Ill

I have been ill for the past two days. I went in at 9 O' clock on Tuesday morning and got a strep test. I get strep throat at least once a year and it seems that I have this years case. Yesterday all I did was lay around and sleep. That night, my fever got as high as 102.6 degrees Fahrenheit. You know you have a bad fever when your eyes feel like their burning. Anyways. Today I woke up and took some pills. My highest temperature so far today has been 100.3 degrees. I am feeling better but now I have to work on all the homework I missed. :(

Reputation

Your reputation is a pretty important thing. If you have a bad reputation, people might judge you in a bad way. But if you have a good reputation people probably think good things about you. For example, I say Barry Bonds and you instantly think what? Steroids. Or O.J. Simpson. Murder. Or Charlie Sheen. Cocaine and strippers. But maybe I say Star Trek, and you think nerds and fan clubs, that might be a little unreasonable. As you can see, reputations can lead to assumptions. And, you know, they say when you assume you make an ASS out of U and ME.

March Madness

March Madness is upon us and I finally gave in and made a bracket this year. In case you didn't know, March Madness refers to the NCAA division I men's basketball team tournament. Every year, people fill out brackets for the 64 team tournament, and often bet on it with a group of friends or coworkers. Several celebrities (even the president!) make brackets. Snoop Dogg has one, and it's only half bad. The ESPN website has an online tournament challenge, and I have my bracket on there. My friends and I (notice the almost 7th grade grammar I just used) have a group and I am currently in 4th place (I should really be in third but Jason thought he would be tough and make 2 brackets). I am also 1,844,144 overall on ESPN. President Obama is doing better than me, but considering he is the leader of the country, he probably should be. 

Springtime

Well, today is supposedly the last day of winter. I'm not buying it. When you think of springtime, you think of flowers and running through a field of daisies on a warm, sunny day. But I live in Minnesota. If you haven't experienced a Minnesota spring, let me summarize it for you. Lots of mud. Lots of rain. Lots of people whining about the rain and mud. Lots of people whining about the people whining about the mud and rain. Think teenagers at a stormy track meet whiny. Every year it seems to be the same, the one plus is that it means that summer is coming and with it, the end of school.

Respect

Is it better to be respected? Or feared? I don't know why I said that, I just always think of that when I talk about respect I guess. I don't remember what movie I saw that quote on, but it kind of made me wonder. I mean, like in sports, would you rather be known as one of the better teams or one of the scariest. Because no one likes people who take cheap shots during a game, but it's not like your going to hate a team for being really good unless they break the rules. (cough cough Apple Valley cough cough)

Wait, What?

I went up on the fan bus to watch the state tournament for wrestling. Seeing the whole team there really made me regret not going out for wrestling this year. I decided to do weightlifting because I thought there wasn't going to be a spot on either team (JV or varsity) for me, and I didn't want to have to put that much time and effort into it. The Albert Lea wrestling team puts tons of time into being good; morning runs on Mondays and Wednesdays, practice everyday after school, lifting, and a tournament or two every weekend. Seeing all the wrestlers out there, I realized how dumb and selfish I was for not wrestling. I mean we had a wrestler who wrestled a match with a totally destroyed knee, risking his baseball career, to help the team get to state. I think if he could do that, I could have sat out a few matches.