Going to Chicago...all things know, all things grow...

1 Sep

Today we left for Chicago! Call it nerves or some coffee at an unfortunate time, for I didn’t sleep above 2 hours last night. As a result, I was mostly unconscious on and off through North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, and some of Ohio. I managed to wake up fully in Ohio and took over for most o the last several hours to Indiana. We stopped in Lafayette, home to Purdue University and, several years ago, to our beloved Henderson family, for the night at a pretty nice motel. We could have technically pushed it all the way to Chicago that night (just two hours more), but we felt it would be rude to intrude on Bonnie and Jeff (my new roomie and her fiancé) so late at night, so we decided to just stop at a reasonable hour.

Saket and I tuned into ESPN long enough to watch some of the Cal/Tenn game and see that Georgia Tech routed Notre Dame. Normally, I’m happy for any ACC victory (except for Duke, of course), but this victory was especially sweet giving the deplorable treatment GT received the week before this game as a rival of America’s darling ND. NBC, that bastion of fairness, advertised the game with a HUGE picture of ND’s logo covering half the screen and opposite it……..”vs. Georgia Tech” in what appeared to be roughly size 4 font. What the hell? It is not the fracking “Notre Dame game” but the “Georgia Tech vs. Notre Dame game.” Saket and I were both royally pissed off by this ploy and equally pleased that Georgia Tech, to pu it mildly, beat the hell out of Notre Dame. Go Yellowjackets!!