I am really terrible at remembering to update. Here are some recent highlights, for posterity's sake:
- There has been much watching of Music Choice in Drew's room at nights
- Lonely Island!
- I'm currently working to finish my thesis. A lot of work has gone into my conclusion, mainly because I keep pumping out subpar work
- Only two exams to come: one tuesday, which I care about some, and one friday which I would have to bomb in order to not pass the pass/fail class
- We did our project on first-generation college students for my Peer Advising class. We probably had the best idea of all the groups, but our posterboard that we did wasn't as cool as some other groups. Our paper was really long, though
- I ended my job at the congressman's office. That was a good way to spend a few hours each week.
- I still haven't heard back from 11/12 law schools. Most of my applications have gone complete, but there are still two holdouts. I'll either call them this week (if I remember), or after I get back to Charlotte.
- Not looking forward to moving out. It'll be sad. Also, I need to vacuum my rug. That thing is probably disgusting.
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Cute picture time!
Not much to report here. I am trying to get a good bit of homework done, as I have spent this semester in a blissful state of relative non-work (1L is going to suuuuuck) and it is beginning to catch up with me. Kind of. I'm working on a paper that's due in 10 days. What can I say; I'm an overachiever now. Kind of.
Thanksgiving was great, as usual. Delicious food abounded, although we did not fry a turkey to my (minor) dismay. It's probably for the best, as that may have caused stomach bursting for many consumers. The whole family was there this year, so hooray for that. No major highlights to speak of though; perfect as usual.
I'm less than 3 weeks from being done with school. Yikes.
Saturday, November 22, 2008
I haven't posted recently. Not much exciting to speak about. The football team nearly lost to Navy after beating them badly for most of the game, and then today we lost to Syracuse, who was arguably one of the 10 worst teams in the country. Fantastic. I hope we fire the coach. The last game of my student career didn't really seem too emotional. I wasn't even that mad we lost.
We did have an epic class-wide marshmallow fight, and it was kind of fun going to a game today when it was fricking freezing (mid 20s). I dressed up... kind of. I wore a bow tie. And my jacket. And pjs. And my warm shoes, but I wore no socks so my toes felt frozen at the end of the game. Good times.
As far as real life goes, it keeps chugging along. I got a full ride to Texas Law school, so yay for free money. Thanksgiving, my favorite day of the year, is this week, and I'm pumped to go to the hall for the yearly gorging. Rumor has it that we're frying turkeys. That will be a first. Yay for clogging arteries!
We did have an epic class-wide marshmallow fight, and it was kind of fun going to a game today when it was fricking freezing (mid 20s). I dressed up... kind of. I wore a bow tie. And my jacket. And pjs. And my warm shoes, but I wore no socks so my toes felt frozen at the end of the game. Good times.
As far as real life goes, it keeps chugging along. I got a full ride to Texas Law school, so yay for free money. Thanksgiving, my favorite day of the year, is this week, and I'm pumped to go to the hall for the yearly gorging. Rumor has it that we're frying turkeys. That will be a first. Yay for clogging arteries!
Friday, November 7, 2008
So I guess it was a pretty big week
Oh, yeah: I finished the first full draft of my thesis and I got into Texas Law School. Hook 'em horns.
The big news this week, obviously, is that Barack Obama got elected. My political positions are such that I probably will never get too excited about any national politician ever again in my lifetime. It would pretty much require a 1980-like election where a Democratic president making no apologies for clearly failing big government economic policies was running against a president who reads Reason magazine. As it was, this election was a Democratic president with soon to-be-failing big government economic policies against a geriatric Republican who appears to be more interested in military intervention than George W. Bush. Needless to say, I voted for neither candidate (I wrote in the name of the libertarian candidate for governor in North Carolina. I'm not terribly fond of the libertarian who ran for president).
There are a variety of reasons for people like me to be happy about this election. First and foremost, the Republican Party needs a massive makeover. Make no mistake about it, the last eight years have been a big government era. From the expansion of power in the executive (signing statements, domestic/international spying and wiretapping, new "interrogation" tactics) to the biggest expansion of government spending by percentage of GDP since Lyndon Johnson, there are a variety of really good reasons to be angry at the Republican Party. They deserved to lose, and got what they deserved. If the party wants to become the party of George W. Bush and Sarah Palin, fine. Just don't expect people like me to ever vote for them.
