Seanitude Version 2.0 This is the personal web outlet for Sean McDonald. Now serving 25% more Auburn, Bama and Ole Miss hatred.
Tuesday, December 31, 2002
4:39 PM
OK forget the Cotton Bowl shit, this comes from a site called DEBKAfile, it seems to be a very Israelli-heavy news site. Anyway, these are their headlines right now. Italics inserted by me.
Entire US Army 3rd (heavy mechanized) Division- 20,000 strong, based at Fort Stewart, Georgia, is ordered on New Year’s Eve deployed to Persian Gulf
DEBKAfile: Last US ultimatum to Saddam Hussein to renounce WMD arsenal expires Tuesday midnight as we reported in an earlier exclusive report appearing below
According to US military sources, 3rd Army commander has direct authority to use tactical (theater) nuclear weapons if Saddam employs WMD
US Col. (retired) Hackworth to Fox TV: US special forces already in Iraq are armed with ADMs -“nuclear suitcases”
Israeli defense minister Mofaz with air force commander Maj.-Gen. Halutz inspect air force’s southern base and its contingency plans in US war on Iraq
In TV interview, Mofaz affirms Iraqi missile or warplane carrying WMD may try to reach Israel.
He says similar menace posed by terrorists now that Iraqis, al Qaeda and Lebanon-based Iranian Revolutionary Guards are intermingled with Palestinian terror groups on West Bank and Gaza Strip
Seriously, he had something intelligent to say on his postgame show. Mainly that there's either some story behind this late-season break down or that the coaches need to take a good look at themselves in the mirror. Two players got in a fight before the game began. A turnover on the 12 yd line and all they get is a net gain of 0 yds on the drive and a field goal. 60 yd punt return? Nothing. Good field position all game? Nothing.
They managed to lose to four of the (if not the four) worst teams in the NFL this season. To put icing on the cake, Cleveland managed to beat the Falcons, so a win today would have put the Saints in the playoffs.
And were the players pissed after the game? NO! They were smiling and patting the other team on the back! WHAT THE FUCK? You just lost your chance at the playoffs and you assholes are happy? After that lackluster performance, they should have had their heads hung low and been quickly on their way to the lockerroom to change and get home.
Games and seasons like this are why I lost faith in the Saints years ago. I can still cheer them, but I never EVER believe they will win a game. EVER. It's safer that way and when they choke like they did today, I don;t feel stupid and angry, just angry.
At least the football team I care most about and still have faith in will be playing in January.
That's right, ESPN's gift to the world on the Second Day of Christmas is a story on how Sadaam Hussein's son, aka Delta Force Target #2, the President of the Iraqi Olympic Committee tortures and imprisons athletes when they lose. Not that this is a reason to go to war with them, but damn Iraq sucks.
I'm reminded of that classic verse from a South Park song:
I heard there is no Christmas
In the silly Middle East
No trees, no snow, no Santa Claus
They have different religious beliefs
They believe in Muhammad
And not in our holiday
And so every December
I go to the Middle East and say...
"Hey there Mr. Muslim
Merry fucking Christmas
Put down that book the Koran
And hear some holiday wishes.
In case you haven't noticed
It's Jesus's birthday.
So get off your heathen Muslim ass
and fucking celebrate."
That's right, scientists have found a way to powderize Whiskey.
Imagine what this could mean for LSU football! No longer will we be controled by alcohol Nazis at the gates. Just bring your packet of whiskey powder, buy a bottle of Tiger Water for $2, mix in the powder, and you've reclaimed a part of LSU tradition. Plus this way, opposing fans won't be able to claim that they were being hit by glass whiskey bottles anymore. We'll be throwing plastic water bottles at them instead!
Wednesday, December 25, 2002
2:39 AM
Well we did Christmas a little early at the McDonald household, doing presents after Midnight Mass. I'm typing this sitting in the nice "Executive" Chair I gave my mom for Christmas to go with her new computer. And guess who was at mass at my church this year? Mr. and Mrs. Kiwanis International Trustee Lenny Simmons! Turns out Cathy's mom goes to Nativity of Our Lord (my church) and they were there with her. Small world!
Anyway, got some nice gifts, the two best being car insurance (phew!) and an LSU Baseball jacket. I'll be wearing that tomorrow night as I cheer on the Rainbow Warriors (no, not Ole Miss) against the Green Slime.
Burning my grandfather a Louis Prima CD tonight to go with the CD player we got him, then its off to my uncle's for dinner tomorrow and then back to Baton Rouge tomorrow night to work Thursday morning and play some football in the afternoon.
The student section was yelling his name in the last minute of LSU's win over Prairieville A&M when Coach Brady cleared most of his bench. Everyone but one skinny white kid sitting in the last seat got put in. As the chant grew louder Brady had no choice but to walk over and tell him to go in. Josh Maravich hit the floor his father built for the first time and in a few seconds was shooting the last points of the game, sending the thousand or so fans there to blow the roof off the PMAC with a simple 2 pt shot from right under the basket.
He wasn't sinking shots from all over the floor or taking the other team to school, but I can finally say that I've seen Maravich play at LSU.
Tuesday, December 17, 2002
4:10 PM
How to tell if you're a secret redneck Jedi
If you hear . . . "Luke, I am your father... and your uncle..."
If you ever said the phrase, "May the force be with y'all."
Your Jedi robe is camouflage.
You have ever used your light saber to open a bottle of Bud Light.
At least one wing of your X-Wings is primer colored.
You can easily describe the taste of an Ewok.
You have ever had a land-speeder up on blocks in your yard.
The worst part of spending time on Dagobah is the dadgum skeeters.
Wookiees are offended by your B.O.
You have ever used the force to get yourself another beer so you didn't have to wait for a commercial.
You have ever used the force in conjunction with fishing or bowling.
You have ever had your R-2 unit use its self-defense electro-shock thingy to get the barbecue grill to light up.
You have a confederate flag painted on the hood of your land-speeder.
You ever fantasized about Princess Leia wearing Daisy Duke shorts.
You have the doors of your X-wing welded shut and you have to get in through the window.
Although you had to kill him, you kinda thought that Jabba the Hutt had a pretty good handle on how to treat his women.
You have a cousin who bears a strong resemblance to Chewbacca.
You suggested that they outfit the Millennium Falcon with redwood deck.
You were the only person drinking Jack Daniels during the cantina scene.
Your father has ever said to you, "Shoot, son come on over to the dark side...it'll be a hoot."
So Sean Penn says Iraq is clear of all weapons and there's no need for war. Well if Sean Penn says it, it must be true.
I hope he gets stuck in Baghdad when the bombs start falling, we'll see who he supports when there's bunker busters coming for his ass. Sad thing is, he'll be able to come back here and live his life with all the freedoms granted him by our evil oppressive government.
I wish he were an Iraqi coming to the US proclaiming how right we are. Then he could go back to Iraq. I'm sure he'd have just a good and long of a life there.
Woke up at 9:30. A few mintues later the phone rang. Cintas wanted to do a phone interview with me. I dropped a resume with them electronically thorugh LSU Career Services a few weeks back and I guess they liked it. They were nice enough to let me call them back once I got my head a little more together. I think the interview went well, the interview said she'd let the New Orleans HR Manager know she had someone interested in working in New Orleans and I said don't limit me to there, I'll work anywhere in South Louisiana. So might have a good job lead there.
