunami. It was a lot like how New Englanders freak out over northeasters. Everyone ran to the markets, bought a ton of crap they really didn't need an headed off into the hills. It sounded and looked like a major backup on all the roads that headed up into the hills. Most of the resorts along the water had to evacuate so all those vacationers had to sleep in cars parked up on hills. Pretty wild stuff.
Also survived St Patty's Day. Won't go into too much detail but I definitely found myself barreling up and down the pineapple fields at midnight with a bottle of wine an 5 or 6 beers in me. Pretty good times though can't really compare to last year with Noone and Duggan. It was fun hanging out at a random platform about 3 miles up into the fields, looking down upon Lahaina and the ocean. An almost full moon and stars made everything pretty clear.
So I have a friend coming later this week over from Oahu. This girl Shana is flying over with a friend of hers who is doing some sort of race. Randomly met her while guarding this summer when she overheard me talking about living in Hawaii for the winter. After random communication over the past 6 months I got an email from her last week and being the kind heart I am I offered up our place as a free place to crash. I feel bad for Curtis because it'll mean he has to give up his air mattress bed for a couple days. Oh well, it'll be the gentlemanly ting to do and it is my air mattress. Not about to let girls sleep on carpets and crummy couches that are peeling apart. It should be a good time though. I have that Friday and Monday off of school (and pay sadly) so I'll be able to hang out with them and still get in training. Perhaps some hikes or whale watches are in order.
Speaking of training:
It's been going alright. Not phenomenal but decent. I am not getting in the training I was hoping at this point. Like I said, been working. But I am in decent shape. Though I am typing this on a day where I didn't do anything. Pretty tired today and had 9 days of working out in a row here. So I am allowed this. That is another reason I am looking to get home. I feel like I am better at staying on task with training when I'm home. There are only like 2 ways to go biking and running out here where I live. I'm getting bored. But I'm trying to stay focuse and on task. It is getting tough cause I rarely get to train with Jon. We have the different work schedules working against us here. I am really eager to get training with Paul when I get home. Especially since 3 days after I land we are racing a sprint tri in Hopkington. I am not expecting anything stellar but I'll be really bummed if I can't break 1:02 on the course. I've been trying to put more emphasis on the biking this year since that is the biggest part of an Ironman. I'm not gonna lie, I'm already looking forward to being done this thing so I can just take a little time off and do other things.
I also have to get looking for a job for the fall. Over the next month I'm gonna have to start emailing school districts hoping something will come on. I swear I'll shoot myself before I go back to working full time at a place like Barnes and Noble. I keep telling myself I got plenty of time before the fall but in reality if I don't find a school by late June I am gonna be hard pressed to find anything at all.
Man, I really can't wait for the summer. I am really looking forward to getting back down to the cape. Thee is just nothing like that place. Where else can a person get a job that involves sitting around a beach, working out, and hanging out with a bunch of other people who do the same thing everyday. Where else will a boss come up to you and say "Louis, you look hot. Why don't you go take a swim for half an hour or take out the rescue board. I'll watch the water." or "Louis, you get a run in today? The comps are just around the corner. Why don't you go running and I'll watch the water for half an hour." I love Gordo.
So a couple weeks ago I got a wedding invite from my friend Becky (one of the greatest head guards ever by the way). Brian is the other greatest head guard. Her wedding is in freaking Disney World. How awesome is that? It's not until Nov. 22nd but I already can't wait. I love going to weddings, especially when the people are mostly around my age. The last one I went to was easily one of the best times I had in my life and left me wanting to attend another one. I know it'll be fun but even if it's not it's going to be in Disney World.

Whelp, I know I'm forgetting to add something but I have some core work to do since I did nothing else today and am feeling fat and lazy after eating dinner so I think I'll end it with the same way I started this post. I'll throw in some geeky Harry Potter:

"It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew - and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents - that there was all the difference in the world. ~J.K. Rowling, "Horcruxes," Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005

My favorite book of the series.