A Memorable Event

I told myself I was not going to put another post in my blog until there was something blogworthy to post. Well, this afternoon after the Clemson game was about as blogworthy as it gets. Here is the sequence of events for the entire day up to this point:

8:45: I wake up, still drunk, and decide it's time to go to the futon. I fall back asleep.
10:45: I wake up again, this time for good, and fuck around for awhile
11:00: I decide to wash my fleece, which has been stained by evil hot sauce, which I paraded around with last night, spilling it all over myself.
11:30: Chris Butts, the man with the plan, lets me know he will be here around 12:15. I am pleased with this information.
12:12: As I go to remove my jacket from the dryer, I walk right by Chris Butts, who I had just called. He comes with me to get my jacket, and from there, we go to the game.
12:56: We arrive at the game just as the team is coming out of the tunnel. We nod to each other regarding our perfect timing.
1:03: Tipoff.
1:05: Clemson takes a 1-0 lead.
108: Oliver Purnell is called for a technical 90 seconds into the game. We lead 4-1.
1:34:06: Jawad throws down a NASTY Dunk on someone.
1:34:25: Jawad throws down ANOTHER nasty dunk. We lead 29-12
1:51: Halftime, we are busting their ass.
2:34: Marvin with a SICK pass off Melvin's save, leading to yet another Jawad Dunk.
2:57: We win. 88-56, we find Dan and leave.
3:11: We get to the room, and on the way, I remind Chris Butts of wings. We spoke about eating wings the night before at Top O, and he agreed that we should do it.
3:20: Jimmy says that he's going to come.
3:22: Jimmy says he's not coming anymore.
3:35: Chris and I make the trek to the Wrangler, located in beautiful Morehead Plantearium parking lot. We take the walk through the arboretum, cause it's a good shortcut. We see 2 people have a romantic picnic. We couldn't tell if it was 2 guys or a guy and a girl. I am weirded out by people whose gender is unidentifiable upon first look.
3:42: We get in the car, and Chris drives up to the gate, expecting it to open. No such luck. We see a lady sitting in a booth, so we drive towards the booth and the other gate. Of course, we go thte wrong way, as Chris drove straight towards the booth, which is blocked by poles not allowing us to go through. So we drive around, taking the long way due to a Chris Butts driving mistake. This would come to be a recurring pattern of the afternoon. Chris finds that he must pay a dollar to get out, which is actually good, as we thought it would be more.
3:45: After dealing with the hit due to the toll, Chris and I head towards the establishment of Wingstop, an old favorite of mine from Charlotte. I saw on their website that one existed near Southpoint, so we decided it would be the place of wings. We are on the way, and discuss listserv miusue and an impending trip to Dick's to purchase a backboard for the dartboard. Chris also nearly gets in 3 accidents in a short time period of about 2 minutes. I fear for my life.
3:59: We arrive at the glorious place of Wingstop. We get 10 wings apiece, and I get fries, which are good as hell. I am hungry as a motherfucker for wings. They tell me the wings will be ready after the customary 14 minute wait. I decide I can handle it, like I don't have a choice.
4:17: 14 minutes my ass. It takes them 16 minutes, and we eat the wings. They're very good, but pretty damn small. This gets them a B on the Butts scale of excellence, but if the wings were bigger, they'd have an A+. The sauce there is kick ass, and I will return. Their Fries are the shit also. It's an all around good place for wings. I endorse it fully.
4:35: Wings are done and I want they new Diet Cherry Vanilla Dr. Pepper, and there is a Kroger next door, so we enter, and our worlds become fucked forever. The produce is on the LEFT. The freezers are on the RIGHT. There are vertical aisles and HORIZONTAL aisles. They sell GRAPEFRUIT SODA! They have a damn Chinese Fast Food restaurant IN THE STORE! WHAT THE FUCK!? They have a BUNCH of weird shit. However, no DCVDP. This leads me to look at other sodas, of the 2 liter variety, cause that's what I want. So I look around, and finally discover 2 things. Fresca is what I love, and I get it. I was about to get a 2 liter of Cream Soda when I see something new. Something different. Something that could be above average. 7 Up Plus. I decide to go with it, even though I'd never had it before....more on this later.
4:50: We recover from the Kroger experience, and realize it's Dick's time. We get in the left turn lane to go on Fayetteville road, but then decide to go straight to the 273 exit. Easily the more logical choice. We're going OK, but then we get on the off ramp at faithful old 270...
4:59: We get to the stoplight from the off ramp. There are 3 lanes. We block out the fact that we've gone to Outback/Dicks multiple times, and choose the middle lane that allows you to go left OR right. We, in our infinite wisdom, go left, AKA, the wrong way. We make a U-Turn, however, in which CButts burns the hell out of some old woman, leading us to celebrate proudly.
5:05: We are near Dick's, we take the left turn in, and Chris passes the first entrance. We approach the second, and final entrance, and Chris, looking at me, says "I know how to get in here quickly and avoid the congestion. I do it all the time" Just as he says that, he passes the 2nd, and final entrance. Upon realizing what he'd done, he seems embarrased, and we go in through the service entrace, behind Dick's. There is a woman with a flat tire, of course, slowing us down AGAIN. We get by this roadblock, and realize that it is necessary to go ALL the way around, past Wal-Mart, and across the ENTIRE damn strip mall to get back to Dick's. We realize it's taken 15 minutes to complete something that at the most should take 3.
5:15 We triumphantly enter Dick's. He gets the dart cupboard, lowered from 60 bucks to 50. It says Cheers on it, and it is badass. Metal darts also happen, although Chris buys the cheap ones, and despite my urges for him to buy Dragon flag thingies, he doesn't. I was unhappy with it.
5:40: We leave Dick's. Headed for home after a day full of misadventures. It was a good day, despite small wings, bad driving, and weird grocery stores. The Nick Chris afternoon adventure was a great one. I enjoyed it greatly. It was quite the night to remember.

