Seanitude Version 2.0 This is the personal web outlet for Sean McDonald. Now serving 25% more Auburn, Bama and Ole Miss hatred.
Saturday, November 29, 2003
11:02 PM
Just wantd to put up a pre-emptive notification that after the SEC Championship game, win or lose, this site will be going into Christmas colors and music. This is so that no one can say I removed the colors and music just because LSU lost a game. The purple & gold will be back in time for LSU's bowl game.
As for that bowl game, it looks like LSU will be in the Sugar only if USC loses to Oregon State and LSU wins the SECCG, Fiesta if both LSU and USC win next week and the Citrus if LSU loses. After today's games, it looks like LSU didn't get the help it needed for the BCS to work out without USC losing. This included games from the horribly officiated Gator/Criminole game and Hawaii skulldragging Bama all the way down to UAB losing to Houston (no I have no idea why that mattered, all I know is that it did). Any of the three bowls I listed is a whole lot better than hoping and praying for a Poulon Weedeater Independence Bowl berth like a few years back, so I'll be happy with any of them.
One last note, if you ever want to listen to something different, I suggest you go to VH1 Radio and click on the Cover to Cover station. It has some interesting stuff on it. I mention this because I'm listening to it right now. It also has I Love the 70s and I Love the 80s stations to listen to.
My mom was getting coupons out of the paper today, and we saw a whole bunch of 25% off everything coupons and thought we had some steals to hit today. Then I showed her on the top of the ad "Good on Thursday Only".
Now, I can understand a grocery store staying open from like 8-1 for last minute buys and Wal-Mart staying open all day because lord knows Sam Walton needs MORE MONEY, but now department stores and malls are going to be open on Thanksgiving Day. Am I the only one that thinks this is ridiculous. First off, who's going to go out shopping all day on Thanksgiving? And secondly, what kind of boss will make their employees work on Thanksgiving day just to sell a few more shirts? Is anyone out there actually considering hitting sales like this? Am I the only one that thinks this is ridiculous? Is there anyone left not pissed off at me that will actually respond?
Now onto something that's been getting at me for the last few days that really needs to be addressed and thats how my passion for LSU really pisses people off. I know I say things about it kind of extreme sometimes (explaing why Ole Miss sucks for 6 hours straight or saying Smoke Laval should be fired for being swept AT HOME by Kansas or that weddings should be scheduled around LSU football, etc) and I am sorry that I am that way. I need to improve that. But I also want to explain why LSU holds such a big part of my heart and passion. The last few days I've thought about why and the base reason I came up with is that I am truly thankful for having attended LSU and the positive impact that my five years at LSU has had on my life. When I think of things to be thankful for on Thanksgiving, I will come up with family, friends and my job. Of those three, two of them I don't think I'd have (at least in the great form I have today) without having gone to LSU.
One of the big things that everyone needs to know is that of the people that I now consider good friends now/through my college career, all of them I have because I went to LSU. That includes everyone I know from Circle Ks at other schools. I would say only 2 or 3 people I now consider friends I knew before I went to college. If I had done what my parents originally wanted me to do, I would have been a commuter student at UNO and I probably would never have gotten involved in Circle K or much of anything else. I wouldn't know any of you. In fact, I attribute most of the experiences that Circle K brought to me (first flight, first trip north of the Mason-Dixon line, etc.) to me having gone to LSU because those are experiences I never would have had if I had not gone to LSU.
I also have the great job I had for 5 years and the great job I have now to thank LSU for. Had I gone to UNO, I would have kept my job at the convience store and now probably would be easily mistaken for Dante (that's a Clerks reference) and still be living at home. Instead I spent five years talking to contacts in Baton Rouge real estate that I now use on a daily basis. When I went to a Commercial Investment Division Board of Realtors meeting, everyone already knew who I was though I had never met them. Most phone calls I get at the appraisal job now start with "Hey, didn't you work at LSU?" If that's not starting out with your foot in the door, I don't know what is. Also, LSU professors got me my current job and don't think I'll be forgetting that.
LSU isn't just sports to me. Its almost everything I have outside of my family. Almost everything I have, I can attribute in some way to going to LSU. LSU has had a profound impact on my life. I'm sorry if I've let my passion and loyalty get taken too far at times. The university is responsible for a large part of my life, probably a larger part than most student/alumni lives at LSU and other universities. I cannot remove my passion for my Alma Mater, but I will try to better control my passion and represent LSU in the future. Once again, I'm sorry to anyone that I've upset, I've never meant to.
1:17 AM
There, its updated. Changed the background and there are new blogs on left and other little things around here.
Thursday, November 06, 2003
9:45 PM
Who has the better Fight Song performance?
Colorado State, LSU or Purdue.
I think we all know the answer.
Geaux vote for the Golden Band from Tigerland RIGHT NOW.
12:57 AM
Well, it only took a month for someone to wonder if I'm OK, so I'll update to prove I still know how to type.
Honestly, I'm tired and don't feel as enthused about this as I once was. Maybe its because the things on my mind I don't want to post for the world to see. No, I'm not suicidal/on drugs/thinking about batting for the other team, etc. Just the stuff that's been on my mind doesn't need to be out there for the world to see.
I'd love to update the coding on the site with new blogs and fix the countdown, but I haven't had the time or energy to do it.
I'd like to thank Ashley for being the first one to wonder if everything was OK.
"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
