Things

It has been a really long time since i last posted so i figured i might as well go for it. So here are some random things i felt like writing down.

Guy on the bicycle outside of the chemistry lecture halls, you know who i mean
Congrats! You survived that spill you took. Also, way to go not punching that guy in the face who started pointing and laughing at you, you are a better man than me. It was pretty funny though, you have to admit, especially since you didn't get hurt. Come to think of it, you rolled out of that like it wasn't your first time eating pavement. Its good to know there are people just as clumsy as me in the world.

Xanga
Yeah, weird i know. How is this different from Xanga, the whole blog thing? The only guess i can venture is there are less emo self-abusive stories. I also don't mention hating my parents, both because this isn't xanga, and i don't hate them.

BCS
Woooohooooo. We're playing Hawaii, yay. What a dream game. I have socks in my living room with a piece of paper on them saying "Protest Socks" and a R&B saying something about how UGA got shafted. Playoff's may not be the answer, but i actually like the old system of just the AP nominating a national champion better, that's right, i said it.

The Duel
I can't help but look like a genius, or like i own the farmer's almanac. It's 80 degrees outside and my legs are totally warm. If on the off chance someone who knows me doesn't know what i am talking about, i bet my roomate that he would shave before i wore pants to class. I think i will win this. Sean looks like an Irish pirate, and i look stylish and get to show off my chicken legs. The only downside is i think Kathryn wants to kill me.

Finals
So my finals are almost done. Its pretty hilarious how people react to finals, i try to avoid stress, and since my finals didn't really matter this semester that wasn't hard. But i did see Drew almost rage out on someone in traffic today because he was so stretched thin. Drew rage is a scary thing, avoid it.... especially if you come to trivia.

Rivalry Week

I'm going to go ahead and recap what happened this past week in case you missed it, what with stuffing your face with turkey, lighting your house on fire with that deep frier or just hiding out in your room until your family left.

Notre Dame v. Stanford
Is this a rivalry? Did anyone watch this game? I didn't, and I hope you didn't either.

Texas v. A&M
How did Texas lose this game you ask? Oh, yeah, they aren't very good. I still don't understand why Franchione resigned after this game, this is the sort of thing that usually earns headcoaches their jobs, not cause them to lose it. But all in all, an unimportant, though exciting, game.

Washington v. Washington St.
You don't think i watched this game do you?

Hawaii v. Boise St.
Seriously, i watched this, and if you didn't i challenge you to tell me what you were doing that was better than watching this. Great game, i was surprised. I honestly think Colt Brennan will play on Sundays, and since they beat what seemed to be a good team in Boise St., i'd like to see Hawaii in a BCS bowl. Especially if they play Ohio St. and destroy them, or play UGA and get ripped to pieces.

Arkansas v. LSU
Ok, not a rivalry, but it was the most important game of the week. LSU lost, not because they weren't prepared or didn't play well, but because Houston Nutt woke up. He finally just put Darren McFadden at quarterback, kept Felix Jones on the field and let them run roughshod over one of the best defenses in the country (wildcat formation on 60% of the plays = victory). It turns out Arkansas is going to be good next year too, Peyton Hillis is much better than i thought. Best college football game i've seen in years, and McFadden should win the Heisman. I think he might throw the ball better than Tebow, and we shouldn't punish him for his coach not figuring out the winning game plan till the last game of the season. Unfortunately there won't be an SEC team in the national championship game though, which means a team from the Big East, Big 12 or Big 11 is going to win it, and we all know how sad that is. The fact that West Virginia is probably going to be #1 on Sunday makes me a little queasy, i mean, they lost to South Florida.

WVU vs. No one
Seriously.

Duke vs. UNC
Sorry Chris, y'all went 1-11 this year, i really thought you would pull this one out, but it just wasn't in the cards. Duke lost a heartbreaker. No, i didn't actually watch this one, but part of me wanted to.

The Iron Bowl
And Nick Saban falls to the mighty Brandon Cox (who coincidentally has had 8 ints in the past two years against UGA, Reggie Ball-esque). Does anyone remember when Nick Saban compared losing a football game to 9/11? This guy is just a winner on and off the field, if Bear Bryant could see you Nick, he'd punch you.

The battle for South Carolina, the battle no one wanted to win
USC went 6-6, and 3-5 in the SEC. Yeah, the same USC team that was ranked 7th at one point. No college football doesn't make sense. Yes, i'm always happy when steve spurrier loses (he doesn't deserve to have his name capitalized). Then they go and lost to Clemson... that is the capper to a perfect USC season. How did these guys beat us again?

Florida vs. Florida St.
Earlier in the week, someone on the FSU defense said "We're going to plant Tim Tebow." The Gator defense would have said the same thing, if they knew who the FSU starting quarterback was. FSU was really bad this year, Tebow beating them doesn't show he is a better player than McFadden in my estimation. So florida beats FSU by 33, we beat florida by 12, so if we played FSU we'd beat them by 45 right?

Oklahoma vs. OK St.
Sam Bradford is really really good. Not Jason White good, but really good. The Ok St. coach is still a man though, and he's 40. Sadly, the 40 year old man's team didn't win. Now Oklahoma prepares for its match up against....

