Senior Ted's Version of Settling Down

I sent an email to Ted a week or so back, and heard back from him yesterday. As usual, his response has me wondering why my life is so lame and settled down. I sent him a reply encouraging him to stop by the blog more often, but in the meantime, here is what he's up to:

Heya Bill!

Well the grand plan of doing S America as well and
ending up in Rio for Carnival never came to be. I
decided i liked C america enough to stay there for a
while longer. I think back when i wrote that blast
email i had just started living in guatemala, which
ended up being my favorite country. I'd highly
recommend it if you have the chance. I ended up
living there for about 3 months before i headed back
down to costa rica to attend a TEFL (teach english as
a foreign language) Course. Which lasted the month of
august and was mainly about the methodology of
teaching. it was an excellent course and now i feel
very prepared to teach english in the future whenever
that might be.

After the course i would have liked to get a job
teaching english but most schools ask for at least a 6
month committment which i wasn't ready to give at the
time. So i started working as a bookie for an online
offshore sportsbook company in San Jose, CR. I
thought it'd be a bit interesting. But besides the
fact that i was working with a bunch of New Jersians
such as Vinnie, Ralphie, Lou, and Large Marge that the
company had brought down, the work was boring and
tedious, just answering phones all day opening new
accounts or taking wagers. So after a few weeks i
quite and head north again into Nicaraguan.

I picked up a job bartending at a popular backpackers
hostel in a colonial town of nicaragua. It was a
pretty good job and was always meeting travelers with
interesting tales. I started dating one of my
customers, an english gal who was volunteering as a
teacher in town. After my two month stint bartending
i ran back down to costa rica to show my dad around
for a week and then quickly returned to nicaragua to
meet back up with Bridget.

we traveled around c america and mexico a bit. As
both of our trips were coming to end, we talked things
over and she invited me to come back to london with
her. So here i am, been here since mid-December.
Everythings been going fine so far, things are a
little undecided though, not really sure if this is
just a trip or a move, we'll see.

Well that's a quick update on what i've been up to
lately. Hope you and Laura are doing well. What's
your take on the Hoyas this year. They're looking
better than i expected. if they could just get
another win over a ranked opponent and then finish off
the rest of the weak teams on the schedule they might
just make the tourney, we'll see. take care Bill,

ted

Hoyas Road Report

So I made it up to Bean-town to catch the debacle that was the Georgetown-BC game. I gotta say, Conte Forum is a nice little arena. Wish we had one of those.

BC is a legit team. They play better defense than any team we've played so far this year, including Illinois (although in fairness to Illinois, they did kind of sleepwalk through that game and are probably capable of turning it up several notches). Offensively they're not spectacular, but they hit big shots when they need to. I still think Syracuse is the class of the big east, but BC is right behind them.

So I'm not too down about the loss, notwithstanding the pitiful offensive display we put up in the first half. Hopefully we rebound against Seton Hall.

And you thought the Dolphin was angry...

New Arizona logo:



Some great quotes from the article on ESPN.com

Coach Dennis Green: "As they say, it's not the size of the bird in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the bird. The cardinal is a small bird, but it can be a very aggressive bird. That's the idea."

QB Josh McCown: "The only birds I know about are the duck and the dove and the quail, birds that you shoot. You're not really supposed to shoot cardinals. I don't know if I'd shoot this bird. It looks pretty mean. This bird might pull a gun out and shoot right back at you."

Disbelief

So I was sitting at home, listening to the Gtown game via the internet today when it struck me that the bar a couple blocks over might have ESPN Gameplan. I called them up, and indeed they did, so I walked over to catch the second half. What I saw practically had me in tears of joy. Movement on every possession, good passing, smart shots, intense defense -- this was not the Georgetown I knew. I've been listening to games all season, but this was the first time I've seen it in person. Thank God the Eshrick era is over. The bar had two for one drinks, so now I'm slightly drunk, and totally in disbelief. Hoya Saxa.

Yup, he sucks alright

Forty-Five...

Don't know if anyone would have bothered to watch the SU-Rutgers game, but the legacy of #45 is alive and well at Rutgers, with a spectacularly dorky looking freshman named Dan Waterstradt.



Sadly, I couldn't find an action shot of ol' Dan.

But I'm pretty sure he sucks.

Given a choice, God favors Jesuits

Dare we say bubble?

But don't you see, it's ANGRY!!!!!

How could you write an entire column about the Miami Dolphin, and not once mention how pissed off it looks?

"Esta! Es! Tu! Nueva! Radio!"

HFS has switched formats from alternative to Latin Pop.

Potential Excuses and Markstrat

Alan, so I know traffic in LA sucks these days, but I'm quite certain nothing like this was blocking the roads to Manhattan Beach, so why the no show over New Years?

So, I think this might be a stupid question as I believe we were in the same marketing class, but did you ever play the MarkStrat game in undergrad? If so are there any secrets to it? I never remember doing it, but clearly recall there were sections that did. Just trying to get out of doing hard work whenever I can.

Tonight on Jay

Although I'm guessing most of you are not regular Leno watchers, you may want to tune in tonight. I had front row seats and shake his hand before the monologue. I have to imagine at least the back of my head is on national TV.

Does ESPN.com Have Editors?

I'm not usually one to nit-pick on sports columnists, since it's kind of like shooting fish in a barrel, but this one by Andy Katz is particularly bad.

I didn't realize that Georgetown flew all the way to South Carolina the day after the Long Beach State game to beat Clemson. That makes the win doubly impressive.

I also liked his reference to Joe Lunardi as Professor of "Brackology", his exhortation to UAB, DePaul, Memphis to "proof" their merit in C-USA play, and this doozy: "Santa Clara: Has two quality wins over North Carolina in Oakland and Stanford but has lost too many games since like to Central Connecticut and Yale."

And then there's the fact that 10 of the 11 teams in the ACC are on the "bubble."

I was touched that Illinois' win over the Hoyas counted as "good," although to be honest, if I wasn't a G-town fan, I'd probably cite that as further proof of Katz's incompetence.

Round Two

I must confess, I didn't expect the Jets-Chargers tilt in week two to be a playoff preview, or the Jet's only quality win of the year. But here we are.

Alan, care to go double or nothing on our earlier wager? This time, I want some points.