Celtics 81, Hornets 83

It hasn't been pretty, huh? The Celtics are now 24-7 following their New Year's Eve loss to the Hornets (19-14) by a score of 83 to 81. Granted, Rondo and KG didn't play and are suffering injuries that have kept/will keep (respectively) them out of multiple games, but any group of Celtics will make it look difficult to win a basketball game. Here are some stats from today's game that one doesn't usually see from a team with a .667 winning percentage...19 turnovers leading to 24 Hornet points, 10-15 FT, an unusually low number and success rate, only 10 points off of 12 New Orleans turnovers, and the best plus/minus from the starting five being -4 (Shaquille O'Neal).

One player who will have to step it up in the absence of KG is Glen Davis. Maybe it's because he beat J.J. Redick and my beloved Blue Devils in the 2006 Sweet 16, but I've always kind of disliked Davis. He was 4 of 14 from the floor today, with 8 points and a meager 4 rebounds. However, his plus/minus was -19, meaning that during his 35 minutes of playing time, the Hornets outscored the Celtics by 19. Also in the box score is Davis' one missed 3-point field goal, which came with 1:13 left in the fourth quarter and the Celtics trailing by 3 points. Davis has only hit 3 threes in his NBA career, and while he has developed his midrange shooting, a 24-foot jumper in a crucial possession is hardly a midrange shot. While the Celtics still hold a considerable lead on the Knicks in the division, it would be nice too see the second string compete better with injuries on the sidelines.

Differences

What's the difference between my room at home, and my room at school? I just started thinking about this as I look around my room to see a travel bag of clothes lying on my floor, a laundry hamper of dirty clothes, a scrap of t-shirts and winter hats next to that, and a complete mess on my desk - my computer, my laptop, and about 25 other things I could list. But what's there isn't really the point...it's more of how it's there. It's not set away neatly like it would be if I were at school. Clothes aren't put away, things aren't where they belong, and maybe it's just the result of me only being home for the second full day since finals ended, but this year, I will have spent significantly more time in room 39 of O'Hara Hall than my room at home (location undisclosed). Yet that doesn't mean I feel as though my room at Stonehill has become my home. I've lived in my room at home for some 17 years or something like that. Hell, I've had the same wallpaper since I was about nine. And yet, I'm only staying in this room for 3 or so weeks, until I return back to college.

So in terms of what the difference is...I don't know. Room 39 has become my second home, but I'll never see it again after May whatever, 2011. I guess this just brings new meaning to One Day, One Room.

10 Things I Do in College That I Didn't Do in High School

1. Not eat peanut butter. It's not that I don't like peanut butter anymore, I just haven't eaten it in like 5 months. I feel as though I can't eat peanut butter at this point, just to keep this streak alive.

2. Occasionally go to bed after 1 a.m. on weeknights. Now I know what goes on in the early a.m. on school nights...literally nothing.

3. Wake up after 10 a.m. on the weekends. But I suppose that's what happens when you go to bed at 3 in the morning on Friday and Saturday.

4. Laundry. This one seems pretty self-explanatory.

5. Pimp out my room. I don't mean to brag, but my room is pretty sweet. Ever since me and my roommate bunked our beds, we have so much room for activities (sidenote: 86% of people who see my room mention how much room we have for activities. It's becoming a little annoying now)!!

6. Willingly clean my room. There's something about vacuuming on Saturday morning listening to some tunes that makes me think it doesn't totally suck to clean.

7. Wear a watch. This way, I'll know what time it is (as opposed to any other primary function a watch may have).

8. Drink out of the bottle. I literally just had some Sprite in a 2 liter bottle while I was trying to think of what to write next. Hooray college!

9. Go to the library. The best part is that I don't even need a library card!

10. Own (and use) a Razor Scooter. Best $35 impulse buy of the decade.

Room #1

alright so i impulsively created this blog at a time when i should be just entering REM sleep, but the idea of this was too good to pass up for a later time, at which i would probably not be as excited about making a blog. but hey, that's exactly the kind of thinking that this is gonna thrive on - complete and utter arbitrary thoughts.

alright speaking of thoughts, lemme explain the meaning behind the title of my blog, "One Day, One Room." it's from an episode of house (season 3 episode 12 (which explains the 312 in my URL name thing)) where the patient was a rape victim who was totally healthy (and pregnant), but just wanted to talk to house about what happened. so they talk for a while, and the patient (eve) asks house about his life. house tells her a sad story that was "true for somebody," implying that it wasn't true for house. house asks eve what it matters that it didn't happen to him, and eve replies, "they're not in this room." house gets mad and rhetorically asks eve if she's gonna base her life on who she's stuck in a room with, to which eve replies with just a simply amazing quote. "I'm gonna base this moment on who I'm stuck in a room with. It's what life is. It's a series of rooms. And who we get stuck in those rooms with adds up to what our lives are." at the end of the episode, house and wilson are talking about eve, and when wilson asks house if he's going to follow up with her, house simply tells him, "One day, one room." so that's what this blog is. a series of rooms, or blog posts, and whatever is stuck inside of my blog posts adds up to what my blog is, which is essentially a representation of me.

and just in case i've successfully made you completely solemn and somber...here's something to make you not solemn and somber!