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Uncle William Speaks #4
Published on 07/05/08
by John Phillips
So I know it have been over a year since the last time I wrote one of these, but John recently posted a link to one of his old blog entries and that got me thinking and I thought what the heck I might as well. So there are a couple of things I wanted to talk about. The first being that I graduated from college again last weekend. Thats right I now have to bachelors degrees. Now the hard part begins, finding a job. Its kind of scary, well to be honest it is really scary. For the last three years I have been working on becoming a teacher, and while it was hard I really enjoyed it. The thing is being a student is safe, there is always someone telling me what to do, the expectations are clearly defined. Now however it is on me to find a job and while I know that I am going to be an amazing teacher, probably one of the best my students are ever going to have, I have this fear, this rock in the bottom of my stomach fear, that I am never going to find a job. I have the grades (I was on the deans list for 3 of the five semester I got a grade at Bowling Green), I have the awards ( I scored in the top 10% of the nation on the tests you need to get your teaching license), and I went to the right school (Bowling Green is in the top 20 nationally for undergrad in education) I’m still afraid I wont be able to find a job. Yeah so by the way if any of you know of a High School Social Studies position thats available let me know.
So as some of you may know one of the family dogs died a couple weeks ago. Rocky was the best little dog in the world. I seriously don’t know a single person person who has ever seen him that didn’t want to take him home for themselves. And while I still miss him alot, my parents and sister have caught puppy fever. My sister bought herself a puppy that she is picking up on Saturday, my parents bought two that they are getting in June. I mean they were talking about getting another dog well before Rocky died, but I don’t know it seems that they are just trying to replace him. I don’t know where I am going with this, it just seems too soon to me.
Is it just me but are there no good movies coming out anymore? I mean Iron Man are you kidding me? I liked comic books for about 3 months 20 years ago and I promise you Iron Man wasn’t one of them. I can’t believe how much people like that crap, I will for sure be waiting until it comes out on HBO before I see that.
Seriously how much are the Lions going to suck again this year? I gave up any hope for a good team when we drafted Mike Williams a couple of years ago, but seriously is Matt Millen even trying any more? What does it take to get fired? I am not even going to try and write the two guys we drafted in the first two rounds names, but I can tell you I have never heard of them before. I was actually kind of surprised we didn’t draft Devin Thomas the wide receiver from State (also from my hometown of Canton by the way) I mean with Roy Williams in the last year of his contract we are going to need a receiver after he goes anywhere but Detroit next year. My prediction the Lions will go 5 and 11, Millen will keep his job but Marinelli (the head coach) will get fired.
State should be good next year though, at least we have a good shot of beating Michigan and thats always a successful season when that happens. I’m guessing 8 and 4 maybe 9 and 3 if we get lucky. Yeah in case you couldn’t tell I can’t wait for football to start again. I can handle no football while college basketball is playing because then I have State to root for, but from the time State gets knocked out of the NCAA tournament until football starts I really don’t watch that much sports. For some reason I can’t get into the NBA (if the Pistons go to the Finals I will probably watch that but thats about it) baseball is only good if I am at the game and half in the bag, and hockey shouldn’t even be considered a sport.
One last topic before I end this, what happened to HBO? HBO used to have the best shows The Wire, Deadwood, Six Feet Under, Rome, Band of Brothers, and of obviously The Sopranos. Now they got nothing, well not completely nothing there is still Entourage thats a pretty good one, and there is another one coming out this summer about the Iraq War from the guys that made the Wire that looks pretty good but I can’t think of the name. Thats about it. Showtime on the other had is really hitting
some homeruns with their programing; Weeds, the Tudors, Dexter, Californication, and probably my favorite Brotherhood. If you haven’t seen Brotherhood I suggest you check it out (its about two brother from Providence Rhode Island one brother is a state senator the other is head of the Irish mob) Its like the Sopranos with politics.
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Comments on Uncle William Speaks #4
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J Phillips
07/05/08
I don’t know if you were big in comic books, but dude Ironman was hella good. I was pretty skeptical too, and I thought it was going to be corny, and I was wrong. I’m almost debating going to see it again.
I’m with you on wanting football to start back up too. Baseball has got to be the most boring thing to watch EVER. I think watching the grass grow is more entertaining. At least there is NBA playoffs…..which I haven’t been watching a ton of.