Hornets

In answer to Denver's comment on my last post, I decided to put up some pictures of a recent adventure some of my basketball players and I had at a Hornets game. While I know the obvious reaction to his comment would be to assume that the Hornets organization had heavily recruited me to be their new star center, it was actually a won contest that brought me to the court. I, along with a few of my fearless coworkers, punched out a thousand all-star ballots before a game one night. I also punched out (with the help of one of my players' aunts) another two thousand+ at the Hornets game the night we won the contest. As a result of punching out the most ballots, I got to take all of my basketball players who were in attendance at the game down to the court to receive an autographed basketball signed by all the players and two floor seats to the next home game. In addition to that, the PR guy showed the kids around downstairs and made up "prize packs" for them all to take home. It was very neat for all of us to experience. Here are some pics then I must be on my way to another game with a different set of kids. Too bad these aren't floor tickets!

You'll notice in the top picture exactly what the young man on the right is looking at...

24 Season 2

This has been a blissful snow weekend. So far I have watched 18 episodes of the second season of 24.

There are a few things I would like to note about the second season of 24. I want to preface these statements by saying I do like the show and enjoy the very fictitious suspense-filled forty-two minutes of bliss each episode. However, there are some things I find rather cheesy. First of all, the Fox-made drama shows the well-respected President Palmer watching Fox News during a national crisis. I do love that plug for their sister station. A picture perfect attempt at brainwashing.

I also find it funny that the daughter of the guy who saves the country and even the world season after season has the worst luck of anyone in history. As a matter of fact, in the last fictitious eighteen hours of her life, she has been forced to kidnap the young girl she baby sits to save her from abuse, been stalked and beaten by the girl’s dad (who murdered his own wife over the course of the day), was blamed for the woman’s murder, arrested along with her boyfriend (who later had his leg amputated), been in a car wreck, caught in a wild animal trap after being lost in the woods, kidnapped in a nuclear bomb shelter by the man who rescued her from the trap, almost abducted when she was hitchhiking, thought her dad was killed, held hostage in a convenience store, and dumped by her amputee boyfriend. Whew! What a day. To think, she still has six hours to go. She might ought to just go to bed.

In the meantime, I am going to go wrap up season 2 to prepare of a day of season 3 during my snow day tomorrow.

A Good Day

Today has been a good day. For the first time in three academic semesters I have Monday evenings free. I began my new and very welcomed freedom by exercising for about 45 minutes when I got home. It was SO great. I hope to keep this up two or three times a week until basketball season is over, then do it four or five times a week. I love the feeling of waking up sore the morning after exercising muscles I haven't used in a while. It is such a feeling of accomplishment and it makes me feel like I'm taking better care of the body with which the Lord has blessed me.

I also found out today that I have been chosen by the professors in my department as the outstanding graduate student for our department for my graduating class. I didn't even know that was an available honor. However, I am excited to have received it.

I am currently watching the BCS championship game. I thought it would be a beating when OSU scored 16 seconds into the game on the opening kickoff return. 4 minutes and 31 seconds later Florida scored. Less than 9 minutes after their first touchdown, Florida has scored another touchdown - this one somewhat controversial. This could be a beating the opposite way of which I originally thought. My only hope is that this is an exciting and close one. I wonder if the Heisman curse will have an effect on the outcome of this game...