Tubasaluki: Quoting music since 2003

With any kind of luck, I’m leaving in 12 hours for cold, cold Havre, so I figured I would pass along a few notes. Mostly notes of thanks.

Thanks, obviously, to my parents, who allowed me to live the unemployed cliche and live with them and spend a lot of time in the basement. Could not have made it these past few months without their help and support.

Thanks to my friends who continued being awesome during the whole process. It was great to see people again and of course use that socialization to take my mind off things. I may have hung out with Nick more over the past few months than I ever did in high school. I look forward to our frustrating sports arguments, probably about soccer, a sport neither one of us really played or coached.

Thanks to the Lake Stevens Cross Country Program which literally kept me sane from August to November. I will say this as long as people will listen: that was an awesome bunch of kids to be around on a daily basis and if I ever coach again (hope to) I can only hope that I have a group like that. Each day was a lot of fun, and I found something, in coaching, that I feel I can fall back on at a later date. I now know that I like working with kids and being able to teach them, and I owe it to spending this season with the cross country team. Oh yeah, and the boys going to state wasn’t half bad either.

Thanks to Trivia Night at the Irishman, which was just awesome. If you live near Everett, I recommend going on a Tuesday night. Its a blast, as long as the categories aren’t things like “Friends” or “Seinfeld”.

And thanks to the million other things that probably made this experience not nearly as bad as I felt it was at times. From reading a bunch of books, to completing NaNoWriMo, to working out more, to cooking, to my general obsession with Coheed and Cambria, Dream Theater, Death Cab for Cutie, U2 and others, every little bit helped.

On the road tomorrow. Will post again when I have Internet. They have that in Montana, contrary to popular belief.

Its not your fault
I don’t care
My new girl
She’s got laser hair,

Alan