Silly Me

Firstly, two important Michigan sports notes...well, three:
- Michigan vs. Iowa, Big Ten Tourney round 1, 2:30 pm Thursday. Michigan wins, and they're in the Tourney I guarantee
- Michigan Hockey's CCHA playoff run starts Friday, 7:35pm vs. Western Michigan. Be there.
- Football Spring Practice is upon us. The skyboxes are actually looking slightly decent, but still huge and unjust...and the wiping clean of a 3-9 season no one wanted is nearly complete.

I haven't had much to say lately...I guess it's more out of laziness, really. I've been reading all kinds of great news stories and blogs and social networking sites, but I could not come up with any angle for any of that stuff I've read. Regular posts will be resuming, likely tomorrow, and I already have some ideas. In the meantime, on a more personal note, I've shifted gears in my life to two things: applying for public-service jobs in Washington (I will get there, Barack!), and deciding where to go for graduate school.

So I'm going to conduct an unscientific poll. For applying to a graduate program, where should I go?

a) Indiana University School of Journalism
b) U of M' s School of Public Policy, or another UM program in which I can write things
c) Somewhere for a History Master's program
d) Living at home with parents and attending Western Michigan University or KVCC Center for New Media
e) Another place I haven't thought of

*Note that the final winner will have no bearing on my actual decision. Haw Haw

Meanwhile, I'm working on an application for interning at the White House...as are 500,000 other people more qualified than me I'm sure. Still cool to think it's that easy to apply to work in the nation's highest office.

Jimmy Fallon is doing a wonderful job with the new Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, check it out some night.

I took a trip to North Carolina two Thursdays ago for a golf weekend, and after one round of play, my Dad and brother and myself discovered North Carolina was going to be drenched with rain, so on an impulse we drove to Washington, D.C. the next day and stayed until Monday. That town is an amazing place to be right now, and the museums and things are all so wonderful, finally. The National Portrait Gallery boasts an entire floor of Presidential portraits, the Newseum, in it's brand new facility a stone's throw from Capitol Hill, is the best spot in the city, and the American History Museum has the original star spangled banner flag in a giant, darkened room with dim lights. And everywhere else has celebrations of Abraham Lincoln's life. If only I could work in the city...

Until next time, read this column I found in yesterday's Wall Street Journal by noted historian Thomas Fleming.