At work this afternoon, a professor told me that he heard I was considering getting an MBA. He said I should axe those ideas, work a few years, and then go somewhere with a better program than LSU and get exposed to some new professors and views. Food for thought.
Grades are now in. 3 As and a B. Thanks to extremely liberal curving (one of the few liberal hings I like) in banking, I got an A (despite having an average around 70). Now don't go saying this was grade padding, he taught this like a grad class, making things purposefully hard and seeing how people did and then giving letter grades. This also means I need something like a 1.75 average in the spring to graduate cum laude. Can you say "senioritis" boys and girls? :-)
1:52 AM
OK this has been floating through various CKI e-mails, but sending out mass forwards has never been my thing. That's part of the reason I have this blog, to share things like this.
1. WHAT TIME DO YOU WAKE UP IN THE MORNING? Alarm is set for 8, I usually sleep till 9:30
2. IF YOU COULD EAT LUNCH WITH ONE FAMOUS PERSON, WHO WOULD IT BE? John McCain. It'd be interesting
3. GOLD OR SILVER? Geauxld
4. WHAT WAS THE LAST FILM YOU SAW AT THE CINEMA? I honestly don't remember
5. FAVORITE TV SHOW? South Park (Kenny's back!), The Daily Show, and Saturday Night Live
6. WHAT DO YOU HAVE FOR BREAKFAST? On the rare occassion I eat breakfast, oatmeal or poptarts
7. WHO WOULD YOU HATE TO BE LEFT IN A ROOM WITH? Carrot Top
8. CAN YOU TOUCH YOUR NOSE WITH YOUR TONGUE? No
9. WHAT INSPIRES YOU? If only I knew
10. WHAT'S YOUR MIDDLE NAME? Christopher
11. BEACH, CITY OR COUNTRY? Beach and country are good to visit, but I'm a city boy.
12. SUMMER OR WINTER? Winter. Bowl games, Christmas, and no hurricanes, does it get better than that?
16. FAVORITE CAR? One with an engine and working AC
17. FAVORITE SANDWICH FILLING? PB&J
18. TRUE LOVE? Not yet
19. WHAT CHARACTERISTICS DO YOU DESPISE? not being able to have fun without ruining other people's fun.
20. FAVORITE FLOWER? I don't really know anything about flowers, but we used daisies for a Homecoming tradition at Country Day, so I'll go with daisies just out of not having one.
21. IF YOU WERE TO WIN IN THE LOTTERY, HOW LONG WOULD YOU WAIT TO TELL PEOPLE? If this Wednesday (its $160 million) I'd wait till Christmas when my family gets all the money they've put into me (car, education, insurance, etc) in money cards (though might need to be careful cutting my grandfather a big check to repay him for highschool, not sure he could handle the shock). My roommates would know in about 2 minutes.
22. FIZZY OR STILL WATER AS A DRINK? Fizzy water? uhhh I'm going still. Must be some sort of Yankee question
23. WHAT COLOR IS YOUR BATHROOM? Off white
24. HOW MANY KEYS ON YOUR KEY RING? Kenner house, shed, car, main work office, personal work office, apartment, mailbox, and St Christopher medalion keys. That's 8 (thought the St Christopher key is loose, I keep it with me when I have my keys)
25. WHERE WOULD YOU RETIRE TO? An RV (Can you say following the Tigers coast to coast?)
26. CAN YOU JUGGLE? No
27. FAVORITE DAY OF THE WEEK? Saturday
28. RED OR WHITE WINE? red
29. WHAT DID YOU DO FOR YOUR LAST BIRTHDAY? Not much, was a bad day for everyone.
30. DO YOU CARRY A DONOR CARD? Does the Blood Center count?
31. SAY SOMETHING NICE ABOUT THE PERSON THAT SENT THIS TO YOU: Well I've gotten 3 so far....
Paul Newfield: Has proved that not everything I've said about UNO students is completely true :-)
Michelle McKenzie: She's coming to LSU, is there anything better you can say about someone? :-)
Ashley Taylor: Can shoot a gun much better than I can.
32. WHO DO YOU LEAST EXPECT TO SEND THIS BACK TO YOU? This isn't an e-mail so N/A
33. WHO IS THE PERSON YOU EXPECT TO SEND THIS BACK FIRST? See #32
Monday, December 16, 2002
1:36 AM
First off, want to say that I hate Randy Moss more than I hate Gold Jerseys.
That being said, I do take some pleasure in knowing that several people who laughed and celebrated when LSU lost to Arkansas at the last second were in the Superdome to watch the Saints once again snag defeat from the jaws of victory. My God Culpepper fumbled the ball and the Saints let a Viking pick up the ball and waltz into the endzone.
New attempt at MP3, lets see what happens.
Sunday, December 15, 2002
1:38 PM
OK looks like my plan for MP3s may not work.
Will work on when I get back to Baton Rouge.
I still hate the gold jerseys and the Superdome sounds about as intimidating today as it does during a Tulane game.
Who let Gerry Dinardo play with the Saints jerseys?
Saturday, December 14, 2002
4:54 PM
Jiffy Lube Sucks and other New Orleans observations
OK went to get an oil change at Jiffy Lube. Decided to get my tires rotated at the same time. They broke one of the bolts that you screw the lugnuts onto. Now I need to go get that fixed, pay for it, and bring the receipt back to Jiffy Lube for reimbursement.
Then when on the way home, my car started smoking! Luckily, we think that is just spilled oil, but it was enough to scare the shit out of me.
After seeing the Uptown/Tulane bar scene, I can proudly say that the LSU bar scene is much better that the bar scene of UL-Willow St.
If you ever want to see what the streets of Baghdad are like after a US bombing, just drive down any of the streets in New Orleans or on I-10 through Metairie. Hopefully this will be like baton Rouge in that the hellish construction will be wrapping up soon after whenever I get there permanently.
For everyone going to the Saints game, have fun. For once I will be pulling against the purple and gold.
Just found this story on how White Supremacy groups now have women taking up stronger leadership roles in the movement. Not that I support any of what they do, just found it funny that they are having to try to modernize the way they think and work despite being stuck in a 60+ year old mindset on race relations.
Stories like this are why I have a link ot the Drudge Report on the right.
3 videos back up: The Twelve Yats of Christmas, Santa and His Reindeer Used to Live Right Here, and Ain't Dere No more.
DIX PACK OF SIXIE!
9:20 AM
NO MORE FINALS!
NO MORE FINALS!
NO MORE FINALS!
Never a good way to start a final when you MISSPELL YOUR OWN NAME! I mean I've only known how to spell "McDonald" since Kindergarten or so. There's an "a" in there I know that.
Well I continued my above average ways in baking getting 15 out of 25 on the multiple choice section. The average was 13. I just hope that the professor sticks to his word on how he gives grades and doesn't let his anger and rage cloud his judgement.
Working till 12, then going to try to sell about 50 lbs of books out of my schoolbag (though I'm sure all my books now have updated editions and won't be bought back) and go home.
Good luck to everyone not done with finals (hahahahahaha) and see everyone on Friday
The article says that this "was discussed publicly for the first time Monday night."
Well have to call BS on that. This has been in and out of public discussion for some time. Longer than people think. Just how long?
Back when my grandfather was an alderman on the Kenner City Council in the 1950s!
