Tonight's the Night

Sport messed around enough at the beginning of the second round that every game is do or die now. They have to win tonight, but that's doable. Then they have to win on Sunday, but that should be easy. And, if they manage that (or Santa helps out by losing), then they are through to the final, which is do or die by definition.

I had a class scheduled for 5 pm tonight, but it was cancelled. It would have been just one student who is in his last week in Recife before he moves to Brasília, and he's going crazy trying to get everything squared away at work before he leaves. My evening is easier now -- I can go play soccer from 7:30 until almost 8:30, then take a quick shower, dry off, and walk one block to the stadium, buy a ticket, watch Sport's surely glorious victory over Ypiranga (currently in third place), return to the "society" where I played, get my bag, walk to the bus stop, and go home. Sounds good, but in Brazil there's always the chance of a strange complication...