Bedlam, baby
So tomorrow...Or...well...today (since it's 12:46 a.m.) is the Oklahoma State v. Oklahoma football game.
Or, as we fans know it, BEDLAM.
There are stories about how the rivalry got its name, but I don't know any of them well enough to share. Just know this: there are schools that talk about rivalries. There are even schools that I believe have excellent rivalries. But there are few rivalries that are more ingrained in a fan's DNA as bedlam.
I don't really want to go into it here because if I do I'll offend about a zillion people, but let's just say OSU is not a team to me. I'm not just a fan--I'm also a graduate and no game played by 19-year-old kids will ever change that.
So I'm telling you all this to illustrate my current situation: the game is tomorrow.
I have about twenty pages that need to be seriously re-written tomorrow.
The library is open tomorrow, and if I get there when the doors open I'm fairly certain I can beat the man in the yellow sweatshirt to the mojo table where the mojo will no doubt help me achieve the aforementioned 20 page goal.
If it had been a night game I could have really, really applied myself and then been rewarded with the game. But it's an afternoon game, thus sucking the soul out of my working day--not to mention prime mojo table hours.
So I made the painful decision a few minutes ago that I will, in fact, work all day tomorrow, but--lightbulb going on--I can Tivo the game and watch it later! Right?
Well, it would be right if--in my eagerness to reduce any and all distractions from my life--I hadn't padlocked my TV.
That's right. My TV (and Tivo) are in an entertainment armoire and I've literally put a big lock on the doors.
And I took the key to my office.
So that's how I came to spend the past fifteen minutes trying to program the Tivo to record the game through the armoire doors. (And yes, it was as funny as the mental picture that you've got right now with me pulling the doors apart a fraction of an inch, trying to read the screen. Yep. I'm that girl.)
I even got on Tivo. com and tried to do the online thing which would have been great except they can't guarantee things will program with fewer than 36 hours notice. But luckily, according to the good folks at Tivo) there's a replay of the game at two Sunday morning or something, by which time I will have at least retrieved my key. And hopefully finished my twenty pages.
But of course, by then there will be twenty more pages...
Maybe I should just keep the padlock right where it is.
Good night everyone!
Ally
Or, as we fans know it, BEDLAM.
There are stories about how the rivalry got its name, but I don't know any of them well enough to share. Just know this: there are schools that talk about rivalries. There are even schools that I believe have excellent rivalries. But there are few rivalries that are more ingrained in a fan's DNA as bedlam.
I don't really want to go into it here because if I do I'll offend about a zillion people, but let's just say OSU is not a team to me. I'm not just a fan--I'm also a graduate and no game played by 19-year-old kids will ever change that.
So I'm telling you all this to illustrate my current situation: the game is tomorrow.
I have about twenty pages that need to be seriously re-written tomorrow.
The library is open tomorrow, and if I get there when the doors open I'm fairly certain I can beat the man in the yellow sweatshirt to the mojo table where the mojo will no doubt help me achieve the aforementioned 20 page goal.
If it had been a night game I could have really, really applied myself and then been rewarded with the game. But it's an afternoon game, thus sucking the soul out of my working day--not to mention prime mojo table hours.
So I made the painful decision a few minutes ago that I will, in fact, work all day tomorrow, but--lightbulb going on--I can Tivo the game and watch it later! Right?
Well, it would be right if--in my eagerness to reduce any and all distractions from my life--I hadn't padlocked my TV.
That's right. My TV (and Tivo) are in an entertainment armoire and I've literally put a big lock on the doors.
And I took the key to my office.
So that's how I came to spend the past fifteen minutes trying to program the Tivo to record the game through the armoire doors. (And yes, it was as funny as the mental picture that you've got right now with me pulling the doors apart a fraction of an inch, trying to read the screen. Yep. I'm that girl.)
I even got on Tivo. com and tried to do the online thing which would have been great except they can't guarantee things will program with fewer than 36 hours notice. But luckily, according to the good folks at Tivo) there's a replay of the game at two Sunday morning or something, by which time I will have at least retrieved my key. And hopefully finished my twenty pages.
But of course, by then there will be twenty more pages...
Maybe I should just keep the padlock right where it is.
Good night everyone!
Ally
posted by Ally Carter at Saturday, November 25, 2006
8 Comments:
Nice Ally! That is pretty cool!
~Kristina~
I can't believe that you padlocked your TV. That's pretty extreme. But, hey, ya gotta do what ya gotta do gal!
I have to agree with my sister...that's pretty extreme! By the way, I finished Gin yesterday and just wanted to let you know that I absolutely loved it!
Wow, I don't know anyone as dedicated as you that would padlock their TV. Good luck with your 20 pages and I hope you get to your mojo spot before the man with the yellow sweatshirt~~~
Sooners won!!!!
YEAH!!!!!!
Yeah, so I was there. It was electrifying...it was tense...it was a HEARTBREAKER!
I think I owe you an apology, because I've spent the last five minutes cracking up at the image of you with your Tivo locked up, trying to program it anyway. Oh, my stomach hurts from laughing. I am a bad, bad friend.
Hehehehehehehe.
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