Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Soccer Obsession in the US - a typical day

I am an avid fan of Arsenal Football Club. I developed the love for Arsenal through Thierry Henry, who was one of my first favorite players when soccer took a hold on me in 2006. In the past, I just checked the headlines to see how the team was doing. This was before I learned about streaming over the internet. Last year I started watching some of Arsenal's games live. Now streaming is often a frustrating process, which brings us to my day today. You need to find a good site from which to stream from obviously. This is not easy. Luckily, so far I've rarely missed a match and found some good sites to watch from. Today, was what I call a bad day at the office. My site was being utterly unreliable. My ideal plan was to watch the first half of the match in my room, then watch the second half during my extremely boring class. Unfortunately, I may have watched a total of 20 or 30 of the 90 minutes. I saw one of Arsenal's four goals. It's frustrating spending an entire match searching for a working link. This is the life of a soccer fan in a seemingly un-soccer world. I guess I picked the wrong sport to become obsessed with. Soccer is slowly becoming more prevalent on the major networks, so the future is bright. I guess I'm just a little mad I had to spend most of my boring seminar today pretending to listen rather than pretending to listen while watching a soccer match. You understand the frustration. Oh ya remember that paper I was supposed to write? Well I wrote it, but didn't finish yet. In true Brian form, I'm going to leave it late to finish. I wouldn't have it any other way.

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