I'm home from California, battling some kind of stomach virus that's caused me to lose about 12 pounds nearly overnight. I have to negotiate a start date for my job, I need to fill out paperwork to get my benefits and such in order, and I need to schedule and have surgery to correct a hernia. Other than that, I've got nothing going on, and there ( Read more... )

And I'm done. Thank you, University of Michigan, it's been great.

More to come when I have time after graduation.

So all that stands between myself and complete freedom is 3 medium sized assignments that are due by Friday at 5pm. Then I'm done with college (for now) and Michigan forever. In previous years "complete freedom" has meant relief from the stress of the semester, or being able to enjoy the holidays with family, or the leisure and internships of ( Read more... )

I'll be back sometime this weekend with something of substance about my impending graduation and adulthood. Until then enjoy this totally true (and unsurprising, at least to me) story ( Read more... )

So, the words... they fail me... except for that one word. What is it? Oh man, the word I'm looking for...

OH!

FUCKING ANGERWait, that's two words. Wait, I missed one. Extreme. Extreme fucking anger. I could sit here all night and go on. I could list a million reasons why what's happened isn't fair. How about I just go with the one nobody's ( Read more... )

There are three days to go before what is The Biggest Game In The History of Ever, or simply, The Game. This has caused my week to slow to a crawl. I spend all the time thinking about this game, thinking about Mike Hart and Steve Breaston and Chad Henne and Alan Branch and LaMarr Woodley and Leon Hall and David Harris and Mario Manningham and Jake ( Read more... )

Yesterday I turned 22. Considering how I felt last year about turning 21, it's safe to say that today I feel really old. I'll probably keep feeling this way until I'm senile and no longer posses the capacity to feel feelings. Also of note: no carnage today, despite the fact that we went out last night and had ourselves a good time ( Read more... )

[Editorial note: I wrote this before Game 5 of the World Series. As I watched that game slip away from the Tigers, I realized that I just couldn’t root against them. I had waited too long for a team that I cared about to be in that position to just wish it away. It helped that I talked with my father before the game. I told him essentially the ( Read more... )

Just remember I called it come April when Villanova is riding the good karma of this to the national championship. Yes, that really happened. At their Midnight Maddness event for the men's basketball team. My favorite part in the video is around the 35 second mark when 50 gets mobbed by the basketball team. Awesome. People say things like,  " ( Read more... )

After the Steelers sickening defeat to the Falcons on Sunday, Dan Rooney, the usually reserved owner of the Steelers, felt the need to speak his mind.

In a league where they've instructed their officials to throw a flag any time a defensive player even so much as breathes on a quarterback, a helmet-to-helmet hit which knocked Ben Roethlisberger ( Read more... )