Once again, this has been talked about since the 1950s. So if its taken 50 years just for discussion to get to the media, I think we can expect to see this light rail system in place in time for Ole Miss's next trip to the Sugar Bowl in 2573.
With a 7-7 Record and ranked 11th in points scored in the 12 team league, the 8th-ranked Baton Rouge Tigers slipped into the aPaFL playoffs after losing to the Texas Kitten Killers last night. They will face the top team in the league, The Ginchiest (10-4) this weekend
The Baton Rouge Auburn Haters sit in last place in the Circle K league at 3-11.
For those of you that don;t knwo the Powerball jackpot is $101 million this Wednesday! I already bought $5 in ticktes. What the hell. I might lose, but think if I win! :-)
I used to work in a convenience store when the powerball hit $180. That was a crazy night. A line 30 people long for tickets almost all night (3 in the afternoon till 9 when lottery sales ended) If we ever had a lull my boss had me print $100 in tickets that sold in about 10 minutes each time.
Anwyay, just saw my powerball ticket on my desk and thought I'd reminisce for a second.
Oh, and anyone ridiculing this $5 doesn't get to come to the party I'm throwing when I win :-)
I just hope my calculation of needing about 65% on the final to get an A was right.
The GA says we learned what Profit Margin Premium was but I've never heard of it!
If I get less than a B final grade, I will fight it.
Staying at work another 15 minutes then going home.
No final tomorrow so if anyone wants to try to forget today's finals let me know.
9:55 AM
OK before you read the rest of this post, everyone in LSU Circle K knows I love all yall.
That being said, I just found this picture online and the first thing that I thought of was Jody's inspirational "Soar like an eagle" e-mail he sent to the LSU eGroup months ago.
Having posted that, please remember, I'm a committee chair, so if I were using this to talk bad about our club (which I'm not), I'd be talking bad about myself too!
Saturday, December 07, 2002
2:59 AM
Well, I've brought back music to the site, but going to limit myself to MIDI files since they are smaller and less illegal.
Also, I can edit them for sound if I don't like what I find. I changed the first song, Boogie Down, from its original orchestration to all brass instruments and redid the balance a little to let the main melody stand out. I downloaded a huge pile of MIDIs tonight that I will randomly play with and fix up if I see fit. Right now the the collection is mostly some oldies, country, a little rock and some other stuff. I'm looking for Christmas music to put up (or may try to sequence it myself to waste study time).
LSU students, you should recognize this song. If you don't go to a basketball game, you will know it then.
Friday, December 06, 2002
11:09 PM
No more class!
No more books!
No more teachers' dirty looks!
OK I'll still get the dirty looks since I work near half my teachers, but no more class! I got a 75 on the banking group project, which considering the high was 85 and the low was 30, and that he grades based on how everyone turns out, not on a numerical scale (my 83% on the midterm was the highscore and I was congratulated for getting 70s on the quizes by the grad assistant). I;m actually ranked 4th in the class of 40, so lord knows what I will get.
So far I have As guaranteed for Sports Marketing and Real Estate Finance without taking finals.
Commercial Bank Management (my hardest class) final is at 7:30 AM Monday and Sports Law is at 7:30 AM Wednesday. I'm willing to take Bs in both. I'll be happy with Bs. I just want this semester over!
If you're going out with Matt Sat night, see you there. If you're not, see you next Friday for Alison's production.
1:35 AM
This isn't going to be a weekly scheduled thing or anything, just something I'm doing now and may or may not do anymore.
And now from the home office in Kenner, LA...
The Top Ten Things In My Room That Are Out Of Place and Should Be Put Up
10) LSU Basketball Schedule Poster
9) LSU CKI Communications/PR/Newsletter Chair folder
8) Cox High Speed Internet Self Installation Pack
7) My Belt
6) LMT CKI "Pat" Hat with pins
5) Laundry Bag of Dirty Clothes
4) Phone Message Pads from Work
3) Laundry Bag of Clean Clothes
2) 1, 2, 3 Empty Cups
And the Number One Thing In My Room That Is Out Of Place and Should Be Put Up...
The sleeping bag that hasn't been used since Tioga!
11:40 AM
For those of you that would like some reading enjoyment outside of studying for finals, once the press conference in College Station happens this afternoon (Franchione is there now) visit the Tider Insider and watch the carnage unfold. Some has already begun. One suggested that the Bama ROTC to set up 44 MM guns around campus to shoot down his plane if he tries to return to Tuscaloosa to address the players.
11:20 AM
So I was wrong when I laughed at Bama people for comparing Franchione to Bryant. He's just switching schools in reverse order.
Wednesday, December 04, 2002
6:16 PM
Everything looked good on my huge 21" monitor at work, but when I got home, I saw problems and had to fix a few things here (like shrink all the pictures down)
Looking better now.
Got to "walk" from my Real Estate class today (leave class w/o having to take the pre-final bonus quiz or the actual final) with an A! So only two finals (7:30 AM Monday and Wednesday) for me!
Oh, and if anyone can interpret what the Texas A&M "cheerleaders" (the gay looking guys in the white slacks and shirts in the picture below) are doing, please share it with me!
4:17 PM
Hey redid things again here, getting closer to what I want I think.
BTW, here is the new LSU Circle K drinking game.
Everytime someone resigns, take a shot.
If its a board member, take a double shot.
If its the president, finish the bottle.
That put's this year's total at 9 shots if you count committee chairs that resigned their position when they moved to the board.
Tuesday, December 03, 2002
3:14 PM
Texas A&M students assuming the position.... to cheer?
1:55 AM
Was starting this as a comment in Bobby's blog, but decided to do it here instead.
It seems like (as my law professor would say) the fit is hitting the shan all over in CKI right now. I'm willing to bet that its unfortunately no more than the normal average, just concentrated a little closer to home for me than normal I guess.
I want to leave this short before I say something I really shouldn't, but rant mode is ON.
To Circle K members worldwide. I want you to think back to the real reason you joined CKI. For about 50% I'd think it started when you're walking around campus, maybe at a student organization fair, and you see the table for Circle K and you look at it and you think it would be a FUN WAY TO SPEND YOUR FREE TIME IN COLLEGE. About another 30% I'd say joined (like me) because they wanted to do stuff with friends already in the organization. The other 20%, former Key Clubbers that had fun in Key Club and wanted to keep it up in college.
The percentages might be off, but you'll notice all three groups joined for one basic reason, TO HAVE FUN.
Once you join you learn about the leadership opportunities and the fun of doing service, but somewhere along the way alot of people have somehow gotten massive sticks stuck up their asses and turned into machines trying to find ways to do more and more and more and more until the point where Circle K becomes more important than school, family, friends, and enjoying the 4-7 (8, 9, etc.) years of freedom that is college.
We put way too much pressure on ourselves. Too many of the goals we set are based on numbers and not ideas. Doing X service hours and attending Y Kiwanis meetings to get points for the Club Achievement award is not why we do things, or at least it's not the reason we should do them.
I think you can read Bobby's update and pretty much just sign my name to that too. I'd give some further CKI comments here, but people would think I was just copying exactly what he thought and said.
I'm going to give some final advice before I go to bed and watch the rest of the Hugh Hefner Roast.
