Sleepless in Sayre

photo courtesy of LehighSports.com; recap of tonight’s game found here (click)

Living on campus it is almost impossible to hide the major sports teams’ schedules from K & O. Now that it is basketball season, they are in their glory. For the past few days they have been well aware that LU Men’s Basketball had a home game scheduled for tonight. They also knew that I would not let them go because it started at 7pm and their school-night-bedtime is no-later-than-8pm. They fought me a bit, but pretty quickly resigned themselves to the misery of having a mother who wouldn’t let them go to the game. Earlier this evening I overheard them talking about the possibility of “running away from home” in order to “go to the game at Stabler Arena,” and I listened as they discussed together in depth the question of whether or not the staff at the door would let them into the game, using their own Lehigh IDs, but unattended by any adult– I cut their conversation short by assuring them that they would not be let in unless they were with an adult. Alas, much to their dismay they were in bed by 7:45pm tonight. However, the story does not end there. An hour later I went in to check on them and discovered that neither of them had fallen asleep (which is HIGHLY unusual). A half hour later, at 9:15, I went back in, and they were still awake. I started a grand inquisition and they confessed to me that they couldn’t sleep because they were too preoccupied with the basketball score. I got them both out of bed and we looked online to see the game situation. They were happy to find their team had won. They were even happier to find, in studying the stats, that their main man, #11, had a GREAT game. They then went to bed happy and content, and both fell asleep within 5 minutes.