Monday, September 28, 2009

Big win...and grad school finally arrives (kindof)

So I had my first grad school exam on Thursday. It went well...I got a 35/36 on it. It was open book and my professor gave us the topic of each question the week before the test. Not exactly what I expected from grad school. None of my classes have been to this point. Not that I mind...just seems weird. I'm not paying for it, though, so I guess deep down, I really don't mind much.

We had an easy win on Wednesday and a huge, hard fought battle on Saturday with volleyball. After Texas A&M beat perennial national contender Nebraska earlier in the week, they came into our place ready to roll us out of our own building. They went up 2 games to none but Mizzou came storming back after the intermission. After tying up the match 2 games a piece....Mizzou but the hammer down to complete the comeback. It was a huge win for us at home. Now we head on the road for 2 tough games against Baylor and Iowa State, both of which are ranked in the top 25. Mizzou's record sits at 10-4 to this point and we have the best start at home to start the season since 2003.

The Cardinals finally clinched the division the other day. Now it's on to the playoffs. I have tickets for game 5 of the first round if need be. I would rather them clinch early, though.

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

It's 7 am on Tuesday...what else woujld I be doing

I am super tired. I'm definitely not a fan of opening up work at 6 am back to back days. It's rough. Especially if you don't get home from class Monday night until 1015...That already puts me at less that 8 hours.

I finally get to stay home this weekend. First time in 3 weeks that I'm not traveling. It should be nice.

Sunday, September 13, 2009

Ugh....what a weekend

So I just spent 4 days in Ann Arbor, Michigan helping their economy and breathing their air. Yuck. While the volleyball team went 3-1 over the weekend...we did get beat by the freakin wolverines. Doesn't matter if I'm at Mizzou or not...I will always hate losing to Michigan.

To top it off, I had to be in that city on a weekend in which they had a huge football upset and my beloved Buckeyes were taken down in the final minutes against USC after winning most of the game. I had to watch the game in the middle of a hated rivals town.

Anyways...it's good to be there. Hopefully I don't catch anything from being in Ann Arbor for 4 days.

Friday, September 4, 2009

Welcome to the the mountains of Mormon-land

So I'm in Utah (Salt Lake City more specifically) this weekend for a volleyball tourney. We got in last night after a long day of travel but overall it wasn't a bad day. We play tonight at 4 local time and tomorrow we have 2 games. When we first rolled in...I was not impressed with the mountains and Salt Lake and all of that jazz that comes with this state. However, today in the sunlight without the smoggyness..the mountains were quite impressive. They just surround everything and project through the sky in a very powerful way. It is actually pretty cool. Hopefully we can pull out a win tonight and a couple tomorrow and get back to MO 6-0.