Okay, I have a football related question, but if you’re not caught up on the latest episode of Friday Night Lights, you need to skip down to the next section.
My question is this: a few episodes ago, TMU had Luke come to their campus for a visit, and told him to bring friends. He brought Vince, among others, and it was revealed that TMU was using Luke to get to Vince.
In last week’s episode, Vince and his father made a hush-hush visit to another campus (Oklahoma, I think?) and they had to make a big deal about how it was “unofficial” and hide the visit from Coach Taylor.
So why was the visit to TMU okay, but the other visit wasn’t? What am I missing?
Also, the casting of that kid as Buddy Jr. is possibly the best casting job I’ve ever seen in my entire life. He is a DEAD RINGER for Buddy Garrity. Some casting director needs a bonus.
Also also, if Vince doesn’t stop starting sentences with “I mean” (ie, “How are you today, Vince?” “I mean, okay, you know.”), I will fly through the TV and throttle him. SO FUCKING ANNOYING.
This whole internet thing is awesome and all, but there are times when I’m trying to do stuff, and I wish it had never been invented. Specifically, yesterday I was trying to order a new digital scale for weighing kittens on (the one I have is really just not working for me), and so I went to a site where I’ve ordered stuff before, and added the scale to my “cart” and went to check out.
The site was all “Oh, do pardon us, your street address is too long, could you please shorten it?”
So I changed my mailing address to something shorter* and hit the “submit” key, and the fucking program changed it back to the longer version. After two or three times, I let loose a stream of obscenities and stomped off to make lunch. Then I got back to my computer and tried again. Finally, after actually considering calling the company’s stupid 1-800 number and talking to a real live person (THE HORROR), I finally logged out of my account, pretended I was someone else who had never shopped there before, and entered the shorter mailing address. That went through.
BUT.
When I got the confirmation that my order had shipped? It was shipping to the too-long address. They figured out my wily scheme and knew what the correct address was.
Fuckers.
*I fucking HATE our address, it’s a huge fucking pain in the ass. Every time someone asks for it, I have to be all “3018 Southern – yes, Southern. No, we’re not done yet, that’s not the entire street name, because every time I move somewhere in this ridiculous godforsaken 100-degrees-at-the-beginning-of-June state, I end up moving to somewhere with a street name more complicated and convoluted than where we lived previously. So, 3018 Southern Smithenheimer** – S-M-I-T-H-E-N-H-E-I-M – no, just one word. S-M-I-T-H-E-N-H-E-I-M – oh, that’s too long for your program? Try it with “So.” instead of Southern. It doesn’t always work, but it usually does. Right, 3018. You know what? Never mind. CANCEL THE FUCKING ORDER I’LL MAKE MY OWN GODDAMN PIZZA.”
**Probably it goes without saying, but that’s not my real address. Though my house number DOES have four numbers in it. The second one might even be a zero.
Maggie and the babies, at snack time.
Trapped! (Would you look at the size of those paws?)
::thlurrp::
“What doin’, lady? You layin’ down? You gonna take a nap? You want me to lay down with you, huh?”
I find it best not to ask any questions in cases like this.
Ciara and Cillian headed up the stairs to the bed.
I have the hardest time not squeezing the stuffing out of her.
Hello, trouble.
“Stop lookin’ at me. I need some quiet time alone in my giant teacup.”
::thlurrp::
Always in my lap, this one.
It’s a Newtie.
Previously
2010: RIP, Roscoe and Charlie.
2009: No entry.
2008: No entry.
2007: Hey look, it’s been three years since we first met Stinkerbelle! (She was Maryann then.)
2006: Pictures.
2005: She’s a bad influence, that one.
2004: I have faith in you!
2003: Things that sucked.
2002: Here’s the thing. If you get yourself involved with a man you know full well is married, a man who doesn’t file for divorce until 6 months after he’s met and started dating you, then you don’t get to play the victim.
2001: My very first House Anxiety dream!
2000: Ah, world traveler, me.
may I borrow a cup of adorable kitten? 🙂
Such a cute bunch Robyn! I couldn’t resist snorfling the stuffing out of them either!
I haven’t watched FNL for a while (good show, though) but a quick guess is the HUGE rivalry between Texas and Oklahoma. That is not necessarily the sitch in this case, but boy, those Sooners and Longhorns sure hate each other.
Damn but they are the cutest friggin lil kittens evah!
You don’t like those kittens at all, do you?
Not in the slightest little bit. Kittens? Pah!
