30.11.04
College Football: Hoki Hi! Went searching for various writeups of the rivalry game last saturday: found this over at The Cavalier Daily. Dude, we are ass-kicking chickens. You are losers. Your namesakes got their asses handed to them over 20 years by Oliver Cromwell and his merry band (or, to be fair, his rampaging mob). Their leader, one King Charles, got his head chopped off for the trouble. Thanks for playing, guy. Better luck next year (how long until the downward spiral for the basketball team, dude?) And you're in a town named for the fat wife of the King who lost the American colonies. Can't forget that. (As opposed to Blacksburg, named for a settler just before the turn of the 19th century, whose descendant was the surgeon for one Gen'l T.J. "Stonewall" Jackson).
Before I got distracted by that, I was writing about the Hokies. Sorry about that. I shouldn't devote so much time to retreads. Anyway, the Hokies, after giving up the first touchdown to the Cavs, took them out back and whipped some ass. Just like they did with the Terps. I can't add anything that's already been said about the ass-kicking laid on Maryland; how can anyone add anything to 55-6? What else can be said? So, moving on and looking forward.
The big question is how great a team has to be to win this game, on the road, against one of the game's powers. I say that the team has to have greatness, be destined for it.
I believe.
I wrote that here a couple of months ago, a couple of weeks before the season. I didn't predict games (except the USC game, wrongly, as it turned out). But I also said Tech would finish 10-2. I had assumed (contradicting myself, admittedly. I got swept up in the heat of the moment. Considering how the season's gone, can I be blamed?) that the losses would be SC and Miami. I hadn't assumed that NC State would be a loss, but wondered about Tech (and respected State's ability) when Tech lost at home. I will just say this: The Miami game is eminently winnable. Even in Miami. Though, I would find it magnanimous were Miami to move it to Jacksonville (yes, I know, I'm completely trashing any sort of logistical issues), because it is the de facto ACC title game this season: The winner goes to the BCS. One game for Sugar.
I still believe.
Personal Life (or, a portrait of frustration): Referring to a recent post, I'm still frustrated by the same girl. I haven't met her, and at this point I'm convinced that, while it certainly isn't a particularly good time for her, me meeting her isn't going to happen. Let alone any sort of relationship. It's just that I've seen her rush to points further from her than Springfield, to meet her friends. Sure, they're all in Maryland (like she is), but, nonetheless I would guarantee that it's a shorter drive to Springfield for her than to some of these other stops. Be that as it may, it seems that my friendship with her is one of phone calls & typing messages across the ether. Phone calls & messages across the ether seem more a means to an end, rather than the end itself. If they are an end in and of themselves, then so be it, but I remain unconvinced. And since I'm not sure that I see the friendship overcoming the whole physical distance thing. Of course, this leads to the question of what to do: do I abandon the friendship, thus leaving her in what would seem to be her hour of need? Do I accept the fact that the friendship doesn't progress beyond this barrier? Or do I try to overcome it? Another issue would be how I deal with whatever feelings, romantic or otherwise, that have developed. Of course, this depends on several things, the first of those being how I deal with the friendship. After that, obviously, it would depend on how she felt. After that...too complicated. That's where we'd have to see what happened. In any case, I've lost my train of thought (I talked with her, more about our lives in general and various emotional demons). Catching the sleepy train. Later.
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