Finals are coming up. For most of us that means we aren't allowed to hold meetings by our universities. LISTEN TO YOUR UNIVERSITY! Take the 2 weeks off to worry about books and finals and let the Circle K shit wait. It's an EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITY. Not like you can really have anything that pending right now since school's about to be out for a month. Stand back, take some deep breaths, get some sleep, yell "FUCK CIRCLE K!" at the top of your lungs for a few hours if it helps, just do whatever you need to do to get away from whatever stress CKI is inflicting on you right now and worry about the more impontant things.
Oh, in other news, eaTme fired R C Slocum today, look for Alabama Head Coach Dennis Fifthchoicione to leave the University of Alabama - Probationville for eaTme in the next week or so. It's not like Bama has a bowl game to prepare for.
Playing on my mom's new eMachine. Nice to finally have a good computer in New Orleans. I actually convinced her that this new computer meritted Cable Internet too.
Anyway, let me know if the new color scheme hurts your eyes or something and I will try to fix it up a little
Thursday, November 28, 2002
4:57 PM
Happy Turkey Day everyone and happy Ham Day Eve to all the Tiger fans out there.
The Sav-A-Center meal wasn't too bad. More than enough food for my mom, grandfather and I. problem was that the Mac & Cheese (family tradition) wasn't good and while my mom made it tate good, it was VERY watery. Things still went fine and it all worked out. She didn;'t have to slave in the kitchen for 5 or 6 hours for 3 people so this could become our regular thing for the next few years.
I finally got some long-needed sleep last night and feel OK for the first time in a while. Should get more tonight.
Egg Bowl is tonight in, as Gorilla Monsoon would say, a battle between the immovable object and the irresistable force. Mississippi State's inability to move the ball vs. the strange force that makes Ole Miss suck in Novemeber. I'm actually pulling for Ole Miss so that they can go to the Independence Bowl (and keep LSU out of it for something better). So Hotty Toddy Go Rebs.
....
OK, done puking.
Coming home always reminds me why AOL and dial up sucks.
Remember, we're watching the LSU/Arkansas State Correctional Facility game here AT MY HOUSE IN NEW ORLEANS tomorrow. Don't come over until about 1 or so, have to run some errands in the morning. Send me an e-mail or IM me at SeanMcDLSU (my AOL account, if I'm online, that is definately on, AIM might not be) if you need directions on how to get here.
Wednesday, November 27, 2002
10:49 AM
Well think I'm done recoding. I kinda like this look (minor changes plus links on the right) a little better. Let me know what you think.
My car is done and no parts were needed, everything was just banged up.
10:13 AM
Excuse the mess while I recode this thing. Never liked the way it worked before, fixing it now.
9:16 AM
Just to prove I can laugh about LSU Football:
Car is at Gerry Lane, better be fixed today or they will have a very pissed off customer.
Tuesday, November 26, 2002
5:47 PM
What the HELL is going on in the state of Alabama?
11:48 AM
Just another reminder that people are invited to my place (in New Orleans) Friday at 1:30 to watch the LSU/Arkansas State Correctional Facility @ Fayetteville game for the Golden Boot.
If you need directions, send me an e-mail.
Had my last class for a week last night. Working today and tomorrow and have a group meeting tonight for my banking class. We want to turn in our project analyzing Hancock Bank tomorrow instead of Monday so we don't need to worry abot it over break, so its looking like another long day at CEBA!
Car goes in to be fixed tomorrow, hopefully all will work out quickly so I can get on the road by 5 at the latest.
My mom is getting Sav-A-Center to make our Thanksgiving dinner since she is pretty busy with school (and it looks like it will only be 2 or 3 of us). That should be interesting. She claims she will fix the stuff up. Once again, that should be interesting.
Imagine my surprise/shock this morning when I had an e-mail from Charlie Ford with the subject of "Website". Luckily, it was about the district website. Speaking of which, I need to update that. Probably will do it tonight or when I get back in town on Sunday.
2:42 PM
Ever wonder where I get my LSU graphics from?
Most of them come from the Tiger's Lair, an LSU message board on tigerroar.com.
I pay $32 a year for it and it is well worth it. We get recruiting news, a college pickem game, the ability to talk wtih LSU fans, and even a political board to talk about that stuff.
Its well worth the money if you're an LSU fan that likes to discuss and know what's going on with LSU athletics.
And if you want, you can give me an extra free month by signing up following this link instead of going to the website and signing up yourself :-)
11:45 PM
Well so much for the Saints-Tulane-LSU Connection.
The record yesterday was Louisiana 2 Mississippi 0, but the Aints managed to mess it up today. I slept through the game (thought it was the Sunday Night game for some reason and it wasn;t on TV anyway), but I need to ask one question... HOW THE HELL DO YOU LOSE TO THE BROWNS?
Spent the day working on group projects for Bank Management and Sports Marketing. Am going to finally try to get my trunk fixed tomorrow. I just remembered that I get a car rental with my insurance so I might be able to play things to where I bring the car in on Wed and get a rental for a few days.
I see now that Mary Landrieu has picked up glowing endorsements from Cleo Fields and Jesse Jackson! Also saw a pretty rough mudslinging commercial from her camp tonight.
In both football and politics, winning by 1 is nice, but not as nice as 2, or 3, or 4, etc.
3:24 PM
Ashley sent this to me. She got it from Matt Savrock, who may be the original author
First Annual Treatise on Why Ole Miss Sucks
1) They're a bunch of pretentious redneck retards. Contrary to the popular belief in Oxford, J. Crew gear and flowers do NOT give you elegance. It's like putting lipstick and a prom dress on a pig. You still have a pig, not a homecoming queen. That's even true in Oxford, where it would be an improvement over the usual homecoming queen.
2) They honestly believe they have great tailgating. They even gushed about it in a recent article and dissed LSU's tailgating because we "bring too much cooking equipment". Hey dumbasses, let's play word association. "Ole Miss". Did you think "tailgating"? Of course not. The most common answer is "race riot". Centerpieces and catering aren't the key to tailgating, and nobody outside of the Grove thinks they are.
3) Speaking of race riots, their last conference title came when James Meredith was still a student and the team was still all white. In other words, no conference titles "SINCE INTEGRATION".
4) They want to talk about "elegance"? Why not save some of that energy and interior decorating skill for that giant Port-O-Let called Vaught-Hemingway? They ought to take a page from Tulane and play their homecoming game at Tad Gormley. But then the fans might get spoiled.
5) Ole Miss produces an incredible number of flamers. That includes multiple definitions of the word, of course, but let's focus on the kind who post moronic drivel on message boards. Timmy the Tool. RebsRuleBR. Olivis Clothesoff. YankeeReb. Never has a school that accomplishes so little talked so much smack. They like to talk about "4 out of 5". But they don't like to talk about the fact that two of those victories came over Tepper. Or the fact that LSU leads the all time series 49-37-4. Or the fact that it's really only 4 out of 7, a pace that would even the series in 2085. I have a "4 out of 5" for them: They lost "4 out of 5" to Southern Miss before they chickened out of the series.
6) They want to talk about recent parts of the LSU series? How about the period from 1987-99, the lowest point in LSU history? During that period, they won just 6 of the 13 games. Put another way, they had a 6-7 record against the Archmannardo brain trust. But at least that's better than....Tulane, Moo U? That's about it.
7) 5 of the 6 West teams have appeared in the SEC Championship game. Guess which one hasn't made the trip? Nope, not Mississippi State--even Jackie the Clown has been to Atlanta. That's right, the hOMos. This in spite of having Vanderbilt as a permanent East opponent.
