Rec Basketball

this evening a few of my friends and i went to watch my brothers rec basketball game at Lincoln Center gym.

after the game, someone gave me a disc, so naturally i decided to attempt to throw it through the hoop. i hit the rim the first time, so after retrieving it i decided to try again. however, in my haste to retry, i did not see the man standing on the stage (in full view of the court and all of the stands) watching me shoot these frisbees.

when i shot the second time (i hit the net), the man jumped down from the stage and took the frisbee with him and sat down. content to just avoid confrontation i attempted to play it off as though the person in all frisbee gear was not the person who had just thrown a carolina ultimate disc at the basketball hoop. this was not a good plan, and was forced to get the disc back from this man who was sitting on the stage and was very discontent with my behavior.

i walked up to him to get it back so i could leave, but when i walked up to the stage, i didnt even say anything, and he didnt look at me and just said "you cant have this back"

i told him i had to go, and he said the only way i could get it back was if i was escorted from the building.

thus, i was escorted from the lincoln center gym during a rec basketball game.

so the next game, we decided to go big or go home and do body paint (and did not get kicked out/escorted from lincoln center for a second time)

High Five Height

the other weekend i was talking to one of my friends mom's about her nephew who plays frisbee.

she was telling me that he played in georgia and was at club nationals playing on a team called chain lightning, and she asked me if i had seen him. i told her that i did see the team, but im not sure if i saw him because i dont know what he looks like.

she begins to describe him like "hes blonde, and hes very nice, and pretty stocky, and hes about this tall"
and when she describes his height she put her hand at kind of a weird angle at about face height, so i high-fived her.

shockingly, she was taken aback by the fact that i high-fived her in the middle of a description at a time when the desire for a high five was definitely not reciprocated.

i then apologized and said "sorry i thought you were going for a high five!"
to which she naturally responded "well, no...."

and then i listened to the rest of her description of her nice, high-five height nephew, with my hands behind my back.

Celebrations

this weekend, in order for our team to make it into the power pool bracket, a certain team had to beat another. For this reason, we were intently watching their game. After a long fought point, the team we needed to win, won, and so we began celebrating.

this celebration consisted of cheering/shouting/making other happy noises, whilst hugging everyone on our team, or who had an affiliation with our team.

so i am making my way down the sideline, hugging people and making happy shouting noises. however, i get a little carried away, and i see some blue that is the same color as our jerseys right outside a little huddle. thinking that someone on our team is missing out on a hugging opportunity, i walk up to this person, shouting. however, when i get closer, i realize it is an older woman, in a blue polo and a khaki skirt and i am about to give her a hug while shouting directly in her face.

my face changes from excitement to "i have messed up and do not know you" very quickly, which i am fairly certain she noticed, but was polite enough to not say anything about... at least not to my face.

Lazy, Rainy Tuesdays

when i went to class there was a guy sitting on the edge seat in a small, fairly empty row. so as i go to squeeze past him (into the empty row in which he could have very easily sat) he decided that right as i was in front of him would be a good time to uncross his legs to make more room for me to pass, thus kicking me in the leg.

I then apologized a lot.

When i sat down next to him and went to pull my desk out from under my seat, he had recrossed his legs, and i accidentally hit him squarely in the hip with my desk.

I then apologized a lot, for the second time in a 2 minute span.

whoops. sorry.

Regionals (courtesy of a phlover)

written by phrances, in my perspective of what occurred this weekend:


This weekend was my birthday weekend and I was playing frisbee in the middle of nowhere Pennsylvania. During one of the games i was dominating my girl on defense. I jumped up for the disc and it floated over us. She proceeded to jump on me. We fell and she landed on top of me. She layed there for a good 2 mins. My coach was yelling at me to get up. I tried with all my might but couldn't because this girl i didn't know wanted to be on me. So i just waved my arms around signaling that I was helpless. After the three minute awkwardness she finally got up releasing me from the unwanted spoon.

My Key is Broken

the fob to get into my building for my dorm is broken. this, strangely enough, makes it very difficult to get into my dorm without creeping behind someone, or hoping that i run into one of the like 3 people i know in my dorm (including my roommate).

tonight i decided to get it fixed, but of course, i cant get into the building cause my key doesnt work, so i am forced to wait outside the building, that i have never been in, where my "community office" is, but apparently no one uses this door, and 8:30pm is not a popular time to leave or enter a dorm. so i am sitting, very creepily by the door to this building, waiting, until eventually some random guy walks out and i sneak in behind him, only to not know where on earth the office is.

after walking down the hallway the wrong way, i end up in the main lounge area where the office is, only to find every single RA who could potentially help me from all 3 communities taking a group picture and cutting up bananas and making coloring books for the blind. so i stand awkwardly in the middle of this group of people attempting to stay out of the way while at the same time trying to get someones attention so that i can leave as quickly as possible.

eventually someone notices that im not part of the RA love spirit and thus dont belong there and asks me whats wrong. so i tell her that my key doesnt work, to which she says "well thats not good."

i then fill out three sheets of information and get a loaner key and walk back though all of the RAs in their little party and go use my giant loaner key to get back into my dorm room and eat some cookies.

side note: tonight pleiades won its first IM volleyball game! yes. volleyball. was that funny to watch since you're all so awkward and gangly, you may ask. the answer is yes, yes it definitely was.

Monsoon Season Part 2

its now 3 and half hours later. im in davis. my feet are soaking wet, so i decide to take off my socks, but as i am in the middle of the library i decide to be polite and do this in the bathroom.

warning: if you wash your socks in a library bathroom you get weird looks.

warning 2: if you put on paper towel "socks" before leaving the bathroom, you get even more weird looks.
           -warning 2a: these paper towel "socks" will get too soaked through by the time you get back to your table that you will have to take them off and throw them away, which is awkward cause then everyone within viewing distance of you will be able to see you peel wet paper towels off of your feet and then they will judge you.

warning 3: when you get back to your table and place all your wet clothes, like socks and sweatshirt, next to you in the windowsill, people wont sit near you (unless they are your roommate, and will like you despite all your flaws).

ahh rain.