How You Know You're Getting Old

This morning, I walked into the kitchen at work and glanced at today's copy of the University Daily Kansan sitting on the counter. This was the picture on the front page:

It was under the heading of "Student Life", so I guessed it was a story about some incoming freshman or something. When I looked at the caption, I discovered that all four of these kids are, in fact, not freshman at all--they're actually seniors serving on the Board of Class Officers. Okee dokie. I really thought they all looked 18. This is a very disturbing sign of my advancing age!

Speaking of My Brother

I actually meant to post this to my blog many moons ago, but somehow it slipped my mind. I came across it one day a few months ago when I decided to check my brother's blog for some unknown reason, even though he hadn't posted anything for at least a year. Ironically, just a few days earlier he had posted a short film written and directed by his friend Seth (who happens to be from Lawrence), which Eric and Seth produced for the Fox Searchlab program. I think this was some sort of contest, but I'm not entirely sure. Regardless, the film is very interesting and very well made, albeit extremely dark and disturbing. I mean really, really disturbing. I mean like disturbing enough that kids shouldn't watch it, and not just because of the language. I mean seriously.

With that said, I'm still going to post it here because my brother's in it and I think he's cool. Plus, some of you film buffs might actually kind of like it. I think it's very well written, directed and produced, and it definitely has some great performances! The only bummer is that I think the credits are cut off the end so you don't see Eric's name roll across the screen!

You Work for the Government, Right?

Several months ago I blogged about a public service announcement that my brother had booked through his commercial agent. Although no one has actually seen Eric's PSA on T.V. yet, it's now available for viewing online, along with what appears to be every other PSA made since 1970. I think it's pretty funny! Check out the whole bunch of PSAs or just my brother's spot if you're interested. Yeah Eric! :)

A Stellar Start

You've gotta love the opening weekend of NCAA football, especially when your own team has such a great start! Although I'm a couple of days late blogging about it, Saturday night we went to the home opener of the 2007 KU football season, and the outcome was even better than we imagined it would be! Prior to the game, Chad had done some reading about the Central Michigan team we were playing, who apparently returned 14 starters from last year and also went to a bowl game. It was supposed to be a pretty tough game, but KU made mincemeat of the Chippewas, beating them 52-7. We ended up leaving after the 3rd quarter when the score was 45-0. It was great!

Our new starting quarterback is Todd Reesing, who's a sophomore that I happened to blog about last season when he came in as a backup and had a very impressive game. His first start for the Jayhawks was no less impressive! He threw for 261 yards and four touchdowns with no interceptions! There were many great plays during the game, but my favorite was an amazing grab by Marcus Henry (86) where he went over the back of the defender, tipped the ball up in the air and then caught it as he was falling to his knees. It was definitely worthy of Sports Center!

Another highlight of the game for me was seeing my favorite player, sophomore Jake Sharp, rush for over 100 yards. I'm not just a Sharp fan because he's a fellow Salina Central Mustang--this kid is an amazing running back! I became a fan after watching all of the Mustang highlight videos from Jake's senior year at Central. Sharp set several state records and was so much fun to watch. You can check out Jake the human highlight film on YouTube.

Check out the LJW for more highlights and pictures from Saturday's game!

Now That's A Big Twinkie

While not actually a Twinkie (I just felt compelled to use a classic movie quote), I did see an unusually large food item of another sort early this morning. For a change of scenery, my friend Amber and I started our 6 mile walk this morning at one of the local high schools. As we neared the end and looped back towards the building, we saw something strange on the horizon. "Is that a loaf of bread?" I asked, which seemed like a ridiculous question. As we got closer, we could see that it was, in fact, a giant loaf of Iron Kids bread, which is certainly not something you see every day!

Amber posed next to the monstrosity so that you could get a feel for how large it really was. They were blowing up some other giant structure as well, but since it wasn't fully inflated, we couldn't quite tell what it was going to be. It actually took us a couple of trips around the parking lot to figure out that they were having the Iron Kids Triathlon there, which is apparently being held tomorrow. There's certainly no question as to who the sponsor of the event is!