FunPusher, where ARE we? It is called....The Dead Zone

How’s it going out there?

I SAID, how’s it GOING OUT THERE?

Wait. Is this thing on?

(picture me fiddling with some cords, plugs, some whispered cursing...and…after a giant feedback crackle…)

Ok, ok. I get it. I know it’s pretty rude to just drop off the face of the Earth, without so much as a See Ya! 

But, I’ve got a good excuse – honest! Lane Stadium Reseating!! You probably spent some time recently agonizing over the pros and cons of MULTIPLE different reseating options; I know I did. You would have thought Rachael and I were planning a military coup to take over a small country with the amount of planning and contingency-development that was going on. (And you'd have been right! HA! Just kidding...) We were practicing some serious strategery, folks. At the very least, it felt like an NFL team’s draft day war room. Seats were going off the board and we were scrambling to come up with Mel Kiper’s Best Available. But. Well. You know we did. J 

Not that I can tell you where our seats are (HI HOKIE STALKERS!), but we’re pret-ty daggone pleased with them. And, seeing as that’s the place my bootay is going to be parked in Lane Stadium for the foreseeable future, you can see the importance, nay, the gravity of the decision. I just wish we’d gotten pics and bios of the folks sitting near us to factor into our decision. How awesome and informative would THAT have been. Hmmm…let’s see…Joe’s hobbies include back waxing and Extreme Chili Cook-Offs. Errrrrrrr, NEXT!!! Me? I’d have been advertising, trying to get the best folks near me…I’m FunPusher, I like to leave games with no voice left and I always bring an extra airplane bottle – Cheers! 

Oh well. A girl can dream, can’t she?   

But, I digress. I am sorry that we’ve been gone for awhile. Really. It could not be helped. This little FunPusher was going crazy in Good Times overload. (HA! I wish.) The reality is slightly…less sensational. I’ve been working. There. I said it. Working. A lot. And while we got in an awesome tailgate for the Spring Game (that wasn’t), it’s still been pretty much several months’ worth of steady working, with not a lot of Good Times going down. Sad, but true. Have I painted an uber depressing picture for you, yet? Are you tracking here?? Do you FEEL MY PAIN???

OF COURSE YOU DO! Because the same could be said for you – you’ve been working like every other brick in the wall, cog in the machine, idiot at the computer. And you can feel it too, can’t you? That crazy tickling sensation that keeps niggling at the back of your brain…it’s not quite a full-fledged voice yet, but it’s, well, it’s building…the volume and intensity is slowing creeping toward higher decibel territory. You can’t quite make out what it’s saying, but you can feel it, nudging you and urging you toward…something. You’ve got this sense of unrest. 

You know exactly what I’m talking about, don’t you?

I’ll let you in on something – it’s normal! This is what happens to us tailgaters at this time of year. The fever starts to set in. It starts to feel like years have passed since the last game. The last time you saw the inside of Lane Stadium. Or breathed the air that makes you think – undeniably – I’m at VT now. (Yeah, I made a cow pasture reference - I can do that, I'm part of the family.)  *Sigh* I miss it so. But, we are now under 100 days until football is back. It will get better! I mean, not before it gets worse…but, then, you already knew that. (I'm nothing if not honest.) ;-)  

So. What to do…?

Well, obviously the answer is drinking. (I know this great little bar...)

But, FunPusher!? What if you can't spend the next 3 months on a bender? (Who ARE you people anyways?)

Ok, ok. This is what you do. You take it one weekend at a time. Plan some Good Times for at least every other weekend. And go on vacation. Seriously. All this stuff will keep your focus elsewhere and you will forget how badly you were jonesing for some Hokie football.

By the time all's said and done and you get back from your Good Times Adventures – it’ll practically be Labor Day weekend, and we’ll be completely geeking out about playing Georgia Tech to open the season – at home! And then you can get down to the REAL business at hand, what we ALL wish we were doing – planning that first tailgate!

And, given that it’s a night game…oooooh, it’s gonna be a doozy.

I can’t wait.