Global Warming and its affect on our youth

"I Personally believe" that I don't know why the crap I went to school.

Lou Holtz...

...predicts that the Irish will win 10 games this year.

Of course, he also predicted that the Irish would beat LSU. I love that old man.

I don't know what he's smoking, but I love that old man.

Don't hurt me Ben!

Yes, I was lying...I had to fight the temptation to keep adding more details, and see if any of you actually show to my non-existent wedding. but alas, I am as single as ever. I personally thought it was rather funny, but now that I read how Ben is a strong man with good fighting skills I'm prone to take his treat a little more seriously. Please forgive me Ben.

I thank you all for the congratulations, and if anyone still wishes to buy me a gift I will gladly accept them. I'm registered at at Akira, Best Buy, Linens and Things, Hyde Brother's Books, and apple.com. Thanks!

Baggins & Ben

Just got back from an hour-long nightwalk.

Yes, I still do those. And I should really come up with a better term than "nightwalk."

Anyway. Walking at night at ND is a lot like walking at night at Purdue, except that Notre Dame has more green, less asphalt, and, in some areas, far fewer lights. Tonight I found my way onto a path I'd never seen in a woods I'd never visited. Now I'm cobwebby and sticky and pretty gross, but also pretty contented.

Stumbling through a dark forest full of cobwebs made me think of "The Hobbit", and I started to feel like Bilbo. Then I realized that:
1. The spiderwebs I was stumbling through were insubstantial,
2. They were made by tiny spiders with no interest in eating me, and
3. I have no cool friends to rescue anyway.

So the analogy kind of fell apart.

Final point:
Night and darkness can do funny things to my imagination. The path I was walking, though dark, was clear. There are no outlaws at Notre Dame, and no really dangerous animals in the Eastern U.S. Even if there were, I'm a reasonably strong person. I run pretty fast, and fight pretty well. There was no rational basis for any fear.

In spite of this, as I crept along through the mud in the tunnel of trees on the trail, the next light 1000 feet off, I got...jittery. I couldn't help it, either: all my senses were on edge, and my nerves were tense. Alone in the dark, I felt very small and very insubstantial and very mortal.

All in all, a very good feeling, and probably edifying in some way, too. I'll have to do this more often.

Yes I'm still alive, and you are all invited to my wedding

Saint Mary's Cathedral, Fort Wayne, IN
September 29, 2007

plus one is welcome

Also, I don't write on the blog because Ben is so damn smart I'm intimidated...I made a user friendly blog for myself at

http://brettmeetsworld.blogspot.com/

I write in it when interesting things happen to me, and I try to amplify them so that they sound much more interesting to convince people who know me that I have an interesting life. I do I swear!

bored

I'm bored. Sitting in a library, nothing to do but wait for an orientation that doesn't start till four.

Bored.

I'm also bored of reading my own posts on this thing. Seriously, people.