Ramblings

• 20-0 And Loving It- The Fighting Illini remain 1 of only 2 undefeated teams in the country and its great. While there are still grumblings that the Illini are not garnering all the respect they deserve (even from me), its hard to deny the fact that most people are no longer seeing this team as a "fluke". The makings for this season started late last season after running off ten straight Big Ten wins before an eventual loss to Duke in the NCAA Tournament. "Experts" failed to notice it early in the season ranking us 7th to start the season but as of the latest poll the Illini were one vote shy of being the unanimous #1 team. I'm not a huge college basketball buff but its a whole lot of fun watching "your" team have such success on the court. I'm not about to proclaim we are going to manage an undefeated season own our way to the National Championship, nor am I going to say a loss is the end of the line for us. Going undefeated would be sweet, but in the end, like all sports, its the National Championship that matters in the win. Twenty and counting.
• Two Weeks Is Too Long- Please join me in petitioning Paul Tagliabue and the NFL to move the Superbowl back so that it occurs the Sunday following the Conference Championship games. Not only was the Superbowl meant to be played in January but giving the "talking heads" 2 weeks to predict, guess, suspect, yell, and such about ONE game is entirely too long. I love the NFL. Its my little baby and even I don't want to hear this much "crap" about the game, the teams, the players, the field, the halftime show, and anything else they like to think goes with the Superbowl. A perfect example is the TO situation and his injury. Everybody in their right mind thinks they know what TO should do, even though only TO knows and that Andy Reid ultimately has the final say. In my mind TO should do what he wants after he has been informed of the possible damage and career ending possibilities that could occur if his recovering ankle were to take a hit. He is the only one who knows if he will be able to be effective but ultimately make him totally responsible and make him sign on the dotted line so that the Eagles or the NFL will not be liable to pay him his remaining salary or bonus if something unfortunate were to occur and not allow TO to continue playing football. It's the Superbowl and that doesnt happen all too often for players.
• I Guess This Is Growing Up- I flipped through my guide/handbook of life and there was no warning of this, but apparently 2nd semester sophomore year is when "school" really starts. Its not only me being an architecture student but most of my friends are also facing great loads of work and less free time. No longer do I have the hours and hours of free time to do what I want, but just hours of free time. It's not a complaint but I guess this is life. Its more of a balancing of time act then actually not having enough time. I do have enough time but I have to go do work when I am motivated or I know it will never get done. I'm still trying to adjust to the new schedule but I should have that down by the end of the next week. In my architecture studio I have had 5 class and by Monday will have my fifth model do. Its nothing elaborate but cutting cardboard and assembling it not matter how simple the tasks takes a handful of hours. Its not labourious and I actually love being in the working with the cardboard and creating new designs. Its getting to the studio that is the hard part. All my other classes are relatively simple and don't require excessive work so in the end I will survive.
• Where's The Music- For those of you keeping tabs you realize that my Top 100 songs were going to be published last Saturday but that didn't happen but don't fret as the list is just around the corner. I didn't think the first week back at school would be as busy as it turned out to be and I haven't been able to get down all the subtle details and such in the list. So stay tuned and sure enough the list will be available.
• Tennis Anyone- I am a sports buff but even with me most of time tennis eludes me. I don't understand the want to watch 3+ hours of hitting a ball with a racket over a net. Sure there are spectacular and athletic plays through out, but its a long time to watch to see a few cool plays. But I will admit that from Tuesday 11PM until Wednesday 11PM I witnessed the end of 3 spectacular matches. All three matches were in final set tiebreakers that ended 9-7, 10-8, and 9-7 respectively. What fun but also enough tennis for the year.
• Well thats alot to read so I'll end with that. I'll try to update more regularly so the blogs don't get too long. Please come back!