No So Manic Monday

Good Morning!
Well its Monday again… is it actually a rule that Monday’s have to suck!?!?

So this was a pretty big weekend, MSU’s men’s team lost in the final four on Saturday while MSU’s women’s team advanced to play Baylor on Tuesday. I’m not a big fan of women’s basketball, but that is still a big deal for them… and no, I probably won’t be watching the game on Tuesday.
The real big news of the weekend though was that the Pope died. Now I’m not catholic or anything so in all honesty it really doesn’t affect my life, but I do respect the fact that it does mean a lot to a great number of people. I know that when the Pope came to Toronto back in 2001 they sold out every hotel room in the Greater Toronto Area, stretching all the way to Hamilton. That being said, I did observe a very odd occurrence on the television coverage after his death. I was introduced to “pope” as a verb. Let me give you an example, “John Paul II was very good a poping”. “Nobody has really poped like him in a long time”. “what are you doing today?... Just poping around”.
The sad thing is, I’m serious. I never knew that the verb, “to pope” existed until this weekend. Learn something new everyday.
My one last thought on the matter is that I felt really bad for the Pope not just this weekend, but for a number of years. Being a Pope for life just isn’t practicable anymore. It was great when the average life expectancy was 30 years, but now medicine can keep your body alive way longer than mind can stay coherent. It’s sad and unfair to expect somebody to do all that poping that late in life (hey it does work as a verb).
Well I’m off to work…