It's Like Writing a Blog
Yes. Summer vacation is officially over. For those of you that had it, I hope it was good times. For those that didn't, so sorry. Me... I am officially back on the grind as of this morning, which includes, apparently, writing the blog.
It seemed for a minute we were on indefinite hiatus. Turns out, we were just on summer break. Like Oprah. And like Oprah, we're back with all new material. Now, unlike Oprah, I have no grand announcement* to kick off the new season. Nor can I promise continual heat* on the blog posts. But... If writing a blog is anything like riding a bike, I figure I can be back to mid-season form in the next few weeks. Give me a couple months to recruit a tri-con out of retirement, and the rest pretty much takes care of itself.
For the premier episode... What else? A love story.
Enjoy.
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One of my homies shows me a picture of him at a game with some friends. Chic to his left is pretty cute.
Me: She's really pretty.
Homie: That's Jane*. She went to WashU.
Me: Ohhhhhhhh! (Word?) She's must be really cool huh? Does she talk about how cool it was?
Homie: Actually, she didn't think much of WashU.
Me: (confused face)
Homie: She wanted to go to Duke.
Me: (annoyed face)
Homie: And she hated St. Louis.
Me: (disgusted face)
Homie: WashU was her safety school.
Me: Yeah... She was one of those wack (expletives) that spent four years hating cuz she didn't go to Harvard. Like 'Oh... I really wanted to go to So-and-So.' Well (expletive), you shoulda went to So-and-So.
Other homie: Yeah. Those people are really annoying.
Me: Thank you! Like she had some list of Special Schools in her head, and ended up at a school that was somehow beneath her. Clearly, the Special Schools thought homechic was beneath them or she woulda gone there. Instead she spent four years hatin and taking up space.
Homie: Well maybe Jane didn't have the same experience you had.
Me: Yeah. Jane can suck a fat one.
Homie: Wow! You are really clowning this person for talking sh*t about WashU. If someone insulted (Blank) University, I wouldn't care.
Me: Obviously (Blank) University didn't show you the love WashU showed me. I'm saying... if someone talked sh*t about your parents, you'd clown them.
Homie: (in disbelief) Are you really equating WashU with your parents???
Me: Not equating. But in the order of entities that have shown me love (and to which I am eternally loyal) ... GOD, family & friends, The WU.
Which got me to thinking. I can imagine that some loyal alums (of whatever schools) have longer lists. For instance, #s 3 and 4 might be a favorite city or maybe a summer program. But if your alma mater isn't at least in your top 5, you either A) are a hater (see above), B) picked the wrong school, an entirely forgivable mistake, or C) tragically wasted your time on things like classes and problem sets, as opposed to more love-building activities like lounging at Information Desks and outside libraries.
Sad, sad.
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References:
* Verbatim, 2007
It seemed for a minute we were on indefinite hiatus. Turns out, we were just on summer break. Like Oprah. And like Oprah, we're back with all new material. Now, unlike Oprah, I have no grand announcement* to kick off the new season. Nor can I promise continual heat* on the blog posts. But... If writing a blog is anything like riding a bike, I figure I can be back to mid-season form in the next few weeks. Give me a couple months to recruit a tri-con out of retirement, and the rest pretty much takes care of itself.
For the premier episode... What else? A love story.
Enjoy.
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One of my homies shows me a picture of him at a game with some friends. Chic to his left is pretty cute.
Me: She's really pretty.
Homie: That's Jane*. She went to WashU.
Me: Ohhhhhhhh! (Word?) She's must be really cool huh? Does she talk about how cool it was?
Homie: Actually, she didn't think much of WashU.
Me: (confused face)
Homie: She wanted to go to Duke.
Me: (annoyed face)
Homie: And she hated St. Louis.
Me: (disgusted face)
Homie: WashU was her safety school.
Me: Yeah... She was one of those wack (expletives) that spent four years hating cuz she didn't go to Harvard. Like 'Oh... I really wanted to go to So-and-So.' Well (expletive), you shoulda went to So-and-So.
Other homie: Yeah. Those people are really annoying.
Me: Thank you! Like she had some list of Special Schools in her head, and ended up at a school that was somehow beneath her. Clearly, the Special Schools thought homechic was beneath them or she woulda gone there. Instead she spent four years hatin and taking up space.
Homie: Well maybe Jane didn't have the same experience you had.
Me: Yeah. Jane can suck a fat one.
Homie: Wow! You are really clowning this person for talking sh*t about WashU. If someone insulted (Blank) University, I wouldn't care.
Me: Obviously (Blank) University didn't show you the love WashU showed me. I'm saying... if someone talked sh*t about your parents, you'd clown them.
Homie: (in disbelief) Are you really equating WashU with your parents???
Me: Not equating. But in the order of entities that have shown me love (and to which I am eternally loyal) ... GOD, family & friends, The WU.
Which got me to thinking. I can imagine that some loyal alums (of whatever schools) have longer lists. For instance, #s 3 and 4 might be a favorite city or maybe a summer program. But if your alma mater isn't at least in your top 5, you either A) are a hater (see above), B) picked the wrong school, an entirely forgivable mistake, or C) tragically wasted your time on things like classes and problem sets, as opposed to more love-building activities like lounging at Information Desks and outside libraries.
Sad, sad.
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References:
* Verbatim, 2007
posted by Puff at 7:34 AM
1 Comments:
Randomly clicked this website out of my browser's drop-down box and what do you know...
If I couldn't use my gmail log-in I don't know if I would have remembered my log-in at all...
And, I did blog recently, I just happened to do it here:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/nfl/scoreboards/2007/09/23/2584_gameblog.html
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