Thursday, 20 March 2008
Complete madness
Had a lot of weight on my shoulders this week, it must have made it's way up from my belly during one of those sleepless nights. A lot of what they probably call in the sewage trade as 'shit going on.'
I am hoping to get tomorrow off from work. Easter is not generally observed in this religious obssessed but equally work obssessed country and my employees, generous as they are *cough, splutter* insist on us skipping into the office. However I have never worked a Boxing Day or a Good Friday and don't intend to now. There are of course other reason's while I would like to be somewhere else tomorrow, yep you guessed it the college March Madness tournament starts today, but hey-ho on the way to meet some friends in the afternoon to catch the Butler game (go Bulldogs) I might make a stop into my local Irish boozer to see what is going on in the fizzies.
The frenzy and media coverage to which the next few weeks of college basketball brings to the country can only be understood by sports fans that live here. My first year here I needed some convincing to watch young lads run around a court, missing shots and clearly not as good as their older peers in the professional game.
However fans have realised that they long lost the professional game to sponsors, the prawn sandwich brigade, quiet stadiums and players, who earn more in an hour than the large majority of hard working Americans in a year, tinker with performance enhancing drugs and with some exceptions of course, act like they are above the law.
College kids just want to play and do their best for the crazed fans and their colleges and if they're super lucky get to earn millions in the professional game or more than likely get older with teasured memories to tell their grandchildren.
Today is the first day of spring, which of course means it's going to snow tonight in Chicago. About 7 inches is set to fall starting at 9pm, another reason to get a lay in and have some Cadbury's mini-eggs for breakfast before heading to the boozer if you ask me. ¶ 14:44
I am hoping to get tomorrow off from work. Easter is not generally observed in this religious obssessed but equally work obssessed country and my employees, generous as they are *cough, splutter* insist on us skipping into the office. However I have never worked a Boxing Day or a Good Friday and don't intend to now. There are of course other reason's while I would like to be somewhere else tomorrow, yep you guessed it the college March Madness tournament starts today, but hey-ho on the way to meet some friends in the afternoon to catch the Butler game (go Bulldogs) I might make a stop into my local Irish boozer to see what is going on in the fizzies.
The frenzy and media coverage to which the next few weeks of college basketball brings to the country can only be understood by sports fans that live here. My first year here I needed some convincing to watch young lads run around a court, missing shots and clearly not as good as their older peers in the professional game.
However fans have realised that they long lost the professional game to sponsors, the prawn sandwich brigade, quiet stadiums and players, who earn more in an hour than the large majority of hard working Americans in a year, tinker with performance enhancing drugs and with some exceptions of course, act like they are above the law.
College kids just want to play and do their best for the crazed fans and their colleges and if they're super lucky get to earn millions in the professional game or more than likely get older with teasured memories to tell their grandchildren.
Today is the first day of spring, which of course means it's going to snow tonight in Chicago. About 7 inches is set to fall starting at 9pm, another reason to get a lay in and have some Cadbury's mini-eggs for breakfast before heading to the boozer if you ask me. ¶ 14:44
