Well, I just finished sweeping up broken glass and took out 3 garbage bags of cans and bottles, which can mean only one thing: another football Saturday has come and gone. With it came a huge Hawkeye win at Purdue, a win that we absolutely had to have to keep hope alive for a good season. With a home game against Michigan, a trip to Wisconsin for the last home game coached by Barry Alvarez, and Minnesota on the schedule, we couldn't afford to have three losses on the board already. Drew Tate put on a clinic, Clinton Solomon had a career day, and the defense stepped it up with a couple of crucial turnovers. The win did not come without its costs, however, as we lost a huge on and off-field presence in (Tricky) Ed Hinkel when he went down with a broken arm in the second half. But all in all LongMan's birthday party was a success. Game Balls go to Emily for hosting us and LongMan for a stellar birthday effort. Great times, a little bit overboard on the boozing as usual, but if you didn't know, now you know. We go all out when the Hawks win big.
These weekends are physically, mentally, and emotionally exhausting. Maybe the fact that the football season is only 12 weeks long is a good thing. For those planning ahead, we'll be here next weekend for the Indiana game, and then in Iowa City for Michigan, in Chicago for Halloween (bye week), and at the games at Northwestern and Wisconsin the 5th and 12 of November. If we continue to play well, it should be a blast. If you are going to be at any of those games, especially Northwestern or Wisconsin, drop me a line. It's good to roll deep in enemy territory.
This morning I went to a cool place, the Chicago Botanic Gardens. I went a lot as a kid and did not think I was going to like it this time around, but it was a surprisingly fun place to walk around. Of course, I probably would have liked it even more if not for the pounding headache that was the result of a 15 hour assault on Chicago's supply of Jagermeister and tequila yesterday. Even though they are very fragile (a bad thing in my apartment), I bought myself a White Orchid that has been growing out at the Gardens. I will be attempting to grow it this fall and winter. I know nothing about doing this, so if you have some tips, let me know.
It was a pretty slow weekend for news except for Mother Nature was feeling particularly vengeful. There was a mudslide in Guatemala and a terrible earthquake in India and Pakistan, killing 22,000 and injuring 43,000, and those numbers are probably going to rise. Awful tragedy. It seems like we have been having a ton of natural disasters lately, from the tsunami to the hurricanes and then the events of this weekend. If you would like to contribute to relief for any of these disasters, here is a good list of organizations that are heading up the relief effort.
Songs of the day are Concrete Schoolyard by Jurrasic 5 and Transatlanticism by Death Cab for Cutie. The Death Cab show is on Wednesday this week, it should be a great one. I'll be at the show with K-Rock and LongMan, if you're going and want to have a drink or something afterward, you know the drill.
I'll be back with more tomorrow or Tuesday. Have a great week and get out there in the nice weather before it gets too cold.
T
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