The Calm Before the Storm

If you follow me on Twitter thanks for putting up with me you probably know that I like watching college basketball.  I have a variety of teams that I’m following this season and though I haven’t been able to catch very many games I’ve been tracking them with my handy CBS Sports app on my phone, and promptly run my battery down in the course of a game. I have been known to track an entire game covertly while being out with friends.

Here’s the thing, I don’t really know how I got into watching basketball.  I think it might have first spawned when I had my hip replaced and I was home to watch the majority of all of March Madness in 2011.  I got to watch my Kansas University Jayhawks play and then my second favorite, for no apparent reason mind you, Kentucky.  I guess that’s what started it.  Ever since I’ve enjoyed watching the game and on many, many occasions I’ve begged to have the big tv in the living room to watch a game and then get sent to the other room because I’m too loud.

Right, so what does my enjoyment of watching college basketball have to do with a storm? Well, I’m mellow right now.  I’m not talking about games from earlier in the week, or how I think the games this weekend are going to end up.  I’m not discussing how much I used to yell at Ron Baker from Wichita State University last season, though that might be because he’s so much better this year and doesn’t need me to yell at him from my side of the tv.  Sure I might be checking my phone constantly if there’s two teams playing each other that I just can’t sit idly by as they play the game, but I’m not…freaking out.

Yet.

In past years, mostly just last year, I’ve found that I get crazy around late January, early February with basketball.  We’re not that far off, folks!  It’s just around the corner and before we know it, I’m going to be live tweeting a series of games and I’m probably going to end up losing even more followers and end up in Twitter jail.  I can’t wait!