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3/14/03 Brooklyn, NY I got

3/14/03 Brooklyn, NY

I got drunk tonight for the second night in a row something I haven't done in earnest since about 1995 – so I'll keep this mercifully short lest I start posting my PIN numbers and start talking about the fetish catalogues we used to order in high school. But I will say this: losing makes you appreciate a win more than you can possibly imagine.

Just a few short weeks ago I posted my whimpering sobs about falling to Maryland by 40; tonight, we kicked their ass when it mattered most: in the ACC Championship. Normally, I would have been "jubilant but restrained," opting to begin worrying about tomorrow's game immediately, but in this yo-yo year of ying and yang, I've come to savor the victories that are, not those that would be.

To be clear, that kind of Buddhism apparently requires a fishtank full of Sex on the Beach shots with ten straws.

Neil Balas, Lindsay and I being good Buddhists