Hi again all you sexies.

Well I finished my studying for today, so I’m taking the extra time to do an update. Time has been a scarcity of late, but it happens this way every semester. You’d think I’d have gotten used to it by now, but it still seems to come as a surprise somehow. The good news is, I’m on the home stretch, with just three more weekdays of finals, papers, and portfolio madness, and than it’s home again for the holidays to decompress.

These last few days I’ve made an interesting discovery. For all of you folks out there are looking for a good exercise solution to tone your legs and glutes (tehe!), here’s a tip: go to your local ice rink or general public sheet of ice, and try walking around on it for an hour without falling down. If you’re wondering how I made this discovery, then wonder no more; this was my commute back and forth to school every day for the past week. And man, my legs kill right now. The pain is how you know it’s working.

In other news, I’m in grave danger of losing in the first round of fantasy playoffs this weekend, in which case my whole season would pretty much be ruined. Which sucks because I managed to finish in 2nd overall for the regular season. But them’s the breaks— just ask any pro football coach. I’m sorta glad I don’t have my reputation and livelihood riding on it. Much.

Here’s some new words to add to my List Of Words That Have Struck Me As Silly At Some Time Or Other: smart, next. Does anyone else do this? Where suddenly some common-usage word strikes you as being really dumb or weird? Maybe I’m the only one.

Anyway, I could ramble on like this for months, but I have to go play with Mr. Picassohead some more. It has me transfixed. Here’s my first masterpiece. And don’t ask me what the S stands for, because I don’t freakin know.

Now everyone: go forth and do excellently on your finals! If you have them! Otherwise do excellently at other things! I shall see some of you soon…. mwahaha… mwahahahha…. MWAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAAHHAAHA!!!

I need therapy.

Ugh.. overslept, and then there were horses tethered outside of Little Stevie’s. Needless to say I am very disoriented.

Well the Red Sox are headed to the ALCS, despite playing a horrible, sloppy series in which they didn’t seem to ever get any hits. I’m not yet one of those rabid Sox fans, in part because I’m generally against the adoption of teams just because they are doing well. I’ll always be a Colorado sports fan at heart. However, I’m rooting for the Sox to make it to the Big Show, because man, how cool would it be to have a World Series being played two blocks from where I live? And how insane would it get around here? The answer to both of these questions as far as I’m concerned is “pretty damn.”

In Colorado sports news, everyone lost. I didn’t see the Broncos game because, as we all know, here in New England, nothing west of Buffalo and south of D.C. actually exists. I hear from my brother that they got screwed by the refs, which is never a fun way to lose a game. But at least it was close, which makes me feel good about where they are this year. Should be a good one.

CU.. well let’s just say I’m glad I don’t go there anymore. And I have been informed that the Nuggets are thinking about trying out Dennis Rodman. That would make their games slightly more entertaining. I guess anything’s more entertaining than “excruciatingly boring.”

The big news in the NFL this last week, funnily enough, was surrounding Rush Limbaugh’s comments about Donovan McNabb. Granted that Rush’s comments, as always, were stupid and inflammatory, but that’s not news. To me the public outcry was really sad and fascinating. On one of the NFL pregame shows one of the commentators said something to the effect that “race is just something that you don’t talk about.” Which immediately begs the question, Why?

I didn’t find Rush’s comments to be that inflammatory, but instead to be highly debatable, and there is an important difference there. Just the notion of respecting others dictates that blatant racism is wrong. But is it really too soon to have a healthy debate on the subject of race? Is it really still that sensitive a subject? And I must plead ignorance here, because I honestly don’t know how bad the problem is. I don’t see it, I don’t have problems with it, and because of the strict censorship in the media, I don’t hear anything about it. I guess I just feel that if there’s a problem, the best thing to do is to talk it through. And, from my perspective, it seems like as a society we might be ready to do just that.

I could be wrong. I shouldn’t be considered an authority on anything this week, but especially sports, because my fantasy football team just got crushed by Ian’s. Which is just so embarrassing.