Winners

Sunday, February 7th, 2010 | daily

daniel1 I had a text seconds after New Orleans won the Superbowl. “Who Dat?” it read and it came from Daniel who last week shared the news that he’s trying out for UW’s football team. That he remembered I’m from New Orleans, that he thought to text me, that I was one of the first people to hear of his good fortune…well, if all the guys were like that, I would have nothing outrageous to say and it would just kill the blog. Overall, it’s been a bad few days for this site, what with niceness breaking out all over the place–Brandon offering to take my garbage out three days in a row, Mitch behaving impossibly chipper despite midterms, and Blair offering technical advice in the most diplomatic way possible, when, after I’d spent three hours in a simmering rage, unable to access the internet and place my order, he leaned over and gently asked, “you wouldn’t have your wireless turned off, would you?”