Anyway, this is just to report that Joe Mauer won the AL MVP almost unanimously (27 of 28 first place votes). I'm glad the world doesn't have their Yankees-goggles on and voted one of their bums to the award just because they *gag* won the Fall Classic.
And that shall be it because I feel bad for breaking the quiet that consumed the school and entire town this week, so out of respect and hopes for a swift recovery, posting shall be light.
I spent the last 5 minutes or so trying to think of something to blog about and then I realized "hey! I have a music tour that I should be posting about!" I was kinda sidetracked this week with the Cy Youngs so I didn't get to the newest installment of the QC Music Tour. Bad me.
I don't remember which strip number Jimmy Eat World was mentioned in, but I do know that it was the one where Raven showed up in her new non-goth get-up and the girls of Coffee of Doom asked if a Jimmy Eat World video threw up on her. I know, gotta love my sense of priorities and what I remember. Anyway, this is a classic for those of you who weren't living under a rock the past decade+.
I figured that it was ok for me to break my posting-every-day because I posted twice on Thursday which covered me for Friday. And I love how the title is "little post today" yet it's longer than the past few posts.
I went to one of the EGE's rocket launches today 'cause today was the launch where they would put pumpkins in some of the rockets and see how long they would stay up in the air. Not quite as cool as the pumpkin-launching catapults I saw in the news, but one of the pumpkins was on a 7-foot parachute so with the wind it probably flew for a good 10-15 minutes after it went out of sight. I was put in charge of picture taking, and I apparently took a few good shots. I was more happy that I figured out how to use one of the fancy digital SLRs.
And this has nothing to do with anything but anyone who goes to my school will know what happened to one of the football players today so I'm sending out my best wishes to him and his family.
Yay! 2000 visits! You guys rock. As pathetic as it is that it took me this long to get to 2000 visits, I appreciate them all. Except for whatever rather large % is me.
And that offer of a cookie is still up for whoever was the 2000th visitor.
Not that I'm at all disappointed. I'm quite happy. It got me out of my pissy mood for about 5 minutes. I'm just surprised that he won it. I mean, I could've put money on one of those Cardinals pitchers winning it. And also that ahem little run-in with the Washington state police... But I'm happy he won.
That's all I feel like posting for right now. Off to do homework and wallow in my for-no-apparent-reason misery.
So! I feel special. I brought my laptop to school today 'cause I needed it after school to work on my thesis paper at the library. So here I am, being all cool and stuff with my own handy-dandy little laptop. I used it during bio for an assignment and it was so fast compared to the other laptops!
I guess I should start working on my paper instead of messing around on the computer. Or maybe I'll work on another story I'm writing. I'm not sure yet :)
Anyway, I'll be around. NL Cy Youngs get announced tomorrow.
I am really glad he won the Cy Young. I mean, I don't have anything against King Felix or Verlander or anything but Zack had to bust his butt to do good this season, seeing as he pitches for a team that ah-hem has a history of being a little lacking in the run-scoring department. Apparently he had the lowest ERA (2.16) since Pedro Martinez's 1.74 in 2000, and his Cy Young is particularly interesting because he was tied for the lowest win count ever and no other AL Cy Young recipient has ever played for a team that bad (65-97 last year, the worst record for an AL team carrying the award. Sorry, Royals, but it's true.)
Yay Zack Greinke!
And since there's like no chance that Lincecum will win the NL Cy Young this year, I can just sit back, watch the Hot Stove League heat up and relax until April. Cheers!
(this is my 444th post. And most of you should know that 4 is my favorite number.)
6:32pm- ok, apparently I lied. This is only my 442nd post 'cause I had 2 unposted drafts that counted towards my post total but not my posted posts. Oh well. Sorry for the psych-out.
Anyway, posting shall be sparse this week because i have a thesis paper rough draft due on Monday! Yippee! I promise to keep you posted about the awards and such, though. And as usual, I'll have a Drowning in Turtles comic for you tomorrow.
Muchas gracias para su cooperacion. (and yes I realize there's s'posed to be an accent there but it won't let me do it)
Oh, and PS: I realize that Christmas is only a little over a month away and everyone wants to be in the holiday spirit and whatnot but is it really necessary to be playing Christmas music already? We haven't even gotten past Thanksgiving yet! I'm not against the music or anything but mix it up a little! Intersperse it with normal music! There's only so many times I can hear various renditions of the same songs over and over again!
Lots of things running through the Mandachan's mind lately. Driver's ed and how I'm ever going to manage leaving the comfort and safety of the parking lot. My thesis paper for US history that has a rough draft due next monday that I have yet to start. AP bio and classes in general. The fact that the 2-year anniversary of the blog is in January and somehow I need to think of a better summarizing post than last year. The combination of a power outage this morning, my laptop being fixed and the desktop being occupied preventing me from getting to my homework until now. Baseball awards, offseason trades, hoping my boys will stay where they are, still getting over the fact that the Defenders left and GOSH DANGIT WHY CAN'T WE JUST SKIP AHEAD TO SPRING TRAINING?!
I don't know if last night's game ended early because of rain or because of the score or because it was just a fast game or what (we got sent home 'cause it was raining too hard for us to play), but sheesh our football team was on a roll. This wasn't quite as bad as the 48-0 blowout in the first home game but still, 37-0 is still kinda sad. At least for the other team. I'm kinda bummed we didn't make it to states but I'm also glad because then I don't have to sit through December games which really suck.
...yeah, sorry, this isn't much of a post but I'm mostly just trying to keep up with the "posting every day" thing. Next week should be more interesting.
Much better today. Headache's gone, fever's mostly gone and now the only remnants are the sneezy/coughyness.
And despite it being Friday the 13th, nothing bad has happened to me (yet), aside from me completely guessing on one of my AP bio multiple-choice questions.
Tonight's our last marching band gig for football, and by the looks of it we're not gonna be playing. Hopefully if it does get canceled, it rains so hard that my stepdad won't want to stay at the game and then we can go home 'cause I either want to play at the game and have it be nice or to not be there at all (since sitting through a football game in the rain is not fun). Luckily, the powderpuff game also got canceled but that's 'cause the seniors were dumb and didn't sign up and you kinda can't have a junior/senior game without the seniors...
And with that, I should probably go do homework now.
I really hate being sick. I also hate missing school only because then I'm behind and then I feel like an idiot when I come back. I just really hope this blows over so I don't have to miss tomorrow too and then have to make up not one but two tests. 'Cause that would really suck.
Red Sox, This is Your Captain Speaking: 'Tek is back with the Sox, which I'm glad about. Yeah, he's had a bit of a sucky past two years, and yeah, I know we also have V-Mart, but 'Tek is like the team dad and he helps bring the team together. (ps: I don't know if he's still captain but I wanted to put that headline up anyway)
I guess that's it. Hang in there if you're sick, too (and that goes for computers as well, since I know there's a nasty computer virus going around).
k, anything written here is most likely mine (unless i say otherwise). as for pictures, i got most of them from espn, mlb.com, google reader (the boston dirt dogs one), yahoo! sports and wherever other blogs i read got their pictures. or i drew them (it'll be obvious if they're drawn). so just to put that out there. :)
so! how'd you get here?
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mandachan
connoisseur of epic awesomeness and divided fandom
