"Who I am Hates Who I've Been" by Relient K

Today has been a truly satisfying day.

Before expounding on that I will say that today's "Song of the Day" is Who I am Hates Who I've Been" by Relient K, because I'm starting to think about what I have missed out on in the past because I was too hesitant.

Which brings me to my day. It was a pretty rough start to the day, I hadn't slept well all night (up every hour on the hour so to speak), and then I woke up an hour early because my clock was set wrong and I had gone passed the point of no return in my conscious actions (I brushed my teeth) before I realized. After all this I loaded up with Mark and braden in Mark's car to go to Heber. Two other cars were involved: Jong Hwa drove himself, Matt Smith, Tom and Mattie, and Caleb drove himself, Molly, and two other girls, whose names I don't recall off hand (sorry about that I'm bad with names).

When we arrived it really hit me what all the cliff jumping talk was about. We went up to what had to be a 40 to 50 ft cliff and the others proceeded to jump, off and into water that none could touch the bottom of it. Well I'm acrophobic, so I chose not to jump dispite much proding from my friends. This did give me a chance to hang out with the girls that rode with Caleb, and watch one of them attempt several times to jump off with little success. She Wile-E-Coyoted it, a straight run and fall. Ironically mocking her without having done it myself.

Well after a while we decide to break for lunch, we went to subway where the guys discovered the wonders of microwaved cookies. We headed back and hung out near some of the smaller cliffs, and I decided to go for it. So I jumped about 15 to 25ft and it was fun.

Now I don't claim to know what happened next, but if I had to guess I would say that the jump was just the poke needed to awaken the beast within. Suddenly I was ravenous for more, I wanted, nay needed, a greater thrill,, then I knew what I needed to do I needed to conquer the roof toilet (A 'Scrubs'-based metaphor for overcoming one's weakness). So I rallied a small group into going back to the 50 foot jump and after watching Braden go over I knew that this was the moment and I went for it. The fall took forever, I plunged into the water sinking like a stone my feet grazing the bottom of the lake, my ears popping in pain. I surfaced to cheers from my friends I had done it I had conquerered the roof toilet.

After that the day only got better, save the knot on my head from a royal head knock, when I was climbing back up. I arrived back home and slept, ate a meager dinner at the caf with Mark and Braden, then we parted ways I went to my room and goofed off for a bit until Mark came by, then he, Tom, and I watched the first six episodes of The Office Season 2 (we finished Season 1 last night), and followed that up by watching Rainman (more incidental than purposeful).

And now I'm going to go to bed and hope the knot in my head will fade and the water in my ear will leave, and soaking in the knowledge of my success and the success of Auburn (not to mention the failure of bama).

-matthew