I'm bored at work with nothing to do and a supervisor who is not currently supervising me, so I thought I'd update this thing. Sunday night was the Superbowl as any red blooded American male should already know. I didn't get to watch the entire game because I've had a pretty nasty cold the past few days. I watched the first half and called it quits so I could get some rest. There are more important sports matters to attend to, like tonight's Holy War.
Yesterday we went to the U.S. Mission to the EU, which is located near the U.S. Embassy in Brussels. They showed us a DVD about the Mission and then one of the political attachés talked to us about his work. In all it was a very interesting visit, plus we got to see a ridiculous picture of Dick Cheney hanging in the entrance. On another positive note, the bus drove past Leuven's second Hut, so now we have two options for getting pizza and fountain drinks. After we got back from our trip, I walked to get a new train pass and to find some cold medicine. Dinner was next and then we had a night class until 9:30. After classes a few of us went out for an hour or so before coming home to figure out this weekend's travel plans.
[Since I brought it up, I'll talk about this weekend's plans here. (On another side note, European keyboard suck.) Alex and I will be going to Switzerland this weekend. We leave on Friday morning for Zurich and spend the night there. The next morning we are going to Interlaken. We had grand ideas of skiing in the Alps, but there were two problems. First, I didn't bring any clothes to go skiing in. Second, and more pressing, the Swiss Alps do not have any snow in them right now. Therefore, it would be hard to ski without the main ingredient to skiing. Instead, we are going to walk around and maybe "hike" one of the mountains. I put that in quotes because I have a feeling once we see the mountain, we are going to decide to stay in the bar and watch other poor saps try to climb it. On Sunday we are coming home; we should be in Brussels by 15:30, which gives us plenty of time to get back to Leuven for Teddy's 21st birthday party. She wants to go to the Karaoke Bar again and apparently everyone is asking me for a repeat performance of Tom Jones's "Sex Bomb." I'll let you know how it turns out. Surprisingly, the first attempt wasn't too bad.]
Now that you're up to speed on this weekend's travel plans, I'll let you know that I'm currently "working." Again, I put that in quotes because not much actual work has gotten done today. I made file folders for some things for next week's plenary. Something about filing things made me feel like that one Seinfeld when George's job was to work on the Penske file. In the span of a week, he managed to put the Penske file into an accordion file folder. Sorry for the Seinfeld reference, but I haven't thrown one in since my second story.
Besides filing things, I have tackled some other tough issues during the span of my day here in Parliament. From 9:30 to 12:30, I played mah-jong solitaire. In those three hours, I only won twice, which is not very good. At 12:30, my supervisor came back from his meeting and we had lunch and a coffee. He's been gone since 14:00. It's now 16:00 and in those two hours I've done several on-line crossword puzzles and now I am writing this. It's not that I don't want to do work; he just doesn't have any for me to do.
Finally, onto the subject of what everyone who's reading this will be doing at 7:00 pm Eastern Standard Time tonight. If you had anything on your agenda that's not "Saint Joe's @ Villanova," you better start making excuses to get out of it. I plead with you to watch for several reasons. First, I am a Hawk and I do enjoy beating Villanova. Second, as much as Nova fans will say St. Joe's isn't their rival, deep down everyone knows that we are. Rivalries are always important to watch. Third, Big 5 games are probably the most exciting college basketball games to watch. Planning, strategy, and coaching go out the window. Big 5 games are all about emotion, heart, and who has the desire to win. You'll see more guys diving for the ball than in any other college basketball game. You'll see more guys giving and taking hard fouls. You'll see referees swallow their whistles. You'll see students lined up outside the doors for 6-8 hours so they can get the best seats in the student sections. These are the things that make college basketball, especially Big 5 basketball, great. I wish I was there, but Saint Joe's is going to be really good next year, so I'll see them one last time as a student in the Holy War. And fourth, there's a nasty rumor going around that ESPN isn't going to play the Holy War during Rivalry Week anymore. I guess I understand the decision from a money perspective, but this game dates back to 1921. They are planning on putting the Villanova-Georgetown game in that slot. What's interesting is that Villanova and Georgetown have played each other less times than Villanova and Saint Joe's. But, there's not much I can do to change anything, so I'll stop writing about it.
I guess I'll find something to do for 45 minutes before I leave for Leuven. Just one final thing, THE HAWK WILL NEVER DIE.
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