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I couldn't resist posting this!

This prayer was given by John Brown of Monticello to the East Metro Bulldog Club this week:

Tonight our Lord we are gathered as members of the Bulldog Nation and we thank you for the blessings of being a Bulldog.

We thank you for fall afternoons between the hedges, we thank you that we are blessed to hear the Redcoats playing “Glory, Glory,” and we give thanks for the chills we get when the trumpet tones the battle hymn. We give thanks for the smell of ribs cooking on the grills of campus tailgates and we gave thanks for the chapel bell ringing after a victory, and are grateful for the sheer joy of wearing red and black.

We thank you for those moments that we treasure, Tarkenton to Herron, the flea-flicker versus Bama, Appleby to Washington, that kid outa Johnson County running through two men, run Lindsey run, sugar falling from the sky, Butler kicking it a million miles, hobnailed boots that still hurt in Knoxville and Johnson in the end zone.

Tonight we thank you for Aaron Murray, a fine young man who did not charge us $180,000 to play quarterback.

Tonight we thank you that Mrs. Geathers and Mrs. Jenkins allowed their sons to discover biscuits and pound cake at an early age so that we might have a nose guard for the 3-4 defense.

Tonight we thank you Lord for the potato industry in Idaho so that the boys from Boise will have something to do after they learn they know nothing about football.

Tonight we thank you for the new Nike uniforms. We may not like them but we know they look better than a Gator in a tank top and jean shorts.

Tonight we thank you that as we gathered here that we have been blessed, we have been blessed to live in land that stands for freedom, for those who have given of themselves to defend our freedom. We thank you for the blessings of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and we pray for your blessings to continue on we who are gathered here this evening that may truly understand that it is great to be a Georgia Bulldog.

Amen.

Goooooooooo Dawgs!

The first game of the Georgia football season is usually also the Saturday at Dragon*Con. This year the Dawgs are opening the season in Atlanta, and I'm just a little bit excited about it.

Here's my Saturday outfit. What you can't see is my UGA shirt, which is good luck for the team and which I totally completely love.




Also, how fabulous are those lashes? Black feathers cut into little triangles at the ends.

Truly, it's GREAT to be a GEORGIA BULLDOG!

Still not king.



Def. prettiest.

As good a definition as any. . . can't wait for the day when people are familiar with the term without having to explain it!

The field of Transmedia—the practice of recreating media properties in new ways for multiple media formats and channels.

Foot-ball.

Foot-ball.

Foot-Ball.

FOOT-Ball.

FOOT-BALL!

C'MON GEORGIA!


(Can't wait for September 3rd!)

Let's talk singularities and pluralities.

Okay, okay. . . I'm stopping the wordplay, because I am seriously curious about something.

Two Americans.
One American.


Two Enlishmen.
One Englishman.

Two Japanese.
One ?

One of my pushes for the last couple of weeks has been attempting to incorporate more new media into my life.

I've had some success so far. . . before sitting down to write tonight, I checked my twitter feed, retweeted something (I feel like such a poser when I do that. . . ), and turned on youtube.

My ipod isn't charged, so I just re-created my writing mixes with the videos. I'd be a whole lot happier if they didn't stop to buffer every six seconds, though.

So tonight started the annual pre-Con wardrobe planning--generally an activity fraught with frustration, cursing, and emergency trips to geek-friendly clothing establishments.

Guess I've managed to hit some sort of equilibrium in my life, though, because when I started pulling things I discovered that I was a little spoiled for choice.

I have one serious obstacle to overcome, though. This year, Georgia will start their season against Boise State Saturday night, in the Dome in Atlanta. For those of you that don't follow college football, Boise St. is famous for playing on a field with blue turf. They play in a cheesecake conference, but they play hard and have undefeated seasons. My Dawgs barely made it to a bowl game last year. Now, I generally wear red and black on Con Saturday anyway, but this year, for this game, and with the people I'm going to Con with (they're just as rabid as I am)? Sartorily speaking, I shall have anything blue about my person, and this may put just the eensiest bit of strain on my choices. Plus, the red and black top I've worn for the last couple of seasons got mixed up in some bad luck, so it's out. There's a shirt that I'm dying to introduce for gamedays this year, but it doesn't have that con punk chic.

(Hmm. . . maybe just not yet. I might have just had an idea.)

Who's going to the masked ball Friday night? I've got the MOST EPIC OUTFIT EVER picked out for that one!

Con!Squee starting now.

I want a rotabuggy.

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Editing session with Erika last night. After three minutes of debate. . .

"What we have here, Ali, is a failure of the word to mean what you want it to mean."

and later:

"When I'm rich and famous, I'm going to use as many em-dashes as I want!"