10 hour days= very little time to blog. Most days I'll get online for a little bit when I get home, but I tend to spend that time reading other people's blogs. So, if you decide to start checking my page for updates, say monthly, you probably won't be missing much. I appreciate those of you who still do stop by occasionally, and it is my hope that before too much longer I will have my apartment organized to the point where I can blog on my days off. Right now I'm spending pretty much the entirity of my three day weekends working on a little construction project (think tyler hall style loft for the purpose of bi-level couches in the room that my sister recently vacated, plus some assembly on the frame-and-matress style couches and a stand to raise the tv about 20" to make it equally viewable from the top and bottom couches). That is to say, I work on all that stuff when I'm not at church, out with friends, playing soccer, playing hockey, or sleeping. Oh, and out with friends may soon include a standing date with a girl from my church who also has Mondays off. We got together last week and saw a movie, and we had tenative plans "to do something" yesterday. We didn't end up following through with those plans because a friend of ours who is leaving the country this week asked her for some help packing. As she works the rough equivalant of swing shift Tuesday through Saturday, I don't expect to see her until church next week, but from what it sounded like last time we talked, we will try to make the Mondays a regular thing.
Since the weekly soccer update lapsed, we've fallen to 2-4-1. Looking back, I'd say this is largely due to some serious defensive breakdowns, and in a couple instances not having a full team show up for the games. While I'm playing, I tend to blame myself for every goal that is scored against us, but a little perspective makes me think that if I'm facing 10-15 breakaways a game, it's not unreasonable to give up 4-6 goals. I don't know what happened to our defense in the last four games, but after giving up 4 goals on 6 breakaways in the first half of our game this past weekend, we suddenly got it back together and shut the opponents out in the second half, with very little effort from myself. I don't remember the defense allowing a single shot, and I only made one challenge to stop a potential shooter before she could get her shot off. If our defense plays as well for the remainder of our season as they did in the second half this past weekend, I could see us finishing without another loss.
Also since I last updated, hockey has started. We've actually been going for four weeks now, and we're 1-1 in games in which score has been kept. The other two games were played just to use up our allotted ice time, as in both cases the opposing team's goalie failed to show. When that happens our goalie backstops for us in the first period and for the other team in the second, then splits the third period half-and-half so that both teams have a chance to shoot on a goalie, but no score is kept. In games that have counted I have three goals, one in the loss and two in the win. I haven't kept track of assists or total points, and since it's a house league, there's no one actually keeping stats where I can check out the numbers. Not that they really matter anyway. I'm having a blast skating again.
posted by Tom 5:56 PM
It starts with the shoe. Maybe the next day it's a t-shirt or a sock. You don't know if the washing machine ate it, or your roommate borrowed it a month ago and forgot that it was yours. All you know is that by the end of the week, you're walking to class naked because you don't have any clothes left.
