So it's 3:42 am on a Sunday night and I just woke up from falling asleep in front of the t.v. on the couch. That also means that my spring break is officially over although I'm not so sure I ever really got one. The past week was possiblily just as chaotic (or dare I say MORE) than the normal week for me. Besides being that exciting and crazy time of year for NCAA baksetball - which I'll get back to in a second - the term "March Madness" could apply to several things about my spring break week. First off, the weekend trip to Milwaukee last weekend to visit a couple high school friends. Now anyone who has ever been to Milwaukee can see where this is going but for the kids who aren't 21 or have no interest whatsoever in going to Wisconsin I'll just throw out the random fact that Milwaukee has the most bars per capita out of all of the major U.S. cities. Couple that with the fact that we drove right into a blizzard Friday night that was so bad that we had to stop the car at one point because we couldn't see the road at all (I swear I wasn't hallucinating) and you have a pretty crazy weekend in the bag. Overall the trip was a great time but I still don't consider that a spring break as I'd take a 3-day road trip to Milwaukee over any normal weekend of the year.
Next, we have the madness of NSAC. That's the National Student Advertising Competition in case you don't take classes in Murphy Hall. I won't get into it too much but right now our team is right in the thick of developing a campaign to brand and promote Yahoo! to 13-17 year olds. It's an interesting challenge and a tough one. How tough? The past week saw us carving away at the campaign work day and night. It's rewarding to believe our work has paid off and we've pounded out what looks like a great campaign but it's definitely been stressful. Madness.
Finally, there's the college basketball tourney which I'm disappointed to have only watched a combined 86 minutes of...approximately. Of course I'm in two pools and of course I made plenty of "educated" (see: ESPN analysis) sleeper picks, but a lot of them turned out to be the wrong ones. Who would've thought Syracuse, UConn, and Wake Forest would be out by the third round? Obviously not my bracket. So with Wake out, I lose one of my Final Four picks and I'm not so sure where my chances of winning the dough are. I still have plenty of teams in it along with my Champion, North Carolina, whom I picked to win over Illinois. Assuming that I'm not going to take home the cake I'm pulling for UW-Milwaukee to continue to turn the basketball world upside down. I did at least pick them for the first round upset - PANTHERS BABY!!!
To wrap this up, I'm going to do a little something that is a tradition of one of my favorite bands on their website. That is, post my "Top 5" for the month. This Top 5 is a loose list of any 5 random things making life fun, interesting, or exciting right now. It can be themed but usually has no such organization to it at all. Anyway, here goes:
Top 5 for the month of March
1 - Surviving the drive through the blizzard of '05
2 - NSAC campaign work in full throttle
3 - UW-Milwaukee Panthers
4 - trip to Milwaukee
5 - Kings of Leon show @ The Fine Line
Hope you're doing just fine.
CURRENT LISTENING: Songs from both of the latest Bright Eyes releases (and Aaron Rhody's fantastic trip mix)
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I must admit that traveling to the land of barley, hopps, and Miller (Milwaukee) is a reocurring wet dream of mine; minus the blizzard. I was actually born in this beer haven over 23 years ago. Of course we lived in New Berlin and headed to greener pastures but I miss the smell of the brewery as you come south on 43. Ah, the smell of magic in the making...you hit up Water Street? Word.
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