Thanksgiving Bullets
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November 21, 2007, 3:02 am
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- It’s really weird that everybody is going home for Thanksgiving and I am staying here. Everybody is so excited to be getting away from their classes and I really have done less work all semester than I would do in one busy week at school.
- On that note I found out that this girl here is really, really homesick and doesn’t seem to like living in England and traveling at all. Granted, she’s had two bad experiences with some long trips but still kind of sad. She started a countdown to when she would be back at Duke.
- One thing I do miss about Duke, the basketball games, now with stupid new online walk-up line policy instead of the already stupid wristband policy – all in the attempt to boost attendance. Stupid freshman. But then again, when your team is 8-8 in the ACC, how do you expect people to get excited? Anyway, we may not be as well known as Princeton is around in these parts, but at least we can kick their ass. Honestly that score is deceptively close since we were up by 30 in the first half. How do you like your eating clubs now? Bitches.
- While we’re on this sports fix, another link to a Gilbert Arenas article stolen from TrueHoop. Maybe the next time I’m visiting a rich consultant friend in D.C. he can score me some courtside Wizard’s tickets..
Why did three women from Iowa travel halfway across the country, create blinged-out t-shirts, rent a limo, buy a second set of courtside seats, take a 10-hour trip that brought them home at 5 in the morning and spend nearly $10,000 to get a jersey from a player they have no natural reason to care about? Julie considered the question. Her daughter, she told me, thinks that Gilbert and Julie are similar: they relentlessly pursue their obsessions, maximizing their fun along the way, without regard for whether that makes them “different.”
- Oh, and this guy is a Redskins fan and D.C. native (I totally didn’t plan that), and when he found out that the Chargers were going through the Norv Turner experience he started a blog. Here’s the latest. And seriously who the fuck calls an option pass on 4th and 2.
- Moving away from this – despite a ridiculous cost due to a horrendous exchange rate, I decided to buy tickets for CSS and Justice on Dec. 3rd. Coincidentally, this is the day that I return from my pilgrimage to the Netherlands. Joining me are a few new people: Robin, whose friends like to call him ‘Hood; Jesse who has also scaled the mighty tree nine at UCSC, and random girl who got upset that she was charged a pound entry into some bar and made me feel bad so I walked back with her. Better start getting ready to D.A.N.C.E.
- My recent subscriptions to elbo.ws and hypemachine have led me to this recording of a Girl Talk performance in Seattle. I like it just because it’s so similar to the performance I saw when he came to Chapel Hill in December (since it’s a January performance). Notably on Smash Your Head he adds Paula Cole aka Dawson’s Creek Theme Song to Biggie. Why not?
- Regina Spektor performed at Duke yesterday, even though she was sick before. My school is so hip. Kind of. Nancypants also is excited about the potential of a combination of The Roots and Third Eye Blind for LDOC. I don’t believe for a second that’s happening, but it would be really sweet.
- In the same conversation she told me that my editor Varun nabbed a McKinsey full time offer away from our favorite DSG president who shared movies off of his server back in the day. Pretty sweet. In an unrelated story, I remember I was talking to his roommate once about how sometimes he would find Mr. Wolf rolling sushi really late at night. Strange.
- Despite my doubts, Ray’s friends ended up booking the hotel at Paris. Yes, apparently I actually get to stay in Hotels since they are so cheap and plentiful in Paris. Well, kind of cheap. Cheap enough.
- As soon as I get back I am hoping to get into the Fulham vs. Blackburn match with Mr. Brothers – where I get to cheer on Americans like Clint Dempsey … probably get the shit beaten out of them by Blackburn who are 5-1 or something ridiculous. Oh well.
- I am going on an asian vacation disguised as a ski trip to Utah from the 23rd to the 27th. Too bad none of my friends know how to snowboard, which is ridiculous. I guess they’re all from Southern California. Oh wait none of them do any water sports either. Right. At least we play soccer. Yeah, we don’t celebrate Christmas. Oh well. Though if you have watched the season three finale of weeds, you realize just how crazy Christianity is, and I won’t ruin it for you but Doug has an amazing scene. A couple amazing scenes in the season actually. I love Doug.
- On a final note, I will try to make it down to Mexico this break. Because down in mexico… well I don’t really know I’ve only been once. I just wanted to link to that video. Make sure you have your passports!
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i hope duke doesn’t ruin my bracket this year.
Comment by joyding November 24, 2007 @ 5:00 pmi always believe in you!