13+ hours

I started watching college football at 9 a.m. yesterday and ended after 10:30 p.m. I began rooting for Bo0ston College against Virginia Tech, a losing cause, and ended rooting for Washington against Arizona, a losing cause until a miracle fluke of a play at the end of the game. I didn't only watch football, often multitasking and actually editing two of the readings from last Wednesday, and I flipped between games a lot. Hightlights:

• UCLA held Oregon scoreless in the first half. Then the feathered Ducks came quacking out and scored three touchdowns in the first four minutes of the second half. The young Bruins never recovered. Oregon will be a contender, it looks like. Wish they weren't so wrapped in bad administrative decisions.
• Navy won handily. They, too, have a better team than many think.
• Oregon State mishandled Stanford for three quarters, a great upset, then hung on to win easily. Quite a feat. This year's civil war should be a doozy.
• Washington was outplayed by Arizona but kept it close. They got within five points with two minutes to go and kicked off. Why didn't Arizona go for ball control and play the clock and run the ball? Instead they tried a screen pass, that was off target and ended up hitting the receiver's FOOT, bouncing up, being caught by a Washington defender -- and returned for a TD. Washington wins! Strangest ending I've seen in a long time.

It was a fun day on which I got some video editing done, did a few chores, and saw some great moments of college football.

A more serious day today, looking at student work.