Someone (Bill?) had it on their blog a while ago, but just to followup: the Krispy Kreme challenge was held at NC State on Saturday. Run 2 miles from campus to the Krispy Kreme shop, eat a dozen doughnuts, run 2 miles back. The winner finished in 24:31. I must admit that I would not even attempt it. (Thanks Brian O for the link.)
Five years ago when I finished school, my mom flew out to San Francisco and we drove from there to Houston to get me situated down here permanently. Sometime after that trip, she told me that she’d been a little worried and nervous about the trip, mainly because we’d be together non-stop for a week and a half, which was something we hadn’t done in years. And when I was at Tech, sometimes I was so stressed out that even my trips home and interactions with the family were less-than-relaxing. Now that my brother has come and gone, I can admit that I was actually a little worried about his visit — for similar reasons.
I like my brother and we get along just fine, but let’s be honest — we haven’t spent significant time around each other since I graduated from high school more than 10 years ago. When I left for college, he was 13. I worried that it would just be weird having him visit. What I forgot is that he’s now 23, out on his own in the working world, and is an adult just like the rest of my friends and siblings.
Of course, just as the drive with mom turned out to be spectacular, I shouldn’t have worried about having Brian in town for the weekend. We had a nice time hanging out and watching a lot of college basketball. I asked him yesterday what he would have done if he had gone home to D.C. for the weekend — “mess around on the computer and watch basketball?” I wondered. “Yeah, pretty much,” he replied.
On Saturday we had to go to BW3 to see the Carolina game (Brian is a two-time Carolina grad, bachelor’s and master’s) because despite the fact that it was nationally televised on CBS, the local station decided to show a telethon. Argh! Fortunately BW3 had it on a satellite feed of CBS and even put it up on one of the big screens for us. Awesome. That night we hung out at Gavin and Jen’s and tried to play Guitar Hero on their new TV, but were thwarted because I brought a cord from my old Playstation and it didn’t fit into my new Playstation. Stupid Sony.
Yesterday we had lunch with Becca at Mely’s to satisfy Brian’s request for Tex-Mex, and then hung out until Jose got back from Corpus just in time to ride with us to the airport. Hooray — Jose has now met every member of my immediate family. In the end, Brian was actually a fantastic and considerate houseguest. When he did some laundry yesterday, he even washed the sheets and the towel he used! Mom and Dad take note: Brian can be civilized. 🙂