yowsers

so shit is hitting the fan at the fine institution that granted me my high school diploma. the principal was fired a few months ago, and now she's suing the school for defamation, libel and slander. apparently, she was fired for behavior "not in line with the school's standards" or something like that - but the incident they are blaming it on is an email she forwarded to a few friends, which included jokes about smoking and gay sex.

now, this principal was a bit revolutionary at the school - first of all, she isn't a nun (which many principals before here were), and secondly, she spent a lot of time making the school better. but - she was the kind of person that people either loved or hated. i, for one at least, did not care for her much...but nonetheless, she helped the school.

the interesting part of this lawsuit is the dollar figure on it. she's suing for $125,000 plus backpay and lawyers fees. now, i don't know much about lawsuits, but i think $125k is a lame amount of money to ask for, why not go big? the school could never afford millions, but why not ask for it if you're going through the efforts of suing?

we'll see where this gets her...i just hope my hs doesn't get a bad rap over all of this.

update: why i really hate fantasy football

you may have previously read this rant about why i dislike fantasy football. well, after discussing with my sources, and deciding i shouldn't knock it till i try it (my life-long motto), i signed up for a fantasy league courtesy of yahoo sports with some family members and friends. i wasn't able to attend the live draft, so auto-pilot took over and provided my team - the muffin bunnies* - some good players, so i was told.

my male opponents in the league said, "your team is so good - you have donovan mcnabb, and clinton portis and larry johnson, and lj smith..." since i don't know who any of these players are (if your name isn't tom brady, i don't pay attention to you), i trusted them and thought this might turn out to actually be fun.

low and behold, i have lost my first two games. donovan mcnabb didn't throw one touchdown pass this week. my team was projected to win by 25 points, and lost by 6.

so now, not only does fantasy football annoy me because of how dumb it is, it annoys me because my players are suckasses.

stupid pretend sports.

*yes, that is actually the name of my team. it was the name i chose for my pet rabbit at age 4, so i thought it was a solid tribute.

hump day

for lack of anything substantial to talk about, i'd like to share a few fun things:

1. while watching the cardinals lose AGAIN last night at great american ballpark in cincinnati, somewhere around the bottom of the eighth inning one of the reds hit a foul ball and broke his bat. the top part of the bat flew towards the stands on the first base side, but ended up hitting the wall in front of the stands instead. naturally, the few fans that were there (are there baseball fans in cincinnati? because they couldn't even fill 1/4 of that stadium last night) jumped out of their seats to run down and grab the bat. a kid in a cards jersey reached over, grabbed the bat and held it over his head like a trophy and ran back up to his seat. not 5 minutes later, a security guy from the ball park comes up to the kid and his dad and escorts them out of the stadium. you could almost hear the dad saying, "are you kidding? there are only 1,000 people left in this park, our team is losing 7-2...you don't even need to ask us to leave."

2. this is hysterical. i can't believe anyone would put in this amount of work for a prank, but it's awesome. the best part is they interviewed the guy who planned it, and he said that you can actually hear "streeter" say to his girlfriend, "i don't wanna f*cking marry you!" enjoy.



3. one last quasi-funny story. i had this conference for work last week, so all of the vendors who sell us product were invited in to meet the company. you never think about the men in the world who make a living selling women's underwire camis or bamboo weave sheet sets, but they exist. so one older gentleman is sitting and a small group session next to me and leans over to the woman sitting next to him and says, "do you have the time?" she grabs her cell phone to tell him what time it was, and before she can even respond, he says, "haha...just a little joke, i'm wearing two watches!" he pulled his shirt sleeve up to show that he was, in fact, wearing two watches. it was such a terrible joke i laughed out loud.