Killin' Time...

I'm sitting in Alabama's volleyball facility trying to kill time before our next match at 5 p.m. This is the worst part of away games -- killing time. I mean my car is just outside and I could just jump in it and drive around but it makes more sense to just stay put.

We just lost to Alabama. I hate losing to Alabama almost as much as I hate losing to Ole Miss. In anything. Even rock, paper, scissors. I'm afraid I might have to deal with that this weekend too. Samford plays at Ole Miss tomorrow in football. Yikes. As much as I hate to say it, Ole Miss looked really good last week against Wake Forest. Oh, well.

"Why don't you slide..."

Sorry, just singing. It's so loud, you can't help it. I might be deaf before the night is over. Then again, my dad would argue that it's no different than riding in my car.

I've been reading blogs of families with multiples (triplets, quads, quints, etc.). The Wilkinsons are statisticians so the mom shares some odds that came with her quint pregnacny, and then she shared this site of odds. I thought it was pretty funny so I thought I'd share some of my favs.

- Odds of getting canonized: 20,000,000 to 1
- Odds of being an astronaut: 13,200,000 to 1
- Odds of winning an Olympic medal: 662,000 to 1 (Tell that to Michael Phelps!)
- Odds that a person between the age of 18 and 29 does NOT read a newspaper regularly: 3 to 1 (Not surprising)
- Odds that an American adult does not want to live to age 120 under any circumstances: 3 to 2 (Really? I'd kill to live that long.)
- Odds of injury from fireworks: 19,556 to 1 (Yeah, ask my sister. Watch those ditches.)
- Odds of being killed on a 5-mile bus trip: 500,000,000 to 1
- Odds of being struck by lightning: 576,000 to 1
- Odds of being killed by lightning: 2,320,000 to 1 (Good to know these odds are better.)
- Odds of getting away with murder: 2 to 1 (ha!)
- Odds of dating a supermodel: 88,000 to 1 (Y' hear that, guys?)
- Odds of being considered possessed by Satan: 7,000 to 1
- Odds that a first marriage will survive without separation or divorce for 15 years: 1.3 to 1 (Yikes!)
- Odds that a celebrity marriage will last a lifetime: 3 to 1 (Interesting.)
- Odds of being born a twin in North America: 90 to 1 (I thought this would be more.)
- Odds of being on plane with a drunken pilot: 117 to 1
- Odds of having your identity stolen: 200 to 1
- Odds of dating a millionaire: 215 to 1 (Funny these odds are better than the supermodel ones.)
- Odds of finding out your child is a genius: 250 to 1 (Hopefully, if I have children, my child will be the "one" so that I don't have to pay for college.)
- Odds of catching a ball at a major league ballgame: 563 to 1
- Odds of becoming a pro athlete: 22,000 to 1 (Thought this would be lower.)
- Odds of finding a four-leaf clover on first try: 10,000 to 1
- Odds of a person in the military winning the Medal of Honor: 11,000 to 1
- Odds of winning an Academy Award: 11,500 to 1
- Odds of striking it rich on Antiques Roadshow: 60,000 to 1
- Odds of spotting a UFO today: 3,000,000 to 1 (Tell that to my Dad.)
- Odds of a meteor landing on your house: 182,138,880,000,000 to 1 (Good to know!)
- Chance of an American home having at least one container of ice cream in the freezer: 9 in 10. (My house is one of the nine.)
- Chance that Earth will experience a catastrophic collision with an asteroid in the next 100 years: 1 in 5,000
- Chance of dying in such a collision: 1 in 20,000
- Chance of dying from legal execution: 1 in 3,441,325
- Chance of dying from contact with hot tap water: 1 in 5,005,564
- Chance of dying from parts falling off an airplane: 1 in 10,000,000
- Chance of dying from ignition or melting of nightwear: 1 in 30,589,556 (Watch out ladies!)
- Chance of dying from a mountain lion attack in California: 1 in 32,000,000
- Chance of dying from a shark attack: 1 in 300,000,000
- Chance of contracting the human version of mad cow disease: 1 in 40,000,000 (No fear. Keep eating those hamburgers!)
- Chance of dying from SARS in the United States: 1 in 100,000,000

Until next time...