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School is almost over...forever! I'm in the last semester of a 21 year college career. With well over 220 credit hours, I believe I may be the most educated man to receive a single degree.

Life has been busy. Trying to keep up with schoolwork, having an internship, and of course home and family duties keep me pretty well occupied.

The big news: we're expecting...
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Happy Birthday to me!

Birthday gift to myself: dugout seats for the Braves vs. Cubbies. I win.

So, another grueling semester of Journalism School is behind me. The summer may yield internships or...nothing at all, but more time spent with the toddler, who turns two in August. Whoa.

My concentration in school is Print, but with the decline of that portion of the industry, and so close to graduating, I'm more than a little reluctant to stick with it. I have decided...
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Sydney is literally running now. She's a 'four-handed baby' because it requires two people to wrangle her. We just had her first birthday celebration - with family and friends - and she was a perfect host. I got some great videos of her two-fisting her own cake.

The biggest shocker, though, was that my father showed up, who I haven't seen in four years. Whoa....
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It's been a while (yeah, almost a year. Oops) since my last blog post. Been a little busy with the baby and journalism classes since then (quit job at Merrill when the baby was born and enrolled in school again).

Sydney is crawling like mad these days and is a happy, active child who's never been sick - knock on wood - so I can't...
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Our child was due to be born August 12th. That day has come, gone, and been forgotten. We're still waiting with great anticipation and nervousness. It's our first.