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The Monday After: Luke Falk and my hopeful-worried-excited-guilty relationship with football

In which I try to work out my feelings about the condition of WSU's quarterback in the wake of a really scary injury.

It's complicated.

I love that turn of phrase. As an English teacher, I marvel at its ability to communicate so much with such brevity. It's just two words. Two! But I'm not sure I can think of two words that stand so well in lieu of dozens -- or even hundreds.

"It's complicated" can mean a lot of things, ranging from, "I don't feel like getting into it -- too much of a hassle to explain," to, "I'd love to explain, but I'm not even sure where to begin with this mess.