I have spent the last few days watching a lot of cable news. I really enjoy cable news because after about 15 minutes of reporting the news, they are forced to either ad lib some witty comment, or just repeat themselves over, and over, and over again until something else in the world happens that needs to be mentioned or their shift is over.
That amazes me about cable news, take Foxnews for instance, my favorite, all they do is hire a bunch of pretty, preppy people (Megyn Kelly), find some news and make them read it on repeat. And when that pretty person's shift is over, they find another pretty preppy person (Shepherd Smith) to read the same news with their person interjections and points of view. This goes on from the morning to midnight. And people LOVE it. I am one of those people and I have come up with a theory about this. It is called the SportsCenter Theory of Television Viewership.
What I mean by that is ESPN records three different versions of their show SportsCenter throughout the day. The last one at night is put on repeat all through the night and into the morning and not stopping until about noon. Keep in mind it is the EXACT same show, every time. But people (like myself and a lot of others) end up watching it all morning. Sometimes back to back, just on the off chance that we missed a play or a Stuart Scott 'Boo-ya'. I do it. Everyday usually. I can't begin to explain the phenomenon or why it happens, but it does and you can't stop it, you can only hope to contain it.
I spent my day yesterday dog sitting for a friend of mine. Her dog is an almost three year old Golden Retriever named Kai. Kai could be the best / nicest/ most obedient dog that I have ever encountered. She has a love obsession with her tennis ball. So her mama had to go to class all day yesterday and I had no other plans for the day so I volunteered myself to take Kai and spend the day with her so she didn't have to be by herself. I went and picked her up and took her to the quad and we threw the ball for about two hours. Every time, I threw the ball really far away and without missing a beat, she would go get it and bring it back to me, drop it at my feet and go get ready for another throw. After a few hours of this, she finally came back to me and instead of dropping her ball, she just laid at my feet. She was done playing. We began walking back to the house, she slammed down some water in my room and then made herself at home. I left her in my room as I went downstairs to get myself a glass of water. When I came back in my room, she was in my bed and taking a nap on my pillow. I found this funny and laughed at her, until she refused to move when I wanted to lay down too. She didn't budge. The best I could manage was moving her over and we shared the bed. After a while, her mom was done with class and she came over and got Kai. This experience just made it official that I was getting a dog when I graduate. A golden. And me and my dog are going to throw the ball and we are going to take on the world.
I should probably get to taking notes in this class. Seeing as though I have no idea what is going on.
I am adding a picture of Kai for your enjoyment.
221 days to Alabama Football
-PB