Cars salesmen are so slimy.  There's an interesting dynamic when someone is pretending to be your friend, but is actually trying to take you for all that you are worth.

I drove 2.5 hrs yesterday to Phoenix in search of my brand new used car.  Here is a bit of advice when buying a used car: ALWAYS call in ahead to make sure they actually have the car, ask for the guy's name, and then threaten to sue if they don't actually have the car when you get there.  I had five vehicles in mind, all five of which were on the dealership websites late Saturday night (and actually are still on there today).  But somehow, when I got there on Sunday morning, everything had been magically sold the night before and had already been driven off the lot.  And somehow, there's always a "similar vehicle" that they have for just a weeeee bit more.  Every place was the same - the ol' bait and switch.  One place even had the gall to show me a "similar vehicle" for $10K more.  Yeah right, don't give me that bullshit, I'm not stupid.

By the time I got back to Tucson at 9pm, my head was pounding, my blood was a-boiling, and I needed to go home and finish up my presentation for work in the morning.  I dropped the boyfriend off at his place and started driving home.  In my depressed state, I accidentally hit the dividing curb while making a left turn.  "No biggie," I thought, "At least there wasn't anyone there [this time]."  I stop by a gas station to replenish the $60 worth of gas that I had wasted driving to Phoenix, and to my delightful surprise, there is a hole in my back tire, the size of my fist.  I had been driving on a shredded tire for the past 15 miles, which of course was just the icing on top of an amazing day.

Miles put on my car driving to and from Phoenix: 300
Hours wasted going to Phoenix: 9
Cost of gas: $60
Cost of meals: $60
Seeing your concerned boyfriend rush over to change your tire after you call him hysterically crying: priceless

It really is the small things that warm your heart the most <3.

Good times...

Wait... who are those people?  Did I attend that event?  Do I own that scarf??

I often think that people look alike.  However, I rarely think that people look like me.  I like to think that I'm special, haha.  But no more.  This past year I met another girl, whom we shall call Jenny W.  Everyone's telling me that she's my long lost twin, despite her being 3 years younger than me.  Not only do we share the same first name, but our brothers do as well.  I often joked that we couldn't stand too close to each other, lest the universe implode.  But I never thought we looked that much alike... or do we?

There have been multiple instances this year where I have come across a picture on facebook and thought to myself, "Why wasn't this tagged to me," only to realize that the picture is in fact not of me, but of Jenny W.  Does this mean we really do look alike?  When I myself am doing double takes?

I am only in half of the above pictures.  Can you guess which ones?

Thank you Bruins for sending the BCS into another tizzy and exposing it for the crappy system that it is.  Nonetheless, until we switch to the long overdue playoff system, the BCS is what we have right now, and it can at least do one thing right this season by putting Michigan into the title game.  “But what about the Gators?” Urban Meyer asks.  To that, I present to you the case for Michigan.

Urban Meyer says:

“We’ve played the toughest schedule.”

True, but Michigan has played the 3^rd hardest schedule and Cincinnati has played the 2^nd.  Why shouldn’t Cincinnati be in title talks?  I suppose it comes down to the record, and since Michigan and FLA both lost a game (with Michigan's one loss coming from the #1 team by a mere 3 points and FLA's loss coming from the #10 team by 10 points), I suppose then it comes down to...

“Huh?  Style points?”

Urban Meyer claims it’s impossible to get style points with the schedule that they’ve played.  Sure, it probably is difficult to score style points against Tennessee, LSU, and Auburn, but what about Vandy, South Carolina, and FSU?  FLA won 5 games by 7 points or less, and 4 of those were against unranked opponents.  Seriously, FSU?  Wake Forest was able to shut out FSU with 30 huge “style points.”  Granted FLA has beaten a few respectable teams, but the fact that they almost lost to so many crappy teams means that they are one thing: inconsistent.  A team that inconsistent should not be allowed to play in the championship game, and I'd rather see Boise State get their chance before I see FLA.

“Non conference winners should not be allowed to play in the national championship.”

Touche Mr. Meyer.  I think this is the only semi-legitimate argument.  While this logically makes sense (how can you possibly be the best in the country if you aren’t even the best in your conference?), I think that Michigan and OSU should play again to possibly debunk the theory that OSU is the best in the Big Ten.  Michigan lost by 3 points at OSU, from a late helmet to helmet call… does that really mean that OSU is the best team in the Big Ten?  If OSU really is the absolute undisputed #1, then why are we even having a national championship game?

"The SEC is the toughest conference."

The reason why the SEC is tough is because they've got so many teams that are all about the same (good teams, but not amazing), making it hard for one team to significantly pull away.  But that definitely doesn't mean that the winner of this evenly balanced conference is necessarily the best in the nation.  It just means that they're the best of the above-averages.  And even at this point, I'm still not entirely convinced that FLA is even really the best in the SEC.

“Michigan had their chance, let someone else get their’s.”

Just because Michigan had a chance and lost doesn’t mean that I think we should say, let my brother’s high school football team get a shot against OSU.  The BCS title game should be between the top 2 teams in the nation (something that FLA definitely is NOT) and it shouldn’t matter if they have already played during the year. 

I hate the people that are voting for Florida just because they are anti-rematch.  These are the same people that had their noses halfway up USC's ass last week, before USC got pummeled by UCLA.  And now these same people love FLA, saying that they deserve a title shot, when somehow they seemed to be quite unworthy last week.  These people have no sense of who the real #2 is and are voting undeserving teams in just so that there won't be a Michigan/OSU rematch.  I mean if they are voting for FLA because they truly believe that FLA, who had trouble with Georgia, Vandy, S. Car, and FSU, are really #2, then so be it.  But if they are voting for FLA just because they are anti-rematch, then these people have no business voting in the polls.

As you can tell, I'd make a terrible sports analyst since I am utterly and completely biased towards Michigan.  But I'm pretty sure that even if I wasn't a rabid Michigan fan, I'd still be reaching the same conclusions.  Oh yeah... did I not totally call UCLA and LSU?  And FLA really shouldn't have won.  They were sucking it up until Reggie Fish's botched punt return literally handed them 7 free points on a silver platter.