06, 07, 08.

another reason to be thankful for vacation:

for the next week of my life,

no one's bottom, hiney, tushie, or bootie will be a point of reference in any conversation.

no more:

"we sit in chairs. sit down. sit in the chair. sit on your bottom in the chair."

"this slide is tall, you have to sit on your bottom. you can go down head first on the other one. sit on your bottom. sit on your bottom."

etc.

trust me, you don't want to know what the "etc." is.

tonight i went to my first ever A-Sun tournament, to see belmont play.

i like tournament energy! the pep bands were battling, the cheerleaders were disrespecting each other's time on the floor.. it was great.

we lost.

the seniors on that team have never lost.

because belmont won the championship for the past three years.

there was this nice little "friday night lights" moment right at the end. they were 5points behind, but then it just slipped away from them. it became clear that we were going to lose.

in the movie "friday night lights" the fans of the team do this thing in the 4th quarter. if the team is behind, they all hold up four fingers. that's how they say "the 4th quarter is ours. this game isn't over. we win in the 4th quarter."

in the last minute of the game, belmont was 10 points behind. it wasn't going to happen. the final buzzer sounded, and ETSU celebrated. then, all the belmont fans held up 3 fingers.

because we won three championships. in a row. little belmont! that's part of belmont basketball history forever.

but it definately felt like friday night lights.

and it was definately a sad moment. the friday night lights team lost too.