[ 02-06-05 ] [ 7:56 p.m.]
[ Super Bowl & more laziness ]

If I weren't so lazy, I probably would have written entries yesterday and Friday. As it is, however, I didn't.

I feel completely fat. I feel like a little porker. Of course, it is Super Bowl Sunday, the national holiday of eating until you puke, drinking until you puke and pass out, and watching commercials. Oh, and football, too. Matt and Katie went on a complete food binge - pizzas from Domino's, buffalo chicken wings, chips and salsa, egg rolls, Yooper Mudslide ice cream... it's truly no wonder I feel fat.

My grandparents visited this weekend, which meant casino trip for me. My grandma wanted to know how I can spend six hours in one seat moving only one time to go to the bathroom. She also wanted to know how I managed to sit in that one seat and spend only 20 dollars doing so. As it is, I have a natural talent for blackjack. Not that blackjack really requires any real talent, just luck and knowledge and a whole lot of recklessness. Do you hit a 16 against a showing 10? Damn betcha... I tried to teach my grandma how to play blackjack, but she didn't like it. Apparently she's one of those who is better suited by sticking a 20 into a slot machine and pressing some buttons. At any rate, I had a bad showing at the blackjack table - my first ever. Prior to yesterday, I'd never lost at the blackjack table. Oh well - you usually lose more than you win, and I should be grateful that that isn't the case for me.

I probably would have done better on my second twenty dollars if I hadn't been so distracted by the tv playing the Cincinnati/Charlotte game on ESPN. I watching the ticker, trying to find out if Marquette won. It turns out they did - 81-72. And the greatest part was that Travis played and scored 17 points. Marquette has needed him for the past two weeks, and while you should never rush a stress fracture, they needed his skill and confidence out there. ESPN lists Marquette as a bubble team now. Marquette can only lose, maximum, another two to three games to get into the tourney. And they need to perform well in the C-USA tourney. I have faith, though. Travis's confidence gives everyone else confidence.

Sometimes, I think that I can feel Carol's emotions even through the distance. I've been in one of my homesick, wanna go home now type moods today, and apparently so has she. It's less than a month until Spring Break, but that's not really much of a consolation. I don't know how Carol and I are going to last three and a half more years apart from each other like this. In fact, one or both of us just might cave and move closer to home to be with each other. Though the likelihood of her leaving Bryn Mawr is a lot less likely than me leaving NMU. Bryn Mawr is home for her. NMU is anything but home for me. And yeah, it makes me sad to know that her home is a place where I'm not, but that's life... I just hope that she always loves me, because no matter what happens to us, I'll always love her.

Holy shit... I should just note that that was the best Halftime show ever. That's a halftime show people are gonna be talking about for a long time - and for all the right reasons.

Anyway, yeah, I'm done now. More tomorrow, if I'm not too lazy.

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