"dance, dance"

college basketball. dude, i LOVE college basketball. and i love wake forest basketball. obsessively. as in, i check stats on days when i know they arent playing. as in, i check stats on ex-wake players in the NBA. i check stats of LAST year's games when chris paul was still playing and they were totally awesome. i google ex-wake players that arent in the NBA to see what they are up to now. crazy. and if nick giaimo ever saw this, he would tell me how i wasnt a real fan. how only him and mike flowers and markus schwartzennegar are real fans, and just because i went to every game senior year doesnt mean that i developed into a real fan. i am lost to him. but fear not, nick my friend; i disagree. my fanaticism has merely developed later than those guys, coming into its own as i ended my tenure at college. but this is not the debate.

actually, i shouldnt say debate. there is no discussion. only opinion. and here's my opinion [which is right, by the way; see last post]. i hate duke basketball. oh yeah, thats right. megan cheney, shut the hell up. any other dukies, you can go eff yourselves. lauris lambergs [who im sure doesnt read this] you can kiss my ass. why is duke so good? for the same reason i hate them so much. refs give them ALL the bullshit calls. its like, 150 teams could foul the SHIT out of players, but if duke does it they call it a block. whats that? travel? not if its duke. its called umm... continuation. pushed in the back to the floor by a duke player? coincidental contact.

but what makes this worse is the sports media. the commentators. they suck duke off every game claiming how good and skilled they are. if they were that skilled, would they need a 40 foot jumper with 1.6 seconds left in a game to beat one of the worst teams in the acc? no. thats called luck. and it pisses me off that they have that kind of luck. its horseshit.

duke is only good because people think they are good. sure, they have skilled players. and because everyone thinks they are good they get all the mcdonald's all-americans to commit and all the best players to go there. but they are never the best team in the country. i say this even in those years they win the ncaa championships. they arent. but because people think that they are, they get so many benefit-of-the-doubt fouls, so many calls their way, so many no-calls their way, that they cannot lose games.

its easy to rationalize. if there are two teams on the court, and one of those teams is restricted by a common set of rules and the other team is not [this other team being duke], then that team that can side-step restrictive rules they have an upper hand. an 'unfair' advantage, so to speak. and this is the unfair advantage that duke gets every game. and the proof that they cant win every game with said unfair advantage just proves they suck balls.

two facts: sports writers [different than commentators] document the fact that duke gets all the calls all the time. the other fact; duke is so used to getting the calls all the time that when they dont get the calls they get pissed about it. in fact, after they barely scraped by indiana their senior star "j.j. backne" made a comment about being held every time he was on the floor. which was hilarious because the sports writer who was writing the run-down of the game then proceeded to make a "keep dreaming" comment about how he's full of shit. so classic.

so, as this season starts and wake is going to suck, i can at least rest assured that duke is a bunch of pussy crybaby cheaters who will not win the national championship because they will be beaten by teams that are truly good AND have to play by the rules. what a novel idea...

"we're falling apart in half-time"

"you took a trip and climbed a tree..."

i have no title or line from a song i am currently listening to. so that means any title that goes up there [arrow pointing up top] and the line at the end of this post [whatever line is after the line in the title in that same song, or even another random line from that song, who knows...] are both afterthoughts. not that it makes a difference since they never have anything to do with the subject [well, not intentionally] but just something interesting to note as i start out my first blog post in a while.

so, whats this going to be about? well, someone the other day made a comment to me. i believe it was someone from my family, as this memory is set in the context of thanksgiving break and i remember someone male [i want to say my brother] saying "...wait, whaaat? you have a blog?"
and they werent saying it in a "DUDE. i have got to read this thing" sort of way. i would say the tone of the comment was in the same ballpark as the "are you retarded?" phrase popular culture has come to love so much, or a "did someone just crap themselves?!?" type of please-tell-me-you-are-joking-and-are-not-really-that-lame kind of way.

now, was this comment deserved? should blogs really have this negative connotation that they seem to always be stuck with? hell yeah. are you kidding? think about who writes these pieces-of-shit. yup, thats right. anyone. that means that anyone who thinks anything [we're talking from kkk-card-carrying-sex-with-my-sister-shotgun-toting-wrangler-jean-wearing-budlight-drinking-truck-driving redneck southerns to fat-ass-bitchy-self-richeous-judgemental-i-think-im-better-than-you-and-the-world-owes-me-a-million-favors-because-i-talk-real-loud-and-offend-people slut northerners] can write anything they can finger-peck out on a keyboard and post it up for anyone else to see. thats retarded.

