Aw, yeah.
Wow! What a weekend.
Let me think back. I have no memory of Friday night. Oh yeah! I went to a white elephant work party with my girlfriend and watched Friday Night Lights. (Sigh.)
Saturday, we woke up pretty early ... B. hit the books, and I headed to pick up my sister from the airport after her 27-hour trek from Bolivia. We had a joyous reunion over Reese's Christmas trees and iced coffee. We stopped in the airport to buy her coffee, and we struck up a little casual coffee counter conversation with the barista, who, after hearing why she was in Bolivia, declared, "Those people who come over here and don't even try to speak English? I don't like them." We had a good chuckle over the irony of the first person she spoke to besides me upon her return to the U.S. being someone who doesn't like the very people she left U.S. to learn how to speak to when they come here. God bless America!
We spent the afternoon eating pizza and watching LSU win the SEC championship, which was of course great. It is always very amusing to me to see my parents get so worked up over a football game when they get to watch it at home together. There was a lot of cursing from my dad and my mom screaming things like, "He's totally FREAKING open!" and "MORON!"
Also yesterday, my sister bought an iPhone, which is really fantastic and I drooled over it. After the game, we headed to Target so my sister could pick up some essentials and played with her phone a whole lot. We also watched the #1 and #2 teams in the nation lose and thought, "Huh." But not really because what were the odds?
Well, the odds were better than we thought as we discussed over grits this morning. Hello? Wow! The polls came out throughout the day and soon enough it became clear that we are the luckiest team in the world because we are going to the national championship again even though we lost two games. It is a beautiful, beautiful thing, and I am so glad my sister is home for it. I can't wait to do four years ago all over again.
Let me think back. I have no memory of Friday night. Oh yeah! I went to a white elephant work party with my girlfriend and watched Friday Night Lights. (Sigh.)
Saturday, we woke up pretty early ... B. hit the books, and I headed to pick up my sister from the airport after her 27-hour trek from Bolivia. We had a joyous reunion over Reese's Christmas trees and iced coffee. We stopped in the airport to buy her coffee, and we struck up a little casual coffee counter conversation with the barista, who, after hearing why she was in Bolivia, declared, "Those people who come over here and don't even try to speak English? I don't like them." We had a good chuckle over the irony of the first person she spoke to besides me upon her return to the U.S. being someone who doesn't like the very people she left U.S. to learn how to speak to when they come here. God bless America!
We spent the afternoon eating pizza and watching LSU win the SEC championship, which was of course great. It is always very amusing to me to see my parents get so worked up over a football game when they get to watch it at home together. There was a lot of cursing from my dad and my mom screaming things like, "He's totally FREAKING open!" and "MORON!"
Also yesterday, my sister bought an iPhone, which is really fantastic and I drooled over it. After the game, we headed to Target so my sister could pick up some essentials and played with her phone a whole lot. We also watched the #1 and #2 teams in the nation lose and thought, "Huh." But not really because what were the odds?
Well, the odds were better than we thought as we discussed over grits this morning. Hello? Wow! The polls came out throughout the day and soon enough it became clear that we are the luckiest team in the world because we are going to the national championship again even though we lost two games. It is a beautiful, beautiful thing, and I am so glad my sister is home for it. I can't wait to do four years ago all over again.
posted by eliza @ 7:49 PM
4 Comments:
I had such a good time at the SEC championship yesterday...I wish that Tennessee had won, since that's who I was supporting, but I enjoyed myself so much-- LOVE the LSU band!
Pictures from yesterday are on Flickr-- user name "merelymere"
Wow, it is amazing what a difference a week makes! I was so depressed last Friday and now I am so freakin' overjoyed!
Meredith -- glad you got to go to the game and had fun! Hopefully we can now unify in SEC love and show Ohio State how it's done. And ellessu -- I know. It's been quite a rollercoaster, hasn't it!
Congratulations on your team going to nationals!
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