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Summer Update

Well, I'm moving to San Antonio tomorrow, and I am excited. Law school will be a lot of work, but it will be better than living with my parents and not having any friends in town or anything to do. Plus, it means I do get about 3 weeks to have a summer break, and you know what means, Chattanooga. But before I move to the Alamo City, I thought I'd post a summer update for my friends back in Chatty who may not know what I've been doing or not doing all summer.

First off, I've been working three jobs about 35 hours a week. About 23 hours come as a busser at McCormack and Schmick's seafood restaurant in downtown Austin. I make minimum wage plus tips so during lunch I make maybe $6.50/hr and at night I make 9 or 10. Quite frankly, this is the worst job I've ever had. The bosses are awful...they seem to lack personality, and of course a busser gets the least priority anyway. Plus, I was kind of led to believe I could become a waiter after a month or so of hard work, which hasn't happened despite my hard work. The waiters and my other coworkers are pretty cool - I like them better than at other restaurants I've worked at, and there are a bunch of cute girls there too, but someone has stolen my tips a couple times, presumably one of the bussers, and that fact combined with the boss situation and the poor money during the daytime shifts has put a major damper on the situation.
My other jobs are working for two different criminal lawyers as a clerk. I pretty much do a lot of errands for them, such as copying dwi videos, serving subpoenas, etc. Those jobs have been fun, and I feel the experience will be very helpful in law school and afterward.
Other than work, I haven't done much this summer. I only have two friends in town, and one is out of town a lot and the other is a fratboy putz who can't be counted on, so I don't have a lot of options. See, you shouldn't go to a super-small high school. You have to think about how that will impact your summers off from college because you won't have any friends.
Fortunately, it hasn't been all work for me this summer. My dad has season tickets to the first-place Texas Rangers, and he's a bigger fan than anyone so we've been up there as a family a few times this summer. I've seen the Yankees, Cardinals, Angels and Astros and Mariners. I just looked at the schedule, and I've seen part of every homestand that the Rangers have had since I've been back. Amazing. The Mariners game I saw was the longest game in the majors this year as well as the longest game I've ever seen. 18 innings and I kept score the entire time. I had to use the extra player slots on the scorecard and rewrite the lineup underneath the first 11 innings. My dad also took us to the All Star game and Home Run Derby in Houston, as well as the Fanfest. That, I suppose, was the highlight of the summer. We had seats in the fourth deck, but they weren't bad. It was a blast just being there.
In like manner, I have joined a baseball team in a quest for exercise. We are awful (3-21 or something), but I don't care. I've been out of the game for five years and just want to play. I joined in midseason at the beginning of July, but since then I've moved up to the fourth spot in the order and have been playing mostly outfield (what I played in high school) and 2nd base. I'm not a power hitter by any means, but I've been getting on and scoring runs so that's why I was moved up to fourth according to our player-manager. I've also stolen home twice, which has been the highlight of my season in addition to a diving catch in left field that I made. The success I've had thus far has been surprising. I half expected to strike out every time at bat my first few games, but I hadn't struck out until two bad calls by the umpire last night...it was a consensus opinion that the ump had a whack and inconsistent strike zone.
Well that's pretty much it for my summer. Thanks for reading if you made it this far. Here is a link to my apartment complex in San Antonio where I will be living starting tomorrow. Pray for me.