Secondly, it's pretty cool a black guy got elected president. I'd be hard to deny that. Unless you're a racist, it's undeniably touching to see Ebenezer Baptist Church erupting in joy after the results were in. It's great to hear Martin Luther King's speech and to think: Holy hell, this majority white nation just elected a minority. It's hard for people outside this country to say we're an oppressive nation when a guy named Barack Hussein Obama is in charge. Still, I couldn't vote for the guy because of the racial component. I'm opposed to affirmative action for public sphere employment, and voting for a dude for president in part because he is black would be hypocritical, to say the least.
I will not deny, however, that I am ageist. All other things being equal, it's way better that a 47-year-old is running the country than a 72-year-old.
Thirdly, I think Barack Obama's election is the death of public financing of federal elections. Yes, the dude was a huge liar for changing his position on it and privately funding his general campaign. So what? He came to the right side in the end. Baby steps, baby steps. Hooray for free speech.
Fourthly, and perhaps importantly, maybe Barack Obama is the right guy to improve the biggest injustice in America today, schooling in the inner city. This might be the Nixon to China moment for domestic policy: a Democratic president standing up to the teachers union and saying "you are a the biggest part of one of the greatest problems in America. I will not follow your agenda. It is time to install competition among schools and institute a progressive system of school vouchers." Well, this probably won't happen, as the teacher's union is the most powerful lobby in the country, in my opinion. But a boy can dream.
Well, there are a few other issues where I'm sure I'll be happy Barack won this election. But those are my initial thoughts. I'll just grin and bear it when they pass a cap-and-trade program (read: tax) without offsetting the revenues through a payroll tax cut and give handouts to preferred businesses. Ugh, I'm getting sick thinking about policies that Democratic members of Congress support. Also, Rahm Emmanuel, Barack's chief of staff, supports a mandatory service program for all Americans under 25. Like a commenter on Reason online said: it'd be pretty ironic if the first black president instituted a 21st century version of slavery.
Stand up to them, Barack. You're our only hope (well, that and the Republican filibuster).
There are a variety of reasons for people like me to be happy about this election. First and foremost, the Republican Party needs a massive makeover. Make no mistake about it, the last eight years have been a big government era. From the expansion of power in the executive (signing statements, domestic/international spying and wiretapping, new "interrogation" tactics) to the biggest expansion of government spending by percentage of GDP since Lyndon Johnson, there are a variety of really good reasons to be angry at the Republican Party. They deserved to lose, and got what they deserved. If the party wants to become the party of George W. Bush and Sarah Palin, fine. Just don't expect people like me to ever vote for them.
Secondly, it's pretty cool a black guy got elected president. I'd be hard to deny that. Unless you're a racist, it's undeniably touching to see Ebenezer Baptist Church erupting in joy after the results were in. It's great to hear Martin Luther King's speech and to think: Holy hell, this majority white nation just elected a minority. It's hard for people outside this country to say we're an oppressive nation when a guy named Barack Hussein Obama is in charge. Still, I couldn't vote for the guy because of the racial component. I'm opposed to affirmative action for public sphere employment, and voting for a dude for president in part because he is black would be hypocritical, to say the least.
I will not deny, however, that I am ageist. All other things being equal, it's way better that a 47-year-old is running the country than a 72-year-old.
Thirdly, I think Barack Obama's election is the death of public financing of federal elections. Yes, the dude was a huge liar for changing his position on it and privately funding his general campaign. So what? He came to the right side in the end. Baby steps, baby steps. Hooray for free speech.
Fourthly, and perhaps importantly, maybe Barack Obama is the right guy to improve the biggest injustice in America today, schooling in the inner city. This might be the Nixon to China moment for domestic policy: a Democratic president standing up to the teachers union and saying "you are a the biggest part of one of the greatest problems in America. I will not follow your agenda. It is time to install competition among schools and institute a progressive system of school vouchers." Well, this probably won't happen, as the teacher's union is the most powerful lobby in the country, in my opinion. But a boy can dream.
Well, there are a few other issues where I'm sure I'll be happy Barack won this election. But those are my initial thoughts. I'll just grin and bear it when they pass a cap-and-trade program (read: tax) without offsetting the revenues through a payroll tax cut and give handouts to preferred businesses. Ugh, I'm getting sick thinking about policies that Democratic members of Congress support. Also, Rahm Emmanuel, Barack's chief of staff, supports a mandatory service program for all Americans under 25. Like a commenter on Reason online said: it'd be pretty ironic if the first black president instituted a 21st century version of slavery.
