What happened?

Has anyone else noticed the complete whoring out of Beatles songs lately? Every single day I hear a Beatles song in a commercial, covered by the most crappy musicians ever. It seems like whoever has control of these songs has recently decided to pimp them out to whoever wants them. It's a travesty. I just heard a remake of "Revolution" on a freaking Wii Fit commercial. How does that even make sense?! It must stop!!

School=Stinky

Final's Week is upon us...ugh.

I have chosen to focus on what will happen AFTER finals as opposed to focusing ON finals. It's a survival technique. I'm choosing to take to heart some advice I heard on "The Ultimate Fighter" last night. One of the trainers said, "Don't get beat up. Do NOT get beat up. Survive."

I think that's a pretty good life lesson. So, I'm thinking about Justin's birthday. I'm thinking about Christmas. I'm thinking about New Years.

So far, Justin and I have conquered...
...a 25-page analysis of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"
...a 7-page paper on the Communication Theory of our choice (Muted Group Theory for Jesse and Expectancy Violation Theory for Justin...and no, it's not as interesting as it sounds)
...a group presentation where we had to teach Verbal and Nonverbal Communication chapters to the class for 50 minutes, AND
...a comprehensive exam on Mass Communication

Justin and I still have to come...
...a post test on Interpersonal Communication, showing what we've learned
...an oral exam on our analysis of "Krapp's Last Tape," AND
...a final exam on six chapters about Communication Theory

Then, and only then, will we be able to breathe again. Wish us luck.

Bowls? Anyone?

How annoyed do these bowl games make me? And could they have been more predictable?! I totally knew what was going to happen. How did I know? Because I know the BCS is afraid of the small schools crashing their party and causing complete chaos. This is how I see it.

Really? Putting TCU and Boise St. against each other? Talk about taking the coward's way out. They knew that they couldn't leave Boise St. out, being that they are the sixth ranked team in the country. They knew that would cause a complete uproar. The other problem they had was that then they had two "mid majors" that were going to be in bowl games that can and probably would beat any of the teams from the big six conferences. How bad would that make their system look? Not only that, but then imagine the chaos. They would have two "mid majors" go in and butt slap two big six conference teams. And if that's not bad enough, then they would still have two "mid major" schools that were undefeated and screaming that they deserved a chance to play for the national title. There would only be three undefeated teams, and two of them would be mid majors. Yeah, that would cause some problems.

So how do they solve this whole dilemma? "Hey, let's make them play each other!" What a crock of garbage! What an insult to TCU. TCU now gets absolutely no reward for making it to a BCS game. Now they get no chance to prove that they belong in the national championship conversation. "Yeah, you won your BCS bowl game, but it was against another mid major." What a bunch of crap!!!! So instead of two mid majors being allowed to go into the BCS system, and embarrass their system, they just get to beat each other. And this might be the ultimate no win situation for TCU and Boise St.

See, TCU can't win here because if they win, people will say "so what? They beat a Boise St. team that just beats up on patti-cakes all year." And if they lose people will say, "See, they were overrated. They play a decent Boise st. team and get beat." Boise St. also can't win, because if they do people will just say that TCU was overrated and this just proves that, and if they lose people will say, "see, the first good team they played all year and they got beat." This is such a freaking joke. Although I believe TCU is the better team (the best team in the nation, actually) and the more complete team, I think Boise St. is going to win. I think TCU is incredibly disappointed that they didn't get a chance to beat up a big school and that they have to play another mid major, one that they just beat in a bowl game last year. I think Boise st. will get way more pumped for this game.

And of course they put cincinnatti in the bowl game against Florida. Why, you ask? Because they want Tebow to go out on top. They want him to win another bowl game, so they can solidify him as one of the greatest ever, and they knew their best chance to do that was against a Cincinnatti team that plays absolutely no defense. Florida is going to destroy them, and the BCS knew that both TCU and Boise St. not only have the offense to put up a bunch of points on Florida, but that they also have the defenses to shut down their mediocre at best offense. It's such a joke. And I believe Alabama is going to beat Texas.

