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Message: [QUOTE="Hans Sprungfeld, post: 4959915, member: 181"] Hater gonna hate hate hate ... [USER=3806]@UConNick[/USER] I'm glad that I'm awake to read your post fully, and then read the somewhat immediate, low-info, low-effort, low-thought, TLDR swipe with a sour edge that's quoted above. Shake it Off. It holds less value than if I were to tell the writer he should go back to lurking, which would be a crappy thing for me to say if he hadn't - as you've likely heard already this year - "opened the door." So, as to my being rude, sorry, not sorry. That said, you probably made a good call not posting this back when you wrote it, because it might have been too great a distraction in its aftermath, whether it was swatted away like above or embraced. I speak from some experience in the matter. In March 1996, I was a 1L in my first semester of a January Accelerated Entry Program program that was designed to sync me up with the rest of the class of '98 by Labor Day by doing the first year during spring and summer, with literally a 3-day weekend between semesters, and then a week between second semester exams and the start of 2L. That 'week off' from classes began with a 4-inch stack of reading & instructions that was distributed on the last day of exams, which comprised materials for the writing competition to secure slots on various Law Journals for those not invited on the basis of first year grades. Given the turnaround time as to determination of second semester grades for AEP folks, the writing competition existed to fill a number of final slots reserved for some percentage of those in my ~30-person Section. I was so colossally wiped from, essentially, 7½ months of non-stop law school that I dropped the writing package into a recycling bin on my way out of the building, and took a week off. Doing so was a concession to self-care and a recognition & acceptance that I hadn't begun law school 20 years out from undergrad with any ambition to do it 'like usual.' A week was hardly enough rest & refresh, and, come to think of it, I moved into my own apartment that week as well, but that would be a digression upon the ones already in progress, so that gets shelved, lest I be told I've spent too much time in this. And so, back to my time two months into 1L, when I found March Madness too habitually ingrained in me to ignore and suffered as you might imagine from giving it absorbed attention in the student lounge. For reference, because I calculate that you might have been about my toddler granddaughter's age at the time, here's a Wikipedia link for that year's tournament. [URL unfurl="true"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_NCAA_Division_I_men%27s_basketball_tournament?wprov=sfla1[/URL] Just a quick scan will reveal that it pre-dated ANY UConn NCs, and that it was one of the memorably fine mid-90s teams that fell short of the school's first Final Four. In this case, it was Ricky Moore's freshman year, when he was blossoming as a lockdown defender but suffered a first round (?) injury that eventually took him out of the Sweet 16 game that 1-seed UConn lost to 5-seed Mississippi State (who eventually lost in the Semis). Ricky's defense figures prominently in UConn's first NC during his Senior year. And this brings me toward my closeout in response to your Taylor Swift/UConn Rotation matchup. I'll admit to/claim some upper percentile Swift-fluency in the mid-Boomer male sub-designation, meaning that in addition to having high familiarity with all of the players, I can form an internal listening memory of each selected song except for "Long Live." If I were to stream it, upon refresh, I might go, "Oh that one," but not now, as I'm hearing early bird songs and the pre-dawn ramp-up of UPS Worldport freight plane traffic. I've perused your sketches of the songs & personalities, and can validate that it's an ambitious undertaking that has possibilities and appeal, even if it might not find a wide audience here. It surely falls successfully within your pre-claimed allowances that it's a provisional work, not fully polished, etc. That's fine with me. I'll circle back and give it an additional look, just not now. In the present, I want to have inserted a note of informed encouragement for your efforts. If nothing else, I wanted to offer something more than what you received so quickly, especially because I'd seen it at about the same time and thought it deserved better. It just took me this long to tap out my own too-long, too-drafty missive. Thanks for contributing here! It has to have helped the enterprise. That's the real message. [/QUOTE]

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