I actually was going to post, but I figure since Toth wanted me to, I'd do it ASAP ( Read more... )

You know what I've decided? This Spring has been pretty awesome. Of course there was that point in time where I hadn't started my term paper for Public Policy and the Sox were 1-4 and the Bulls seemed to be fighting against the odds for a playoff spot. But today that term paper is finished, I have on class left of the semester, the Sox are 10-5 and ( Read more... )

OUR TROOPS -- YOUR LIFE VS. THEIR LIVES ( Read more... )

So in thinking about the World Baseball Classic starting this week and the Winter Olympics ending last week, it got me thinking. Where will you be in 2 years during the 2008 Olympics in Beijing? I, for one, will be OUT OF COLLEGE!!! The next time I will be watching international competition in the Olympics I will have graduated from Illinois ( Read more... )

I read an article on espn.com today that made me think. And those of you who're thinking, "Jesus, another sports entry," don't worry, it's not. What it said was that people who don't try their best are afraid of failure. It seems sort of counter-intuitive at first, but think allow me to elaborate. When we really work hard on something, be it school ( Read more... )

Would anyone be opposed to the world being more like the movie, "Can't Hardly Wait?"

As you may or may not know watching "It's a Wonderful Life" on Christmas Eve is a tradition in the McGee house. Every year my mom makes dinner and we eat downstairs and watch the movie while eating. For those of you who haven't seen it, the basic idea that I want to discuss is that George Bailey has made such an impact on his town that if he was ( Read more... )

I must tell everyone about a slump I am in, and have been in for the last 2 days. It all started when I decided to put the ping pong table up with Sean's assistance. I beat him, though narrowly, in a best of 5 match. But then when we played for something that mattered (whoever lost must do the dishes), I lost. And then today I met an intellectual ( Read more... )

I was watching "A Christmas Story" the other day, and the scene in which Randy, the little brother, is getting bundled up sooo much by his mom and then ends up falling and not being able to get back up left me with this question. Did our mothers bundle us up on our way to school because we would fall in the snow and get to school wet otherwise, or ( Read more... )

Well loyal readers, it is my sad duty to inform you of the passing of the greatest dog in the history of domestic pets, my family's golden retriever, Skye. She was put to sleep earlier this afternoon after having a stroke earlier in the week and losing the ability to move her back legs. She's up there in heaven now, chasing squirrels and her tail ( Read more... )