Kansas v. Missouri
Is this a rivalry? And if you have been out of the country for a few months, this game actually mattered, shocking huh? Don't think for a minute that Missouri won this game. The kansas kicker lost it. And letting a team score 28 points to get back in it in the most important game your school has played in 50 years doesn't make me confident that you are for real Missouri. Don't get me wrong, your offense is stacked, but that defense is going to get shredded in the Big12 title game. WVU #1, Missouri #2, Ohio St. #3... is this a horrible dream? Oh wait, no, Notre Dame still lost to Navy so its a good year.

Va Tech vs. UVA
And UVA gets exposed by a real team, the only real team in the ACC. That's what you get for waitlisting me you jerks.

Tennessee vs. Kentucky
Hahahhahahhahaha. Did you watch this? Remember when Andre Woodson was the best QB in college football. Don't let his stat line fool you, most of that was against a prevent defense, and with the game on the line he collapsed. Oh man, this means UT is in the SEC title game against LSU? That stinks. Oh wait, UGA is going to get a BCS at large birth. And the world is once again a wonderful place to live. Oh, and UT, good luck against that LSU team, they probably aren't mad after losing in 3 OT's to Darren McFadden and friends.

BYU vs. Utah
I'm kidding.

USC vs. ASU
USC isn't good. John David Booty isn't the next Carson Palmer. ASU is not very talented on defense and this game went as expected. Unfortunately, USC stands a good chance for a BSC at large bid, stupid plus 1 system that i love.

And the big daddy of them all.....




wait for it




wait for it



UGA 31 Ga Tech 17
Of course i was giving 15 points on this game, that was a bad plan. Tech fans are screaming about those two touchbacks i'm sure, but if your special teams players could fall on the ball then you wouldn't have to stretch those vocal chords. The good news is i don't have to worry about Lauren's family members who are Tech alums holding this game over my head for the next year. Also, how many in a row is this? And to the people who thought Knowshon is 10x the back that Thomas Brown is.... well.... you still may be right, but not in this game. Also, i'm declaring it now, i have a man crush on Brannan Southerland. Strange name aside, i really think he is the best football player in the country. Matt Stafford is living up to his hype this season, Kentucky/Tennessee games aside, and this makes me look forward to next year. Turns out Taylor Bennett is just as good of a Georgia player as Reggie Ball, give that man some dawg bones for his helmet.

School?

So its been a long while since i posted, and i know that everyone reading this really cares about that. So for a while now i have had a really hard time caring about going to school. This was mostly because i had been going on medical school interviews, and nothing makes the present more boring than looking towards the future. So today, that feeling got a little stronger. I got into Emory, and that was awesome, but already i feel i care about my classes even less. I know, it seems weird that i found the bad in getting into what is one of my top five schools for medical school, but i've had a while to let it sink in, and right now, im writing this instead of writing a paper. Not that i care, because i just got into medical school.

Since i got the good news out of the way, its now time to relate to you one of the funniest stories i've heard all semester. This was related to me in my abused drugs class:
Jarrad, "So needless to say, i'm not exactly up to date on the latest in women's fashion. So i'm helping one of my mom's employees stock shelves at her store in Vidalia when i see these socks that say 'smells like cooter.' And i start thinking what is going on here. So i ask my mom's stock girl 'Why do these socks say "smells like cooter" and why would anyone want their socks to smell like that?' She starts laughing and points at the socks saying 'Jarrad it says "smells like Couture" (co-ture) not 'cooter.' At this point i turned around and went home a little embarrassed."
Reading this, its not as funny as listening to him say it simply because of the accent involved, but you get the drift.

Also, to the Augusta Department of Transportation (if there is such a thing), HAHA I LIVED THROUGH IT. If you have driven into Augusta on I-20 during the past couple months, you know what i'm talking about, and while i didn't see people in the bushes waiting for me to be pasted on the side of a concrete divider, my seventh sense told me they were there. My sixth sense involves sensing when the solar wind is kicking into high gear, but that is another story.

"I think tattoos are trashy"

Have you ever met someone who has skated through life entirely on his/her looks? Have you ever wondered what would happen if this person was unfortunately book smart and placed in your Italian Literature class? Well it would go something like this:

Background discussion centering on tattoos, peoples' tattoos and how significant some tattoos are.
Blond Girl, "Yeah, i have these tattoos, you know how when little kids draw birds they just look like 'v's'? I have five of those, one for every member of my family."
Funny Guy, "Wow, that is a pretty good idea."
Girl next to me, "Yeah, i want to get my grandmother's signature tattood on my back, she's an artist i really respect."
Girl-who-skated-through-life-on-looks/booksmarts-
but-has-nothing-to-offer-humanity(gwstlolbbhsntoh) shortly after entering the classroom mid-discussion," I think tattoos are trashy."
... silence....
Funny Guy," You realize everyone in here but you has at least one tattoo right?"
Gwstlolbbhsntoh, "Sorry, that's just how i feel."
Funny Guy, "Oh, well i guess that makes it ok, since that is how you feel."
Gwstlolbbhsntoh," Yeah, i guess so." clearly not picking up on sarcasm

moments later class is in disbelief that I "nerdy guy" have a tattoo

Nerdy guy, "No really, its right here." lifts sleeve and shows tattoo
Gwstlolbbhsntoh, "Wow, you have an awful farmer's tan."
Nerdy guy, "Yeah, my membership at the tanning salon lapsed." glares
Gwstlolbbhsntoh, "Oh, yeah, that stinks." clearly not picking up on sarcasm, AGAIN

