The Iceberg

in the Iceberg’s life:

Made another trip to Hanoi last weekend - this time for personal reasons. Don’t ask, it’s personal.

Started an NCAA pool with the other English teachers at work. Our staff essentially breaks down like this:

Three Americans who actually follow sports to varying degrees (myself included in this category).
One American from Northern California who is a vegan (enough said).
One Canadian who can’t even name five players in the NHL, let alone anyone in the NCAA tournament.
One Brit (Englishman…sorry M) who’s a massive fan of the Premier League, but has never followed basketball.

So naturally, the current standings are as follows:

1. The Brit
2. One of the Americans who follows sports.
3. The other American who follows sports.
4. The Canadian
5. Yours truly
6. The Vegan (picked Portland St. to the Sweet Sixteen…hyuk, hyuk, hyuk)

Guess I shouldn’t have picked Gonzaga for the Elite Eight. Ouch!

The good news is that, thanks to Davidson’s upset of Georgetown, the others in the pool haven’t been able to pull too far ahead and - with my other seven Elite Eight picks still alive - I can still win this thing. In order, Go UCLA, Kansas, Stanford, Carolina (though I’d actually rather see Wash. St. get the upset), Davidson, Xavier, Tennessee, and Memphis!

Found myself in the midst of a Photoshop war with the Canadian. Actually, it’s a war much in same sense that the U.S. invasion of Grenada was a war. Pretty one-sided. Evidence? You want evidence? Here is one of my gems:

My rival’s response? A photo of a guy kicking a soccer ball, only in place of the soccer ball is my head. Puhleeease!

Still debating whether or not to keep this blog going. I recently received an email from my webhosting service stating that I need to re-register my blog address by April 7. The fact that the news didn’t freak me out is not a good sign, but I do think I’m starting to lean towards making a little bit of an effort to get back into blogging. No promises, though. Like you care.

Oh yeah! I mentioned in my previous post that I would upload photos of the food I ate in Vietnam. I’ll do more than that. I’ll even upload photos of some sites of Hanoi (and other parts of Vietnam), including a hint into the reason I went back last weekend.

But don’t pry.

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