Currently Reading Animal Farm By George Orwell see related

It's already Thanksgiving, but I'm celebrating it tomorrow so you'll get that write up in another month or so. HA!

Anyway I'm still on about Halloween.  In October, I bought myself a Halloween present.  It was very thoughtful of me, wasn't it?.  I decided to splurge on a new ipod video.  So far it's been great.  I downloaded several movies to it.  I got some games including texas hold em and tetris. I've also been using it in class to show students pictures of my family, halloween, etc.  My favorite though has been audio books.  I still prefer to read, but it's been nice to just listen.  So far I've listened to Stephen King's novella Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, the Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, H.G. Wells' the Time Machine, and some other self help stuff.  I must say that the Shawshank Redemption is one of the few movies that is as good as the book.

In other news, my flag football club will be playing in the Kanto championship game for the second consecutive year.  We lost to the team that we are playing in the final a couple of weeks ago.  It was pretty silly.  We were winning by two touchdowns and decided to put in our subs.  They came back to tie the game at the end of regulation and then scored in overtime for the win.  Mentally it was a pretty bad lapse for us, but I think we are pretty confident going into the final.

Ohio State is in the BCS championship game for college football.  Their opponent is still unknown, but it is sure to come with some controversy.  I think there are only three one-loss teams that legitimately have a shot in the championship game and that is USC, Florida, and Michigan.  I think if either USC or Florida win the rest of their games then Michigan is out.  A lot of people think that Michigan is the second best team in the country and they very well could be, but I think the argument should be made that they had their shot at OSU and missed.  If both USC and Florida lose then it'll be Michigan, but if not then we'll give another team a chance who is deserving.  The toughest decision would be if both Florida and USC win out.  Florida will have won the SEC, arguably the toughest conference in the country this year.  Although USC plays in the not so tough Pac-10, they will have beaten Arkansas, Notre Dame, Nebraska, and Cal which is a monster schedule.  I imagine in this scenario USC would advance due to the difficulty of schedule, but it will come down to how well Florida plays against Arkansas as well.  My pick is Ohio State v. USC in the Fiesta sealed by USC's destruction of Notre Dame this weekend.