Does it make me pathetic that when I open up the homepage for Google to find that they have somehow changed the "Google" part into something cool, it makes me have a better day?
Last February during the Olympics... I had to to check Google everyday to see what sport they had somehow managed to change the letters into.
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Monday, September 25, 2006
Whose house? Dawgs' house!
We beat UCLA on Saturday... 29-19. It was beautiful. Glorious. Wonderful. Amazing. Incredible. Joyful. Easily the most excited/happy I have been in a long time. We were 8 point underdogs (the last prediction I had seen was UCLA 31, UW 23) and it looked like that was going to come true based on the first half of the game. But then we scored a touchdown right before halftime, which helped ease the tension. In the second half (as well as the first) our defense kept UCLA from scoring touchdowns so they had to settle for field goals. Eventually, with like 7 minutes left in the 4th quarter, it was UCLA 19, UW 14, when we scored a touch down and then went in for a 2 point conversion... and made it. So that right there was totally awesome, if ever there was a time to try for the 2 points instead of the extra point, it was then. And then on practically the next play, we intercepted the Bruins' ball and ran it in for another touch down. Thus resulting in our wonderful score of 29-19.
3-1 baby!!! Undefeated at home thus far... and half way to a bowl game. Just you wait and see... Husky football is on the return, and they WILL be a force to contend with. I heart Willingham. Maybe some day I will do a post on how much I admire him, but for the time being, that is all I will say.
Monday, September 18, 2006
Hey look.... it's me!
Complete with four bandages AND a backwards baseball cap. The backwards baseball cap because we won on Saturday and the bandages because Seattle's streets have too many potholes.
UW beat Fresno State 21-20 due to a blocked extra point in the beginning of the 4th quarter. I was deliriously happy that we blocked an extra point, and it just got better when that became the game winning point. I had just gotten finished telling the team (much to the amusement of the people around me) that it was NOT okay to slack off and not play in the 3rd quarter and that it was NOT okay to let Fresno State score, when they blocked the extra point. And then we managed to keep their offense curtailed enough that even though there was 4:30 left in the quarter, we won. I can't even begin to explain to you how exciting this is. We are 2-1 heading into real Pac-10 play and we gave Oklahoma a good fight last week (at least for the first half of the game). I have been mocked for being a Husky fan, but I have to say that I see enough improvement in this team to be able to hope for good things. This may not be *the* turn around season, but it is already way better than the past two years and we are headed in the right direction. So when we are back on top and are a big football contender once again, none of you better say that I wasn't a fan when we weren't doing well.
On to the four bandaids. Every Friday night before a home game, UW has a tradition of holding an all campus rally, of which the marching band is an integral part. We basically run around campus and the surrounding streets (read: Greek Row) playing stands tunes and getting excited for the game the next day. Most of the time I am VERY careful where I am walking as we are walking around old Seattle streets where long ago the streets got into a war with the roots of the surrounding trees and lost, creating many tripping hazards. So I managed to navigate all of the tree roots and other random obstacles in my way. We were running across 45th back onto campus cause the police had stopped traffic (we have a parade permit to do this) and I was thinking, "Hey, it's the middle of the street, what is there to trip on out here?" Yah, well I found the only thing left to trip on in the middle of the street... a giant pothole. My foot got caught (I was wearing TENNIS shoes for crying out loud) and I went flying across the street, landing on my hands and knees, but mostly my knees, on the other side. And to make matters worse, I was wearing shorts because it wasn't that cold outside and I knew that I would get hot once we started running around.
So I have four impact points and some massive bruising going on. I feel slightly like a 5 year old because I have two skinned knees. In the picture is the get-up I sported so that I could make it through game day. My knees are feeling better with less stinging, but cold air makes my bruises hurt (lame, I know), my knees are rather stiff, and my high knee marching leaves something to be desired at the moment. I never knew just how hard I was working until I did the last two practices with minimal effort put forward, everything is so easy when you don't march the right way =).
UW beat Fresno State 21-20 due to a blocked extra point in the beginning of the 4th quarter. I was deliriously happy that we blocked an extra point, and it just got better when that became the game winning point. I had just gotten finished telling the team (much to the amusement of the people around me) that it was NOT okay to slack off and not play in the 3rd quarter and that it was NOT okay to let Fresno State score, when they blocked the extra point. And then we managed to keep their offense curtailed enough that even though there was 4:30 left in the quarter, we won. I can't even begin to explain to you how exciting this is. We are 2-1 heading into real Pac-10 play and we gave Oklahoma a good fight last week (at least for the first half of the game). I have been mocked for being a Husky fan, but I have to say that I see enough improvement in this team to be able to hope for good things. This may not be *the* turn around season, but it is already way better than the past two years and we are headed in the right direction. So when we are back on top and are a big football contender once again, none of you better say that I wasn't a fan when we weren't doing well.On to the four bandaids. Every Friday night before a home game, UW has a tradition of holding an all campus rally, of which the marching band is an integral part. We basically run around campus and the surrounding streets (read: Greek Row) playing stands tunes and getting excited for the game the next day. Most of the time I am VERY careful where I am walking as we are walking around old Seattle streets where long ago the streets got into a war with the roots of the surrounding trees and lost, creating many tripping hazards. So I managed to navigate all of the tree roots and other random obstacles in my way. We were running across 45th back onto campus cause the police had stopped traffic (we have a parade permit to do this) and I was thinking, "Hey, it's the middle of the street, what is there to trip on out here?" Yah, well I found the only thing left to trip on in the middle of the street... a giant pothole. My foot got caught (I was wearing TENNIS shoes for crying out loud) and I went flying across the street, landing on my hands and knees, but mostly my knees, on the other side. And to make matters worse, I was wearing shorts because it wasn't that cold outside and I knew that I would get hot once we started running around.
