S*@$!
it is 2:30. i just got an email saying that BC had won its first round game (in the NCAA tournament).
then it hit me.
I NEVER FILLED OUT MY BRACKETS!
my plan was to do it when i got home from pong for PILA last night. well, maybe you shouldn't make plans to do something after you complete hours of heavy drinking. well, it wasn't supposed to be hours of heavy drinking, but that's what it was. so all that happened afterwards was passing out. the kind of passing out that involves not brushing your teeth or taking your contacts out even.
now this is very disturbing for a number of reasons.
the first is that i will not care at all what happens during march madness. and i LOVE march madness. but only when i have $10 to motivate me to care. i mean, what about march madness am i supposed to love now? the sport of basketball? puh-leeze.
secondly, i always love the false hope of the big win. and the thing is, i'm usually really pretty good at brackets. and when i say "really pretty good," what i mean is that i am the first person in every pool who does not get money. so if the pool gives money to the top 3 people, i'll come in 4th. and if it gives money to the top 5, i'll come in 6th. the first year i ever entered a pool (i actually did not know march madness existed until after i graduated from college), i would win in something like 4 of the final 6 scenarios. and i would have won everything were it not for the fact that maryland won the whole shebang. and i was living in DC where there are lots of terps fans, so of course they had that picked. and then there was the year i had the final four exactly right and not one of the final two at all. so i'm good but not good enough. that's my point. but i do derive some sense of dignity from it.
and i'll just sound totally uninformed all month. not like i was ever informed in the past, but the fact that i didn't spend 3 days scouring the internet, only to make my final decision by flipping a coin, means that i don't even know who's in and who the upsets are and all that stuff that is what makes the tournament so much fun.
boooooo for laura not filling out her brackets!
then it hit me.
I NEVER FILLED OUT MY BRACKETS!
my plan was to do it when i got home from pong for PILA last night. well, maybe you shouldn't make plans to do something after you complete hours of heavy drinking. well, it wasn't supposed to be hours of heavy drinking, but that's what it was. so all that happened afterwards was passing out. the kind of passing out that involves not brushing your teeth or taking your contacts out even.
now this is very disturbing for a number of reasons.
the first is that i will not care at all what happens during march madness. and i LOVE march madness. but only when i have $10 to motivate me to care. i mean, what about march madness am i supposed to love now? the sport of basketball? puh-leeze.
secondly, i always love the false hope of the big win. and the thing is, i'm usually really pretty good at brackets. and when i say "really pretty good," what i mean is that i am the first person in every pool who does not get money. so if the pool gives money to the top 3 people, i'll come in 4th. and if it gives money to the top 5, i'll come in 6th. the first year i ever entered a pool (i actually did not know march madness existed until after i graduated from college), i would win in something like 4 of the final 6 scenarios. and i would have won everything were it not for the fact that maryland won the whole shebang. and i was living in DC where there are lots of terps fans, so of course they had that picked. and then there was the year i had the final four exactly right and not one of the final two at all. so i'm good but not good enough. that's my point. but i do derive some sense of dignity from it.
and i'll just sound totally uninformed all month. not like i was ever informed in the past, but the fact that i didn't spend 3 days scouring the internet, only to make my final decision by flipping a coin, means that i don't even know who's in and who the upsets are and all that stuff that is what makes the tournament so much fun.
boooooo for laura not filling out her brackets!
posted by laura at 2:34 PM
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