suggestions

Some ways to improve the NFL:

1. 10 minute quarters.
2. Each team would be allowed a 20 man active roster.
3. To be eligible to kick a field goal, a player must have played in the previous offensive play. (effectively eliminating kicking specialists).
4. Deepen the end zone to twenty yards, goal posts stationed at back of end zone.
5. All games played outdoors on natural grass.
6. Eliminate 2-minute warning.

Tune in next time for rule changes that would improve basketball.

something

Something happened to my hip while playing basketball today. I don't know if it's possible to sprain your hip, but that's what it felt like--the awful tweaking of a joint when it twists or extends in a direction it should not.

It does not hurt sitting here watching free NBA league pass on television, but it's torture walking up the stairs. So I will stay here under my sleeping bag, fire roaring a few feet away, Steve Nash torching the Wizards on TV.

Jeanie says I complain too much about my aches and pains. She has the highest pain threshold of any person I have ever met.

numbers revisited

To write 300 blog entries in one year, one must average 25 entries per month, or about 5.8 entries per week.

I shall have to pick up the pace. Should I write more about "everything" or more about "nothing," and under which category does this particular entry fall?

space

My office is nearly twice the size it was for most of last semester, and I cannot begin to tell you the difference that space has made for my state of mind. I hadn't realized how crowded and cluttered I had felt until now, having been given room to stretch out and air to breathe these past several weeks. I felt this same way when we moved out of a house that was crammed in between two other houses a few years back. It is cliche to say that you can take the boy out of the country but you can't take the country out of a boy, but there may be something to it in my case. In the country there is space, and I have realized that I need the room to bloom and grow.

I mean no metaphor, here. I am simply thankful for a bigger office in which I feel much more at ease entertaining the visitors who happen to drop in. Perhaps I am more hospitable now, which is good, since I am sure that I have entertained angels unaware.

is literature dangerous?

I sure hope so.

literary quote of the day (1/16/2011)

"If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average."

-Derek Walcott