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… the embarrassing loss of the Bruins to Memphis at tonight’s Final Four game

and

… the loss of the EB on this trip. He is missing. We don’t know where he is. Last we heard, he was in Dallas. He was supposed to meet us in San Antonio, but he missed his flight from Baltimore and got stuck on standby and missed the Final Four games. Doh. Hoping he gets in tomorrow.

I liveblogged to L.A. Metblogs in my post entitled broken hearted bruin girl in san antonio but was having technical difficulties. Check this out:

April 5th, 2008 @ 6:24 PM Sports

[Un-editors note: Joz is apparently live blogging from the UCLA game in San Antonio, but is restricted to using the comments due to her use of a PDA. -Markland]

UPDATE 4/6/08 @ 12:34am CT: Sorry for all the wonkiness with my post today. I attempted to liveblog from the Alamodome via PDA from the NCAA Men’s Basketball Final Four games, but my PDA only posted my title and not the content of the post. I started pecking away at my post during the second half of the UCLA/Memphis game, when it was pretty clear that the Bruins were not going to be advancing. We held out hope, but it was futile.

It turned out that I could leave comments via PDA, so I tried to continue blogging during the Kansas/North Carolina game.

Final scores:
(3) UCLA: 63
(2) Memphis: 78

(4) Kansas: 84
(1) North Carolina: 66

For those of us who were hoping to celebrate a UCLA championship here in San Antonio, we are disappointed with the results of this game. I’m back at my hotel room, having some booze to sooth the pain.

COMMENTS I MADE:
1. jozjozjoz (la_joz) April 5th, 2008 6:35 pm
since i am sitting in the alamodome watching the second of the final four games I thought i’d attempt to blog via pda. don’t know what happened to my post. more later but there are a lot of bummed ucla fans here with me.

2. jozjozjoz (la_joz) April 5th, 2008 6:43 pm
can I just say that I certainly feel for the tarheel fans here right now? the score with 5 minutes left in the first half is 40-12; kansas is on fire.

dude, at least the bruins were only 3 points behind at half time.

needless to say the jayhawks fans are going bezerk here.

3. jozjozjoz (la_joz) April 5th, 2008 7:15 pm
thanks to markland for the un-editor’s note. I had pecked out a post abt the ucla / memphis game which got eaten by the blog monsters. sorries for this!

until the misery of ucla losing in the semi-finals today, everyone in san antonio was full of excitement.

one funny side note is that all 4 teams in the final four have some shade of blue as a team color. the alamodome is a sea of blues but the blues i’ve got are the bruins making it this far and not winning the ncaa men’s basketball championship.

isn’t the third time supposed to be a charm? where was the bruin team i’ve cheered on all season and through march madness? wasn’t kevin love supposed to get a championship before going off to the nba?

my favorite bruin t-shirt features ‘the prince’ with the number 23 on the back, the words ‘moute kicks boute’ on the front. unfortunately today, moute did not kick any boute. in fact his boute was pwned.

oh my boys.

why do I let you break my heart like this year after year?

will I ever learn?

or wil you guys finally redeem yourselves and bring the championship back to westwood one of these years?

a bruin girl can keep wishing, I guess…

until then, are there any bruin fans in san antonio who need a drink or two to drown your sorrows? cuz that’s what i’m thinking I need.

4. jozjozjoz (la_joz) April 5th, 2008 7:42 pm
on the bright side I am enjoying the north carolina / kansas game a lot more now that unc has made up much of its deficit in the second half and is within 5 points of kansas with 9 minutes left to play.

that and because we moved away from the annoying fans we were next to.

hey we are all here to root for our teams, lady. you don’t need to be quite so loud in my ear and you can sit down in your seat once in a while cuz that’s kind of what it’s for. other people kind of want to watch the game, too.

That’s the goal for the next 20 minutes, anyway.

Sorry if I don’t make any sense. I’m a little sleep-deprived and I’ve been a little stressed out.

Right now I’m sitting in a terminal at LAX waiting for our red eye flight which is going to take us to San Antonio, Texas. Holy cow! I didn’t think I’d be going to Texas willingly anytime soon!

I think I mentioned that we’re heading to the Men’s Basketball Final Four & Championship games this weekend. It all came about really suddenly, so this week has been nutz. Thanks to Yoshi who packed for me and put up with my anxiety all day and night today. I was a little freaked out and had a lot on my mind today and I was taking it out on Yoshi, so that was pretty sucky of me.

I have been crazy busy for a while, so I hope the twitter updates are giving you an insight into what’s been going on in my life.

Big news which I can’t remember if I posted about, so here it goes: I am officially done with classes for my final course in my MBA program! Last night, my Strategy class got together for the last time and it was awesome but also bittersweet. I made some good friends in this class but at the same time, I’m really glad to have finished this chapter of my life. I still have one last 5 page paper to write and submit via email, but hopefully I can bang that out pretty quickly.

What else?

I don’t know! I’m exhausted right now but I’m not allowed to sleep until we get on our plane.