8) Not only are they the only West team without a trip to Atlanta, or even a division co-championship, but they've never even had a winning conference record "SINCE EXPANSION".
9) The Manning Legacy? Losing. Neither Archie nor Eli has won the SEC, and it ain't gonna happen this year either. Archie also never had a winning season in the pros. Eli will have a full mustache before he gets a ring on any level.
10) They crash and burn every November, going from controlling their own destiny to the Blue-Gray game. Oh, wait, now they don't even have that to look forward to.
11) Vanderbilt has one SEC road win in 6 years against, guess who? Yep, Ole Miss. Speaking of Vanderbilt, they also had a 2-2 record against the Rebels under Gerry Dinardo.
12) Lame, dorky traditions. The Hotty Toddy cheer and the Grove? What a joke. Can you say gay?
13) They think it's the 1850s. They play Dixie, wave the rebel flag, have Colonel Reb as their mascot, and only named their team the Rebels because "Ole Miss Ole Massas" didn't roll off the tongue as well. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with Southerners taking pride in their heritage, but there are literally dozens of Southern schools that don't feel the need to base their entire identity on the antebellum period. But I guess you can't blame them. If I lived in an armpit of a town like Oxford, and I went to a school whose athletic legacy was a century of futility, I'd pretend it was the ancient past too. The rest of us--who actually did something worth noting since the War Between the States--have moved on.
14) The Walk of Champions? Better hope the truth-in-advertising people don't find out about that. What do the following schools have in common: Alaska-Fairbanks, Boise State, Bowling Green, CCNY, Eastern Kentucky, Furman, Holy Cross, James Madison, Michigan Tech, Minnesota-Duluth, Montana State, Northern Iowa, SIU-Edwardsville, Temple, Tulane, Wayne State, and William & Mary have in common? They all have more national championships than Ole Miss, which has a big goose egg. Maybe that's why the call it the Egg Bowl.
1:16 PM
Not wanting to wear Tennessee Orange anymore, Mississippi created new Department of Corrections "Community Service" uniforms
10:54 AM
Just wanted to put out that that my house (in New Orleans) will be available if people want to get together to watch the LSU/Arkansas game next Friday. I might even get some bacon/ham to go with the Thanksgiving leftovers. Only request is that you might want to bring seating (tailgating chairs?) if you don't want to sit on the floor b/c we are short on furniture right now (only have a loveseat and rocking chair in the den). Let me know if anyone is interested.
10:11 AM
The reason Eli chose Ole Miss has been found!
If you did THIS with your alcohol at LSU you'd be put on trial for alochol abuse.
(BTW, this is an actual picture taken at a nightclub somewhere up near Oxford, MS)
After going to the info session tonight on the Flores MBA Program, I've decided that the best thing for me is to try for it. Its a very good program (only program in the state in the top 99, #31 public university in the country) and my field of study (finance) has a faculty ranked as well as or better than the MBA program overall.
I will have to take the GMAT in January, and the MBA students there gave the impression that I shouldn't have much of a problem with that if I did well on the ACT (which I did). A lot of the first year stuff would be review for me as the program assumes that you've either never taken a business class or its been many years. Also, the program is designed to allow students to work part time and be full time students a the same time. This means I might be able to work with the real estate department on setting up a graduate assistantship, which would be good for them as much as it would for me. I get to work in the same place I have class and have easy access to my professors, they get someone that knows all aspects of the office and department, and with the graduate assistantship, I can probably be of more use than I am right now. Costs would be covered by loans, possibly scholarships. This is also something my family and several finance professors have been pushing for, so support won't be a problem. Lastly, LSU is one of the few programs in the country that doesn't mind students with little to no full-time work experience with an average student age in the program of 24.
Now this is all premature as I still need to apply, take the GMAT, and get an interview before acceptance is even possible, but I walked out of tonight confident that I can do this. The average GPA of students admitted is 3.4, and (don't want to brag but...) I have a 3.9. With the job market for undergrad finance students pretty anemic right now (Arthur Anderson and Enron stopped hiring students in droves for some reason), this could be the key to my future. Also, if I get my stuff in by the Jan 15 cutoff, I should know by February/early March whether or not I'm in. If I get in, that means that I am planting down in Baton Rouge for at least 2 more years (minus the summer between the two years when I will have an internship that may be out of town). No matter what, until I know for sure if I am in, I will continue to explore the job market so that should I not make it in, I'll know I didn't miss any opportunities.
I can't believe it, but now that the end of school was finally at reach, I suddenly want two more years! My excitement about this might wane after I sleep on it, but for now, this is my path.
(BTW, the reason they now say LSU in the only school in the state in the top 99 MBA programs in the country is that they used to say 100, but Tulane snuck in to #100 this year. Until about a week ago, I never realized the academic rivalry between LSU and Tulane, but that is a subject for another blog)
Wednesday, November 20, 2002
2:51 PM
The Fall 2002 Apartment Survey has begun. Anyone that knows about my job up in BR knows that this can be one of the more aggravating aspects dealing with apartment managers.It used to really suck when I had to call all of them. Now I just use my computer to send out faxes to all of them and I eliminate having to call about half the complexes.
Upset that the concert/Pep Rally is cancelled tonight. I know why it is, but after reading the Reveille today, I'm thinking I'm not supposed to be telling what the "unforseen circumstances" are. A pep rally the week of the Ole Miss game would have been a nice throw back to the old days, but guess it was not to be. (BTW, this was the concert/pep rally that was supposed to be for Homecoming but had to be cancelled due to Lili).
Going to a reception tonight about getting an MBA here at LSU. Who knows maybe I will just stick around for a few more years of student tickets to LSU athletic events and get an MBA while I'm at it.
3:10 AM
Been working on the LSU CKI Newsletter all night. It's 9 pages right now with a definite 2 more plus back cover to come. Never thought I'd have it this big but its turning out that way. Its very unorthodox for us, lots more comedic/fun stuff in it than normal (the words procreate and orgasmic are used) and there's even a special guest appearance in it by Dana from Bama!
Want a copy? Then you need to show up at LSU's inductions on Thursday night.
Tuesday, November 19, 2002
2:35 AM
Also, forgot that Saban also appeared on ESPN Thursday night during halftime of the USM/Louisville game and addressed the situation there too.
Oh and Justin, Vegas opened bets for the game at LSU -11.
Of course they also said Bama -3.5 so that should mean that either Ole Piss wins by almost 20 or basing anything on betting lines is stupid.
2:30 AM
It's one thing when fans act shitty to each other, but something else when a very well paid coach does it. In short, an idiot on a message board I frequent posted a stupid "transcript" of Saban's speech to the team post-KY where he tore into Bama. A Bama fan sent it to Coach Fifthchoiceione and he believed it as true even after the poster posted an apology AND Coach Saban appeared on a radio show based IN ALABAMA days before and tore the whole thing apart. If they used it to get fired up for the game, that's fine, but what happened after the game is expected from the Spurriers of the world.
8:58 PM
Publisher is finally working. Newsletter goes out Thursday so I'll say I'm doing it now when I will really start Tuesday or Wednesday on it.
5:10 PM
Slept late bcause of being up so late reinstalling windows and found that by tying down my trunk this weekend to bring a table to tailgating, I managed to break my trunk lock's latch and cable. I wish it were just the actual lock, any locksmith could fix that. Now I need to go to the dealership and have them fix it at an outrageous service charge probably.
