Midday Quick Shots

Today's not a big baseball day for me. You regular readers know that Wednesday is my 9hr workday. And in between classes today, I had to write a 5pg math paper. That's not fun at all. I have a calc and chem exam (9a and 10a, respectively,) on Friday as well, then a Bio focus group, and then home for the Mom's Birthday. It might get lonely here. That said, a couple interesting things. Some short shots, if you will.

Albion College is nearby to an elementary school. Every day you see little kids walking around the campus in groups of about 60. I don't know why this happens. Today I got to see them cross the street, military style. Anyone who has seen Black Hawk Down or Band of Brothers knows what I'm talking about. Proper military technique dictates that one soldier cross the road at a time; when he reaches the opposite side, the next soldier does his thing. That's akin to what I saw today. A whole bunch of 6 year olds, all crossing the street two at a time. Really weird.

If you thought you were going to use the bathroom in my building today, think again. The bathroom is closed, to fix a water problem that I didn't know existed. Well, that's not entirely true. I know that there are only two showers with hot water. I know that one of the showers has water pressure. I also know that one shower, (which coincidentally has the hot water and pressure,) went out of commission about two weeks ago because the handle fell off. I also know that none of the water in all of Calhoun County tastes like water. So maybe there is a problem.

There are whispers that the Nationals are about to announce their new owner. MLB has denied the report. Nonetheless, Theodore Lerner's bid is said to have beat out all others. The Nationals are his, if he wants them. Seeing as All-Star GM Jim Bowden is in the front office, they just got swept by the Reds, and the manager is already taking shots at the team's record, I wouldn't be surprised if he turned down the franchise. That would hurt.

I'll try to make another post tonight. I got back from chem lab early today, and tried to watch a baseball game - only to get the slideshow effect from MLB.TV. It's important to note that this is not MLB.TV's fault, but Albion College's fault. The entire 2000-student college has about the same bandwidth as my home network... no joke. There is no segment on comments today because no one left any comments. You guys should be ashamed.