May 2002 Archives

So the season is over for Philadelphia. I’m glad. As I said to Jason the other night, I’m tired of all the AI hype. I’m not hating on him because y’all know he’s my other baby’s daddy but at the same time shut up about him already. Besides, it’s refreshing to see a team like Boston pull it out. Their challenge now is facing Detroit. With neither team having playoff experience, it will be interesting to watch how this turns out. I’m putting my money on the Celtics. Stackhouse is only one man and he can’t make the Pistons win all by himself. Besides, 5 points in game 5? Even though they won I’m agreeing with Charles Barkley who said we need to send the FBI out and find the real Stackhouse and make him play the game. We will just have to wait and see. I have to give Boston props though for blowing Philly out of the water. It’s also worth noting that they beat the Pistons in every meeting they had with them this year. I see them coming out strong in this series and facing Charlotte for the east. I predict a sweep.

Charlotte took T-Mac and the rest of the Orlando Magic to the hole and left them there. Now they will face the New Jersey Nets who dominated them in all their meetings this season. I still have faith that Charlotte is going to come out the winner in this series. In their first meeting with the Magic in round one I was skeptical but then they pulled it out in the next three games and I was impressed. Charlotte is hungry and they have the fire. All I’m saying is New Jersey and Jason the Kidd better watch out. I think the Hornets can take the Nets in 5.

This brings us to the Western Conference match ups. I’ll start with the Kings and the Mavs and save my team for last.

The Dallas Mavericks have really come out this season. They put a hurting on the Kings every time they met this season. They swept Minnesota during the first round and I hope they will end Sacramento’s season early as well. Sacramento needs to really show up if they want to have a chance in this series. I am predicting another sweep for Dallas.

The San Antonio Spurs showed us how hard it is for them to play without Tim Duncan. Now that he’s back in stride again they seem to be rejuvenated. I’d say that we might go five games except they are playing without David Robinson which means they only have one tower. My Lakers are going to dominate this series. During the regular season they won one of our four meetings. We all know the Lakers are the best so I won’t bore you with a long diatribe when I can say it in seven words – We are going to tap that ass.

a day off
At my new job all benefits begin day one, including vacation. I decided to take advantage of that little perk yesterday by using one of my floating holidays so I could have the day off. Originally I thought I’d be spending the day with my cousin but since she decided to leave town early, I had the entire day to myself.

I started it by sleeping until 11am. It felt so good. I realized yesterday that even on the weekends I wake up early enough to go to work so I don’t do much sleeping in anymore. Yesterday I slept until I couldn’t sleep anymore. Then I got up to do some much needed housecleaning. I’m still not done with all my laundry because I have way too many clothes. It’s coming along though.

so where have i been?
I haven’t been writing here as much but I have been writing. I’m working on some other projects and they are taking up a lot of my time. Plus I’ve been playing the Sims again and we all know how addicting that game can be. All of that plus the fact that the NBA playoffs are in full effect means that the internet hasn’t been getting as much attention as of late. I need some new people to add to my reading list too. I’m running out of blogs and diaries to read.

May Day
So today is the first day of May. I didn’t say that rabbit, rabbit thing this morning. Didn’t someone say that you should make the last thing you say Rabbit, Rabbit backwards at night in case you didn’t say it first? Did that even make sense?

R Kelly = beat his ass!
I’ve been meaning to talk about the Vibe article about R Kelly for a while. They go into descriptive detail about the video and statements being made by various young women who allege that Kelly had sexual relations with them while they were still fourteen or fifteen years old. I’m not going to post the details of everything the article said but suffice it to say that negro is going to HELL!

Where's Chandra?
Today marks the one-year anniversary of the disappearance of Chandra Levy. Boy, we all sure forgot about her huh. Well, they still don’t know where she is. John Walsh was interviewed on the Today show this morning and he says that there were several other young women who disappeared around the same time in DC and it was probably the work of a serial killer. The Levys still think Gary Condit is guilty and they are holding him responsible.

the high price of fruit
Sometimes I miss living in California. Whenever I go to the grocery store to buy produce I am reminded that I live in the middle of a desert where nothing grows. We end up paying no less than $2 a pound for most fruits. I love fruit and this creates a problem for me when Navel oranges are $1.99 a pound and one orange weighs damn near a pound. $2 for an orange? You are smoking dope. If anyone wants to ship me some fruit I’d be much obliged.

I love Borders
On Sunday I went and spent three hours at the bookstore by myself. It was lovely. I ended up buying four books and I've already started reading the first one which is the new Terry McMillan, "A Day Late and a Dollar Short". It's already got me hooked and I've only finished the first chapter. I love the bookstore. I could just live there. I'd say that if there was anything in this world that I could spend more money on besides shoes and clothes, books would be it.

do I have to?
Why is it always hard to go back to work when you’ve had a day off?

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