sports. totally a word that has no relevance to me. as i'm sitting here now in my hotel room i've been watching the news and just noticed that in the first 15 minutes of the telecast -- the entire spotlight has been on the tampa bay buccaneers. uh -- aren't we like going to war soon or something??? i know -- it's such an important thingt to the city for their hometeam to go to the superbowl, but the whole thing just doesn't mesh well with me.

anyway - i just got back from universal with jen. we ended up using the 2nd day of the passes i got initially for me and mark when we first got to orlando. it was fun. i was surprised that i didn't get sick or nauseated. i must have had a really bad day a few weeks ago. i was the total geek and insisted on watching all of the shows. we ended up on the studios side and after gulping down a venti sized latte from starbucks -- we just got a bit too giddy. i won a spongebob square pants plush thinggy from a midway gaming booth. of course i had to hang it from my neck most of the afternoon. oh yeah -- while there i got to see the 'old gang' from the sales and marketing team that i used to work with. we had lunch in islands of adventure. too bad the company (universal) is seemingly in perpetual reorganization. my old team and department are no more. :-(

tonight was the first time i saw american idol. too much!