"There's nothing here to take for granted, with each breath that we take"

...when you stay true from beginning to end.

I was supposed to write this thing up on the day my blog was officially one year old, but I'm late to the party by several days. That's alright though, I can still get the same point across in this post. The two pictures are to show me from now and me from a year ago. The first of me in the purple was taken today just for this post, and the second is from almost exactly a year ago at the Miami-Georgia Tech game. I can't really tell, but I don't think I look any older now.

So much has changed since my first blog post here, it's ridiculous. I had a girlfriend named Jordan when I was first blogging, and I was in a really shaky relationship. I was in total denial of how bad things were, and I'd  let the relationship continue on even though it was completely unhealthy. I've been single for a year now, and it feels pretty great. I'm having an amazing time with it. I kind of lost any sort of interest in girls I had, and honestly did not want to date this entire past year. Just recently I finally had my knees buckle on me with one girl, and though I'm not entirely sure about her, I guess it shows I still have plenty of time to enjoy my single life.

Blogging has been a very therapeutic experience for me, it's awesome. I really love the community here, I never had a place to lay out all of my thoughts, and it's made my life a little easier a lot of the time. I'm really thankful for all of you guys I talk to on a [semi] regular basis. This is a place where I can really express myself, and I'm glad there are people out there who appreciate that through my whining and my good times.

I'm still in school at Georgia Tech and learned a lot from my first year. I have a solid group of friends here now, and I try to hang out with them as much as I can. I'm as busy as ever here though and things haven't gotten any easier. I'm trying to pull my GPA up as high as I can before the end of spring so I can be eligible for a scholarship. As hard as things are academically, living in an apartment with 3 guys [2 I didn't live with last year] can have it's toll too. It's alright though, things are working out well this year, and I've been doing great.

2008 was a terrible year for the Alex Sohani saga, but 2009 has treated me fairly well so far, and I hope the trend continues. I've learned now the steps I needed to take towards living a more consistently happy life, and I'm really grateful for Mindsay being part of that picture. I think I've finally started getting a grip hold on the miserable, bummed dude that came here, and am working on improving myself to the best I can be. I can't believe it's already been a year that I've been blogging, and while I haven't met a lot of people on here even still, I've met some great friends.

I'm still the same old guy as before.. just with a much more mature mentality on the world, I've cut down a lot on how sensitive I can be sometimes, and don't wear my heart on my sleeve like I used to. I'm still the same rock loving musician as always, just much wiser. I hope this next year of change for me is as rewarding as the first, and I plan on being here next year doing a similar post to this. Love you Mindsay.

It's been a year since I started this blog, and oh what a year it has been.

So much has changed, that's for sure.

Why is it that most people in the world have an inability to listen. Most of those people who are "listening" are just waiting on their turn to speak. They just sit and wait for the opportunity to blab about themselves.

When did the world succumb to many human beings losing the ability to genuinely care about others and what they're saying?

I find myself guilty of this at times, generally with people I'm not very fond of, but I'm almost ashamed reflecting on it. People need to have their opinions validated, to be "heard out". Now it's so hard to find that anywhere, no wonder therapy is such a hot commodity.

I think if everyone spent the time to hear out those who are "close" to them, the world would be a much better place. I know I'll be keeping this in mind.

I hate people who are full of themselves and hold themselves so high and mighty and never budge from their opinions. My roommate Erik was acting like that today, and been doing that a lot frequently, I almost punched him in the face about half an hour ago.

My roommate Michael and I were working on some homework, discussing economics and stuff, and we were talking about the Fed, and how the people at the top hold a lot of power. Arguably the head of the Fed could be the most powerful person in the world. Erik of course decides to put in his little opinions, which he always does, because he enjoys arguing every point anyone ever makes. I could say the sky is blue, and he'd find some way to try to twist that into something totally irrelevant. I kind of ignored him at first, but we started getting into the debate about corruption in the government, and how I'm sure it happens at some point with the Fed, and he argued that our government in the U.S. has NO corruption whatsoever. I kind of ignored that, and he immediately proceeded to INSULTING my mom based on meeting her once. He did so because he felt that she is just a "crazy bitch who comes up with conspiracy theories", and that my arguments aren't valid based on how I was raised by people who don't think rationally.

This is coming from the kid who I let stay over at my house last weekend so he wouldn't get stuck in the apartment with our other roommates who had Swine Flu. My parents let him into THEIR house graciously, fed him, made sure he was doing okay, and he thinks he has the right to insult them and take jabs at me using my parents. I don't tolerate that, not at all. I basically told him he didn't have a right, and if he made one more remark, I wouldn't hesitate to physically harming him. He almost crossed the line, and saw my fist clench, and went to his room, not even finishing his last statement.

I don't tolerate that, not once bit. It's hard to get my that mad.

Every few weeks, a Friday is ruined by a mindblowingly hard Calc III exam. That day is today, at 1:00 PM.

I'mma get rocked.

New theme and stuff, what do you think? I don't really know about it yet. I do like the header though.

Dude, holy shit.

I think I actually might like a chick.

Andreux told me I should put something up for this tour, even though I haven't been here for very long yet, but if anyone new is reading my blog, I suppose they'd like to know a bit about me and possibly become future blog readers? :]

I'm Alex, I'm currently a Sophomore at Georgia Tech, majoring in Industrial Engineering.

I'm 19 years old, and depending on the day will definitely act my age. I'm usually more mature than my age lets on, but I definitely enjoy having fun the way kids my age do. I'm really big on music, I'd go as far as to say that I'm obsessed, but nowhere close to a bad way. I listen to all kinds of stuff, you name it, I'll give it a listen. [well, maybe with the exception of most generic country music]. I'm a big concert goer [I love to mosh!], and can throw a pretty awesome party too.

Some other interesting tidbits to know are that I'm a drummer and guitarist, and sometimes write some music, though I wish I was better at it. I'm also really big on sports, and have a TON of school spirit. You'll rarely miss me at a GT football game, and I try to watch any sporting event I can from the teams I support [Mostly the LA Lakers and the GT Yellow Jackets].

Besides that, I'm not exactly very different from the norm. I'd like to think I have an interesting perspective on things, and I think that's why a lot of people I know around here come to me with their problems. I'm a great listener, fairly social, and always enjoy meeting new people.

I can't really think of much else to say here, so I guess I'll leave it at that. I hope I get to meet some cool people this week! If there are any more questions about me, or you just want to meet me, drop a comment! :D

P.S. +10 points if you can translate my blog title without using Google.. though I have no way of proving it. Haha.

It's cool to see this Mindsay Reunion Tour deal going down. I hope to see a lot more activity here, though I shouldn't really be talking, I've been pretty bad about keeping up lately.

I have two roommates who have/had Swine Flu since Tuesday or Wednesday, it's pretty unpleasant considering one of them seems to be in denial about the whole situation and walking around in the open without a mask on, and hanging out with his friends. Nathan on the other hand has been doing pretty well quarantining himself in his room, and I think he's actually almost better at this point, which is good news. I went home this weekend with my healthy roommate in order to avoid being around a Swine Flu infested apartment. I'm doing okay so far, surprisingly not sick, so I'm hoping I got off easy with avoiding catching the flu. By the way, Swine Flu makes people pissy, just going to throw that one out there.

On a side note, wow I think it's been about a year since I started this blog. Too bad it's mostly filled with boring whiny posts from a bummed out [currently] 19 year old kid. Hahaha, hopefully I'll figure out a way to make my blog posts more meaningful to my readers in my next year of blogging.