November 25, 2007...8:20 pm
Break’s Over … Time to Get Back to Work
I have a question.
Why is it every time you take some time off, you need a vacation from that time off? For the past eight days, I’ve been in West Virginia visiting family. The first few days were spent dealing with the loss of my aunt - whom I’ve realized lately how proud she was of me (something I wish I realized more when she was alive) - and some other family emergencies. The remaining days was spent bouncing from homework, and other stresses in the family that kept creeping up.
In other words, I’m more exhausted after eight-days in West Virginia than I was before I left. Is that even possible?
But even through the lack of sleep, there were some positives.
Such as Black Friday. Millions of people get up early, stretch, and get ready to bust the walls down at the local malls. Not my family. No, we got up early, and drove three hours to stand in line for an hour for tickets to Saturday’s WVU-UConn game. The tickets that went on sale were student tickets that students, who were away for Thanksgiving Break, did not claim. Being that I doubt I can go to a bowl game, this was my one chance to see the Mountaineers to play this season.
It was well worth the $45 ticket, the long climb to the top of the stadium, and the lack of sleep the last two days. I’m on Cloud 9 thinking about West Virginia playing for the national title for the first time since the 1988-89 season when the Mountaineers lost to Notre Dame in the Fiesta Bowl. There was the 1993-94 season where some believed that had West Virginia defeated Florida in the Sugar Bowl that it could have won a claim of the national title, but the Mountaineers were never in that game.
All West Virginia has to do is beat arch rival Pittsburgh (4-7) at Mountaineer Field, Saturday, and its off to New Orleans to play either Missouri or Ohio State. Here’s to a West Virginia-Ohio State National Title tilt, with a hope that the outcome is better than my first game as a college freshman when Ohio State ran all over the Mountaineers in Morgantown (in 1998).
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Another joy of being home is trying to get back into the swing of things. Usually, in my professional career, the day after a long break, was usually unproductive as I slowly got back into the swing of things. That can’t be the case this week. With exams closing fast, it requires a fourth-quarter stamina push.
I wonder if they make IV bags of Diet Dr Pepper.
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Speaking of Dr Pepper, I’m wondering if they would be interested in sponsoring my seminary career. As much as I drink it here, I’m sure they could afford the gift. I would even be willing to wear Dr Pepper attire on campus (think NASCAR advertising) to pay for my scholarship.
Think they’ll go for it?
We’ll that is it for now. It’s off to more rest and then the sprint to December.
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