Friday, September 12, 2008

Cy-Hawk, right conference, wrong school

Today is the day all over Iowa when most workplaces have casual day and people are wearing either red for Iowa State or black/gold for Iowa. I normally wear purple today since non-Iowa folk don't get to strut their school stuff at work. Last year, Julie and I went to The Library down by Drake University and she wore her red Iowa State jacket and I wore my K-State jacket and everybody looked at me funny. I thought, "Hey, you're the one going to Drake."

Anyway, I wore a red t-shirt with my jeans today. Among my co-workers this is the equivalent of my standing in the middle of the office screaming, "LOOK AT ME!" since of course everyone knows I went to K-State. But yesterday someone asked me if I was for Iowa and I almost choked on it. Seriously? Cross conference? How could I not cheer on a Big 12 school, first question. Second question, why would I cheer on a Big 10 school that is a clone (no pun intended) of the University of Kansas, the demon rival of my own Alma Mater? Puh-leeze!

We'll see what my friend Pippa has to say since red is also the color of her Georgia (Packers) Bulldogs. Go Cyclones! It's all fun today!

2 comments:

Natasha said...

Packers???!!! PULLEEZZZ!!!! GEORGIA DAWGS ALL THE WAY BABY! I am glad you are wearing red for the dawgs. . .at least that is what I am going with here. Just to clear my name here, after a few years of working with you, I was shocked to not see you with your K State sweatshirt on. I mean I come to work in my GA stuff. . .I expect you to be an oddball with me and not be in red/gold or black/yellow (are those the colors?).
I still love you Caron.
-Pippa

Caron said...

I would never wear black/gold. I wore my KSU pin all day, at any rate. :)

I still love you, Pippa.