Ha! This assumes people were productive to start with! Seriously, where do they come up with numbers like this???

Here’s the proof…

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/recap?gid=200901130580&prov=ap

This week’s topic is things I want to do in 2009. I like this better than the New Year’s Resolutions … ’cause they’re more specific, and they can just be for fun (which most of mine are).

1. Be a good coach – I got conned into coaching BOTH kids’ basketball teams this year! I have pretty low expectations performance-wise – only one kid on each team has ever played basketball before. My goal is to teach them to love the game, and hopefully make sure they know which goal is theirs! In all seriousness, my kids have played enough sports that I’ve seen a lot of coaches – some great, some absolutely awful. Even if I can’t be great, I hope I always am able to find something positive to say to each kid after the game, and to make sure they have fun, regardless of outcome.

2. Cosmo challenge – this one is for Craig, he knows what it means!

3. Watch either Kentucky or Vanderbilt win the NCAA championship – based on pre-conference play, this one doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell, but you gotta dream! In the case of Kentucky, a follow-up to this one is that I’d like to watch a press conference where the UK athletics director fires Billy Gillespie.

4. Go on another sisters weekend with my sisters – girls, we’ve been talking about this for TWO YEARS, we gotta get our acts together and just do it!

5. Enjoy celebrating my 10th wedding anniversary

6. Join (or start) a book club – again, this is something I’ve talked to several people about, and just need to get my act together and do!

7. Be better about keeping the web page/blog updated – Facebook is great, and I have been doing more of that, but I know some of you want more details!

8. Go somewhere I’ve never been – that’s on my list every year!

9. Submit at least 5 papers for publication, and two grant proposals – need to kick my work up into a higher gear, and now’s the time.

10. Have a Passover seder or Rosh Hashanah dinner at my house – we have gotten out of the habit of entertaining, but I really like having people over, and holidays are an easy way to get back into that groove.

Will try to check back in over the course of the year to see how well I do!

Belmont is beating Puke-Duke – that would wreck my realistic bracket, but … oh, happy day if the Bruins pull off the upset!!!

The Wildcats are out … no big surprise there. They actually played well for most of the game against Marquette, but it was just too little too late. Kentucky’s first time being an 11 seed (not their lowest, though – they were a 12 seed in 1985), and first time in over two decades losing in the first round. Whatta year!!!

Puke is back up by 1, come on Bruins!!!

March Madness, baby!!!

Here’s links to my brackets, in case anyone cares:
my “fantasy bracket” through my work pool
my “realistic” bracket from my work pool
my combo-bracket, through cbs.sportsline.com via Facebook

Gotta say, God bless technology – these days, instead of having to blow off work, I can sit in my office and watch the games online while I work!!! This technology has come a long way – I have tried watching games online in the past and found it … non-satisfying, at best. But now, at least for the cbs.sportsline.com version, it’s just as good as watching at home – maybe better, since we haven’t switched to HDTV yet at home!

So far Georgia is beating Xavier, too – that would really wreak havoc on my bracket, but it’s pretty cool nevertheless. That’s what March Madness is all about! Now if only Kentucky steps up to beat Marquette later this afternoon…

Sometimes there just aren’t words…

Does not inspire a lot of confidence in the future…

Honestly, I didn’t even watch this game, since it seemed so irrelevant. I like the way another blogger put it: Gardner-Webb sounds more like a law firm than a basketball team!!! I had literally never even heard of them before tonight. Hopefully I will not hear of them again…