Pete's Log: football and more
Entry #535, (Life in General)(posted when I was 22 years old.)
I just realized I've not watched any news in three or four days, which feels odd, I'd been feeling so oddly in touch with the world this semester, simply because of the variety of news channels our cable lineup offers. Seems nothing has significantly changed.
Yesterday I didn't wake up until 12:30 or so. So I've still not managed to do any kind of pre-game activity this year. However the BC game should hopefully break that streak, I recall promising to show up to some kind of event. The game itself proved frightening. I can't believe we won that game, but more importantly, I can't believe we almost lost that game. I blame the freshmen, they had no business trying to start a wave when they did, and their attempts correlate to about the time the momentum turned. Of course, the officials tried hard to make us lose as well. But what can you do? In the end, we won, so it's all good. And some other games had good outcomes: Texas A&M beat #8 Kansas State, which is good for our strength of schedule (which is gonna suffer from the Nebraska loss) and which also gives Kansas State as many losses as us. Clemson lost, which doesn't have a direct effect on us yet (although they do play florida state next week, which could potentially give them as many losses as we have) but Clemson has been, in my humblest of opinions, highly overrated. I think their strength of schedule is ranked like #100 or so. Stanford lost, which is too bad, since they looked like they were gonna win, and that would've helped our SoS as well. But it turns out that Glenn Earl, who blocked the last-second air force field goal attempt, wasn't actually supposed to jump. He was supposed to watch for a fake attempt. God bless him for jumping instead.
After the game Brian and I went to eat with a huge group of friends of his family. They had reservations for a party of 40. We ate at Parisis. It was quite entertaining. I had lasagna. It was good. It was the first significant meal I'd eaten in two days.
Today I've got TA lab hours at fitz from 7 to 11. Other than that today may prove best spent being lazy. Or maybe I'll do some reading or something. We'll see.