If they want to live in the past, that's fine by me. I'm worried about winning a title next season, and since UT both had a higher finish than OU and had a better recruiting class, the odds are in UT's favor next season. And, going back to the original quote, teams don't finish in the top 5 if they haven't beaten a "decent" team.
Hmmmm. Definitely not before high school - actually, my childhood wasn't that happy because I just couldn't get the hang of being a kid. Or how to get along in the world, or anything else. I was an only child and was alone and bored a lot. In general, I try not to think about the whole thing. Life is better now. Junior high - who's happy then? Probably no one. High school was pretty good, especially junior and senior years. If things got irritating at school, I had the swim team after school. The people were always nicer there. I had friends in a bunch of places, my parents took care of stuff like money and housework, and school wasn't too hard. Though I was having no luck with the guys. Summer programs were great - the kind where you go stay in a college dorm for a few weeks and learn cool stuff. They were all what I looked forward to the most. The single "best month of my life" was Tennessee Governor's School for the Arts. I got to actually concentrate on playing music all day, and we got exposed to other arts as well. Lots of fun people and you don't have to worry about being weird because most everyone is weirder. College - the first year was the other happiest time of my life, though some of that is due to my naivete. Things aren't always what they seem. What goes up must come down. Still, I think my friends and I were a lot nicer people then, less distrustful, more optimistic. Schoolwork was hard but manageable, since classes were big and you always knew someone you could study with. Of course, our group of friends was very tight but eventually it all turns into an interpersonal soap opera, and things got progressively uglier there throughout college. After I got a boyfriend, my life was more stable but never quite as fun, since most people kind of ignored us. I like to go out in large groups. Also, classwork got very nasty and so did the job search. Kind of puts a damper on things when you don't know if you'll make it as a productive citizen. I look fondly back on my one year out of school, 1996-97. I was in a semi-academic environment - prefer a more academic environment - but there were cool people around to do stuff with. They're scattered off on the west coast now, and I spent five years in grad school but never found anyone who really took their place in my life. Kind of sad. I've been in Austin five years, but I find that I'm happier the moment I leave town. The best moments in this period have been road trips - Utah 2001 was great, all the New Mexico/ Arizona/ out West stuff, and especially Santa Barbara 2000. I'm moving to Kerrville later this summer. New phase of my life, etc. Hopefully it will turn out a bit happier and I'll get a life. I do think I'll like my job a lot better. People are right, though - it's harder to find that happiness after college. If people were cool and would get together in groups and do stuff and have a good time instead of just holing up in their little holes, then maybe we'd all feel a lot better... but I digress. Anyway, that's the long story of my life.
you'd think the odds are in their favor, but let's just see what happens in October... And my earlier quote about the decent teams, I was wrong. I guess you can consider the bowl game a good win...Geez, cat, don't get so uptight about this stuff man!
These are the HAPPIEST MOMENTS of my life (all 14 years of it) Rockets in '94 Rockets in '95 Eddie's three on the Jazzholes GETTING FRANCHISE Getting EG Getting #1 draft pick!