Long time no talk

So it has been a "couple of days" since I've dropped a blog post.

Well, this blog finds me in a mental situation that I'm not exactly happy I am in.  To put everyone's minds at ease, no I'm not thinking of hurting myself or anything along those lines.

I have been the president of a square dance club for five of the past seven years.  To say that I'm getting burned out would be an understatement.  The problem is that when I ask everyone in the club if they would like to run for vice president, every single one of them say one of two things.  Either a) "But you are doing such a fine job, I wouldn't want to ruin your track run."  or b) "I'm much more of a follower than I am a leader."

I'm about to say screw it and walk away from the whole mess.  But then, I feel guilty about not fulfilling my duties so I go back and try and figure out who I could ask to run for VP or president.

In other news, since my last post I have been hired as the PA Announcer (for 3 sports) and Play-by-Play Announcer (for 3 other sports, including baseball!) for the Point Loma Nazarene University Sea Lions.  While I love these jobs, they don't pay worth shit.  I also am a reporter for a website that specializes in high school sports.  I have also offered to do Play-by-Play for the high schools, but no one has been willing to pay the $50 to bring me out to do that.  It is really bugging me since I laid out $800 for the equipment this past summer.

I think I'm done venting and stuff.

Talk to you in a few weeks.

Well that was nerve racking

For the first time outside of Home openers since I've started announcing I was actually nervous about announcing a game.

I got a text from our Sports Information Director (SID & my boss) around 4:45 for a 7p game. Asking me if I had ever announced a soccer before. I have announced CIF Soccer, once. So I somewhat lied and said that yes I have announced soccer before. So, not knowing if they would treat me like the regular announcer, I brought with me rosters for both teams.

I get to the field at 6:05 (5 minutes later than what I had planned), and went over the script for advertisements with the soccer contact, Sarah. I was told to read the script as it was printed with no ad libbing. That is tough for me, since this was the first time that I would have to read strictly from a script. So as game time got closer, my nerves got more and more crazy (of course it didn't exactly help that I was so nervous that I couldn't eat dinner & had low blood sugar).

Once I got into the Anthem "break", I was fine. I had a couple of screw ups on names, but other than that I did fine. Now comes the big question.....will they want me to take over once the regular announcer leaves at the end of Oct.?