there are two noteworthy countdowns in my life right now. the first is that campout for duke basketball tickets begins in about 45 hours. needless to say i'm pretty excited. it should be an interesting and exhausting experience. from what i hear it is extremely difficult to get any sleep. the "quiet hours" are 3 am to 8 am if that tells you anything and it's doubtful that anyone will take that seriously. as a nice little precursor to the weekend, i saw steve wojciechowski (i know, i know, they have crazy coach names here and yes i did have to look up the spelling) at a movie theatre. if you don't know who that is, he played for duke in the 90's and is currently an assistant coach. anyway, it was quite thrilling for me. i think it was a sign that i'll be getting tickets... we'll see...

the second countdown is dustin's arrival in durham. hopefully he'll be here about 8 days from today! even though i'm an incredibly insane duke basketball fan, i'm so much more excited about dustin getting here. right now he is somewhere in british columbia. hopefully he'll make it to bellingham tomorrow sometime to visit his parents for a few days and then he'll head this way!