New Chapter
I’ve got my book bag full of notebooks and pens. One of my new Christmas shirts laid out to wear today. And an apple for my professor. I’m off to school in a few hours to start the in-class portion of my efforts to get into grad school. I’m taking the basic editing and reporting class all undergrads who want…
Hmmmm
Years ago, in the times before AOL’s e-mail program had spell checker, I made several typos a few friends found extremely funny and we then adopted into our day-to-day language. One of those typos was putting bug in the place of big, as in “That was a bug win for you guys last weekend.” Taking it global, Oklahoma sure had…
D’s Dozen
(Compiled shortly after KU’s win over UK. If you don’t know which is which, please move along.) 12) Gonzaga. Hang on just because so many other teams got beat this week. 11) Texas. Rick Barnes, as always, is an ass, but his team is good. Baylor stayed curiously close to them Sunday, though. 10) Kentucky. This week’s Lexington Lament: Why,…
KU – A&M Thoughts
A couple thoughts while I down my post-game Guinness. Tomorrow is a Mr. Mom day and if I don’t post now, I’ll never get them done. Billy Gillespe is doing good things at A&M. They’ve always had one good player who could score 30. Now they’ve got that one player (Wright), some talent to go with it, and what appears…
What A Crappy Game
It appears as though the NFL has taken over the BCS championship game. The game was played in an NFL stadium. It featured 25 minutes of mega-hype between air-time and kick off. Celebrity coin tossers. U2 at halftime. Oh, and the game sucked too. Sounds like a Super Bowl to me. So much for the potential greatest championship game ever,…
D’s Dozen
Here is my first weekly look at the state of college basketball, the 12 teams I think are playing the best right now. A few ground-rules: A – This is a weekly look at the game. Therefore, there can be wild changes in rankings from week-to-week based on results from only a few games. B – When at all possible,…
KU – Georgia Tech
What an unbelievable game. I went in thinking that Georgia Tech would get a fairly easy win. KU hadn’t been playing all that well with Wayne Simien; I certainly didn’t expect them to perform well in his absence. Even with a perfect performance, the best I saw was a narrow, character building loss. With about 2:00 left in regulation, I…
2004 Reading List
I’m not a big New Year’s Resolution guy, but I do normally write down a few goals for the coming year. One of my entries this time last year was to read 24-30 books in 2004. I passed the lower end of that threshold in May and was sitting at 36 books the day M. was born. Not a bad year,…
The Year In Music
Another pretty good year is about to go into the books. This time last year, we were hiding the fact that S. was pregnant until we had sonogram #1 and were sure all was well. We spent our New Year’s trip to a cabin in southern Indiana swapping my empty beer bottles for hers under the table so our friends…
Whew
My “official” GRE scores arrived today. I got the highest score possible on my essays, which I thought I totally fucked up the day of the test. A huge relief, as that makes me feel better about my verbal score. I ended up in the 93rd percentile for verbal, 64th for math, and 97th for writing. Of course, since I…