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With spring around the corner, there is a certain smell in the air. Not flowers. The spring beruit tournament. I never get excited about fraternity events, unless its this tournament. The competition is fierce, the games are intense, and wild things happen (such as mcnamara/dayan almost beating us two semesters ago in the most fun game I've played in). Kibbles and I will reunite as the Blouses for hopefully another run into the playoffs. We are angry after an early exit last semester and we are looking to bounce back. Ever since the epic finish to my fall 09 tournament I've made it my goal to get back into the elite 8.

For those of you that don't know: Let me take you back to April 2009. Kibbles was on the disabled list with yet another bout with pancreatitis. This brought together the unlikely team of me and Jake Klein. Coming in as major underdogs, we made it through the round robbin with a 4-1 record. This was good enough to give us a first round bye into the playoffs. After eating about a pound of chex mix and 4 walks around the block, it was time to play our best of 3 match against the cinderella story Horwitz and Weiner. Game 1 we rolled them. Game 2 we got pwned. And then came game 3. They shot out of the gates faster than a race horse. Needless to say, a large crowd had gathered around us, and we were getting embarrassed by the winners of the play in game. Down 2 cups to 8, Jake and I must have said something really inspirational to each other because we stampeded our way back to a 2 to 1 deficit. They went ice cold and we had our chance to win. With the 30+ spectators looking on Jake took his shot which performed a toilet bowl swirl in and then right back out. What happened next was a blur. There was a flash of orange light and tons of people screaming. In his anger, Jake had whacked at the table with his trusty "Zook Zone" towel which knocked over the final cup and our hopes and dreams.

So you see now that I must make it back to the playoffs and secure that evasive victory. Hope you enjoyed the memory because we got some shit for that over the following weeks, and I still have nightmares about the towel.

Primo

The first study abroad meeting was today which got me to thinking that I should make a blog. I won't be gone until the summer, but I'm going to try and post lots of cool stuff here and have some fun with it.

Things I've been up to lately: Cooking - Try to make 1 new thing every week usually for dinner. Some successes so far this year have been the chicken parmesan, french toast, and chili. Hash browns and baked spaghetti were somewhat failures.

Movies- When I can find some time, I've been watching movies. We saw Shutter Island tonight. Overall, it was a pretty good movie. Good acting and the story was pretty cool too. The directing was awesome as should be expected. I was a little disappointed with the lack of scariness. There were a few tense parts where you could sense something scary would happen, but the only thing that scared me was when my friend got scared next to me when leonardo dicaprio lit a match. I did however have my first vanilla coke in years (I was fairly certain they had discontinued it). Pair that with sour patch kids and popcorn, it made the movie a good time for all.

School- Busy.

Things I'm looking forward to this week:
-No exams
-The hockey game
-Monday Night Mayhem
-Unofficial