jazz

two wednesdays ago i made eye contact with paul milsap 4 times as he was warming up to lose to the golden state warriors.  play this to know exactly how i felt:

mz and i have a pre-game ritual where we head right through the doors of portal b and get ourselves as close to the court as is humanly possible to watch our players play.  and this time #24 sat up and took some notice.  as he was practicing his free-throws, something, or should i say someone, in the stands tickled his fancy because he looked up at it/her THREE MORE TIMES!  and whatever/whomever it was was located right were meg and i were sitting.  in my heart of hearts, i believe he was looking at me.  

obviously, this was my expression for the rest of the night:

meg and i have never liked the same boy, but we always seem to like boys that share similar qualities like remarkable height, dancing abilities, or un-readibility.  we've started to refer to this phenomenon as "squares" because the four of us (meg and me + our loves) make a square.  each pair of boys has their own square title, for example: square dance, madison square garden, the rubik's cube, k2-squared, etc, etc, etc.  we also have a jazz square: meg + cj (miles, of course) and me + paul (millsap, which goes without saying).  and although they lost the game, they won our hearts, which is certainly the more worthy conquest.  i'm sure they would agree.

raja bell and ronnie price were steaming up the bench in some seriously stylish suits and huge diamond studs that were most definitely real.  so, we made up a new square for them too: the red cross (square?).  well, the name's lame, but the boys aren't.

i guess what i'm really trying to say is, who is d-will anyway?  no one.  just some weird guy with some weird sideburns.  and we don't need him.  we'll be totally fine without him.  and without sloan.  and i don't blame d-will for sloan's resignation either.  the jazz is bigger than deron michael williams.  and we'll go on because we still have players like millsap.

parting shot: