Light Posting

Posting has been light for a few reasons:

1) I've been on muscle relaxers for the past week, due to the fact that my doctor believes that my muscles are far too big for a person of my stature. He wanted me to "take it down a bit."

That and I've had a kink in my neck for the last 2 months that won't go away.

So, they put me on these damn things, and I have watched my personality turn from "fun, vibrant, optimistic" guy, to "melancholy, dreary, agnostic, ambivilant" guy. Once I noticed that I was on this downward spiral, I threw the damn things away.

It leads me to the question of why doctors are so quick to prescribe medication for any and every ailment. He didn't even check me out, I told him what was wrong, and the next thing you know, I'm standing in the pharmacist's line with THREE prescriptions. The side effects of these things is far worse than the pain I wanted to go away in the first place.

2) Speaking of downward spiral, how about those Indiana Hoosiers? The one good thing about these drugs is that as I listened to their last two losses with emotional output of the anti-Andrew Sullivan.

It is really hard to watch a team so talented play with so little confidence. From what Don Fischer was saying on the radio, it seems like they are playing hard, but they look lost and completely out of sync. I think this team has the talent to turn it around, but do they have the confidence in themselves to believe that they can beat anyone they step on the floor with?

So far, it looks like we are stuck with another bubble-team.

The reason why the demise of this year's team stings Indiana fans so badly, is because next year, we'll be watching two of the best high-school players the state of Indiana has produced in a long time play for Ohio State. We know that this year is our year to do our damage. Sadly, all the young talent sitting on the bench for IU looks mediocre, and even if they improve, I don't think we'll have enough to match up with 7 ft 1 inch Greg Oden.

3) Didn't you read yesterday's post? It is 70-plus degrees out. I'm going outside to play...with a gimpy neck and enough drugs to kill a couple of hippies on Haight Street.