FoOtBaLl SeAsOn!!!!!1!!!go'cats!!!

Being a Northwestern fan is emotionally exhausting. I learned early on to shut off the football part of my brain after bowl game season. It lies dormant throughout winter and spring, perhaps with a blip at the spring football game. Summer has never been a problem, since it's usually busy and exciting. But then one day you wake up and realize... It's August. Which means it's officially time to get excited about football. A couple days ago I ordered 34 tickets to the season opener at Vanderbilt. My thirty-three best friends and I will be road-tripping down to Nashville for the game, and I'm excited to the point of jumping up and down and writing a new number one single which I will lovingly entitle "All the Ways I Would Die for Coach Fitz." (There are probably about 48 of them. Maybe one more.)

I'll continue working with the NUMBALUMS to plan events, blogging about NUMB for LTP, and just generally being an all-around, purple-clad nutjob for the next few months. This is gonna be fun.

Northwestern's 2010 season-

9/4/10	@ Vanderbilt	attending (road trip CONFIRMED)
09/11/10	Illinois State	attending
9/18/10	@Rice	maybe attending (Evan?)
09/25/10	Central Michigan	attending
10/2/10	@ Minnesota	attending (road trip plans TK)
10/9/10	Purdue	attending (night game!! ah!!!)
10/16/10	BYE	and on the seventh week, Fitz rested.
10/23/10	Michigan State	HOMECOMING OMGDIFJMIV! (attending)
10/30/10	@Indiana	attending, and organizing a NUMBALUM tailgate
11/06/10	@ Penn State	attending, or Bethany will kill me
11/13/10	Iowa	attending
11/20/10	Illinois	attending at Wrigley (and likely hosting a pregame)
11/27/10	@Wisconsin	TBD, but it'd suck to break a perfect record

TBD BOWL GAME		attending