Bowling Green 17 — No. 5 Ohio State 24Marshall 27 — No. 6 Kansas State 20Toledo 35 — No. 9 Pittsburgh 31 The entire NCAA and the sports press are on notice as of right now: The Mid-American Conference is for real. (And stupid me didn’t go to the UT game because I thought our Student Government President jinxed us when he predicted victory in an e-mail yesterday. D’OH!)
In case I haven’t made it clear enough in the past, the Japanese professors here at UT are the coolest in the world. Chino-sensei, my first-year teacher from way back, just gave me a copy of the Japanese Aa! Megami-sama! (Oh My Goddess!) manga volume 26. She was also the one who gave me a gold bookmark for my birthday earlier this year. Is that cool or what? I’m feeling pretty good now. My throat is still a bit sore, and I didn’t get much…
To borrow a phrase from an Internet pal of mine, shoo-wow. We had about a hundred people at the meeting, which is absolutely huge for us. A few of them even filled out membership forms, so not only did we get the word out there about Spectrum, we bolstered our ranks as well. As far as the presentations go, Thomas was great as usual; I had a couple of missteps, but given how sick I was, the fact that I had to cut things out…
Well, I’m still a bit stuffy in the head, but otherwise this cold has managed to work its way out of my system, just in time for tonight’s presentation. I don’t want to say too much about the presentation — I alluded to it in my Backwash column last weekend, I know, but normally I try to avoid mentions of those kinds of things in a forum like this — but I am a bit nervous. I did this presentation last year (just a few…
So someone says they don’t have a problem with me anymore and everything’s okay with me, but then that person clearly goes out of her way to avoid me every time we’re in the same room together. Of course, I don’t dare approach her about it because if I am bothering her, I don’t want to be any more of a bother than I already am — but she says I’m not a bother, so … ugh. And people wonder why I don’t like dealing…