tourney update and misc.

So I'm supposed to be working on my Strategic Management presentation for my weekend excursion right now so I need to make this relatively quick. I have been kicking myself for not having the foresight to pick other classes that ended earlier so I wouldn't have to choose between work and fun. I thought I was on vacation anyways...

I promise I won't talk about the games much because if you are watching them then you don't need me to tell you what happened and if you want commentary Page 2 of espn.com has a hilarious recap of the games in a daily diary. But this is my blog so these are my thoughts:

Romania has surprised everyone with their tenacity and bunker ball defense that even had enough courage to stand up to ribery's ugliness. I still say if Thierry Henry was in the game France would have put one away but that's just my own biases coming into play. Italy got whooped one of the best games so far of the tournament. The Dutch were outnumbered 3-1 in the Fanzone but that didn't stop them from going nuts. What else...oh yeah. The first half of the Sweden/Greece game I literally wanted to die. It was one of the most boring halves of soccer I've seen. Ryan Hoch pointed out to me that it looked like the Simpsons episode where they make fun of soccer and the players just pass it back and forth the whole time and not score. Spain looks like they are gonna be a tough team to beat as long as they don't choke. I found myself bewildered at this Spanish striker who wasn't Fernando Torres who was scoring all the goals (Who the hell is David Villa?). Portugal just soundly beat the Czech Republic in what I called the We don't want to play Germany in the Quarterfinals Bowl. The other game was pretty boring too. I was expecting more fights. Tonight I'm going to try to sneak away from this presentation and head to Fanzone for the Austria/Poland game tonight, because if Austria wins, that is where I want to be. They probably won't win, but I can still believe.

(at this point I realize that I broke my promise about talking about the games)

In other news I got an e-mail from my landlord telling me to remove the couch and pool from the front lawn. I knew about the couch but pool? Where the heck did we get a pool? How big is this pool? I have a bad feeling that my house on campus is starting to turn into a circus and that I'll have some surprises in store for me when I get back home.

After this weekend I will be 4 classes down and 1 to go with my online class that I'll be doing for the better part of the rest of my summer when I get to Champaign.

Have I mentioned that this weekend excursion destination is unknown? With Austria's tradition of having creepy molester people I'm a little wary of following this teacher guy anywhere...

If I don't report back by Monday send a search team.

cheers