Archive - Oct 21, 2007

You can't. There's absolutely no way anyone can predict the way the rest of this season will play out. Up until this point it's been the craziest season in recent memory. That continued this week and started on Thursday night.USF was everyone's Cinderella and that included me. I don't think I ever really believed they would go through the season undefeated, but I really wanted it to happen. It would have been great for South Florida to make the national championship game because 2 years ago it was unfathomable. Instead, they fell down to earth against a very good Rutgers team in Jersey.

As I'm sure all y'all know, Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize for Literature last week for her many many many many many many (it's best to exhaust a word to the point it no longer seems a word, don't you think?) novels, including The Golden Notebook and The Grass is Singing. I've never read a novel by Lessing (surprise!) which is, of course, embarrassing (slightly...maybe not at all?) HOWEVER I'm sure that I've read a short story by her. In my quest to discover this short story I looked through the index of my hefty Intro. to Lit. anthology. Nothin' honey. (Nothing but cereal. What cereal?