Sayonara Lenten Season

The celebration of Easter signifies the end of the 40 day/40 night Lenten season. Indulge. The stuff you gave up for Lent, by all means start doing again. I gave up candy, and you bet your bottom dollar I'm going out later today and nabbing the first Skittles/Starburst/Snickers I see.

I'm weak, I know.

But hey, like I wrote at the beginning of the Lenten season (http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/note.php?note_id=65107058351), this year - unlike any other - I decided to write more frequently. And I did just that. With that goal in mind I started to write about once a week. With my new found dedication I was putting out little opinion pieces left and right. Around the third week of Lent I had my first article published in the Daily Titan.

I had been published.

I've always felt a sense of pride knowing other people are reading my work. And I've always felt my articles are better than anything else out there. Call it cockiness, arrogance, bigheadedness (I just made that word up), any word you can imagine that describe the self-centered nature that comes with my opinion regarding my published works. However, make sure you remember that in a cut-throat business where every possible reader is short on time and constantly moving, your writing has to garner more attention than the next guy's or else you're doomed to an afterthought.

So call it confidence.

Now, I've been published five straight weeks (six articles). We got about five weeks left of school, so by the end of the semester I should have a total of about 10-11 articles over the span of half a semester. And I could write more.

I love what I do. And thank you Lenten season for pushing me to improve my craft. I owe you one.

A few snippets from Easter Sunday:

-- At my family party I was talking to a guy about golf. I didn't know the guy from Adam but he seemed pretty chill. (Side note: We started talking about golf after he saw me take a few air swings by the Badminton net. Embarrassing, yeah). He told me that he has troubles hitting his irons consistently which was pretty intriguing considering my irons are as far from consistent as can be. He said he'll hit his 6-iron about 150 yards one shot, 100 yards the next, then like 50 yards the hit after that. It was kind of relieving in a way. It assured me that living life with a 30 handicap may not be so bad after all. The bummer: he's only been playing for a couple months. I've been playing for a couple years. Sooo scratch that first thought.

-- Angel Cabrera became the first Argentine to win the coveted Green Jacket. I didn't follow The Masters this year a whole lot. Watched a little bit on Thursday, some highlights on Saturday, and a little bit today. And by 'a little bit today' I mean when Tiger was making his charge. It's really true what they say about golf. It's the only sport where everyone knows who the MVP is gonna be. If Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Michael Jordan have won 5 MVP's respectively, Tiger Woods has won 13 (counting all the years he's been on the PGA Tour) and counting.

Golf is irrelevant unless Tiger's playing. And by 'playing' I mean winning. One of the top ten sounds in all of sports is the instinctive, sometimes drunken "GET IN THE HOLE!" exclamation after a Tiger Woods tee shot. There's nothing like it. You just can't script it. It's right up there with the 7th Inning Stretch and the sound of a good knife-edge chop.

-- Angles win 5-4, taking two out of three from the Red Sox. Coincidently the only game they lost this series we went to. We're 0-2 on the season. Not a good sign. Good thing Arte Moreno signed Bobby Abreu with the change in his pocket or else who knows how many wins we'll have. Angels 3-3. Next up, Seattle.