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What a dilemma I have today. I realized Saturday night as I was falling asleep that Tech would be playing for the national championship tonight….and that I have baseball tickets for Astros opening day tonight. I am so torn! It feels wrong to even consider missing opening day. But it feels worse to think that I would miss watching Georgia Tech play for the national championship!

So I am staying home. I am not going to the baseball game. Instead, I’m going to sit on the couch (or, if it’s like Saturday night, I’m going to pace the room, kneel on the floor, plead with the tv, bite my fingernails, and jump up and down) and watch Tech play UConn.

I think Jason is tempted to kill me for skipping the baseball game.

Anyway. I’m back in the office feeling like I never had a weekend. Saturday was the race, followed by a long softball practice, followed by basketball games. Yesterday was Yuri’s Night educational stuff at the Museum of Natural Science, followed by a five hour (five hour!!) baseball draft. Geez. The draft went on forever, it was so long. We drafted 40 players, the last 5 or 10 of whom I’ve never even heard of because they’re like the backup backup catcher for the Padres or something. Seriously. In the last round I almost took Alex Rodriguez, just for kicks (our league is NL only and he’d do me no good). I don’t know how Carter manages the eight hour draft his league does.

My officemates are on my nerves this morning, and they think it’s funny. I hate that. It’s only 10:30 and I’m already ready to go home. I’m tired. I’m bored. I have no meaningful work to do, I push the “go” button on work that someone else gets to analyze and present, and no one gives a crap. Some days I don’t know why I bother.

Grrrrr. Today is not my day.