Who drives off with a snake in their car even if they did think it was fake?!

I feel the need to share this ridiculous piece of news for the day:

PADUCAH, Ky. (May 29) - The next time Dan McBride rents a car, he may want to inspect it not just for dings and dents but also for snakes. The assistant athletic director at Eastern Kentucky University found a two-foot-long ball python in his rental car this week as he left the Ohio Valley Conference baseball tournament in Paducah.

McBride got into his car Wednesday night with a colleague and saw the snake draped across the console.

McBride said he thought it was a rubber snake someone put there as a joke. He even gave the snake a pat and put the car into drive.

As he drove toward the exit, the snake lifted its head. McBride hit the brakes, then started to get out of the car. But the snake was on the gear shift, forcing McBride to keep his foot on the brake.

"You can't act tough when you are sitting a foot and a half away from a snake," said his colleague, Simon Gray.

The snake was captured, and was being held until its owner comes to claim it, authorities said.

-- and for that matter, who is the owner that accidentally leaves a python in a rental car?!

It's rainy and no one is surprised

So I'm in England right now soaking up the beautiful British weather of cold and dreariness... It's been an exhausting month of doing nothing in Columbia since school finished for the summer-- so busy that I completely neglected this blog!

Summer updates:
- I'm glad Taylor won American Idol. Originally I just found the concept of Taylor ridiculous. But America loved him and they voted. And cause as much as I wanted Chris to win, I didn't want Katherine to win.
- I love my friends! JT's graduation was just as much fun as the original 4 years ago. And this time around the highlights included doubles of Jamison and crawling under my gate with Sudha and Mr. T goes to Washington, being the greatest friends ever by being the loudest cheerers at graduation, yummy Chinese food, Mr. T having a Lost in Translation moment in a karaoke bar, singing Foolish Games with JT, and eating Krispie Kreme doughnuts with Sudha and Charles in JT's car at 2:30 in the morning. I just can't wait for JT to graduate from something else in 4 years...
- I managed to keep my suitcase at 50 lbs. Yay me.
- I've decided to get a goldfish, or mabe something a little cooler. Any suggestions?

I still can't believe it and it's been 12 hours

I don't know about you, but I literally couldn't talk for about 30 seconds. All I could do was stare at the screen and watch poor Chris flounder after Ryan so carelessly told him "Lots of people pegged you to be the next American Idol. Well tonight you're going home."

ARGH!!!!!!!!! What is wrong with people???? Who keeps picking up the phone and voting for Taylor Hicks?

So I understand that Chris Daughtry may not have appealed to everyone with his rocker style, but he definitly deserved to make it past the 4th round elimination! If only for the reason that he's a much better performer than Taylor. Taylor has all the lonely grannies at home picking up the phone and voting for the "nice young man with the same color hair as us." Then again, maybe Chris didn't try hard enough and thought that he could sail on through. Taylor and Elliot put their souls into those performances and maybe the grannies had nothing better to do than call in and vote for them.

When the played the "best of" montage of him at the end, Chris just stood there and watched all silent. You know he was standing there and thinking this is bogus and I don't deserve to go home before the gray-haired guy. I don't know that I can watch the next 3 weeks. America can't be trusted. People got complacent and thought that everyone else was voting so they didn't need to. So on a related note, I found this interesting article on Gabling911.com. It almost makes me want to start placing some bets on the remaining contestants.

I'm still a Braves Fan

Don't worry, I am not becoming a Giants fan, but I am a baseball fan. And every baseball fan knows the ranking order of home run champs-- Hank Aaron (a former Braves player), Babe Ruth, Willie Mayes, and .... Barrry Bonds?!

I don't know what to think about this. Steroids or not, the man still stood in front of all of us and physically hit all those home runs. I just don't know if I feel comfortable bumping Babe and potentially Hank for a guy who we're not even sure was taking steroids. Babe was an absolutely unhealthy slob who did wonders with a bat. That's magical and what baseball should be about. This guy is a robot baseball player with a bad personality and it's hard to cheer for a guy like him. People were more thrilled with the Cub's Juan Pierre for climbing the wall and catching what would have been the magic tying #714 home run ball last night. That's sad to me. What's also sad is that the Braves are already trailing the Mets and the Phillies for wins. But I'm a fan, and I still have faith. At least I know we're gonna win the division somehow. We can at least be counted on for that.

I'm not Mexican!!

Ok, so I've tried to stay out of this debate for my own sanity and my own lack of time with work at school, but now it's getting nuts. ILLEGAL immigrants are boycotting buying anything today because they want to show that they could RUIN our country without their monetary support. Give me a freaking break....

Read this Article about it

So as an American, I am about to go break the bank and fill up my gas tank, do my grocery shopping, and order some clothes online. Boycotting the country you're trying to infiltrate and become members of does not seem very wise in my mind. But maybe I'm wrong and just need someone who knows more about this to set the record straight.

Maybe it's a Southern thing

So here's something I don't truly understand: giving your child your exact name. Jr, Sr. the III, etc... it just doesn't make sense to me. I've always had a thing about this, especially after I discovered that Lee plans on naming his firstborn Lee Will Berry, V. Ok, so I mean on some level I get it. It's pretty cool that a name is able to last for so long and be passed down to each firstborn male. It's fun when your mail gets mixed up and you can choose whose credit rating you want to use in the bank. But I'm all about the originality. I don't really want another little Sheara running around. I think the world has its hands full dealing with me as it is. And eventually someone is going to want to stop using the same name. I mean other than Louis, how many other XIV's do you know? Why not let it stop with me?!?!

Now before you blog readers think that this is an open field day to attack Lee's name, it's not. This is one of those unfair, hypocritical situations where I get to critcize something, but you are not. It's my blog and that's how it goes :)

But I digress a bit. The real reason for this post is a name I heard during confirmation in church yesterday. Matthew Player Loving, Jr.

You've got to be kidding me.... the first time around didn't provide enough jokes?