Cloudy with a Chance…

Guess who just put her brackets onto Yahoo! so she can receive e-mail updates on each of the games and can have her score automatically counted???

I did!

And here they are…

BRACKET #1: Which is appropriately titled “Honesty? Only In My Dreams.”

Yeah, it's pretty bad. (Tie breaker: 68-63)

You see… What had happened was my friend C. in study hall just gave me the bracket. And I hadn’t had any time to do research, so I filled it out right then and there. At the time, it seemed okay. But it wasn’t until Pre-Calculus class when I started to think a little more. This kid G. who sits behind me took a peek at my bracket. Cue transcript:

G: Wow.

Me: I know. It’s a little unrealistic, but I’m a bit of a dreamer.

G: Well, yeah. I mean, you have Wake Forest winning it all?

Me: It probably won’t happen, but they’re just my favorite.

G: Eh, maybe. I picked Pittsburgh, so hopefully they’ll follow through. Good Luck and all…

Me: Yeah, I’m sure I’ll need it.

G: Yeah. You will.

Needless to say, the first thing I will be doing tomorrow when I get to class is showing him my new bracket so he doesn’t go through the rest of the school year thinking I’m a complete idiot.

Honestly, I wasn’t until later on that I realized my bracket was atrocious. When I was entering it onto Yahoo!, I was so embarassed. How could I pick Arizona over Utah? And Purdue (which on the hand written version, I kept writing Perdue) making it to the Final Four? Blech! It’s just not possible for so many upsets! Obviously I needed a change. Cue new bracket:

Bracket #2: Which is appropriately titled “Seriously this time.”

Muuuuuch better... (Tie breaker: 75-71)

This is the better bracket (alliteration!). Reasonable, realistic (another alliteration!) picks, 2 Number 1 seeds and 2 Number 2 seeds in the final four, and an upset here and there. I’m feeling much more (three!) confident this time. Let the sports pool battle begin! C.- you’re going down.

LET’S GO TAR HEELS*!

*What the hell is a tar heel, anyway?

UPDATE: I looked it up: Tar Heel (or Tarheel) is a nickname applied to the state and inhabitants of North Carolina. “Tar Heel” is also the nickname of the University of North Carolina athletic teams and students. (Thank’s Wikipedia!)