Well. Memphis lost. It was tied 'til the last 13 seconds of the game. I just don't understand. If Memphis could play the 1st half like they play the 2nd half, they'd win every game by a long shot. And Memphis has been warned the first 3 games. What are we going to have to do? Lose to TULANE to get this point across?

Besides that, yesterday was a LOOOOOONG DAY. I thought we would never, never, never, never, ever, ever, ever, ever get to Birmingham. We left our house a 9, had to stop for ice, drop off the kids, and finally actually got on the road a few minutes before 10. We didn't get to Birmingham 'til a little before 3. Somewhere along the way, 78 cuts off because they haven't finished it or whatever, and you have to make a detour. Well, that detour turned out to be even MORE of a detour than what it should have been, because there was some construction going on to where they had only ONE lane of traffic open, and there was something letting about 10 cars go one way, and then stop that direction of traffic, and then let 10 cars go the other way. As it turns out, they had one lane of this little highway dug out, and the construction workers took a lunch break for an hour. Traffic was backed up for 5 miles, we found out later, and we ended up turning down another highway, then another, then another and went through Jasper, Alabama, and finally ran back into 78. When we got onto I-65 in Birmingham, our exit to get to the stadium was only a couple exits ahead, and then we took the exit, and the directions I had were to take 6th Avenue North, which meant turning right (I got my directions from UAB's website), but we saw a sign that said go straight ahead to get to Legion Field, so we got confused, and stopped at an Exxon to ask just to be sure, and there was a huge line of people at the cash register, and the woman of a certain minority group was carrying on a conversation with a gal pal that happened to stop by to say HI, and they were discussing something that was more important than the customers that were lined up. I saw an older man coming into the store, wearing a Tigers hat, so I asked him which way was the right way, and he said the directions I had to begin with were correct, so we had to circle the block because of all the no left turns, and we finally made it to the stadium parking lot. Then they wouldn't let us park down by all the rest of the Memphis fans, so we basically got out our chairs, table, grill, cooler, food, set it all up and sat there by ourselves and grilled out for about an hour, then loaded everything back up again no faster than we got it out and ate. Then I painted Michael's face, got my jersey on, and we were ready for the game. We had some general admission tickets, which we got for free, but the stadium holds like 80,000-something, and there wasn't even 30,000 people there, so we just kinda sat where all the other Memphis fans grouped together. NO ONE even sat up in the section where our tickets were. All in all, it was a very, very fun game. It's just a shame that we are no longer undefeated AND we lost our first in-conference game AND we drove ALL THAT WAY to see it happen. We got away from the stadium at roughly 10 p.m. and made it as far as Tupelo and got a room for the night...that was about 1 a.m., then got up at 7:15 a.m., got ready for church, ate breakfast and drove the rest the way from Tupelo to our church and made it just in time...about 5 minutes 'til 10. Then I tought Sunday School to the 3 and 4 year olds, then had to play organ for the congregational music, and accompany a soloist on the piano, and sing in a duet with one of the teenagers in our church. Then we picked up the kids at my sister-in-law's house, then we stopped at Wendy's, came home, ate lunch, did half of Michael's algebra, and now I have to get ready to go BACK to church, sing ANOTHER duet AND sing in the Lady's Group, AND play the piano, then go to my Mom's to give her her birthday present, then come home and finish Michael's algebra. IS THIS DAY OVER YET?!?!?!?!