Weekend Recap

For the first 'real' post, I'm looking back on this long weekend from the end of OSU finals week on Thursday (6/9) until, well, now. And boy, was it a busy weekend.

Where to start? Probably finals ending...
Finals are over. Spring quarter is over. I can't possibly explain how exciting that was on Thursday afternoon at 1:15pm. This quarter was stupid because I decided to play the 'how much can my life be like Greg Ebersole's' game. Basically, it was a big experiment to see how I would handle having 5 engineering classes during the premier social quarter at OSU.....READ: This was an idiotic, but unfortunately necessary decision. To make a long story short, I'm a little behind on my M.E. degree, and I needed to take a heavy quarter to get back on track. As a result, myself and one of my closest FIJI brothers ended up with a nightly schedule like this - Homework, Dinner, TG at x bar, Library till 4 - for pretty much the entirety of Greek Week. The rest of the quarter was pretty similar, except remove the TG part and just put in more homework. How did you do you ask? Well, my grades were just fine (except for ME 505, dammit), but my immune system got put through the wringer, resulting in one helluva 5 day viral infection. If you know me, you know I never leave school, I don't get work done at home and I don't really have time to go home. This infection sent me home for 3 days and to 3 separate doctors. Stupid. So obviously you can imagine that finals ending was, for me, pretty much the best day of the year thus far.

But.....
Yep, there's always a but. And the but with this quarter is that after watching a lot of my closest friends, brothers, classmates, and girlfriend graduate today (aside - beautiful day @ the shoe = wayfarer outline on my face where my sunburn isn't. #Fail) I have begun to realize that the remainder of my college experience is going to be far different without them around. I'm really gonna miss all of them, each and every one of them - some more than others - have influenced my life and helped shape me into the person I am today. They've each made a significant contribution to my human evolution and, although it is a natural part of life, a bit of my last year will be empty without them around. Simple as that. I'll probably have a bigger, separate blog about that later on, but now we're moving onto a totally different topic from this weekend.....

Motorsports! I'm a huge racing fan and this was an amazing weekend to be a racing fan. The big event this weekend was the 24 Hours of Le Mans - the annual 24 hour sports car endurance race at the Circuit de la Sarthe. As has been the case in recent years, this year's race, in the LMP1 class, was a battle between prototype giants Audi and Peugeot. As a huge fan of Audi's racing team, I was stoked when they took the overall pole for the race. Of course, for a 24 hour race, the pole position is important but not all that important. Like many other fans, I was shocked by the sheer destruction of the accidents involving 2 of Audi's 3 R18 race cars. The first, involving my favorite endurance racer, and one of my favorite drivers in general, Allan McNish, you can see here:




And the second, involving the #1 Audi car driven by Mike Rockenfeller, here:

Thankfully both drivers were okay. Remarkably, the remaining Audi car was able to hold on and win the race! No doubt an emotional victory for the Audi team. And, of course I'm pleased with the result.

The second major racing event of the weekend was the Formula 1 Canadian Grand Prix. I didn't get to see it, but apparently it was an absolute thriller, with McLaren's Jenson Button going from last to first in the final 30 laps to snatch victory from Sebastien Vettel. I can't wait to see some highlights, and I'm excited that Vettel didn't win, as he appears to be flat-out sprinting away with the World Championship this year.

Moving onto the next topic, it would be remiss of me as a Cleveland fan to ignore the weekend in Cleveland sports.

First off, the Dallas Mavericks won the NBA championship. Yes, that means that LeBron did not win a championship. This makes me happy. And really, the Mavs deserve this one. They outplayed Miami big-time in the last 3 games of the series, and I love that a group of great veteran players like Dirk, Jason Kidd, etc. are finally getting a championship ring.

On the topic of the Indians - let's just not talk about the Indians right now.

Hope you enjoyed the post, a little long but hey, it happens.

-Tim

The Grand Opening

Now that spring quarter 2011 is finally over at The Ohio State University, I'm taking the opportunity to start my personal blog. The plan is to update it relatively often, with whatever is on my mind at the time...although I'll make the guess now that there will be a lot of Formula 1 content on here...you can't hide a passion right? Anyways I hope you all like what you see, and hopefully get a glimpse into my mind, my passions, and whatever else makes me tick.


Without further ado, I now declare the blog, "Spaghettios and Baseballs" open for business - blogging to follow

-Tim