Doing it this way solved all of the BCS' problems. This way at the end of the bowls, there will only be two undefeated teams; Alabama and Boise St. And who really thinks Boise St. deserves a shot at the national championship? (That's sarcasm by the way.) However, if TCU wins, which they should, we are just going to have another whole what-if scenario playing out. Lame. I want a playoff, so TCU could prove they are the best.

I really don't want to discuss BYU playing Oregon St. in the las vegas bowl either. I think oregon st. will win this fairly easily. They are way too fast, the rodgers brothers are incredibly quick, and they qb is ridiculously efficient. I think they win by two touchdowns. Also, yes, I have no faith in my cougars when it comes to big games. I hope for the best but always expect the worst. It is my own little way to self protect. That may make me a crappy fan, but oh well.

The most insane drum solo I've ever seen!

I was watching VH1 classic the other day and there was this live concert of Led Zeppelin on. I am not a very big Led Zeppelin fan but the drummer started wailing on the drums so I stuck around to watch it. I am so glad I did. This is the craziest drumming I have ever seen. I don't even know how this is physically possible. Watch this whole thing, it is nuts. If you don't want to, you can just skip ahead to 1:30 and watch it from there, because that's where it starts to get absolutely insane. I love this video! I love how it goes into the song. Oh........i love it.

Ahh....college football

I haven't written anything about college football all season. I thought that was very unusual, so I decided now was as good as time as ever (just after BYU beat Utah.) That makes my entire season good. Even if BYU won one game all season, I would be fine with it as long as it was against Utah. Happy day.

I also believe that TCU is the best team in the nation. Period. Over. Done. I think they can beat any of the top 3 teams, and will beat one of them in the sugar bowl, which will most likely be Alabama. Haha, stupid alabama. But I think in order to convince the BCS and the rest of the nation, the Mountain West conference should add some credibility to their conference. I mean, they aren't even going to fill all of their bowl spots. That's pretty bad. But when you only have nine teams, it makes it pretty difficult to have six of them bowl eligible. This is what I would propose:

I think that the Mtn. West should add Boise St., Fresno St., and Houston. And no, I don't think they should drop any teams. That way they have twelve teams. Then you split the conference into two divisions that look like this:

Mtn. West (East division)
TCU
Houston
Air Force
Colorado St.
Wyoming
Boise St.

Mtn. West (West division)
BYU
Utah
New Mexico
San Diego St.
Fresno St.
UNLV

The only reason I would put Boise St. in the east division is because if you put them in the west division you would have BYU, Utah, Fresno St., and Boise St., and the east division would only have TCU and Houston. So to make it more competitive I would do it that way. And then you can have a conference championship game held in Phoenix. I think this is all a good idea. Then the WAC could figure out how to replace two of their teams, but who cares about them. I think this would add a whole lot of credibility to the Mtn. West and it would make it so much more fun. I would love to see this happen even though it never will.

Ultrasound

Everyone ready to see some ultrasound pictures of Baby Boy Betts? Here is my favorite one, a profile of his face with his hand up by his mouth:

Here's a more three-dimensional picture of his face:

If you look at the right side of this picture, you'll see his long leg and huge foot!

The ultrasound experience was pretty great for us. The doctor could see right away that he's a boy. Seriously, within seconds. The doctor measured everything to make sure it's all on track and it turns out, our little fetus is ahead of schedule. Especially his legs. :) I wonder why he would have freaking long legs?? Baby Boy Betts is a fiesty little guy. He was moving all over the place through the whole ultrasound. The doctor was having a hard time taking pictures of everything because he just wouldn't hold still! Anyway, as the doctor said, "he's a keeper!"

If you haven't heard...

We're having a BOY!!!

Here are the people that guessed right:

Justin
Michael
Chris
Keshia
Bryan
Amelia
Mom Laws
Dad Laws

Good job, you! I will post ultrasound pics soon. Oh, and Happy Thanksgiving everyone!