Stand up to them, Barack. You're our only hope (well, that and the Republican filibuster).
Saturday, November 1, 2008
So I'm sitting in the library after the football team lost to Pittsburg in quadruple overtime (field goals all around in overtime. Except we missed one at a really inopportune time). I am quite disappointed. Losing isn't fun, but the worst part is that there is a solid chance that the team will go 7-5, which means we do not go to the bowl game in Jacksonville, FL, which means I am not driving to the game. The other options are the Cotton Bowl in Dallas (really unlikely) or the Sun Bowl in El Paso (7-5 nearly guarantees that one). ARGARGARG ANRGY. This means we have to beat both BC and Navy on the road. Something tells me that is unlikely. ARG ARG ARG
So yesterday was fun, though, as it was halloween. I dressed up as three hole punch Jim from the Office, and it went over okay. I have no pictures, unfortunately. Drew dressed up as a character from Doug, and everyone loved that. We went to a party at an apartment in the Fisher graduate residences (the host is a masters of accounting that I didn't/don't really know, but he seems like a good guy). We had a pretty good time. Immediately after walking in the door the host, dressed as Michael Phelps (compression shorts and 8 fake gold medals around his neck) says HEY GUYS. WANNA FORTY? and proceeds to give me, charles, drew, and ilse 40 ounce Coors Lights. I've never seen these things. They're quite massive and hilarious. Charles actually drank two, plus played some beer pong. It's rather incredible what the human liver can take.
Anyways, at the party there was a funny and then not so funny situation involving Drew and a member of the "class of 2009." When Drew asked her what her major was, she goes "Ummm, I'm in high school." That's right, Drew was hitting on a seventeen year old high school senior. Hilarious, right? So we go and make fun of Drew and poke fun at the girl, but for some reason half an hour later she goes to Ilse and tells her that she made out with Charles. This is bad for two reasons: one, Old Testament God said not to lie on the Ten Commandments, and Old Testament God can get mighty angry at sinners. And two: Ilse is Charles's girlfriend (we don't know if the potential statutory rape victim was aware of this). Major drama. That pretty much ended the otherwise quite enjoyable party for us.
Today was good, until the fourth overtime of the football game. Lots of sitting around watching football, then the game was fun. I did pushups on our last touchdown, which is pretty impressive for the people lifting me up. Also, Bon Jovi and Jeff Samardzija were on the sidelines, so that's cool. But losing and ruining my potential trip to Jacksonville: not cool.
So yesterday was fun, though, as it was halloween. I dressed up as three hole punch Jim from the Office, and it went over okay. I have no pictures, unfortunately. Drew dressed up as a character from Doug, and everyone loved that. We went to a party at an apartment in the Fisher graduate residences (the host is a masters of accounting that I didn't/don't really know, but he seems like a good guy). We had a pretty good time. Immediately after walking in the door the host, dressed as Michael Phelps (compression shorts and 8 fake gold medals around his neck) says HEY GUYS. WANNA FORTY? and proceeds to give me, charles, drew, and ilse 40 ounce Coors Lights. I've never seen these things. They're quite massive and hilarious. Charles actually drank two, plus played some beer pong. It's rather incredible what the human liver can take.
Anyways, at the party there was a funny and then not so funny situation involving Drew and a member of the "class of 2009." When Drew asked her what her major was, she goes "Ummm, I'm in high school." That's right, Drew was hitting on a seventeen year old high school senior. Hilarious, right? So we go and make fun of Drew and poke fun at the girl, but for some reason half an hour later she goes to Ilse and tells her that she made out with Charles. This is bad for two reasons: one, Old Testament God said not to lie on the Ten Commandments, and Old Testament God can get mighty angry at sinners. And two: Ilse is Charles's girlfriend (we don't know if the potential statutory rape victim was aware of this). Major drama. That pretty much ended the otherwise quite enjoyable party for us.
Today was good, until the fourth overtime of the football game. Lots of sitting around watching football, then the game was fun. I did pushups on our last touchdown, which is pretty impressive for the people lifting me up. Also, Bon Jovi and Jeff Samardzija were on the sidelines, so that's cool. But losing and ruining my potential trip to Jacksonville: not cool.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Wedding
Fall break has come and gone, meaning it's the last half of the last semester of college. Weird.
As far as things going, here's the story. Three times last week I went to Ritter's, a frozen custard place in Mishawaka that is half off for Notre Dame students. What a bargain. I got large, delicious treats because it is so damn cheap. I guess the law of demand holds.
