The Wine Academic

It’s been a longggg time since I posted last time. Last year, in fact! As I get into the new year, I got to thinking about my new year’s resolutions and what the year will hold for me. In about a week, I’ll be going up to Virginia to talk to some wineries about how direct-to-consumer shipping has affected their business. I’m really excited about it and I can’t wait to see if any opportunities will open themselves up for me while I’m there – intriguing. I’ve also got the Italian wine bug. Damn they’re so fucking confusing, but that just means I have lots to read about and then drink. I think Italian wine intimidates a lot of people because it’s not as international in style as French wine is, people aren’t as familiar with the grape varieties, and the places are damn confusing. Tack that onto the fact that most people took French or Spanish in High School or College, and you’ve got a recipe for confusion. So that takes care of two of my resolutions: find a job (hopefully in wine), and learn as much about Italian wine as I know about French wine. I still feel like I’m flying by the seat of my pants though. My pledge brother Chase Wise once told me that college is really hard for him because he knows that he probably won’t use what he’s learned here because he want’s to be a sea captain. (Sweet.) I think the same basically goes for me at this point, although I think I’ll use my degree. It seems like ever since this school year began, I’ve felt weird about it, like I was lost. I hate that. It’s as though people are demanding more from me than I’m used to giving, but they didn’t warn me about it. I hate that, too. In the past, I’ve followed my heart, and that’s what I think I’ll have to do now, but I’ve got to start taking some initiative. Among other things, I’ve gotta get to doing some serious work on my Senior project. When I make some serious progress, I’ll feel about 10 times better about it, and probably about life in general. I also start my Applied Forecasting class at UAB tomorrow. Weird. Never thought graduating would require this.

You know how when you’re growing up, you go into this really strange feeling stage when you’re a teenager where everything just feels awkward? I feel like that tonight, but it’s like I’m growing up from college kid to working adult. It’ll never happen.

Lyrics of the moment: “I don’t wanna grow up, just be a Toys-R-Us kid…”
and “Fifty-thou a year’ll buy a lot of beer” – from “The Future’s So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades” by Timbuk 3.

Cheers for now,
Holby

PS – Let’s drink some wine soon…7:30 tomorrow (Thursday) night?
PPS – If you followed this rambling – bravo.