After taking a free roundtrip ticket to wait five hours for a later flight, I’m back safe and sound in Durham; I think the only thing I missed was the Duke–Memphis championship game in what still ought to be called the Preseason NIT.

Oh, and Arkansas choked against LSU—there’s simply no other way to describe that performance.

My big debate for tomorrow: use my women’s basketball season tickets to see Duke dismantle Arkansas State or listen to the Egg Bowl over the Internet. Maybe one of these decades I’ll have a fancy phone that will let me do both at once.

Figuring out how I’m going to get to all the places I need to get over the Christmas holidays is becoming a bit of a headache; it’d be a little easier if SPSA weren’t the first weekend after New Year’s. With gas prices coming down I may end up taking a very long road trip around the southeast.