Thursday/Friday I worked on my thesis (a little). Friday at 3PM I loaded up the car (almost) and took off from South Bend. About an hour and fifteen minutes (~75 miles) later, I realized I forgot my suit. This was a crucial element of the voyage, for I was going to a wedding. Whoops. I promptly turned around the car and headed back to Notre Dame. I was a little annoyed, but oh well.
The drive was crappy, as the weather has been crappy around here for about a week. Yesterday, for example, it snowed. I forgot to take pictures.
Anyhow, the wedding was great, and we didn't really take too many pictures. The pictures we did take did not turn out. Including the pictures that we took for Christmas cards. Doubt me? Click here.
It was great seeing the Suchaneks and all. It was in the northern suburbs of Detroit (our hotel was a minute's drive from the Silverdome, and I saw the Palace of Auburn Hills for the first time). The reception was fantastic. Our family was really awkward out on the dance floor. Hooray for white people. I did miss the Notre Dame-Washington game, which I hope is the last time in my life I miss an entire ND game. Probably not, considering I aspire to be a lawyer, but you never know. Note to self: definitely NOT getting married on a Saturday in the fall.
Sunday morning Tim and I took off to come back to ND. We stopped at Angelo's in Ann Arbor, which is a great place to get deep fried French toast (that's right... yummy). We came back to ND, hung out in Dillon, went to Subway dinner (a Sunday tradition unlike any other) with Packy, and came back and I did some homework while tim did too. Poor kid, working over fall break. Monday morning we went to the American Pancake House, that amazing diner north of campus. Tim had the apple pancake, and I had the corned beef hash skillet. I barely even felt full. You know why? I'm getting fat fat fat. I've put on 10 pounds since I got back to school, and I broke 150 in weight for the first time in three years at some point in the last few weeks (I weighed 152 today). At this point, I'm just living it up this semester. For example, I had two pieces of pecan pie tonight. After weighing myself and feeling like a fatass. I plan on becoming bulimic after Christmas; I gotta enjoy the holidays too.
The rest of yesterday was class and a gym trip with the tim tim. The people at the Rockne gym were cool and let him in. This morning I worked and then took tim to the airport. This afternoon was spent at the gym and then blowing off my thesis. I'm supposed to have a first draft completed by this time next week. Maybe, but maybe not.
Anyhow, here are some pictures if you missed the link the first time around.
As far as things going, here's the story. Three times last week I went to Ritter's, a frozen custard place in Mishawaka that is half off for Notre Dame students. What a bargain. I got large, delicious treats because it is so damn cheap. I guess the law of demand holds.
Thursday/Friday I worked on my thesis (a little). Friday at 3PM I loaded up the car (almost) and took off from South Bend. About an hour and fifteen minutes (~75 miles) later, I realized I forgot my suit. This was a crucial element of the voyage, for I was going to a wedding. Whoops. I promptly turned around the car and headed back to Notre Dame. I was a little annoyed, but oh well.
The drive was crappy, as the weather has been crappy around here for about a week. Yesterday, for example, it snowed. I forgot to take pictures.
Anyhow, the wedding was great, and we didn't really take too many pictures. The pictures we did take did not turn out. Including the pictures that we took for Christmas cards. Doubt me? Click here.
It was great seeing the Suchaneks and all. It was in the northern suburbs of Detroit (our hotel was a minute's drive from the Silverdome, and I saw the Palace of Auburn Hills for the first time). The reception was fantastic. Our family was really awkward out on the dance floor. Hooray for white people. I did miss the Notre Dame-Washington game, which I hope is the last time in my life I miss an entire ND game. Probably not, considering I aspire to be a lawyer, but you never know. Note to self: definitely NOT getting married on a Saturday in the fall.
Sunday morning Tim and I took off to come back to ND. We stopped at Angelo's in Ann Arbor, which is a great place to get deep fried French toast (that's right... yummy). We came back to ND, hung out in Dillon, went to Subway dinner (a Sunday tradition unlike any other) with Packy, and came back and I did some homework while tim did too. Poor kid, working over fall break. Monday morning we went to the American Pancake House, that amazing diner north of campus. Tim had the apple pancake, and I had the corned beef hash skillet. I barely even felt full. You know why? I'm getting fat fat fat. I've put on 10 pounds since I got back to school, and I broke 150 in weight for the first time in three years at some point in the last few weeks (I weighed 152 today). At this point, I'm just living it up this semester. For example, I had two pieces of pecan pie tonight. After weighing myself and feeling like a fatass. I plan on becoming bulimic after Christmas; I gotta enjoy the holidays too.