4:10 AM
Just reinstalled Windows again. Still haven't gotten Publisher installed.
I hate Bill Gates
2:09 AM
I think after my limitted short posts/pictures this week, people think my whole life is LSU football. Well we have basketball and baseball too! Really, there is other stuff in my life:
Got a few CDs the other day at a music store that is shutting down. 5 CDs, $30. Best of Beach Boys, Eagles Greatest Hits Vol 2, Millennium Blues Party (good variety blues CD), Best of the Charlie Daniels Band, and (to get the 25% off discount) The Presidents of the United States of America.
Got some e-mails from my Sports Law professor today abot our papers (mine was on the XFL). Not sure if they were complimentary/pleased or pissed off. Just hard to tell what he was going for with the short e-mails he sent. Guess I will find out on Tuesday (or since his office is next to mine, tomorrow!)
This just in, the Saints have been flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct after leaving too many towels on the floor in the Georgiadome lockerroom. 15 yds will be assessed on the kickoff of the next Saints/Falcons game. I didn't watch the whole game, but what I did see of it was officiated horribly. After reading about the results and hearing from some friends, I see that I'm being kind with "horribly".
Just got done reinstalling Windows on my computer. Was having problems with the windows installer, I think they are fixed now. (I hope) Had to go through all sorts of stuff tyring to install publisher, it's still not on my computer yet. Spent two hours trying to get Windows back up just to install it. The things I do for Circle K!
Do you know about the late night cartoon block on Comedy Central? Gary and Mike, Coeds, an hour of the Critic, and an hour of Duckman (!!!) starting at 11 PM each Sunday. What a great way to end the weekend.
OK the following is all LSU/SEC football discussion. Those that do not wish to read about LSU/SEC football should stop reading now.
They should also know that you're either a Tiger or you're Tigerbait :-)
Ashley left this in my comments:
"Okay here's the excuse....It was cold. We don't play well in the cold. We also don't play well in the day."
Those are not excuses. Nick Saban has been trying to get these "excuses" out of our system since he got here. You can add on "We don't play well in gold/purple jerseys" too, that's another pointless time-honored excuse. Besides, they knew it would be cold, crank up the AC in that monster of an indoor practice facility, pour water on the players and make them practice with icecicles hanging off their noses.
Marcus Randall didn't throw outs while his recievers ran ins because of the cold. There was either the same miscommunication twice, his recievers are running the wrong routes, or he is throwing to the wrong place.
The defense's inability to tackle when Bama was running it up the middle for an entire 96 yd drive wasn't because of the cold.
Here's some real reasons we lost:
Marcus Randall is NOT an SEC quarterback. He's 2-2 right now and he really should be 1-3. Kentucky gave me some false confidence in him. Not because of the Hail Mary, but becuase he actually completed some passes and led our offense to points (something that didn't happen at Auburn). I thought that in two weeks maybe they worked some stuff out in practice. Bama showed that it wasn't Marcus Randall that made Marcus Rnadall look good, it was Kentucky.
Hard to blame the defense for anything when the offense doesn't do shit all night, but when Bama uses delays up the middle for an entire drive, you'd think they'd find a way to stop it.
Here's some reasons to not worry too much about this:
Bama's a very good team now ranked in the top ten in the AP (Coach's poll won't rank because of that probation they're on)
Bama's on probation (They can't win the SEC West, play for the SEC Title, or go to a bowl game, poor babies)
LSU still controls its on destiny in the SEC West, and then some. Win out and the title (and trip to Atlanta to face UGA) is theirs. If LSU loses to Ole Miss and beats Arkansas, Auburn has to beat Alabama (that isn't happening, the Tide is going to roll over the Warplainstigers) to keep LSU out of the SEC Championship Game (and hold LSU to being SEC West Co-Champions). Arkansas is also in position to win the West if they win out (they have MSU and LSU left). So if God deems that LSU must lose again this year, I can't believe I'm saying this, but I want it against Ole Miss. I can hope that MSU will beat Arkansas to make life easier, but I'm not holding my breath on that one.
Ole Miss and Arkansas are no where near as good as Alabama. (I even had an Alabama fan that braved the student section assure me of this :-) )
After putting Rick Clausen in for the fourth quarter, maybe Jimbo Fisher and Coach Saban are considering starting him for Ole Miss.
Its November, and in November, Ole Miss chokes worse than Phil Fulmer at Free Doughnut Day at Krispy Kreme.
If you're someone that likes to see drama (kinda similar to how the BCS #2 team last year kept losing each week) its possible that the SEC West could end up in a 4-way tie with LSU, Ole Miss, Arkansas, and Auburn all 4-4 in conference play and SEC West Co-Champions with Arkansas playing for the title while a 7-1 Bama team sits at home. That's the price you pay when you pay the price you did. I really don't see this happening though, just too many pieces need to fall just right for it to happen.
Sunday, November 17, 2002
2:14 PM
Isn't it fun when it feels like the entire world is taking a shit on you?
2:32 AM
"Friends" hating me for having a friend that likes Bama
"Friends" hating me because I like LSU.
"Friends" hating me for being me.
The life of a hermit sometimes seems very appealing.
2:24 AM
If you were wondering why I never posted a prediction, now you know.
I had a feeling this might be coming. The graphics were fun and all, but I had a feeling we might get an L last night.
I just didn't think it would be by that much of a margin and with so little heart by LSU.
Saturday, November 16, 2002
3:00 AM
Well I got an MP3 up on my Cox Webspace that you are hearing now, but I only get 300 MB of bandwith per month (with the song being about 2.5 MB, that's about 120 pagehits before its used up). So I might need to stick with MIDIs if I want music b/c I can't afford unlimited bandwith at this point.
All Baton Rouge residents are being urged to move any and all livestock to a secure location indoors.
About 25 RVs flying Crimson and White flags have been sighted in a lot on Nicholson Dr. near downtown Baton Rouge.
Once again, local authorities are advising that all livestock in the Greater Baton Rouge area be moved to a secure location.
Now for photo fun.
This one I told some people about:
And this is a new Bama graphic:
11:47 AM
After staying up till 4 AM and getting only 2 hours of sleep, my paper on the XFL is finished with 20 minutes to spare before class!
Senioritis is FUN!
Wednesday, November 13, 2002
2:00 PM
Music is up and running. For now I have it set up so that you can turn if off if you want, but I may change it to hidden if problems arise.
And I bet everyone thought that LSU music would be the first thing I put up.
Tuesday, November 12, 2002
11:23 PM
One other thing, I am thinking about adding background music to this page. Are people reading this on dial up (would limit myself to midis) or high speed (will maybe try MP3s)?
Leave a comment
11:22 PM
Well some coworker of Justin's decided to post in my comments that I am a bad LSU fan for comments post-Kentucky game.
Let's see. The only things I did was post a picture of a Kentucky fan and comment on his making a total ass of himself on national TV and then relay something players (who shall remain nameless) said. Also posted a link for people to download the play (something many people that read this blog would be interested in having).
Didn't think I had to comment on the fact that Kentucky played a damn good game, Jared "Need More Pie" Lorenzen is tough and has one of the more interesting and dangerous (for defenses) passing styles I've seen. Anyone that saw the game knows that.
