7.12.04
College Football: According to Vegas.com, Tech is an early touchdown 'dog. Auburn and Va Tech play similar styles of football: Run the damn ball, throw with the senior when you must, and clamp down on defence. I think a lot of it is going to come down to special teams (which have been far from special this season: see @UNC and @Miami). If you think Tech can live up to its rep on special teams, take the points. If you think that it'll continue to be a problem (distraction side note: Tech's punter is from N'Awlins. And his father is a member of the Sugar Bowl committee), give the points and take Auburn. And hopefully Foster is studying LSU game tape, figuring out how they limited the Tigers to 10 points. And hopefully Stinespring is studying the SEC Championship, figuring out how the Vols hung 28 on Auburn. As good as Randall, Imoh, Royal, Hyman & the crew have been this season, I'm more confident that Foster's unit will hold Auburn to 10 than Tech scoring 28. Having said that, I'll reiterate my pick from the last post:
Va Tech 28, Auburn 10 (1995 again, isn't it?)
I believe.
Politics: I don't know why the Democrats hate President Bush. He's, arguably, the most liberal Republican since Nixon (another president they hated...I guess they think the liberalism is their domain, and that the GOP ought to run conservatives. That'd suit me just fine). He's certainly more liberal than either Reagan or his father. And he beat two uberliberals in Gore (once a conservative...amazing what happens when you have to campaign in places other than Tennessee when you're a Democrat) and Kerry (who may as well have waved the North Vietnamese flag). Anyway...I don't give a shit. Bush is in office for the next four years, and the rest is just details. Wake me in September, just in time for the general campaign for governor here in Virginia.
Personal life (It's my blog, and I'll vent if I want to, vent if I want to, vent if I want to-o-o-o): Listening to The Rose by Bette Midler (it just came up on my playlist. honest). It speaks to me, if only because it, at many points in my life, has described me:
The heart, afraid of breaking, that never learns to dance...
The soul, afraid of dying, that never learns to live.
It occurs to me that I am much less likely to open up to someone to whom I'm close. Very counterintuitive. Other than the fact that, by opening up, I expose whatever extant vulnerabilities. Which may lead to rejection. In other words, I'm much less likely to open up to those whose opinion of me matters even a whit. If I don't give a damn what someone (for example, the girl about whom I've talked over the last few posts kind of fit this when we were first getting to know each other) thinks, I might just come out and say what's on my mind. Diplomatically, maybe, but I'm more likely to get my point across (or talk of past experiences, positive and negative). But if I'm speaking with a friend whose opinion is important to me (the aforementioned girl at this point in time is an example of this) then I'm more likely to shut up about important stuff. And, given the fact that I've never been great at small talk, this can lead to silence. Not (necessarily) a good thing. Of course, my sister is the exception that proves the rule (or at least suggests ways around it): she asks me somewhat specific questions about the important things, and I give her answers. Sometimes they're long and winding, sometimes they're short and sweet, and sometimes (in both cases) they can be a bit evasive. In any case, I don't have much else to say on the subject.
Zuletzt: I was just thinking about it: what the hell has happened to my blog? When did it become a diary? The character has changed completely over the last several posts. Oh well. This is what happens with no readership to hold me accountable to writing about specific topics. As a fine American orator once said (okay, it was a onetime - and possibly current - Arizona Cardinals GM), toughsky shitsky.
More later. R.
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