I'm Bringing Basketball Jones Back...

Reasons Why I'm super-excited:
~My visit to Lawrence, Kansas this weekend!!!!!! KU vs. UT basketball game :-) Beak 'Em Hawks!!!!
~Alex visiting for Spring Break!!!
~Alex and I going to Dallas Mavericks vs. New Jersey Nets Tuesday night!!!! Upper level front row!!
~Spring Break in New York City!!!! With Kristin...AND MK!!!
~Daniel and I going to Mavs Weekend in April (also known as the last 2 home games of the regular season)!!!!

In other words, I am beyond excited!! After tomorow (my Art History mid-term), life is going to be bitchin'. But not for all of us...

A girl on our floor is going through a really difficult break-up right now. It is so sad. But he's like 2 years older than her and he's all the way back in Tennessee, so I think the distance is just getting to him. It's like break-up season right now. It's that time a couple of weeks after Valentine's day (because nobody wants to break up around Valentine's Day) and right before spring (when everyone seems to be really horny...because it's spring).

My question for the day: how important is distance in a relationship? I mean, being far away from the one you love has to be hard, but you don't want to be too close to each other either. You both need your own space. You know why office romances fail most of the time? Because you see that person all the time. You turn around at work: they're there. You go home: they're there. THEY ARE ALWAYS THERE!! But you don't want to be too far apart either. I mean, do you want to spend 4 years seeing each other one week a month or so? And it only gets harder as you go, especially in college because there are so many temptations (except at an all-girls school...unless you are secretly a lesbian...or a boy).

This is why it has to be hard to be a pro-ball player, especially in this age. This is not the NBA of the 1970's. Athlete's are considered immense celebrities now. They hang out with actors and musicians, hardly ever "normal people". Not even the hot girls that hit on them in bars and clubs. These vultures are not "normal". For one, they are incredibly attractive. Two, a lot of them do not care if the athlete is married or dating someone, they just want to be able to say that they slept with a pro-athlete. But why? Why sleep with a pro-athlete? So you can put it on your resume? It doesn't matter if it's a pro-athlete or a regular Joe off the street: doesn't matter who you sleep with, YOU'RE STILL A SLUT. Sure, a pro-athlete found you attractive (or drunk) enough to want to have sex with you. But IT WAS ONLY SEX. He used you for sex and will probably never call you because he doesn't want to get to know you. Men do not get lonely for an emotional bond like women do; men just need to get laid. This is why you never hear about female pro-athletes sleeping with men on the road: because they don't. Like every other woman on this planet, they need an emotional connection. Men, on the other hand, need a physical one. That's how "female companion services" stay in buisness: men needing sex. But the girls in the bars want to talk and cuddle afterwards and say things like, "Call me". Call-girls know it's just about the sex, and nothing more.

But what about the pro-athletes with the wives and the girlfriends? Why is it so hard for some of them to stay faithful to their prior commitments? A lot of it can be contributed to ego. Because one slutty girl in the bar wants to blow them, they automatically thing that this girl is a representation of the entire female population, meaning that every woman wants to blow them. And most of them do. Most women want the satisfaction of knowing that a man that could have any girl that he wanted chose to let her blow them, making the woman feel desired both on a physical, and emotional, level. And that is where the male and female wires get crossed. MEN WANT SEX. WOMEN WANT EMOTIONS.

So what about the women back at home? Why can't these pro-athletes just wait until they get home to get sex? Even better, why not just jerk off? That's what porn is for!! Hello!! Again, it's the ego. It's the satisfaction they get from knowing that every man wants to be them and every woman wants to get with them. It's one big cycle of miscommunication.

I'm not trying to sit on my high horse and criticise others. Honestly, I'm only human: I might do the same thing. If a average Joe with average looks and an average life offered to buy me a drink in a bar, I would take it (because there are sober kids in Asia and who am I to deny free liquor), but I wouldn't really think about going home with the guy (unless I was really liquored up and all alone and really really really desparate...and had a roofy or two). But if a well-known pro-athlete came up to me and started talking to me, I would really consider hooking up with him...and personally, I think that's retarted. I hate that I would do that because it is just rewarding a guy for being ridiculously good at his job, and nothing more. There are a lot of really good accountants, but you don't see women lining up to sleep with them...Because they do not have the fame factor.

IN CONCLUSION: It's all about the fame. There is no such thing as bad press. If people know who you are, chances are there are a lot of women who want to sleep with you. Think about all those guys on death row with women writing them love letters. They are being rewarded for being famous...and not in a good way. And it isn't fair, but let's face it: LIFE IS NOT FAIR.