delinquent motherf#*$ers

i am the director of a small academic library that does not charge late fees.

let me restate that, in case someone read that too quickly - WE DO NOT CHARGE FINES!

and yet here it is, the end of the semester, and we are scrambling to call a ton of students in order to implore/cajole them into bringing their materials back before friday, december 10th. if they don't return them by then, they go on their record as being lost, and that's another mess entirely. you'd think not being charged late fees would be incentive enough for folks to bring their crap back, but nooooooo. instead, they remain...

delinquent motherf#$*ers. i am an angry librarian.

on another note, the illini are number one in the nation in both polls. and, perhaps more importantly, they avoided losing to chicago state last night. the two previous times they were ranked #1 (1952 and 1989, respectively), they lost the very first game after gaining that ranking. they avoided that last night, with solid play from everyone, and a few circus passes from dee brown.

which brings me to an interesting point, i think, about circus passes and recent illinois players. the point being that there is a fundamental difference between the ridiculous passing ability of dee brown and frank williams. while both wildly talented, dee brown makes these amazing passes because he can and because he's trying to get the ball to an open teammate. frank williams made those passes because he could and because he wanted to make himself look good. as fun as frank was to watch, he was frustrating as hell.

rather like the students here at this college. (don't ever say i can't bring two wild tangents full circle).