Re: the mailing address thing…. the companies that you are ordering from probably use an address-verification software like QAS (http://www.qas.com/ and no I don’t work for them or anything) to reduce the amount of error in their shipping, and that’s how it kept changing back to the long form of your address.
I love how Newtie is claiming both beds.
I think the TMU visit was okay because Luke is a senior so official recruiting visits are allowed for him. Since Vince is a junior, he was invited as a “friend” and not a recruit. Colleges are not allowed to recruit juniors, at least that is my understanding. Hope that makes sense!
I *completely* forgot that Vince is only a Junior! That was really bugging me, so thanks for clearing it up. 🙂
Everytime there is a kitten picture – they get cuter and cuter. geez. Yesterday at the book store we saw a book called Kitten Wars – and it made me sad because you have to pick which kitten is cuter. But they are ALL CUTE. My mom and I both said, “that’s a cute book for Robyn” haha.
Speaking of my mom – she had a favorite kitten a year or more ago – but she can’t remember the name and they aren’t on the foster page. Was there an orange kitten named Kringle? It’s making us both crazy trying to remember his name. 🙂
There was – let me look back through my pictures, and I’ll post one in Friday’s entry. 🙂 (And I actually own Kitten Wars – but only to look at the cute pics, not to judge which kitten is cuter. How could you possibly ever decide??)
right?! It made me feel very guilty and sad for the one I didn’t pick. haha. Thanks! I look forward to seeing the pic on Friday. 🙂
The never ending stream of kitten cuteness is just the sweetness I need to replace the sugar in my lifestyle change. Newtles pics work for that too 😉 Thanks, Robyn!
Wow. Fergus Simon has changed so much. He doesn’t look at all like his kitten self anymore, does he?
I think Christine and Kellie are both right. Big football schools have gotten a lot of grief about recruiting practices. There is such pressure to get good high school players to commit to four years, and schools were doing crazy things to get recruits. I’m sure the NCAA clamped down on a lot of those practices, including the recruitment of juniors. PLUS, interstate rivalries are pretty intense, so a lot of those schools try to circumvent the rules to get at the best players, no matter where they’re from. If the character is a junior AND visiting a rival school, I can see how he’d be screwed if the high school coach found out.
I can’t believe how big the McMaos are getting! They’re oh-so-gorgeous! And yeah, the paws are huge! Maggie’s not a particularly small cat, either, so I bet these kittens are going to be bruisers 🙂
I miss Dorothy already!
There are also strict rules about how many times a college can contact a player, and what those contacts can entail (visiting campus, phone contact only, mail contact only, etc.) I haven’t seen the episode yet, but sounds like they wanted the visit to be “off the books” which is a recruiting violation and the college (and the player) could get into trouble. The subtext is that Coach would know this and not allow an unofficial contact like that while the dad either doesn’t know or doesn’t care.
FNL-I agree with Christine, I thought it was all about the age of Vince. He is too young to be contacted by colleges. I don’t think it is a rival school thing, if you have a great player, of course every school is going to be looking at them.
Robyn-I never noticed that about Vince, now I am going to be paying attention to that for sure! I bought the new season on DVD, I was going to just watch an episode when I was on the treadmill, but then lost my head and had a huge marathon. I love me some Coach and Tami Taylor!
Oh, amen to that, I LOVE this show! (However, I do believe Julie Taylor could use a spanking. Every time she pouts, it makes me grind my teeth. But hell, I love her too!)
Newtles looks like he’s saying, “This are my bed. This are ALSO my bed. Keep out, plz.” He always looks so soft and squishy!
And I’m not one bit ashamed to admit that if I cannot complete a transaction on-line, then I either find another source or just do without. It doesn’t bother me so much talking to an actual human, but listening to the endless menu choices then being put on hold to what is ALWAYS fucking JAZZ, which is the worst music EVER, in my opinion, just makes me want to poke my eyes out with a stick.
So, you’re saying I should put you down for a jazz compilation CD for Christmas? 😀
Make sure it’s PROGRESSIVE jazz, m’kay? I love when there are four musicians all playing something different!
I will trade u four heathen grey kittens for your three girls. Please. Lol
I just had a brilliant idea! Sleep away cat camp! I have been trying to find summer activities for my 10 and 8 year old daughters and they would just LOVE it. Throw in a little gardening camp too. Our local YMCA charges like 700 bucks a week per kid for sleep away camp. I am thinking you could make a mint.