so yes, you should make fun of blogs. they hold no clout. the only thing that blogs have to offer as far as legitimacy is the character of the person writing it. which, first off means that this blog ain't worth shit. and second, means that 99.998% of all blogs ain't worth shit. at least every blog I have looked at. well, with the exception of one. that being the blog of nate stewart. natty, you are the man. that being said, i cant wait for new years. this isnt to say that 99.998% of the people in the world arent worth shit, just 99.998% of the assholes that decide they want to write blogs. and not all blogs, just those that are opinion pieces. those that throw up an analysis of any subjective situation and decide that their view is the one and only. grow up.

so, when my brother made this comment, it really didnt offend me. it actually made me think "hey yeah. blogs are pretty lame." especially considering the people and topics covered. and the best part is when those people are expressing opinions of theirs that are clearly aimed to offend others or spark controversy get comments on those posts that they dont like, and then get pissed at those comments. its like, "whaaat?? did someone just crap themselves??!?" are you kidding? if youre trying to start banter or assert your narrow-minded opinion, but then are upset that responses dont agree with everything you say, just join the republican party why dont you? unreal.

its like "this is my opinion. and i try to act smart, so clearly i would know that an opinion is based on subjective points of view which are built around pieced together information. but if you disagree with my pieced together view, im going to get pissed." i mean, come on. and there are waaaay too many of these out there. sure, there are informative and educational blogs. like this blog i saw about CRMs [customer relationship management] today. but those are boring and lame.

so yes. blogs are lame. will that stop me from writing one? helllz no. eff that. you remember the 99.998%? im one in 14 million. thats right, bitches! im the .002%. so read it, write this down and commit to memory, losers. i am right, you are wrong. these posts will continue to reign supreme and rain the truth on you. disagree? you're wrong.

"and you were not the same after that"

"confidence in you is confidence in me..."

i am tired. which is what i want to talk about. i love sleep. boy, do i love sleep. and not only because i enjoy activities that are directly connected to sleep [oh yeah, im talking about making the sex] but also because i think i am the kind of person who needs more sleep than others. like, i would say i need a MINIMUM of 6 hours of sleep. 5 1/2 hours; not gonna cut it. 8 hours, ideal. 10 hours, effing awesome. 12 hours. now im just getting lazy. but what i find weird is that some people can function [and i define function as work and be productive and not look like a zombie and not by all hyped up on caffiene or sugar or heroin] with less than 4 hours of sleep on a regular basis.

to which i have to say, "wow". on 4 hours of sleep the only things i could do are a) go back to sleep, or b) well...there is no "b" per sae. i think thats about it. 4 hours of sleep and i am rendered useless. back to bed for me.

and im not talking about those people that only sleep for 2 or 3 hours, and then look like complete shit the next day and cant function and their work is crap and they smell and look like that havent showered in a week. i do not call that "functioning". i call that barely existing. im talking about like, NYC wall street brokers who are either working, drinking, doing cocaine, or working while drinking and doing cocaine. and they get about 2 hours of sleep a night, and then back to their job. not that im saying they wouldnt do a better job with actual sleeping, but they can function without it.

let me tell you a funny story about this. ok, its not funny. in fact, as of this moment i dont have a story to tell. so lemme think about it for a minute....
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nothing. nothing so far. hmm....
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.... yeah, i got nothing. well, no funny stories per sae. i mean, i did just take the redeye back from california and get into boston at 9am, whereupon i got home, took a shower and went right to work. and then had to work on about 3 1/2 hours of sleep. i started crashing around 3pm, was in-and-out at my desk around 4:30pm. that sucked. but thats not a funny story, more like "see, i told you so. i need sleep".

**that last section was in no means a complaint about the events leading up to or my decision to take the redeye back from CA. seriously the best birthday weekend i've ever had in my life. everything was awesome. it just sucked having to go to work after that.

so. yeah. here's what i think; mandatory nap time. dude, nobody ever wanted to nap when you were 5 years old. and if you did, you were a genius. i think we should have beds at work [or comfy couches] so that everyone after lunch can sleep for 45 min. i would gladly stay at work until 5:45pm every day if we had 45 min of nap time. and i dont think anyone would complain. unless you were an employer. then you'd be kinda pissed. but here's the thing: if you [as an employer] would give 1 hour lunches but just extend the work day 30 min, then your employees could choose how to spend their lunch hour. eat for 30 min, sleep for 30 min. eat for 15, sleep for 45. whatever. and i work basically 8 1/2 hours a day at least so the only thing changing for people like me is i get to nap. hell yes.

so come on people, lets get it done. i need sleep.

"...is confidence in the fire i speak."