So I have four impact points and some massive bruising going on. I feel slightly like a 5 year old because I have two skinned knees. In the picture is the get-up I sported so that I could make it through game day. My knees are feeling better with less stinging, but cold air makes my bruises hurt (lame, I know), my knees are rather stiff, and my high knee marching leaves something to be desired at the moment. I never knew just how hard I was working until I did the last two practices with minimal effort put forward, everything is so easy when you don't march the right way =).
Thursday, September 14, 2006
Quick recap of my life...
-I have once again taken up the great past time of marching down the full length of a football field at the speed of 160 beats per minute
-I do this RIGHT after sprinting onto the field and then running in place, complete with high knees (i.e. upper thigh comes up so that it is in a perfect 90 degree angle with the rest of the body) for 3 or 4 minutes... 7 cadences of Scratch at least
-And did I mention that I am supposed to be playing my picc as I march down the field at turbo speed? (If you don't think 160 is fast, you get a metronome and try marching to it...WITH HIGH KNEES!)
-I just memorized or rememorized 11 songs:
Bow
VI and VII
The Alma Mater
FCS Fight Song
Take On Me
Mush Huskies
Grand Old Flag
Johnny's Mambo
Radar Love
Throne Room
Everybody's Everything
-I have been at practice from 8:30am to 8:30pm since Tuesday morning
-I have practice and a rally tomorrow, football game with band guide duties on Saturday, another practice on Sunday as well as practices next week on Monday, Wednesday and all day on Friday culminating in a Queen show at the UCLA game that Saturday
-I have four pages of magical Bohemian Rhapsody goodness to memorize
-I have recently lost all of my free time to watching seasons 3 and 4 of Gilmore girls
-I am trying to get my grad school applications under control and dealing with that in my spare time once I get home at 9pm
Oh yah... and I am loving every minute of it!
-I do this RIGHT after sprinting onto the field and then running in place, complete with high knees (i.e. upper thigh comes up so that it is in a perfect 90 degree angle with the rest of the body) for 3 or 4 minutes... 7 cadences of Scratch at least
-And did I mention that I am supposed to be playing my picc as I march down the field at turbo speed? (If you don't think 160 is fast, you get a metronome and try marching to it...WITH HIGH KNEES!)
-I just memorized or rememorized 11 songs:
Bow
VI and VII
The Alma Mater
FCS Fight Song
Take On Me
Mush Huskies
Grand Old Flag
Johnny's Mambo
Radar Love
Throne Room
Everybody's Everything
-I have been at practice from 8:30am to 8:30pm since Tuesday morning
-I have practice and a rally tomorrow, football game with band guide duties on Saturday, another practice on Sunday as well as practices next week on Monday, Wednesday and all day on Friday culminating in a Queen show at the UCLA game that Saturday
-I have four pages of magical Bohemian Rhapsody goodness to memorize
-I have recently lost all of my free time to watching seasons 3 and 4 of Gilmore girls
-I am trying to get my grad school applications under control and dealing with that in my spare time once I get home at 9pm
Oh yah... and I am loving every minute of it!
Saturday, September 02, 2006
My guys came through!
Also considered as a title, but ultimately rejected: I heart Isaiah Stanback
I am exhausted, but basically I would be the worst fan ever if I didn't post about the first victory of the season today! I don't really feel like rehashing the game... I am sure you could find a sports column to read tomorrow if you really wanted to. I will just say that I am quite relieved that we won... San Jose State was the school we beat the season that we only won once. I shudder to think what it would have done to morale had we lost to them in the season opener. But oh wait, yah, thats right, we won!!
I am exhausted, but basically I would be the worst fan ever if I didn't post about the first victory of the season today! I don't really feel like rehashing the game... I am sure you could find a sports column to read tomorrow if you really wanted to. I will just say that I am quite relieved that we won... San Jose State was the school we beat the season that we only won once. I shudder to think what it would have done to morale had we lost to them in the season opener. But oh wait, yah, thats right, we won!!
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