The question is not, could Utah compete week in and week out in the ACC, SEC, Big Ten, whatever, .. The question is, in a one- game setting, can Utah compete, can Utah get the market share, sell the tickets of one of those more familiar institutions. Nobody knows that answer.

Edward Said talks about Orientalism in very negative terms because it reflects the prejudices of the west towards the exotic east. But I was also having fun thinking of Orientalism as a genre like Cowboys and Indians is a genre – they’re not an accurate representation of the American west, they’re like a fairy tale genre.

and yet I feel that the most real home I'll ever have is the space where our roads merged and traveled along together... for a time.

Maybe I'm sad about wanting you. I'm not too comfortable with wanting someone.

How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement - no matter how temporary.

Her lips tarried at mine. Baiting each other with the warmth of our breath, barely grazing, detouring, then connecting.

Something about being rejected at Church Camp felt so much more awful than being rejected at school.