This game gave me a lot more confidence at the net. But I'm still frustrated with the rest of my game.

Our experience will really help the team. For us to get as much playing time as we did last year was important.

Doing so gives the rest of the taxpayers confidence that the system has integrity and accountability built in. In an ideal world everyone pays their taxes, pays the right amount and pays on time. But we don't live in an ideal world.

[_The Eagles' 23-point loss to the Cowboys on Sunday seems to have bolstered the confidence of the rest of the NFC East, which doesn't view the Birds as unbeatable anymore.] They way Dallas played the other day against them, people might be closing ground on the Eagles, ... Philly has been running the same offense for the last five years and people are starting to make plays on them.

With the courage which only comes of justified self-confidence, he dared to rest his case upon its strongest point, and so avoided that appearance of weakness and uncertainty which comes of a clutter of arguments. Few lawyers are willing to do this; it is the mark of the most distinguished talent.

I am never not thinking about stories. 'The Bone Season' is 90% of my brain - 10% is interacting with the rest of the world.