No, this kid isn't Ugly Betty, but his team has had 2 monster Betty's this week. They lost to Viewmont, best team in Region 2, in a bit of a blowout on Tuesday night. The first time they played Viewmont, they lost by just a few in 3 OT's, but this time it was a little one-sided and they struggled to ever get anything going. Tonight, they lost to Taylorsville, the worst team in Region 2. Taylorsville was up for them and played well. Hunter had about 2000 turnovers and again, just couldn't get it going. There were 10 point leads for both teams at different times and when the buzzer rang, Hunter lost. Blame it on poor coaching, gimmicky lineups, senior night for the opponent, no offense, little defense, not enought playing time by #44, etc. . . . I don't know. They shouldn't have lost.
Here are the current region standings after tonight:
8-0 Viewmont
5-3 Hunter
4-4 West
3-5 Kearns
2-6 Taylorsville
2-6 Granger
So what about that kid in the picture . . . he got his letterman's jacket the other night and thinks he's pretty cool. He got asked to the Sweetheart's Dance. He didn't want to go with the particular girl who asked him. His mother would have made sure he did go and that he was a good boy about it, unfortunately the dance was tonight - Friday - and he sort of had a prior basketball committment. He wrote a note to the girl to politely decline.
In other news, just in case you think this kid is really cool and all of this is going to his head, he's still just a dorky 17 year old boy. The other night he was at our kitchen table doing hard math problems and . . . well . . . he's weird. He comes dressed in monochromatic non-matching gray sweats and sweatshirt. He disappears for a time (I was still strying to get Molly out of the bath when he first got there) and I find him laying on the floor of my room. While doing the assignment he decides to take off his socks and tried to hand them to me. He also kept rubbing his belly like it was for good luck or something. I told him to knock it off and he just laughed at me. His math teacher's husband is almost blind and she knows about mountains because she went to Hawaii. One of the kids on his team has terrible body odor and another one asked him the other day if his middle name was Judy. He skipped mutual because they were having a dance. He went last week because they played dodgeball.
Point of this blog post . . . I don't know.
