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Weekly Wacko Quick Hits

When I went home for Christmas my mom picked me up from the airport. For the past few months I have been working out, lifting weights and such. This is not the standard for my lanky self. It’s motivated by my buddy Rainbow Speak, and Juicebox (aka J from Europe). We make fun of each other at the gym, which is ‘motivational’ (sure, we’ll go with that word). When my mom was driving me to meet up with my sister for the three of us to hang out for the day she said a classic mom line, which myself and the fellas have now said a number of times.
“Is Popeye mad?”
“Eh?”
“Because you took all his muscles!” (My mom obviously said this jokingly.)
Shortly after I texted Rainbow Speak this line. My plan was to use it on Juicebox to weird him out, but when I got back to work after New Year’s not only did Juicebox already know the line, but a number of other co-workers. Awkward.

 

Stretching before my jog, and wearing sunglasses with hot pink in them (I got them for free from SMU) a little girl walked by me. She was walking with her bike. “Just stand there, don’t ask questions,” she said, I’m pretty sure to me. I was confused, so I ended up doing exactly what she’d instructed me to do. Weird. She walked about 15 more feet when she turned and yelled, “I like your sunglasses!” I yelled a happy and amused thank you. Then a few more feet and she turned again, “It takes a real man to wear those!”

 

Rainbow Speak is from Minnesota. But Juicebox and I like to round up and say he’s from Canada. In our terrible jokes this means he only eats maple syrup, has super nice manners, hangs out with penguins (facts aren’t necessary for dumb jokes), wrestles bears, etc, etc. The latest joke was in the form of a terrible prank call that I tried. I tried calling his work phone, which does not display the caller’s number.

“Rainbow Speak this is corporate America.” (Substitute his real name and the company name.)
“Hi, I noticed a vehicle in the parking lot leaking maple syrup, sir.”
“Oh golly well I’ll send my penguins out right away to take care of that!”
What was impressive was that he came up with that without missing a beat. Touché Rainbow Speak.

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2011 SMU Football Schedule – A Fan’s Take

SMU, my dear alma mater, used to be great at football (when they cheated massive amounts). Now we probably only cheat as much as any other school (well, except for the schools that are being caught), and that makes things tougher.

We’ve got a tough schedule this year, and yet hope springs eternal. According to Sports Ratings SMU will be looking at a 6-6 season, but I’m hoping for 8-4. Let’s check it out.

9/4- @ Texas A&M

  • Cartoon gulp. 0-1

9/10 – Texas El Paso

  • Ok, let’s do this. 1-1

9/17 – Northwestern State

  • Eh? Sure … 2-1

9/24 – @ Memphis        

9/30 – @ TCU

  • Hope springs eternal!! 3-2

10/15 – UCF

  • Time to bounce-back!(?) 4-2

10/22 – @ Southern Miss

  • Eh. 4-3

10/29 – @ Tulsa

  • Pleeeeeasssee (Roger Rabbit style)! 5-3

11/5 – Tulane

  • FINISH HIM! 6-3

11/12 – Navy

  • GO ARMY! BEAT NAVY! (Also go SMU!) 7-3

11/19 – @ Houston

  • I may be there!! (Probably sad though.) 7-4

11/26 – Rice

  • Pillow fiiiiight! 8-4

For good measure, the old fight song … Yeah, I’m excited about their football season. So sue me!

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Thanks, Ma!!

Brag Post! Homemade Quilt!

For a graduation gift my mom made me a quilt using t-shirts that I got while going to SMU. When she came around for a visit a few weeks ago she brought me the finished product. I had given her a hard time about finishing the quilt quite a bit (it’s what children are for) … so now I’ll have to find something new to bother her about.

I’ll say a few things about the shirts.

SMU is a crazy expensive school, but that also means they have lots of scholarships (phew) AND … exciting news for me – they give out t-shirts for FREE at quite a few events. Yes, FREE t-shirts! By the time I graduated I had collected about 40.

The “fraternity” shirts are for Alpha Phi Omega (APO), a co-ed service fraternity. A friend and I “pledged” (again, not at all a traditional fraternity – it’s purpose is to make friends and volunteer) the second semester of my freshman year. It was one of the better decisions I made while at SMU, and my only regret is that I didn’t stay as active as I should’ve.

The second shirt I’ll point out is at the bottom right, for SMUSH! The SMU Service House. I found out about it through APO and I met some fantastic people there. Actually, most all my friends from college are from APO and SMUSH.

Don’t be fooled by this volunteer stuff – I joined because I wanted friends and there were pretty girls. But I do think volunteering can be fun and more people should do it (although I haven’t done any volunteering in a year so who I’m a preaching dummy).

Lastly, TCU sucks.

Thanks again, ma, for the awesome gift!

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