Thanks Gwstlolbbhsntoh, you made me more appreciative of mute people, because they don't come off nearly as obnoxious as you. Also, if there were justice in the world, this girl would have been hit by a lightening bolt after walking outside. Sadly this didn't happen, and my faith in fairness hit an all time low.

Narcissism and college football

These two topics are completely unrelated. I mention narcissism because it was brought to my attention that blogs are usually entirely for self-ego stroking. This is not my intent. I wish to enlighten those of you who are incorrect, atagonize whoever reads and talk to a captive audience. However, if you really are that interested in hearing true narcissism, get my roomates drunk and listen to them brag (usually till about 2 am) about the "chicks" they've "boned", how they "boned" them and, often, a rough approximation of how many times they have bumped pelvises. I only mention this because it is truly fascinating, not because they deprived me of sleep or because i find them to be humongous asshats, no no, its really quite fascinating.

Now on to college football. I think i will just make subheadings for everything that pisses me off about college football, and maybe sub-sub titles for some areas.
1. Pollsters
Ohio State will drop out of the top two spots in the nation today. And that is stupid. The Illinois team they were playing was playing the best football of any team Ron Zook ever coached ever. They have the best defense in the country (maybe LSU's is better) and the only reason they will drop to about 4/5 is that they lost late in the season. Pollsters are stupid. They have been waiting to boot Ohio State because "they haven't beaten anybody." Really? I thought they beat 10 teams this year, including 2 ranked in the top 15. Pollsters are stoopid (stupid misspelled for irony). By the way, i HATE OSU, seriously, if you don't know this about me you are quite dumb.
2. The Pac-10
People who say the Pac-10 is better than the big ten are morons. People who say the pac-10 is the best football conference in America have an iq slightly higher than Les Miles and summer squash, i hate both of those things. No one plays defense, and USC only won one freaking championship in the past six years, that's why they only have one crystal football. Oh, you beat Michigan in the Rose Bowl convincingly? Well guess what, Lloyd Carr is the worst coach in any level of football including Pop Warner. If they gave out awards for doing the least with the most Carr would win hands down. I love Michigan btw, something else you should also know. Also, Dennis Dixon isn't that good, but no one plays defense in the Pac-10. And to the guy who is about to say "but they put up 37 on Michigan" hey, moron, Michigan let a FCS school put up 34 the week before.
3. Fans
To the people who sit behind me at the UGA games. THEY ARE RUNNING PLAYS ON THE FIELD IT ISN'T 11 GUYS RUNNING RANDOMLY. And to the moron who said "Come on Richt, its a little late to try to establish the run (with 20 minutes left in the game" two things: 1) Mike Bobo calls the plays shortbus and 2) PLAY ACTION, that's how we scored three touchdowns in the UGA v. Auburn game. I hope most fans aren't like this guy, but i fear they are.
4. The BCS
You need a play-off. Every other sport ever does it. It will make you more money with the +1 system. And to whatever moron who says "three more games at the end of the season will cause many more injuries" then only do a 4 team play-off, the only anger ever comes from those 3 and 4 teams getting shafted (like Auburn). And to the guy who is saying "well that number five team could really win that, that's not fair" as the system stands that team couldn't win anyway, and you are a moron.
5. The Big Ten
You have eleven teams, and you need twelve, this saddens me greatly.
6. Tim Tebow
Two words: SYSTEM QUARTERBACK. In case you were curious Pat White is better than you anyway.
7. Dennis Dixon
read #2

I hope you have been enlightened, because if you disagree with any of this you are wrong. See you next time my roomates do something stupid, or the next time i see something that i should share with you.

Blogs are for losers

So as it turns out, almost everyone i know has a blog. So this is going to make me look like a bigger poser than Rob van Winkle (Vanilla Ice to you uneducated folks). But i'd just like to say that this isn't the case. This is merely a more effective way of making people see the inner light that i hold. This inner light will probably come in the form of opinions and mostly where i disprove the notion that opinions are neither right nor wrong, because lets face it, some opinions are just plain wrong, mostly those that i don't hold.

So i'll make posts as long as it strikes my fancy, andas long as i remember that i have this thing. I won't capitalize the letter "i" unless it comes at the beginning of a sentence because it is a waste of my precious time. I'll do cool things like post links to my friends' blogs that mostly show their opinions (many are wrong) and maybe even figure out how to post a counter to my wedding day (that's right, someone agreed to marry me, and its a foxy female no less). That said, i imagine that this will be the least successfull blog ever, and i hold no hope of anyone enjoying it. Feel free to enjoy anything i post, or don't, because i don't really care one way or the other.