Back from Georgia

So I'm back from Georgia, which was awesome by the way. Ultimate, the beach, nice weather, and otherwise having fun all week. Of course, the sickness that I had all last week but kind of ignored because I was on Spring Break has caught up with me. I even had to skip out on Purim funness last night to try and rest up. I'm not sure exactly what I have, we basically started calling it the plague on break because Brian Cox started break as the only incredibly sick person but by the end of the week it had spread to all of us. Regardless, all and all good time, and I'm tan and happy.

I discovered last night while talking to my grandfather that I only have 5 weeks of classes left. How awesome is that? I am so ready to be working and doing the whole 9 to 5 thing again for an extended period of time (read: the rest of my life). I'm also excited to be making money again, which I haven't done in approximately 10 months now. Seriously, life is expensive.

Also, if I'm not working I can't make extra money by winning March Maddness office pools. Last year I came in second in my office pool (I missed out on first because the Illini decided to suck in their last game. I'm not bitter...). Anyway, every year I come up with strange theories for picking teams in the tourny that have nothing to do with their actual talent. This year the theme is "East Coast Bias: Vindicated." If you don't know, East Coast Bias is the buzzword that people from places like Des Moines use whenever they think their crappy sports team doesn't get enough coverage. So I'm picking as many East Coast teams to go as far as possible. UConn and Duke in the championship, BC in the final four, etc. I'm gonna create a corollary to this: it doesn't matter if your on the east coast if I don't know where you are. Example: Villanova I believe is somewhere in a state that I drove through this past week, but I have no idea where. They aren't making it out of the sweet 16. Gonzaga could be in a foreign country for all I know, same fate for them.

I'm also gonna use a second theory for tie breakers when I can't figure out a teams longitude. There's a Bill Simmons theory out there that the best player in any given year will win the NBA championship. Reason being that with five players on the court at a time, one awesome guy can make all the difference. I'm subscribing to that this year at least secondarily for the tournament. Reddick will carry Duke far. MacNamara will carry Syracuse further than they deserve to go (hell, he already has). Morrison will probably make up for the fact that I don't know where his team is located.

And when all else fails, just figure out who's mascot can kick who's ass. Just remember that Seluki is a dog with dreadlocks and it would definitely kick a Hoosier's (either a country hick or living room breakfront) ass every day.