The rest of yesterday was class and a gym trip with the tim tim. The people at the Rockne gym were cool and let him in. This morning I worked and then took tim to the airport. This afternoon was spent at the gym and then blowing off my thesis. I'm supposed to have a first draft completed by this time next week. Maybe, but maybe not.
Anyhow, here are some pictures if you missed the link the first time around.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Fall break
So it's Fall Break. I have been working on my thesis a lot over the break, watching soccer and football, and enjoying life. Weather's been okay, but it rained yesterday. Nothing terribly exciting. I'm back on campus, and nobody is here. Quiet, quiet, quiet.
What inspired me to post is that I wrote a really long email and I figured I ought to keep it, as it explains why I couldn't vote for Obama (or McCain). Since many people in my generation probably find it inconceivable that somebody my age couldn't vote for Barack (heh - the google spell checker doesn't recognize Barack), I can direct them to this little ditty. It began with an email that my mom sent that illustrated who pays the federal income tax and people whining about how "unfair" tax cuts are there.
This is slightly disingenuous... this is only the federal income tax, not all taxes.
They've tried to do studies on taxes paid as a percentage of income earned, and almost across the board people pay a little more than 25 percent of their income in taxes w/ sales taxes, local income tax, property taxes, corporate income, payroll, etc.
For example, if one makes $90000 all of your income is subject to the ~6% payroll tax (plus there's the hidden payroll tax "your employer" pays - actually, the vast majority of the payroll tax the employer pays ultimately comes out of the paycheck of the employee, but that's another subject), so about 6% of that person's income is paid in payroll taxes.
Compare that with somebody who makes $900000. only the first ~$90000 is subject to the payroll tax, so less than 1% of his/her income is taxed under the payroll tax. The rich guy also will pay a smaller percentage of income in sales taxes, cigarette taxes, gas taxes, etc. because, while that person may spend more and may pay more taxes in an absolute sense, that person will not pay a proportionate amount of taxes than an average/poor earner.
Sooo, having said all that, Obama saying that 95% of Americans will get a "tax cut" under his plan is even more disingenuous. Considering that 40+% of Americans do not pay any federal income taxes, it's hard to see where the "cut" for them comes from. Ultimately that plan is tricked up welfare, a new New Deal which provides only an income effect (which will lead people who get these "cuts" to work less) while raising marginal tax rates on everybody (which provides a substitution effect away from work as well).
Essentially, it will shrink the tax base to pay for a growing number of people on the dole to some degree or another. As a trend, it's entirely unsustainable over the long term, which is a significant part of why I couldn't bring myself to vote for a pretty cool dude whose foreign policy I entirely agree with and who is on the right (or right-er) side of many social issues (gay rights, drug decriminalization/legalization, removing the embargo of Cuba). He has been pretty even keel, but his party's demogogary on economic issues (Two Americas, opposing free trade, THEY TOOK OUR JERBS- google that if you don't get it, etc) is pretty unforgivable. I will never vote Democratic as long as they continue that crap. Even when a 40something smooth guy with a much better temperment to be president is running against a geriatric "American greatness" conservative who the neo-cons liked over Bush in 2000 who picked somebody for vice president who appears to be a dumber, less qualified version of George W. Bush.
So it's a great year to do a write-in! I would have voted for Bob Barr, but the dude was a religious nut who attempted to crucify Clinton and wrote the Defense of Marriage Act. Write-in! Viva la revolucion!
Son #1
By the way, I wrote in Mike Munger, a Duke political science and economics professor who is running for governor of NC on the libertarian ticket. I honestly believe that he would do a better job governing than just about anyone in the country, so I don't feel I threw away my vote at all, despite my occasional crack that I threw away my very valuable vote (NC is a swing state this year). And, in my own little way, I did protest- I want to be a Republican, but the party has lost it's way since 1995 after the government shutdown. Goddamn Bill Clinton and his inexplicable desire to have sex with ugly interns. He riled up too many religious nutjobs.
What inspired me to post is that I wrote a really long email and I figured I ought to keep it, as it explains why I couldn't vote for Obama (or McCain). Since many people in my generation probably find it inconceivable that somebody my age couldn't vote for Barack (heh - the google spell checker doesn't recognize Barack), I can direct them to this little ditty. It began with an email that my mom sent that illustrated who pays the federal income tax and people whining about how "unfair" tax cuts are there.
