Nuts. This kid is nuts. Inspirational would be my one word to describe him, but I've got many of them. I've been around Junior for the past 4 years and 4 months. Optomistic, friendly, happy. Nothing stops him and only one thing I've seen has let him down; Mamma Fevanga's absence from the U.S. for the past few years, but who wouldn't be sad about that?
Moving into an apartment with a great roommate Austin Mulleneaux, who had already befriended Junior (as had everyone in the building). I got to see a lot of Junior at activities and frequently just hanging out at our place. We had a building intramural basketball team and Junior was our mascot and most loyal fan. A rowdy group of freshman, we would always pile into Junior's van and blast some Bob Marley on the way to our game, as we were The Wailers.
We went to:
volleyball games
basketball games
rugby games
soccer games
kickball games
parties
visit friends in Tooele
Vegas
shopping
emergency Room
lifted
went skydiving on his 30th birthday
seven peaks
skiing
chilling outside
watched movies
watched movies while eating (Walking Dead)
laughed, talked, joked, laughed some more
took classes together
studied stats together
bowling and bowling class
garage sales
I feel like I know Junior pretty well. I can usually finish his sentences for him or relay his thoughts just from a look in his eye. He certainly knows me better than anyone because we did a lot of talking and got into deep down mushy gushy crap.
Here we are graduating together. Glad I was lucky enough to be at Convocation with him! Junior had a standing ovation from thousands of people when he walked at his commencement. I'm positive he was the only one. I'm now sitting in a car looking out the window at a green, beautiful landscape. Junior, I won't miss Utah but I will miss seeing your face all the time! Go get a job, work your butt off, and spend some monies you inspirational, hard working fool.
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-"The just wung it" (Derek speaking in the past tense for winging it)
-"I'm not yelling at you because I'm mad at you! I'm yelling at you because you're mad at ME!" -Scruff @ Mom
-"Scruff, does my breath smell?"
"...not bad"
"but does it smell good?"
"no"
Love it!!
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