A cursory glance tells me that it has been almost two months since I've written an article. Two months? Has the time truly gone by so fleetingly?
Indeed it has, just as time has a habit of doing and just as it always will, regardless of which games we're looking forward to, which teams have or haven't qualified for the World Cup, or which cup final lies on the horizon to captivate us all. Time passes, old games and stories vanish off into the distance, only to be replaced by new ones yet again. So goes the cycle.
And yet, even with the ever present and constantly revolving cycle of time, there are many of us who are hardly able to find enough of it on more occasions than not--myself certainly included. As many of you know, I've done something of a balancing act over the last couple of years in writing for the blog, doing the show, providing match commentary for Auburn Soccer and, last but certainly not least, working on my master's degree. With so much on my plate over these last couple of years, I could have used days that spanned 30 hours instead 24 hours to great effect.
