Entry 632: Sunday Scaries

• Apparently, what I call the "Sunday Night Blues" have a "real" name: the "Sunday Scaries". I like my name better because the word scary makes me think of ghosts or serial killers or nuclear war and those aren't the things I associate with Sunday night. It's more a feeling of ennui and sadness, a little anxiety and dread, sure, but not, like, shutter-inducing fear. Now, Sunday Scaries does have the alliteration going for it, but Sunday Night Blues rolls off the tongue more smoothly. Also, you could come up with parody to "Summertime Blues" called "Sunday Night Blues".
  

  Well, I'm gonna feel sad and I'm gonna feel sorrow
  And I'm gonna have to go back to school on the morrow
  Every time I put my feet up and try to clear my head
  My brain says, no way, bud, and fills me up with dread
  Sometimes it feels like a terrible flu
  Cuz there ain't no cure for Sunday Night Blues

• The Mariners lost last night 1-0 in an 18 inning (!) game, which eliminated them from the playoffs and ended their season. It's kinda disappointing, but not totally devastating. Making the postseason for the first time in 21 years was enough to make it a successful season in my eyes.
  
  
• Also, the Seahawks won today to go to 3-3 on the season, which isn't great, but they were supposed to be terrible this year. They traded their superstar quarterback Russell Wilson in the off-season and replaced him with a longtime backup named Geno Smith. Everybody thought this would make them much worse on offense, but in a crazy twist, they've gotten better. They are much more fun to watch than they were last year.
  
  
• Speaking of football, Lil' S2 is playing flag football right now. It's going pretty well. He's actually a grade ahead of the other kids in the league. I signed him up for the 1st grade league (he's in 2nd grade) because I wanted him to play with his friends who are in 1st grade. He's right on the grade cutoff anyway. He's decent, but he has yet to catch a pass this season. There have been only two completions total on his entire team. The coach is the QB, and he's not great at the short passes the kids can actually catch. He has them running too deep. I'm watching from the sidelines like They're seven years old. They aren't catching the corner post. They don't officially keep score, but it's not hard to do the arithmetic in your head, and they haven't won a game yet. I was a bit apprehensive about putting him in the younger league, thinking if the team was good, other parents might raise an eyebrow, but that should have been the furthest thought from my mind. Lil' S2 seems to like it though, and he's pretty good, and he's always bothering me to play catch with him, so it's working out okay.
  
  
• Derry Girls is back with a new season. I love that show.

That's all I got today -- busy weekend, so short entry. Until next time... 

Update: I was reading the Wikipedia page for Derry Girls after I wrote this, and I learned that two of the actresses who play high school girls are 35 -- 35! I know that it's routine for actors in their 20s to play teenagers -- Ralph Macchio was 23 when he made Karate Kid, for example -- but 35? I've never heard of that. Not even Gabrielle Carteris was that old on Beverley Hills: 90210, and it was a huge joke how old she was back in the day.

No shade by the way. As I said above, I think the Derry Girls is great, and it's a testament to their acting ability that they can convincingly play teens. It's just surprising is all.