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If you want to hear God laugh tell him your plan

Get a Real Job      T here are some things I want to accomplish in my life, but they are not necessarily "Bucket List material"...  they are things that I "assume" I will do, including buy a house, get married, have children, etc.   I never thought "Get a real job" would ever be on my bucket list...but it has been since I graduated from college and assumed I would have one.  I don't have any control over our country's economy & the fact that when I graduated all the hospitals were cutting back and the first thing to cut was recreational therapists due to reimbursement issues at the time.    "Life is 10% what happens to you, and 90% how you respond to it."  -Lou Holtz.         I jumped right into what I really wanted to do: Physical Therapy, by looking into schools that I was interested in...only coming to realize I should have spent waaaayyy more nights at Joyner Library instead of downtown Greenville.  I decided to attend Nash Com

Lost in a Sea of Garnet and Black

Visit all SEC football stadiums      SEC football is unlike any college football found throughout the country.  The toughest conference to play in only makes for the most amazing rivalries & games to watch.  Another ongoing thing that is on my bucket list:  I want to visit every SEC stadium  (as of 2011).   The SEC stadium I look forward to the most: Tiger Stadium " Deaf Valley" in Baton Rouge  and the rivalry I look forward to the most:  Alabama vs. Auburn Game! Ben Hill Griffin Stadium,  Gainsville, FL|  Home of the Florida Gators      Pictures and/or words cannot even begin to describe this magical place.  "The Swamp" was originally built on a sinkhole and expansion efforts have enclosed the field on all sides, which helps to concentrate fan noise to field level. " Florida Gator fans are both loyal and loud, thus creating a tremendous home field advantage  for the Gators.    The size and exuberance of the 90,000 home crowds, when combined with the