Nights of the Round Table

Holiday dinners, lavish extravaganzas, feed time on the way to work. Our lives revolve around the kitchen table, however usually the memories do not directly jump to periods of relfection or serious one on one coversation. If you look back into your own life tell me there have not been a slew of nights where you were able to sit at a table long after the meal has been digested enlightened by the back and forth being had with the person across the table with you.

For a long time I was focused on the duty of the kitchen table: eat your meal, clear your plate, and go along with your life. However, lately I have discovered that there truely is more to this wooden feed zone.

-Unfinished but I figured I'd post what I had-

The Summer Slump

With the All-Star break come and gone the dog days of summer are setting. Not only are the Sox forecasted to slump until September (they take a month off in august every year), the Celtics are stuck with kind of a team... sort of... maybe. The thought of football is even a little boring until they get on the field for training camp in a couple of weeks. I have fallen into my own summer sports slump.

The Sox like any dependably dissapointing friend will fuel my cynicism for the next month but what is there to spin a web of hope that is so necessary for a college student having to put up with the daily grind of an eight to five. I know this sounds like bitching but going from unemployment and classes to a five-day a week, forty hour commitment, is a lot. I need some relief.

Tonight while the Sox are going back and forth against the Jays I have been flipping back and forth to the Celtics summer league games. I have to tell you Ainge has done it again. He drafts well. His last two draft days have be nothing short of a Michael Bay feature presentation (Transformers excluded because I haven't seen it yet). The trades have been inexcusable and thats really all I want to mention about that, but his draft picks are great picks. Pruitt looks like he could be a good back up until he signs with another team and pulls a Joe Johnson and becomes a star. Big Baby also looks to be a steal. Do I say this from seeing him play? Not really, but more because I didn't recognize him when I saw him. He appears determined to play in this league and he will shed his weight to do this. It may inevitably hurt him as he may have to redefine his game as a strong forward instead of a fat forward but that is adjustment can be made. He has the instinct and great feet giving me confidence that he can make it and make a name for himself in the NBA. This may not help the Celtics win this year however we can chant that the pieces are in place for the future for yet another season.

Now that my Celtics rant is out of the way, what is there to watch? Reruns suck. Ditto for game shows, World Series of Pop Culture excluded. I'm at a stand still. Please reader give me something. For now I will stick with my pathetic Red Sox and stick it out until greener pastures save me from a rut larger than a turn at Kitzbuehl after two feet of snow.