• Grade school: Blue and white. Team name: St. Martin Rockets
• High school: Orange and black. Team name: Clintonville Truckers
• College: Red and white. Team name: Wisconsin Badgers

I have a number of red and white Badger sweatshirts. I try to wear them to Evanston whenever the Badgers defeat the Northwestern Wildcats.

I try to wear them to Evanston whenever the Badgers defeat the Northwestern Wildcats.

So...every game then?

So..power in the building across the street is out all day and (unrelated) they're reducing our power supply again today, so the melodious roar of the generators will keep us company in our darkened, increasingly stuff offices.

Woo hoo!!! GO SEMI-COLONS!!!

Within reason! Did I tell you, Tep, about the copyeditor on STARS who tried to put FOUR semi-colons into dialogue? I was having fits.

Wow.

...how MUCH dialogue are we talking? Like, a short, 2-sentence exchange? Or pages and pages of dialogue?

My high school colors were blue and white. My dad's high school colors were orange and black, their rival high school was also orange and black, and they played each other every year for Halloween. Or so goes the family lore.

I suppose my college had colors but I'm not sure what they were. Black and yellow? Maybe gold, but I think I'd remember black and gold. We didn't really have sports with uniforms and all that.

Abby is too cute in that outfit.

College - maroon and grey high school blue and gold elementary school purple and gold - the school was new when I started there - and we got to vote on the colors.

Today I got my act together and applied for a full time library job in another system. Not really sure how much I want this ( I know there is a full time job coming up in my system, but I don't know when or if I can get it ) but full time work for me would be good for us. Of course, I might not even get to the interview stage with this one. So I did something and that is good.

I have a number of red and white Badger sweatshirts. I try to wear them to Evanston whenever the Badgers defeat the Northwestern Wildcats.

I was just wondering if Jessica went to Northwestern.

My HS colors were red, white & blue. Spirit week Seniors were supposed to wear blue, juniors white, sophomores red, and they'd pick some unpopular color (like orange) for the freshmen. Each class got points for students wearing their color but I can't remember if they won anything- it was always the juniors or seniors who won and by the time I was a junior I was above such petty things as spirit.

I was just wondering if Jessica went to Northwestern.

Heh - yep.

I don't recall my middle school colors, but elementary was red and white, which I just remembered thanks to the fight song ("three cheers for the Riveroaks Eagles, and for the good old red and white...") popping into my head. Why my elementary school needed a fight song I don't know.

I tend to dislike "school spirit" stuff. When I was in third grade we had a pep rally, when for some reason I popped a paper bag and briefly put it on my head. (I wasn't interrupting anything at the time.) The principal yelled at me, and then told everyone our grade would have won the school spirit award, but just because of me we didn't win it.

It wasn't hugely traumatic or anything - just annoying that the principal overreacted.