'Bout that time, eh chaps?

I guess it's time for me to be updating this blog. It's been about two months since I packed nearly everything I own into that Chevy Venture and left Louisiana to move to Utah. I say "nearly everything" because probably about half my stuff (the half that I probably don't need and haven't used in at least a year) was already in Utah. My reasons for leaving Louisiana are several but what it comes down to is that I just hit a dead end there. There was literally nothing there for me so it was pointless for me to stay. To be perfectly honest, I'm not entirely sure why I stayed there as long as I did in the first place. I was originally planning on moving to Utah last August but one thing or another kept me from following through with that decision. I won't say that staying so long was a mistake but I will quote the chorus of a Cowboy Mouth song that I think pretty well describes how it all went down: "Louisiana gave me no direction so I pointed to the sun and drove away. The last thing I remember I was thinking of all the reasons I can't stay here."

So here I am in Utah now. I've been spending the better part of my first month or two here trying to figure out what my next step would be. Fortunately, there's some good news on the horizon. I got accepted to Grad School at Utah State! I'll be in the Civil and Environmental Engineering program. I'm very happy that I got accepted and although it took me a few weeks, I did finally decide to accept the offer and I'll be starting there this Fall. The only down side is that I'm a little worried that I might just be in over my head. From what some of my past professors have told me I guess I'll do just fine but this is really a whole new direction for me. I just hope I'll finally be able to find something that I'll enjoy doing for the rest of my life. I suppose only time will tell.