Splat!

I've hit a wall. I've got a two and a half weeks til I'm done work at my co-op placement, and I should be feeling like I'm in the home stretch and energized, but its quite the opposite right now, and I'm really finding it a chore to go in and put in my hours. To be fair, I haven't been particularly energetic at home either, I think it might finally be the heat getting to me, but I just feel tired lately.

The past three evenings I've come home and grabbed at least 2 hours sleep, waking up to catch the end of the Jays game and some latenight talkshows, and then crashin again for the night, resulting in probably 9-10 hours of sleep a day.

I shouldn't need that much sleep, and infact feel like ass after those evening naps cause I know I should have done something productive. I don't however think its a sickness or anything, just a lack of drive right now. Hopefully vacation time will serve to recoup me a bit.

I remember most of highschool I used to stay up to watch Kilborn every night til 1:30, and usually channel surf for an hour or so after that, and be awake again at 6:30 to drag my ass in to school. I functioned as well on 4-5 hours sleep as I feel I do on 8-10, but if I try doing that now I am a zombie. I miss youth, and smashing through those walls.

The Jays winning the first 2 games of their series against the White Sox, and the player movement in the NHL has kept me entertained while awake this week. The Avs got hit pretty hard with not being able to re-sign Adam Foote, and Peter Forsberg, who I believe is the best player in the game, but are still in good shape with the Sakic, Hejduk, Tanguay and Blake core. The Philadelphia Flyers are looking particularly dangerous now. Its also nice to see the formerly cash strapped Canadian teams pull in some good players in the capped environment. The balance of talent in the league already seems to have been evened out some, hopefully making for some exciting play in the upcoming season.

Bud Selig should take a good look now as the commissioner of the only remaining uncapped pro sport in North America. In football and basketball you already see teams going worst to first on a regular basis, and lots of turnover in the teams present in the playoffs. Major league baseball fans on the other hand get to look forward to seeing Boston, New York and Atlanta EVERY year, and while a testament to being able to pull in good players, its also more a representation of how much money you can spend on a ball team. Granted there are big spenders out there like the Dodgers who have been far less than regular attendees of the postseason, and surprise teams like the Angels of a couple years ago, but mostly you can go into any season and predict at least 6 of the 8 playoff teams. Something needs to be done to even things out, or obviously the rich teams are gonna keep pulling more fan support and getting richer while the poor have less and less chance at the playoffs.