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The college football season kicked off yesterday, and 16th-ranked University of Oregon lost to 14th-ranked Boise State University 19-8 in a tough, ugly game in which neither team was firing on all cylinders. Boise State is slowly building a national reputation, and they've done it on the backs of the Duckies the past two seasons. Oregon's schedule doesn't get much easier after this either. More opportunities to practice non-attachment. ("Don't take it personally," was my mantra last night.)
That reminds me that somebody has painted a big, yellow University of Oregon O (as in my icon) in the intersection at the top of our street, with a football painted in the middle. I didn't check this morning to see if it had been erased.
Later today I'm flying to central Oregon to spend the long weekend with my family. My brother is already needling me about last night's game via e-mail. Looks like we'll be doing some hiking tomorrow, if the weather cooperates. My sister is apparently cooking daal tonight, which she learned to do when she was in India for the first half of this year.
Yesterday I bought the MP3s for the Sigur Rós album Ágætis byrjun. Sharee had played it for me a couple of times on Vancouver Island, but I think both times it was falling-asleep music. Still, it stuck with me, and the Atlas Sound album I downloaded the other day reminded me of it. I'm still not sure how to describe the sound, although I'm sure the word "ethereal" has to be used somewhere along the way. Ether pop?
That reminds me that somebody has painted a big, yellow University of Oregon O (as in my icon) in the intersection at the top of our street, with a football painted in the middle. I didn't check this morning to see if it had been erased.
Later today I'm flying to central Oregon to spend the long weekend with my family. My brother is already needling me about last night's game via e-mail. Looks like we'll be doing some hiking tomorrow, if the weather cooperates. My sister is apparently cooking daal tonight, which she learned to do when she was in India for the first half of this year.
Yesterday I bought the MP3s for the Sigur Rós album Ágætis byrjun. Sharee had played it for me a couple of times on Vancouver Island, but I think both times it was falling-asleep music. Still, it stuck with me, and the Atlas Sound album I downloaded the other day reminded me of it. I'm still not sure how to describe the sound, although I'm sure the word "ethereal" has to be used somewhere along the way. Ether pop?
