Procrastinating

From the Holiday Inn Express: Muskogee

Procrastinating: avoidance behavior, dawdling, dilly-dallying, loitering, delaying, frittering, puttering...that's what I'm doing. Should be grading my last 8 papers since I have to drive from Muskogee back to "the city" tomorrow afternoon in order to teach a class and I want to hand back the papers then. Ironic since the word procrastinating is derived from latin meaning "put off until tomorrow." But I can't put it off since I won't have time tomorrow. Apparently I'd rather spend time looking up "procrastinating" in the thesaurus, than actually doing what I should be doing. Funny how that works.

Happy V-Day

Knock Knock

Who's there?

Olive?

Olive who?

Olive you!

"Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia."- Judith Viorst

Valentine's Day! Created by the pagans, perpetuated by the Catholics (SAINT Valentine) and taken to a whole-nother-level by Hallmark. At least that's my take on it. Personally I think it should be a national holiday. We need another holiday in this long stretch between New Year's and Memorial Day. And why not one that celebrates L-U-V? For 24 hours I'm gonna ignore the politicians, the threats over a weakening economy, and the fact that half the people I know are sick with the flu, and celebrate kissing and hugging and, well, you know...chocolate!

Super Bowl XLII

So tomorrow is the Super Bowl. Things I know about the tomorrow's game: It's in Glendale, AZ. It's a football game.

(chirp, chirp)

Nope, don't really know much. So I'm looking it up. Some things I've learned:

Apparently double dipping 4-6 times can transfer about 10,000 bacteria from the eater's mouth to the dip or salsa. So unless you want to make out with everyone in the room, put your dip on your own plate and make sure everyone else does to. Perhaps appoint a double-dipper detector. Probably someone female since guys don't usually notice they are double-dipping.

Halftime entertainment will be provided by Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers. (who?) No wardrobe malfunctions likely!

The Sun City Poms will be performing. The youngest member is 66. They come complete with tiny sequined outfits, pom pons, and vericose veins. Only in Arizona! http://www.sunaz.com/scpoms/

The idea that city sewer systems will fail due to millions of viewers simultaneously heading to the bathroom during commercial breaks is an urban myth, according to Snopes.com.

Along with the usual beer, pepsi, car and snack food commercials, we'll be graced by commercials from Go-Daddy.com and Victoria's Secret. Actually, Go-Daddy.com's commercial is a commercial to get you to go watch the real commercial online. Brilliant since it's a web hosting/domain name registry. $2.7 million will buy 30 seconds of air time, so it's no wonder the commercials will be shown endlessly on youtube.com and corporate websites!

Oh - and the teams playing are the New England Patriots and New York Giants. I feel a nap coming on.