The Ultimate Dagger

Alright... so here is my pain. Maryland plays tomorrow (Thursday) at 12:20. Once a month, the New Practitioner's section of the Montgomery County Bar hosts a lunch in a particular judge's chambers, where the judge is supposed to entertain, give a presentation, talk to new lawyers, etc. Well it just so happens that this Thursday, ten minutes after tipoff of the Maryland game, the judge who I work for is hosting this month's lunch. It was made fairly evident to me by the opinions of a few people who I work with that I kind of have to be there to support my judge. I do serve at the pleasure of the Judge, after all. So yes, I will be missing the entire first half of the Terps game (and the second half unless I can find a friendly judge's chamber to watch it).

Now for the pain... it's been three years since the Terps were in the tourney. I have that usual irrational fear about my team's game, even though we are a 4-seed playing a 13-seed, and I truly believe despite Davidson having the son of a former NBA player on their team, that we'll win by 20 (what the hell does that really mean anyway? it's not like the washed up NBA guy who had a great career as the second-best guy on whatever team he was on is going to suit up). This really hurts. I think I might buy one of those Secret Service earpieces and have it tuned to WMAL for the lunch. I can smile when others in the room are smiling, laugh when others in the room are laughing, and not have a clue what is being said.

In the words of Steve Buckhantz:

"DAGGER!!!!!"