This is slightly disingenuous... this is only the federal income tax, not all taxes.
They've tried to do studies on taxes paid as a percentage of income earned, and almost across the board people pay a little more than 25 percent of their income in taxes w/ sales taxes, local income tax, property taxes, corporate income, payroll, etc.
For example, if one makes $90000 all of your income is subject to the ~6% payroll tax (plus there's the hidden payroll tax "your employer" pays - actually, the vast majority of the payroll tax the employer pays ultimately comes out of the paycheck of the employee, but that's another subject), so about 6% of that person's income is paid in payroll taxes.
Compare that with somebody who makes $900000. only the first ~$90000 is subject to the payroll tax, so less than 1% of his/her income is taxed under the payroll tax. The rich guy also will pay a smaller percentage of income in sales taxes, cigarette taxes, gas taxes, etc. because, while that person may spend more and may pay more taxes in an absolute sense, that person will not pay a proportionate amount of taxes than an average/poor earner.
Sooo, having said all that, Obama saying that 95% of Americans will get a "tax cut" under his plan is even more disingenuous. Considering that 40+% of Americans do not pay any federal income taxes, it's hard to see where the "cut" for them comes from. Ultimately that plan is tricked up welfare, a new New Deal which provides only an income effect (which will lead people who get these "cuts" to work less) while raising marginal tax rates on everybody (which provides a substitution effect away from work as well).
Essentially, it will shrink the tax base to pay for a growing number of people on the dole to some degree or another. As a trend, it's entirely unsustainable over the long term, which is a significant part of why I couldn't bring myself to vote for a pretty cool dude whose foreign policy I entirely agree with and who is on the right (or right-er) side of many social issues (gay rights, drug decriminalization/legalization, removing the embargo of Cuba). He has been pretty even keel, but his party's demogogary on economic issues (Two Americas, opposing free trade, THEY TOOK OUR JERBS- google that if you don't get it, etc) is pretty unforgivable. I will never vote Democratic as long as they continue that crap. Even when a 40something smooth guy with a much better temperment to be president is running against a geriatric "American greatness" conservative who the neo-cons liked over Bush in 2000 who picked somebody for vice president who appears to be a dumber, less qualified version of George W. Bush.
So it's a great year to do a write-in! I would have voted for Bob Barr, but the dude was a religious nut who attempted to crucify Clinton and wrote the Defense of Marriage Act. Write-in! Viva la revolucion!
Son #1
By the way, I wrote in Mike Munger, a Duke political science and economics professor who is running for governor of NC on the libertarian ticket. I honestly believe that he would do a better job governing than just about anyone in the country, so I don't feel I threw away my vote at all, despite my occasional crack that I threw away my very valuable vote (NC is a swing state this year). And, in my own little way, I did protest- I want to be a Republican, but the party has lost it's way since 1995 after the government shutdown. Goddamn Bill Clinton and his inexplicable desire to have sex with ugly interns. He riled up too many religious nutjobs.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Lost to UNC
The past week flew by without too many highlights. Then yesterday happened.
I got up at about 7:45, watched an episode of the daily show and an episode of colbert, then hung out some for a little while until me, Drew, Packy, and Charles went to the American pancake house. I went there 2x with my parents when they were here over the Michigan weekend, and the place is delicious. I got the apple pancake again, which is massive and sugary and delicious. It was the only real food I had all day (we'll get to that later).
We came back and the Texas-Oklahoma game was on. It was pretty exciting, but in the second half Drew and I were just cheering for the game to go fast so the ND-UNC game wouldn't get preempted. We missed only one drive, which was good, and we saw the first ND drive where they went right down and scored a touchdown.
And things kind of went downhill from there. Jimmy Clausen looked pretty good, but he also made 3 killer turnovers, and we lost by five. It was sad. I'm not going to hear the last of that one.
So after the game we drank beer and listened to emo for a couple hours. We then smoked a un-victory cigar outside of Dillon. And then we realized it was only about 10PM and there was still plenty of time for something to happen, so we went out to the Backer, which totally sucks. It was full of creepy, old townies. Some cougars tried to hit on me and Drew, but we weren't really having any of that. We left after about an hour and a half of people watching, because it was starting to get dull.
This morning the loss still hurt a little.
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