ruminations on krishna, nostalgia and other miscellany

some of these transitions make sense, some of them don't. no filter, no hooks.

call me irreverent, but i found it funny when i pulled into delaware county christian school for baseball practice the other day listening to george harrison's my sweet lord. for those who are unfamiliar with this tune, most of the song consists of lyrics like this:

Hm, my lord (hare krishna)
My, my, my lord (hare krishna)
Oh hm, my sweet lord (krishna, krishna)
Oh-uuh-uh (hare hare)

speaking of dc, a perfect storm of happenings has me embarrassingly nostalgic lately. listen to the crap that's happened and you'll understand why i can't help but be a sentimental wiener:

1. i've been coaching baseball and hockey around dc for the past year, so i'm on campus and see and talk to old teachers all the time.
2. ted and karen's annual eloping always leads to the woodstock street open house, which opens the door to seeing dc people i rarely see
3. because of his college baseball career, last week marked the first time brett has been home during the school year since we graduated high school.
4. i just found about 100 pictures from the jr/sr at the aquarium.
5. the other day on liz's blog i poked fun at my late high school/early college xanga. then decided to go back and read every exasperatingly candid entry.
   
6. last week buzz gave me four dvds worth of highlights from hockey our senior year. four!

that's just not fair.

switching gears, one of the joys of still living at home is that every night at dinner my mother insists on watching jeopardy and wheel of fortune. you see, in my family we let the tv do the talking for us. occasionally we get lucky and the 700 club is on and the idiot box does the praying for us too! i kid. and digress. anwyho, i've got no beef with jeopardy. it's fun to correctly answer the answers in the form of a question. it's fun to learn. it's most fun to blurt out egregiously incorrect answers in the form of a question. "who is jake kurz?!?" wheel of fortune, however, is near-unwatchable. i swear the people on wheel of fortune are the ones who scored the absolute lowest on the test to get on jeopardy. why are you screaming? why are you clapping like a four year old who just downed nine pixie sticks in six seconds? why are you buying an "a" when the board looks like this:

CATEGORY: PERSON
JES_S CHR_ST

this show makes me dumber.

i mentioned how i see past teachers all the time. as if that's not odd enough at times, many want me to call them by their first names now. is there a more difficult transition in any relationship between two people? i swear it's easier to be friends with an ex than to start calling an old teacher by his first name. "hey, mr houghton errrr, thom!"

yikes.