Oh I know!

Graduation is a week away! For anyone who is wondering where the party is, I have finally secured the location. I promise to update the evite with the address of the TOP SECRET LOCATION of the party this weekend. Sorry to everyone who has been IMing, calling, emailing and asking for details. I swear the deets are coming!

So while I’m on this trip, I’ll probably be twittering and flickring from my iPhone, so if I’m not updating here, you might want to check those feeds out for the latest.

To my taller brother:

I love you to bits and bits and I’m so proud of you.

Happy birthday and I’ll see you at the Alamo this weekend for the FINAL FOUR!!!

PS - I loved talking to you on the phone tonight. You’re the best.

I didn’t have anywhere I had to be today!

What a luxury to stay home and futz around for most of the day.

I did do my 11am call, which ended up happening closer to noon. No matter; we got a lot accomplished on that call.

What else?

I went to the gym today! Yoshi came with me!!! Whoo!

We didn’t stay long because we both wanted to watch the second half of the UCLA/Xavier game at home.

Yay! My guys are going to the Final Four again!!! GO BRUINS!

I’ve been purposely avoiding March Madness this year because I can get so sucked in, but now it’s time to give my boys some props! I am so excited!!!

What else? I played too much Guitar Hero today. I think a grand total of five hours worth over the course of the day. I have hand cramps. Ow. And pathetic. In fact, it’s hard to type.

I didn’t clean my desk, but I still have tomorrow to tackle that.

Another bout of insomnia, despite being totally exhausted.

-Had dinner tonight in Larchmont Village with my old friend Greg. He treated me to a sushi dinner because he can’t make it to my graduation party next month since he’ll be in Europe. Greg and I go back over a decade now. I forget exactly how we met in the first place, but I remember that after I met him, I lost touch with him for a while and then one day I was driving on Venice Boulevard and a guy in a big red truck started honking at me and waving at me to pull over and it was him. And that’s how we got back in touch. Over the years, we both drifted apart, but we always managed to keep connected via email/text/whatever so that we didn’t lose each other again. Since I last saw him six+ years ago; he’s been married, been divorced, became a father, and somehow manages to look exactly the same as the day we met. I’m so glad to have good friends like him.

-I heard some really bad news last night which really made me sad. Over this past Christmas, my brother’s gf’s family came to Los Angeles to spend the holidays together. My brother, my mom, and I, the gf, her parents, grandparents and sister + her bf & his family (his parents from Mexico and a cousin) all spent the day before Christmas Eve and Christmas day together. A 15 person van was rented for this crazy entourage and we did a driving tour of L.A. We went up to the Getty Center and then down to In-N-Out and Diddy Reese cookies in Westwood for lunch. And then on Christmas Day, we all got together and had a massive Christmas feast at the Universal Hilton buffet.

One of the people there was Miguel, the father of the gf’s sister’s boyfriend, who had come in from Mexico to spend time with his son for the holidays. He had just lost his own mother right before the holidays, so I remember that I would see a very wistful look in his eyes when he thought no one was looking. Obviously, he was thinking about his Mom.

Last night, my bro’s gf told me that Miguel had been taking a walk on Friday when he had an aneurysm. He was braindead by the time he arrived at the hospital. Some immediate family members traveled immediately to be at his side and then they took him off of life support on Sunday.

I was shocked to hear this, and obviously, the parallels to my own father’s passing were not lost on me. Even though I only met him for those couple of days, I’m saddened to hear of his passing and send good thoughts to his family who have suffered multiple losses in such a short time. My heart aches for them because I know too well the shock and grief you feel when someone you love is taken from you so suddenly.

(written on 4/26/06 @ 4:00am)

…but probably won’t get to.

-NEW BLOG DESIGN! What a surprise to come home to this after my Sim! Thanks, The Other Yoshi!

-Dinner with TCho on Wednesday night @ Lucques. Loved meeting him! I have a picture I need to get off the camera and to send him too.

-Post-Simulation celebration with my female teammates. There is a picture of us and our giant margaritas of different flavors also on my camera. That won’t get posted here. Was very happy to see that the Stanford Men’s Basketball team won in overtime. If they had lost, I would have been scared to come home to an unhappy Yoshi.

-Watched the UCLA Men’s Basketball team’s exciting win. I was nervous there for a while, but my boys pulled through. I love March Madness, but I’ve had to ignore most of it because of school this year. Trying not to pay too much attention or to get sucked in too much.

-Watched WHEN HARRY MET SALLY on TV last night on a whim. Was so exhausted after the Sim, I crashed out in front of the TV and let my brain rest for hours on end. I had forgotten a lot of that movie, so it was almost like watching the movie for the first time again.

-Guitar Hero at home after the Sim and some today. I still suck, but I’m a little better than I was before.

-Today: Stayed home and vegged out. Slept for several hours in the middle of the day as well. Watched TV and played more Guitar Hero. Waited for a while for call with a client in India but then she emailed and said she wants to reschedule to tomorrow. Doh.