Justin J For CAA

I'm sorry, but anyone that doesn't vote for Justin next Tuesday has a very shortsighted vision of how CAA is supposed to work. Let me lay it out here for you. CAA has many distinct responsibilities:

1) Oversees Carolina Fever
2) Sports Marketing
3) Homecoming
4) Beat Dook Week
5) Hooker 5K
6) 3 on 3 in the Smith Center
7) Ticket Distribution
8) Do all of the above while staying in the small window of funds we are alloted by the Athletic Dept. and SGA.

Now considering that all these things are responsibilities overseen by the CAA President, let's take a look at how much of that Justin's opponent has in his platform. I see Homecoming, and Ticket Distribution. Not much mention of much else. Or how he intends to do these things. It basically reads as a laundry list of ideas. A short laundry list of ideas. Some are good, but also unrealistic, due to the above #8.

Justin has 2 years of experience on CAA Cabinet. Hayes has none. Cabinet is where you learn the issues, are able to see what really goes on behind the scenes, and learn about everything CAA is trying to accomplish. Now you'd think that an aspiring CAA President would come to these PUBLIC meetings, if for nothing else, to learn about how the organization is run...alas, that hasn't happened. You'd also think that an aspiring CAA President would go to a PUBLIC Hearing which could possibly have determined the structure or even overall existence of CAA...but that didn't quite happen either.

Now reading this "No line check" thing is somewhat insulting to my UNC fandom. I'd basically walk through a blizzard to get tickets, and it is proposed to make it so people have to make virtually no sacrifice other than waking up 30 minutes-hour earlier than usual? Along with that, the platform states that this number on the website will not be held accountable by CAA. So people already not showing up to pick up their tickets is one thing, now we're giving them even less of a guarantee of the time that they should awaken to get tickets? If CAA isn't to be held responsible for the number on the website (as it says in Hayes' proposed distribution policy) then why even put it up there at all? Let's just play the game of guess what time you should get down there, because the number obviously won't be updated in real time, and people will still awaken early, they just won't have to give as much effort to get tickets. Because in order to create a MORE exciting basketball atmosphere, it only makes sense to make it EASIER for students to get tickets. Ugh. Also, risers on both sides will NEVER happen. Too many fat cats down there who won't give up those first and second row seats, however nicely you ask. And that leaves probably 200-300 tickets available in the lower level for regular distribution, because while we get approx. 1,500 lower level seats, 800 of those would go to risers, 200 to Fever (maybe, who knows if it'd even exist, nothing in his platform a/b it), 130 to CAA (no plans to cut tix despite criticism), and around 100 to the band. Simple math says that regular students are left with 270 tickets in the lower level...makes a lot of sense to me. People like lower level seats...SEATS...and to cut them down by over 3/5 is alienating everyone who doesn't want to stand the whole game. There's a reason people turn risers down.

CAA is not a joke. Hayes and his campaign staff making it into one just absolutely turns me off to his entire campaign. I don't really know Hayes, he seems like a cool, nice guy, but he hasn't been there before, and Justin has, and has seen the problems CAA has endured. That's why he pledges to cut CAA tickets. That's why he's trying to streamline CAA and legitimize it. And that's why he's the man for the position. He should win by a large margin. He probably won't win big, because some people will get sucked in by jokes and unfeasible promises, but he still should win nonetheless. And you should vote for him. Young Dems and BSM think so, as will likely GPSF, Fever, AND the DTH. If he goes 5 for 5 in endorsements, there's a reason...it's that experience matters, as does knowing what you're talking about, and that's why he deserves your vote without much deliberation on February 8th. JUSTIN J FOR CAA!