What's wrong with leaves?

Today I'm walking to Einstein Bagels in the cold fall like weather, which I was kinda of enjoying, and I see a bunch of EKU employees racking up leaves and throwing them into trucks to be thrown away.  I ask one simple question.....Why?  What's wrong with leaves on the ground?  To me, the change of the leaves in fall is what makes it so pretty, why rake all that up?  Where are the tree huggers of America to stand up for the rights of leaves?  Shouldn't leaves have rights?  Obama, where are you on this issue?  If we can't eat chicken, we shouldn't be able to rack up poor helpless little leaves and....God for bid...BURN them.

But in all seriousness (yes all of that above was me being a smart ass :)  My tuition is paying for people to rake leaves...hmph.  Just let the leaves lie on the ground.  What harm did they do?

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What a game!

As you may know I love UK basketball, and last night was their second game of the season.  If you don't know anything about UK basketball I will give you a brief overview. Kentucky is the best of the best, they have the most wins of any college basketball program, and this year they will hopefully be the first to hit the 2,000 win mark, that is if North Carolina don't beat them to it.  They have seven national championships, over 40 SEC championships, UK is the Yankees of college basketball.  Well the last 10 years haven't been the best years for UK fans.  No championship since 1997 and haven't been close in about 8 years.  Billy G. took the helm as UK coach two years ago and life went downhill fast from there.  Last year UK didn't even make the NCAA tournament, breaking the second longest streak of consecutive NCAA appearances.  Billy G gets fired and here comes Coach Cal :)  Now UK has the top recuiting class this year and is expect to win the SEC with problems and make a DEEP run into the NCAA.

So about last night, I'm at working with the radio tuned into 98.1 the Bull the home for the wildcats.  They are facing Miami of Ohio, a mid-major team meaning an easy win.  It was FAR from that! In the first half Miami had a 19-2 run on UK and was up by 18 points...i was thinking...OMG !  Second half UK makes a game of it, closing the gap midways in the second half and the final 10 minutes UK would go up, then Miami....my heart is pounding, blood pressure racing.  With 30 seconds left UK is up by 3, Miami has the ball.......they put up a three.....tie game with 6 seconds left......I'm sweating, pacing the floor, ignoring the phones ringing of potential customers (I'm sure they would understand).  With a 5 minute overtime looming, UK's top recruit races down the court pulls up shoots a 15 footer..SCORE !!!! UK WINS!!!!! I'm jumping screeming (and yes...I'm serious) This is why I love this time of the year :)

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GO CATS !

So maybe I take things a little to seriously?

Today I was in a I-don't-give-a-damn-about-anything mood, and quite frankly, I still am.  I get home and decide to push everything aside and play my xbox.  Some people that know me find it surprising that that I LOVE sports.  (I never thought that I was talented enought to play them in high school, so I just play them on video games and watch them on TV.)  I turn on the xbox and start playing my NCAA Football game.  (I play as Kentucky, of course.)  I start up a new season playing against EKU:  I win that game easily.  I then have to play Cincinatti and it was a close one! I was down at halftime and I thought I would just start over when I was like "NO.  I can do this!" 

I had thrown an interception, a couple more stupid errors, threw the controller, and yelled a couple of profanities...Just when I thought I had the game won, they scored!  So with less than a minute left, I threw a hail-marry and SCORED! I had done it! I came back and won the game!  I was very proud of myself to say the least.  I noticed that my heart was POUNDING so I took my blood pressure and it was 150 over 90 with a pulse of 105.

I can't believe I get all wraped in a video game! I always made fun of others that got all into games and here I am doing the same thing...Oh well.  It was fun!