As for rubbing this in Kentucky's faces, I don't know a single person from Kentucky and have not gone out of my way to point any Kentucky fans this way. The graphics come from other LSU fans not me. I just liked them. This is a blog for my friends. Guess what, most of them are LSU students and/or fans. If I went to a Kentucky message board and posted this stuff, you'd have grounds for saying I am rubbing this in thier face. All I am doing is sharing some fun with my friends.
If you're going to rip into me, have the balls to sign your name to it.
Monday, November 11, 2002
11:28 PM
Saw a few football players in my sports marketing class tonight. When people asked them about Saturday, all they could say is how insane everything was. There were KY fans on the field right behind the LSU bench yelling at them and trying to pick fights with players. So thanks to all the KY fans behind the LSU bench for managing to piss them off that much more prior to the "Hail Mary, the Lord is with LSU" play. Good job! (that is what the Reveille is nicknaming it, I kinda like it)
the Geaux to Hell Ole Piss game has also been picked up as a night game at 7:30 PM on ESPN
Looks like camp out tailgating might be out of the question for this year with these two late starts. Still can't believe that the Arkansas game is the only LSU game that CBS will televise this year.
Oh, and too much would be:
Down my back and through my crack ROLL TIDE ROLL (a classic standby. Also applies to Waves)
or
Ram-her, Jam-her, flacid hammer, OFF YOUR SISTER ALABAMER!!! (found this one on a website. Its an old variation of Bama's Rammer Jammer cheer)
LSU-Alabama Slated For 8 p.m. Start on ESPN
(11/11/02)
LSU's game against 10th-ranked Alabama in Tiger Stadium on Saturday will start at 8 p.m. and will be televised to a national audience on ESPN, the Southeastern Conference announced on Monday.
NO MORE JP! NO MORE 11:30 AM! WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
I was off on my CD prediction by a little. CD lost to Boothville-Venice 8-7 thanks mostly to Coach Wood's refusal to let Cajun QB Buddy Patrick spread the field with the passing game. My best guess put him at 6 of 9 for about 90 yds, a TD, and an INT. I think they could have done more than option ball for 3.5 quarters of the game, but I'm not getting paid to be the head coach now am I?
Savor the KY win while we can. We have some foul, vile beings coming to our campus soon.
Thursday, November 07, 2002
6:12 PM
The 2nd Annual AND FINAL Louisiana Housing Conference is OVER!!!!!!
The speakers and location were good for the msot part, just too bad no one was there to see it. But I get to put down 8 or 9 hours on my timesheet for today so I'm happy.
Anyway I am so happy that this is over now,
Got home looking forward to hearing LSU take on Global Sports (yes I shudder that I was looking forward to the analysis of Jordy Hultberg. I feel dirty) but just found out there is no radio. Oh well, guess its time for SMACKDOWN! Main event: The Olympic Violence Connection vs. Los Guerreros 2 out of 3 falls. Should be good.
I still stand by my prediction of Cajuns by 7.
12:36 AM
remember how I said I wouldn't ridicule too much?
Bobby (and anyone else), go to kenramsey.com, click on football, scroll down to District 9-1A and look at the common opponents of Country Day and Boothville-Venice. Aside from Pheonix, CD has been at least a touchdown better than Bootheville vs. everyone else.
Thus my prediction of Cajuns by a touchdown.
Wednesday, November 06, 2002
10:47 PM
I figured out how to add comments. If you read my posts and have something to say, say it! If I disagree I'll try not to ridicule you too much in my next posting.
Read below to see why I'm back in NO for the second time in less than a week. That's pretty good considering there had been a month + gap between the last tw times I was home.
If people know of anything good to do in NO on Thursday nights to help me celebrate or forget about Thursday (depending on how it goes), please let me know! IM (SeanMcD98) e-mail (SeanMcD98@cox.net) or call (504-YEAH-RIGHT not on the net).
Oh random thought of the moment. If you have highspeed (or just a good dial up) and would like to turn your computer into a radio that airs almost every genre possible, visit Spinner.com. Spinner (now Radio @ Netscape Plus or something) rules, I listen to it at work right now and am listening right now.
Oh, since I won't be able to put up an away message with my predictions:
Country Day 35 Boothville-Venice 28
LSU 28 KY Jelly 17
Worked Friday morning on conference stuff and then got on the road.
I went home for the weekend, got some birthday cake and a few little gifts from mom (the big gift was the trip to "Brusly with an "85000" seat stadium", AL and my camping stuff for Tioga).
Spent most of the day Saturday between my church's fair/food festival and tearing down the remnants of the old fence around my house. What was left of the fence had been standing since we moved there in 1984. Saw a few old CYO friends and advisors while at church but the fair had seen much better days.
Saturday night was the UNO K-Family Dance at a Knights of Columbus Hall. What a great DJ they got. No music from before 1993 and when they tried to play Back That A... er, Thing Up it got cut before the first word. Went to a party at a friends afterwards, bought some rum that barely got touched, so I now have alcohol back at my apartment! This bottle will be making an appearance at the Bummer game and depending on how bad school work gets the next few weeks, it might make it to the Ole Piss game too.
Oh breaking bullshit:
ATHENS-------SEC television games for Saturday, Nov. 16, will not be decided until Sunday, Nov. 10, after CBS exercised a "six-day option" on Monday. CBS, which has the first pick of SEC games on that weekend, will not make the pick until after games on Nov. 9 have been played. ESPN and Jefferson Pilot will make the second and third selections after CBS's first pick. --
Word was that the final delay option had been used a few week ago when deciding what would happen the weekend of LSU/Brusly. Of course, word also was that JP could only force a school to move 1 home game to 11:30 AM but they managed to force Auburn to do it twice (and they were none too happy about it). So no news on the all night campout tailgating until CBS decides something. JP says they are not coming back to Baton Rouge this year (they fear that they will be killed as soon as they enter campus if they make us move another game to 11:30 AM) so I'm hoping CBS picks up Auburn/UGA to leave us to ESPN (6:45 PM, acceptable) or the Deuce (8:00 PM, extra hour of "preparation" for LSU fans).
Sunday morning was the UNO picnic, went pretty well. I wish LSU had sent a few more people (or just one for the interclub), but oh well. It was still fun and glad to get to see alot of my New Orleans friends.
Sunday afternoon was a Steering Committee meeting and then a banking group project meeting. Apparantly when 2 of the 4 group members heard "We'll meet at 5 down in the compuer lab in CEBA." they heard "Why work somewhere that is designed to deal with group work at computers with all the software you could possibly need to do business work? Lets meet all the way across campus in the library!"
I was at work till midnight tonight taking what they did, what we did, and what neither of us did and making it into something cohesive to turn in tomorrow.
If they all don't give me 100% participation there will be bloodshed. There is no reason to be in that horrible horrible building for 12 straight hours unless you're getting paid for all of them.
OK, about time for bed. Just wanted to give a heads up to everyone, I will be leaving for New Orleans and the LA Housing Conference Wed afternoon/night. Here;s my schedule:
Thursday during the day is the conference. Thursday night I am free.
Friday at 3:30 is Country Day's rescheduled homecoming game and somehow I think Boothville Venice will not be forfeiting like Lutheran did.
Saturday I will be going to a BBQ at a friend's house for the LSU/KY Jelly game then heading back to Baton Rouge for stuff up here.
