Weird Thing I Saw Today: The bridge I normally use was still closed, so I had to take my alternate route home. As I was traveling down Nevada Street, I noticed two police cars and a SWAT team van parked outside a house. There was nothing on the news about it, so I’m not sure what the deal was.
Also on my way home, I got behind a car that had a Denison sticker on the back. I really wanted to know who it was, but I never got a good look at the driver (It had Lucas County license plates, though).
This is something I’ve been wanting to write on for some time, but I must warn you that it involves some people who read this site, so if you’re one of those people, please, PLEASE don’t take this the wrong way. Sometimes I don’t understand my mom (well, a lot of times, but…). My mom has always been highly critical of my friends and extremely skeptical of their motives. The only ones exempt are Stephanie (because she was friends with my mom first, sad but true), Chris (because being in Iraq somehow proved that he wasn’t using me for some nefarious purpose), and, to some extent, Laura (because she spent a lot of money to go on vacation with me). However, no one seems to be exempt when it comes to relationships. Whenever one of my friends acquires a boyfriend or girlfriend (even if it’s another friend of mine), my mom immediately decides that this is a Bad Thing and usually that it’s my fault. The reason why she thinks it’s my fault is most often a combination of the following three reasons: 1. I’ve been acting too enthusiastic or monopolizing my friend’s time, so he/she got a significant other in order to have an excuse to be away from me. 2. I’ve been too controlling/hard/critical towards my friend, so he/she has found a significant other as some form of rebellion. 3. I’ve been too negligent towards my friends, so he/she has found a significant other in order to fulfill the social need that I should have been. I have no idea why she does this, and it’s kind of annoying. It seems, though, that once my friend and their boyfriend/girlfriend have been dating for about a year, she’ll decide that maybe it’s not me and they’ve actually found a good person. This rarely happens, though (Correy & Chad and Liz & Joe are pretty much it, and their cases were both different from what usually happens anyways; Correy was friends with my mom in addition to being friends with me, so my mom was a little easier on her, and Liz was dating Joe before I even met her, so it wasn’t really something my mom could blame me for). I guess my friends just suck at relationships. HOWEVER, right now I can’t really complain about it, because today my mom helped me figure out a solution to her problem with me staying out late. Now all I need is an occasion to implement that solution.
I don’t think all of today’s basketball games are over with yet, so I won’t report on the results of my predictions until tomorrow (though I’m not optimistic). In the meantime, here are my predictions for tomorrow’s games:
#6 West Virginia vs. #11 Southern Illinois (Southern Illinois)
#3 Iowa vs. #14 Northwestern State (Iowa)
#7 California vs. #10 NC State (California)
#2 Texas vs. #15 Penn (Texas)
#1 Memphis vs. #16 Oral Roberts (Memphis)
#8 Arkansas vs. #9 Bucknell (Bucknell)
#1 Connecticut vs. #16 Albany (Connecticut)
#8 Kentucky vs. #9 UAB (Kentucky)
#6 Michigan State vs. #11 George Mason (Michigan State)
#3 North Carolina vs. #14 Murray State (North Carolina)
#1 Villanova vs. #16 Monmouth (Villanova)
#8 Arizona vs. #9 Wisconsin (Wisconsin)
#7 Georgetown vs. #10 Northern Iowa (Georgetown)
#2 Ohio State vs. #15 Davidson (Ohio State)
