songbird's crazy world

And the Jets are in the playoffs. I'm not a big football fan, I care only because my office is just a few miles south fo the Meadowlands and I have hometown pride.  Besides, the Jets used to play at Shea, and they used to practice on Long island -- my home. I can tell you who won the Superbowl in 2008, but I can't tell you who won in 2007 or 2009. Superbowl Sunday, 2008.  The New York Giants vs. the New England Patriots. and Jen and I were taking a college road trip to Hartford, Connecticut.  we were expected to be at the college early Monday morning, so I booked a room at the Holiday Inn Express in downtown Hartford Sunday night. so all during the drive up to Connecticut, Jen is busy texting with her friend Billy -- billy played football in high school and he's a major Giants fan.  Billy gives her updates about the game. Just as we pull ito the hotel parking lot, jen says "The giants just won the game." we walk into the lobby and there's a huge ...

I'm not really a football fan, but I do have a sense of hometown pride. alas. no New York team will be playing this year... Last year - Giants vs. Patriots. Jen and I were in the car during the game, and she kept getting texts from her friends with score updates. We were on our way from our home on Long Island to Hartford, CT. Jen had been accepted at Hartford and we planned to check out the school Monday morning. Just as I pulled into the parking lot of the Holiday Inn Express in downtown Hartford, Jen told me "The Giants just won the game." we walked into the hotel lobby. there was a huge flat screen tv in the lobby...and a lot of sad Patriot fans staring mournfully at the screen. they gave us a nice room despite my NY driver's license.

grandy had once again tagged everyone. this time we must all tell 7 things about ourselves in high school. so here goes: 1. When you say "high school" I say "which one?" because our district had two high schools, and I attended both. In those days, high school was grades 10-12 (9th graders were in junior high). In all the years I'd lived in our town, the school district had only one high school, and when you said "the high school" everyone knew what you meant. but when I was in 9th grade, the district built a second building, about a mile away from the high school, and told us that "the high school" would now be called "High School east" and the new building would be called "High School West." 1oth graders would attend West and upperclassmen would attend East. Wehn I started at West, we were stumbling over construction crews on our way to class. (I still live in the same town, and now both high schools are full, 4...