If anyone wants to do something, if you're reading this you should know how to contact me.
Dealt with a few fires at work with the Louisiana Housing Conference. (www.louisiana-housing.org) But I got to work till 7 which makes up for hours I was late for this week, so its all good.
Procrastinated on doing work for my group project in banking, finally starting now 4 days after I should have.
No costume for Halloween this year, just kinda out of it and not caring about it. Oh well. Still doing trick or treating for canned goods tomorrow (well, now) tonight. I will be a back-end worker I guess. With the Auburn trip and midterms it just snuck up too fast on me to care. I'm sure there will be candy waiting for me at home anyway.
Speaking of which...
FINALLY.... THE SEAN IS COMING BACK TO NEW ORLEANS!
I was coming home for Country Day's homecoming but Lutheran High has too many injuries to field a team so they had to forfeit the game. Have some balls, Lutheran, put your cheerleaders in, they're tougher than your team anyway. Sad thing is, I don't think this is the first time Lutheran's done this! Anyway, meeting up with highschool friends is pretty much shot to hell now so aside from some stuff at home (never got to go home for my birthday) I'm free Friday night and Saturday as far as I know. If anyone wants to do anything call me at 467-2505, but wait for me to get home on Friday afternoon or IM me at SeanMcD98 sometime. Aside from Halloween night when I'm out doing CKI stuff, if I'm not sleeping I'll be online at work between now and when I leave for home.
Tuesday, October 29, 2002
2:06 PM
I just lost the ability to sit in my own office.
My professor had a student come in to make up a midterm.
I gave up my desk so she could take it in one of the offices instead of in the main office that has heavy traffic.
I went out to the outside computer where the other student workers work and worked on that computer. Then another student came. She ended up at the desk out there which was fine as long as I didn't need to answer the phone.
Then ANOTHER student came. I had to move some furniture around to make room for her to take the test in that other office.
When I got back, a student worker that has only been here a few months was at the outside computer and I was left chairless.
I'm now downstairs in a lab writing this since there's no where for me to even sit in my office right now, let alone work.
I'm not enough of an asshole to tell the guy that's only been her a few months to get up because the guy that's been here 5 years wants to sit (I really wasn't in the middle of actual work. Just wasting time between getting work from professors)
The kicker is my professor has class at 3, will have a pile of last minute stuff for me to do and all three of the test takers will be here until, you guessed it, 3.
I also won't be able to do any of the work in the office because everything he has for me is related to the midterm they are taking right now so they can't see any of what he needs me to do.
If I didn't need the money I'd be posting from home instead of a computer lab (luckily while still on the clock).
Sure is fun being woken up by a transformer blowing at 4:45 AM. Luckily it wasn't ours. A huge storm came through Baton Rouge this morning, knocking out power all over and leaving some streets flooded. All seems to be OK as far as I know.
The WWE managed to not piss me off beyond belief last night by announcing that at their next Pay Per View they will be having a 6-way match that combines the Royal Rumble, Survivor Series, and the old WCW favorite WARGAMES. The participants will be Triple H, Kane, Chris Jericho, Booker T, Rob Van Dam, and "The Heartbreak Kid" Shawn Michaels. Sounds like an awesome match though they haven't revealed how exactly it will work yet. They only have 3 weeks to figure out a way to fuck it up.
Yes, for those keeping track, that was the first f-bomb dropped in the history of this blog.
Just got out of my Sports Law test. Was expecting short answer, but got 40 true/false questions instead. And they were those annoying everything is true except one word true/false questions.
One last thing, just found this when I got back to work, its a pretty cool litle quiz. Maybe I'm just saying that because of the outcome I got.
10:31 PM
Cox Cable in Baton Rouge just added a new channel "Cox Sports" that will play LSU, Tulane, ULL, La Tech, etc games and carry ESPN Class/News at other times. It's Channel 38 in the 7 parish Baton Rouge viewing area.
The first thing I see on the channel? LSU vs. Florida 1997. aka The Night the Goalposts Came Down. Only wish I had been at the game and not working at the convenience store that night.
7:44 PM
Right now there are two teams in the west that could win the west should we lose another game. Auburn and Ole Miss.
Georgia has two more games against SECW opponents. Auburn and Ole Miss.
If they both lose a game, we would need to lose 2 more games to not win the west (Bama can't win it). One of them will pick up that one loss this week when they face each other.
Here's how it breaks down by conference record
LSU 3-1 Driver's seat now, but one more loss could hurt. One loss would mean the winner of AU/hOMo needs to lose one more time. If Ole Miss wins this week, the hOMo game is a MUST WIN for LSU
Alabama 3-1 Can't win due to NCAA penalties but can be a thorn by beating LSU.
Auburn 3-2 Needs to win out and have LSU lose one game
Ole Miss 2-2 Needs to win out (includes beating LSU AND Auburn)
Arkansas 2-3 The Hogs already hold tiebreakers over Ole Miss and Auburn. They need to win out (including beating LSU), have Ole Miss and Auburn lose once, and LSU lose to someone else before the LSU/Ark game.
Mississippi State 0-3 Need to win out in SEC (vs. Kentucky, @ Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas, @hOMo), have Auburn lose 2 and LSU lose 3 (beating Ole Miss will give them the tiebreaker between two 3-loss teams there).
LSU and Ole Miss are the only SEC West teams that control their own destiny at this point. That destiny will be revealed on November 23.
With the way things have been going this year, LSU needs insurance. Players have been dropping to injuries or other problems, and it ain't going to get any easier from here.
We need to cheer UGA on against whoever wins that AU/hOMo game to give us that insurance and help us to the SEC West Championship.
Then we can thank them personally in the Georgia Dome by helping them with their predicted choke (if Florida, hOMo, Auburn or Georgia Tech don't beat us to it)
5:36 PM
Please excuse the mess as I play around with templates over the next few days. The default ones suck and alot of what I need to improve what I have is at home. Oh, and I have a Sports Law test tomorrow so I won't have much time to fix things up tonight.
After getting back from Brusly with an 85,000 seat stadium (aka Auburn, AL), I went on an LSU message board and saw a massive meltdown. It's over, LSU is doomed, its all over. POULON WEEDEATER BOWL HERE WE COME!
Well, not so. We're still in first place in the west and in the driver's seat. We win out, we win the SEC West and play the SEC East Champion for a shot at the Sugar Bowl.
I wrote a very long post analyzing why we're still in good shape despite the loss to Auburn.
Well, it's posted on a pay message board none of my friends can see. Its tigerroar.com. For $32 a year you can post and read on their board The Tiger's Lair, which if you've been wondering how I get all my LSU info, that's it. There's other perks too, but I won't get into them here. I'm satisfied with my return on that $32 and I just paid it in September.
Anyway, I wanted to show this to some people, but couldn't so I cut and pasted it to Word. When I get home tonight after my Sports Marketing class, I will copy and paste it back here for everyone to see.
That was the original spark to start this thing, but I will not limit myself to LSU Sports (though there will be alot of that). The WWE's been finding ways to piss me off on a weekly basis, so I'll be writing about that. Also, look for school, Circle K, political (those two next to each other, who would have thought it?), and all sorts of other types of fun aggravation here.
Also, I have a lot of free time at work so I'll probably have a lot of completely random posts and thoughts during the day.
"If we must take this war into their homes and burn them to the ground, we will do so."
-Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
President, Louisiana State University
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