timefly

I have been divulging every spare penny I get to my skydiving fund since AFF#1. I've never been so poor, but I've never been so happy! I speculate dollars transferred into jumps somewhere between my first exit an first 30 seconds in free-fall, but my mind was elsewhere at the time. I'm a college student right now so I'm poor as dirt to begin with but I work a part time job and get some other work picking up dog shit for the American Kennel Club when shows are near. Some of the dogs are worth more than a twin otter, but their shit still smells terrible. When times are really tough I roam around campus at night collecting recyclables from trash cans to turn them in for cash. One night I almost got into a straight up brawl for the turf with some Hispanics who tried to claim my findings. I now know a standard jump ticket is equal to about 1,550 beer cans or 2,250 plastic water bottles...I wish I didn't know that, and I hope you make more money than me, but if you ever jump out at Elsinore I'm the one the one reeking of dog shit and trash with a smile from ear to ear.

I made my first jump at 20, soon after I turned 21 and I'm taking on AFF level 6 Saturday (weather permitting). I wish I could jump more than every other week but the income of a college student is not very accommodating. I wont go into debt to pay for a jump but have thought about it. So to all my fellow college student wan a be dz regulars: on the top romen and beer diet, working the crappy job after school and non jump weekends when you should be doing your calculous homework or writing papers, daydreaming during physics because you have had personal experiences with lift, air resistance and drag that your whuffo professor couldn't dream of, I tip my red party cup of beer to you! and to all the men and women on the drop zone of a different age than me thanks for making it an enviting and fun place to hang out and learn the sport!