For you Jules.
In fact I cut and pasted your comment.
Here it is.
Yay Jayhawks!!!!!!!!!
Booooooooo talking head sports guys. (That goes for you radio commentators too.)
Note to KU: please offer Bill Self enough money to stay so we don't have to start the revenge cycle all over again. And while you're at it how about a little hand out for my kid?
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Monday, April 7, 2008
De Ja Vu
I am in a pretty dark mood lately but I am taking a break from all that to eat caramel corn and cheer for the Jayhawks in tonights NCAA final.
It's almost like 1988 all over again. Except it's a different team. And a different coach. And I'm twenty years older. Second thought, it's not very much like 1988, but hey, the t-shirt still fits!
It's almost like 1988 all over again. Except it's a different team. And a different coach. And I'm twenty years older. Second thought, it's not very much like 1988, but hey, the t-shirt still fits!
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Our New Normal
I guess this is an update.
I've reached an uneasy truce with the family crisis that occurred a couple months back. Thankfully the problem seems to have been caught quickly and, with professional help, behaviors are changing. Here is what I hate about the whole thing. I'm afraid I will never be able to relax again. I'm afraid that as soon as I let my guard down something will flare up again. It's an uneasy state to live in but not a tragic one. In relation to what other families are dealing with it could even be considered a blessing. Not that the thing itself is good but it's a thing with a solution. The blessing is the positive changes that are able to be made. It's just, I've realized that I resist change. Even positive change. I consider it a good sign, though, that I was able to face it, be honest about it and get the help that was needed. I guess that what parenting boils down to.
I've reached an uneasy truce with the family crisis that occurred a couple months back. Thankfully the problem seems to have been caught quickly and, with professional help, behaviors are changing. Here is what I hate about the whole thing. I'm afraid I will never be able to relax again. I'm afraid that as soon as I let my guard down something will flare up again. It's an uneasy state to live in but not a tragic one. In relation to what other families are dealing with it could even be considered a blessing. Not that the thing itself is good but it's a thing with a solution. The blessing is the positive changes that are able to be made. It's just, I've realized that I resist change. Even positive change. I consider it a good sign, though, that I was able to face it, be honest about it and get the help that was needed. I guess that what parenting boils down to.
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Yadda yadda
Remember the Seinfeld episode where they yadda yadda sex? I'm there. Not my own. Certainly not. But, in films, in books, in music, even political commentary, could I please get a yadda here and there in place of the thrusting, moaning and general all around vulgar language. Yes we are all grown up and it's a fact of life and people do have casual sex and use vulgar language. It's not even particularly shocking or edgy any more. In fact, I'm just.......bored. Isn't it out of our culture's system yet? Can't we get back to where a good story is enough? A good story using elevated, even poetic, language? No? It's got to be out there somewhere, literature, music, or film that doesn't depict honest love by forcing me to experience the mechanics of reproduction. Here is how I recognize such a beast: I imagine watching, reading or listening with my children or with my parents. If I can keep from cringing, that's it. Can someone tell me where it is?
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