We headed down to Blacksburg for another game this weekend. My plan wasn’t to not blog all weekend, but that just happened. I was feeling rather uninspired and couldn’t think of any good post ideas to schedule. We arrived in town around dinner and headed over to the Social House, a new, more upscale restaurant…
Hokies
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We won
In case you spent this past weekend under a rock and not glued to your TV like me, Virginia Tech beat Ohio State in the Horseshoe. OSU was ranked 8th, and we were expected to be defeated soundly. But Frank rallied the troops, and we never were behind. This was an amazing win for my…
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We didn’t even go downtown
So this weekend, I went to Blacksburg for Virginia Tech’s first football game. My friend, Lauren, has season tickets and a tailgating parking pass, so I go to games with her (and now her boyfriend). We headed up Friday. I got stuck in horrible traffic, and it took me a solid hour to get out…
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Labor Day weekend
Mac doesn’t get too many long weekends in this course, so we decided to make the best of this one. Friday, we headed up to Atlanta and caught the Braves game. It was El Oso Blanco night in honor of Evan Gattis. Sadly, as the back-up catcher, Gattis wasn’t in the starting line-up and only…
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Life as we know it
It’s particularly poignant that I post this less than 24 hours after the horrid tragedy in Boston. For me, life as a silly, empty-headed freshman sorority pledge ended six years ago today. The events of that day are burned into my memory, my sub-conscious, my every living fiber. It started off normally, aside from the…