Day 25 - Royals and Sooners

Today I went to Comet to pick up a few things and ran into a sea of people wearing blue horizontally-striped shirts, all walking toward Majedski Stadium. I, wearing my red Sooner shirt, soon realized what everyone was flocking to. Reading FC was playing today against Millwall. By the way, Reading won 5-0 and moved into the lead in their league! If they ever move up to the Premiership league, maybe I'll become a big fan? ... Naaahh, probably not.. it's still only soccer.

It reminded me very much of Norman on a Sooner football game day. The only differences were in the color and the sport. Most OU football fans couldn't care less about a soccer game, much less Reading FC vs. Millwall. In fact, they care about as little as Reading FC "football" fans care about American college football. Otherwise, it was a very similar feeling -- I almost felt like I was back home. It's neat to find such similarities between two places that are so different.

I'm finally feeling better today. I made a lot of progress on the new CTK church bulletin and I'm ready to start working on the RUF fall conference brochure, hereticzone.com, and of course, my model/dissertation. I plan to go to church tomorrow and after that get ready to visit Wales on Monday. At least that's the plan as of now.

One last irrelevant note - today I started using my UK keyboard. It's strange and kinda hard to use, but I'm starting to get the hang of it.

posted by Matt @ 7:10 PM