NBA Finals

I fondly recall the NBA playoffs of 2004. I had just gotten to Nevis when they began. At first, I was shocked that there was cable TV there! Then, there were most all the same channels I was used to: ABC, NBC, CBS, TNT, TBS, ESPN, WGN etc, where the ones I usually watched most. Of course, during my time there, I found myself watching old movies that I hadn't seen before to kill time between sports and/or my office. A few of the guys in my API, II classes hung out at Sylvia's, a restaurant attached to the freshman dorms, located on a slopping hillside/goat pasture. It turned out that they were into the NBA playoffs too, so we spent a lot of time watching and talking about the playoffs. That really helped me adjust to being so far away from my family. I also was relieved that I could watch PGA golf and NASCAR there too! It may just be fate, but I remember a few weekends where my golf match was interupted by the local weather from the channel in the US that was being picked up on Nevis. The channel was out of Tennesses! How odd is it that we now live here and that same station still breaks into normal programming just to show us a storm front moving across our area! I recall how frustrated I was back then, to have waited all week to watch a race or a golf tourney, only to have it repeatedly interrupted to show a storm front moving across TN!

MUA is looking for someone full-time and if I were to get a offer, it would be a very tough decision to give up my professorship in Memphis to move my family to Nevis. Part of me wants to return to the relative peace and tranquility of the Caribbean, but another part recalls the heat, bugs and feeling of being trapped on the island. I would think that those feelings would dissapate given enought time, then I would be able to finish our my career and retire in "paradise", right!
Of course, the move there would be a tough chore, dealing with storage of my furniture and truck here, getting all our important belonging there, but hey, I most likely won't even get an offer. I am really happy at my postion here and I guess the devil is just putting this potential temptation in front of me to distract me. Who knows?

Later gator,