1. I was checking out at Albertson's several weeks ago and the youngster helping actually answered my question when I said, "How yooo doin'?" She told me about a double ear infection she contracted diving in a swimming hole up Fall Creek. I hadn't see her since and I was in her line this evening and asked her how her ears were doing and she's completely recovered. The turnaround occurred when she quit taking her antibiotics!
2. More wrinkles on my hand: the swelling is almost gone!
3. Oregon Lottery video machines have "The Big Easy" and "Free Game Frenzy", a couple of my favorite slot machines. I had no idea.
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Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Three Beautiful Things 04/05/08: Tigers, Jayhawks, Vanessa
1. ncaa.com makes the NCAA basketball tournament games available live and without charge. I watched today's games. In game #1, I was for UCLA, but was so impressed with how Memphis dismantled the Bruins that my inner rooting mechanism for the Bruins kind of died and I watched the Tigers with astonishment.
2. Likewise, in the second game, the Kansas Jayhawks stunned me. I'm not sure how much time had elapsed when the Jayhawks were up 40-12, but, for that stretch of time, I hadn't seen such amazing basketball played for a long time. I didn't think any team at any time could bulldozer North Carolina the way Kansas did in the first half. My jaw dropped. And dropped. And dropped.
3. What a pleasure it was to see Vanessa working the customer service counter at Albertson's. Vanessa was one of my students in my winter Survey of World Literature course and she wrote papers expressing her amazement that ancient literature could speak so clearly and immediately to her life and concerns in the 21st century. It was fun to talk with her and to remember her insightful and enthusiastic writing.
2. Likewise, in the second game, the Kansas Jayhawks stunned me. I'm not sure how much time had elapsed when the Jayhawks were up 40-12, but, for that stretch of time, I hadn't seen such amazing basketball played for a long time. I didn't think any team at any time could bulldozer North Carolina the way Kansas did in the first half. My jaw dropped. And dropped. And dropped.
3. What a pleasure it was to see Vanessa working the customer service counter at Albertson's. Vanessa was one of my students in my winter Survey of World Literature course and she wrote papers expressing her amazement that ancient literature could speak so clearly and immediately to her life and concerns in the 21st century. It was fun to talk with her and to remember her insightful and enthusiastic writing.
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