Lateral This, Batman
Today’s a holiday for state employees, meaning for me. That’s a good thing. I worked all day yesterday and part of Saturday, so I’m studiously avoiding the office today. Basically that means I don’t really know what to do with myself. When all you do is work, the rest of your life tends to atrophy.
But I don’t only work. I’m supposed to be writing a NaNo novel this month, and I’m working on that, sort of. The joke already isn’t funny anymore, so I’m tweaking it in an effort to keep it going. I just have to keep forcing myself to look at my job sideways and then it can be funny, or at least interesting rather than depressing and frustrating and difficult and all the things it is when I look at it head-on.
Speaking of sideways, if you haven’t seen the 15-lateral pass last-minute football play from about two weeks ago, you should really watch it. I’ve never been a big football fan, but if more teams would try stuff like this more often, I wouldn’t be able to tear my eyes away. This was quite possibly the most amazing and exciting football play ever. (See it also from an endzone angle.) If there’s a better one, please share.
And on the subject of football, did anyone see the Wolverines lose to the Badgers and the Buckeyes lose to the Illini? I saw the 2nd half of the Michigan loss and it was kind of heartbreaker. Amazing how important a good quarterback can be to the overall effectiveness of the team, but how could you not feel awful for poor little freshman Mallett? How can you not be looking forward to the huge game this saturday in Ann Arbor: Michigan v. Ohio State for the Big 10 Conference Championship!?
(Ed. note: Yes, this is quite possibly the first ever football focused post on the imbroglio. What can I say? Life is just full of surprises! Next up: Bowling!)
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November 12th, 2007 at 5:27 pm
Bummer about those Buckeyes, man…
November 12th, 2007 at 8:12 pm
Exqueeze me? Bummer about those Wolverines, man! Are we gonna have to be on opposite sides of the fence this saturday? Is that what you’re saying here?