Paulus Out!

Ok, great excuse for being late yet again. I was ballin' with my main man and lost track of time a little bit. But it was worth it pissing off those punks at the gym who treat pickup basketball like it's the World Series of Poker or something. Not the best metaphor, but here's a better one. Their language makes Josh McDaniels, the Broncos' pottymouth coach, look like Shakespeare.

Now that I'm back at school, everyone's asking "How was your Thanksgiving?" So I'll take a moment now and say a few words about it in case you haven't heard about my T-Day. It. Was. Awesome. Any highly positive word will do, I guess- fantastic, prodigious, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, whatever whatever. It was the greatest Thanksgiving ever. Here's how it broke down.

10:30 AM: Wake up. Mom's already made the cinnamon rolls and the Thanksgiving Day Parade is on TV. Have some rolls, make some comments on how nice dinner smells, make fun of balloons with brother.
11:00 AM: Bring dad a cinnamon roll up on the roof where he's putting up Christmas lights. Hang out with dad on roof, help with lights, survey our kingdom, yell at passing neighbors.
12:00 PM: Go back inside, more cinnamon rolls, wait anxiously for football to start.
12:30 PM: Football starts. Yes.
1:00 PM: Dinner is served, football is momentarily forgotten. Table is sagging with weight of untold multitude of foods. Computer is set up next to table, Skype call is made (after several failed attempts) to brother in Buffalo. Great times are had by all.
2:00 PM: Watch football, nap, eat. Repeat for next 5 hours. Newcomers to the party include punch and Tollhouse Pie. Mmmmm.
7:00 PM: My "second oldest bro" arrives from Thanksgiving with his actual family, impromptu lefty ping pong tournament ensues.
7:30 PM: Go to neighbor's house for bonus dessert and Broncos game.
9:30 PM: Halftime. Back to my house for more turkey before the second half.
11:30 PM: Broncos game ends with victory. Back to my house for more ping pong.

So yeah, Thanksgiving was pretty sweet.

Segue- know what else is sweet? Syracuse athletics. Sure our football team lost 56-31, but one thing is different about the team now. Greg "No Look Pass" Paulus is officially done with being Syracuse's quarterback. Raise a glass to Paulus, the man who threw away our season the first game of the year, the man who threw 5 picks against South Florida. You will be missed.

Basketball update- we are absolutely destroying the terrible teams on our schedule. While it may not be exciting, the guys (minus Mookie Jones) seem to be having fun. And it's translating into a ton of free tacos for us Cuse fans (75 points = IT'S TACO TIME!) So we will wait until December 10 against Florida and then January 2 against Pitt until we actually face real teams. March seems so far away right now.

I think that's enough for now, finals coming up and all. I know you'd rather read this than study, but I think for your future's sake you should study for a bit. Peace out, I'm going to buy my Ryan Nassib jersey now!