Pilot (Or, I Think I Remember How to Blog?)

Like most of you, I am unsure in terms of what to put in this "welcome" blog. Despite having ran two blogs in the past, I am ever-so uneasy about what other people are expecting when it comes to blog presentation (it took me at least twenty minutes to fret over what my url should be*). So forgive me if I ramble, but it is what my vainglorious nature does best!

Since our class is comparatively large, I do not expect anybody to remember my introduction. Nevertheless, if you do, I am Sam, the business/psychology double major who works with children and horses.

From left to right: me, horse

Also, I feel that i should give everyone a fair warning: I will include an excessive amount of pictures in my blog posts. After this welcome post, the amount will most likely wane, but pictures are some of my favourite things in the world. Other favourite things include these things: cats, reading, volunteering, cats, drawing, drawing cats, singing poorly, horses, driving, music, music about cats, pictures, pictures of cats, food, cat food, and misadventures in photoshop.

Most of my photoshopping looks like this. Note the cat background.

I am extremely excited to be in Social Psychology this year! I took Research Methods I & II with Dr. Giuliano and am really excited to be in a class of hers again (the lack of a research paper was a nice bonus as well). This is the first semester in college I am taking under 18 hours for, so I am relieved to be able to have enough time to do well in all of my classes and have some fun on the side. When not photoshopping cats, I am also active in the fraternity Alpha Phi Omega. For those who have not heard of it, it is the campus-wide co-ed service fraternity. In high school I spent a lot of time volunteering through the Leo Club and the Math Club and was really excited to find an organization on campus that encouraged volunteering. Last year I earned the most service hours in our fraternity with an exciting 207 hours!

I was excited, anyways. But not as excited as my cat was when he first tried on the cat headband unicorn horn we got him for Christmas!

Excited was not an adequate word choice.

Besides my cat, I also have two siblings: Malinda and Joseph. Malinda is a little over a year younger than me and is studying to become some sort of scientist at Texas Tech. Joseph is finishing up middle school this year and towers at least two inches over me despite only being thirteen. We all inherited my German father's height (my sister is the short one of the family at 5'8'') and my Slavic mother's obnoxious amounts of hair (so much unfortunate shedding).

Surprisingly, I am the least country of the bunch.

I have an apartment in Georgetown, but my family's home base is down in the small town of Buda, Texas. If you are into weiner dog races, you have definitely heard of us. Buda boasts of three things: the annual weiner dog races, a giant Cabela's, and the fact that JUST THIS YEAR we managed to ban the confederate flag from school grounds. Dixie, however, is still our fight song.

I think that is all the self-indulgent rambling I can stomach for now; I am going to sleep.

THIS HAS BEEN A SUCCESSFUL POST.

*After spending fifteen minutes having my various url ideas rejected by my friends ("What if I make my url someone else's name in this class?" "No, Sam." "Are you sure? I like that idea. What about wearingyourskin.blogspot.com because then I might be able to tie it in to how using social psych conce-" "NO.") I proposed the idea of sambeingsocial.blogspot, which was met with a slight tittering and a general consensus that I was not a social individual. Adding PSYCH onto that url made it perfect, because then not only was it truthful, but it also contained the phrase "social psych." But most importantly, it was better than wearingyourskin.blogspot.com.