It’s been a few days since I posted. I almost feel like Dylan. Ok, cheap shot. Sorry about that. Seriously though, it seems like a lot has happened since I posted. I’ll try and do a quick run through.
Saturday morning I met Nick and Jason at breakfast and then we headed out of town for Kansas City and Kaufman Stadium (still one of the best looking stadiums in Major League Baseball) to see the Royals play the Twins. They lost 4-1, but the game was still a lot of fun. Unfortunately we didn’t go on Friday or Sunday, because they won both of those days.
After getting back from the game I lounged a bit and then decided to work the rest of the shift Alisha had taken from me so I wouldn’t owe her any hours. I watched some Stargate and went crazy from all the cheerleaders in Haymaker trying to flirt with me and making so much noise in the lobby. Sunday morning wasn’t much better as I worked 6 more hours, though most of it was cheerleader free.
Yesterday afternoon was our last regular season softball game. For most of the game I just don’t think my head was in it. I was doing alright, but they only had 8 players and it seemed like we had to work way to hard to win the game. I ended up driving in 2 runs to put us up with just a few minutes left in the game, but then I almost screwed up the next play. It was a strange game, with rules getting broken and a girl having an asthma attack (and killing at least 5 minutes of the game clock) after I hit towards her. Next week we start tournament games, and hopefully it will be easier.
After softball I went to Chili’s with Leigh, Lydick, and Erica, then we picked up Jill and went to see Fahrenheit 9/11. Let me first say that I really didn’t know exactly what to expect going in. I had a general idea of what it was going to be like, but no real details. I went into it with a pretty open mind. I came out somewhat pissed off that $7.25 had been spent on it. I found some things in it to be very interesting and I did learn a few things. However, much of it was things I already knew or suspected. I actually fell asleep somewhere in the middle when it wasn’t so interesting.
I think one thing that frustrated me the most, is that it was not exactly a documentary. Sure there were some facts in there, but there were also many editorial moments on the part of Michael Moore. I guess I would have preferred it have been presented in a different way. When a person has everyone’s attention all the time (i.e. the President of the United States) they are bound to have their moments and say stupid things, react in the wrong way, and even make bad decisions. I would expect nothing less. And Georgie does it all the time. Still, it bothers me the way Moore put the movie together to make G Dubya look as bad as he possibly could, rather than just presenting the facts and letting the viewers realize he is a moron on their own.
Let me add this as well: I do not intend to vote for Bush. I never have. Still, I don’t think he is the absolutely horrible president that he was made out to be in the film. I think my biggest frustration comes from something I already knew about myself. I hate politics, I hate politicians in particular, and I hate the two-party system that is so ingrained in our society. I am very much a moderate. Straight down the middle. To the left at times, to the right at others so it all balances out to the middle. I also consider myself a pretty patriotic person and generally very proud of my country, but sometimes it can be hard. There are plenty of idiots out there trying to screw things up. After seeing the movie, I think Michael Moore falls into that category as much as G Dubya. Enough movie review/rant.
Today was a pretty lazy day. There are no groups here again until the weekend so it’s pretty slow for everyone. I spent some of it watching DVDs, some “cleaning” (the quotes mean I didn’t get very far), and some playing pool with Jason. And of course, it (was) Monday, and that means sand volleyball. We started out with just four per team and played four pretty evenly unbalanced games. One team would win, then the other. I blame the sand. After that a few people left, and a few more showed up. We ended up playing seven or eight games total and it was a really good time. Towards the end my team was down by a ton, but instead of just giving up we all kept playing really hard and ended up coming back to win. I think that is one thing that frustrates me at times (as some of you may have noticed). It’s not so much the losing that I don’t like, but when your whole team just seems to give up it’s a different story, especially when you seem to be the only one who still puts forth the effort. Luckily, that’s not how it went today and it seems to have gotten better on the whole, just as all of us that play every week have greatly improved. We all have mad skillz.
And that brings me up to now. I’m working on putting together a little summary of the highlights from vacation. I was going to try and make the page match the design of the site, but I decided it didn’t matter because it’s all about the pictures anyway. I’ll post it when I’m finished and hopefully it won’t be too early in the morning. I promised I’d take the radio for Jason tomorrow while he’s in class.
This got really long. I commend anyone who read it all and got to this point. Don’t forget the comments…there’s plenty to go on.
Currently Playing: Finger Eleven – One Thing
If I traded it all
If I gave it all away for one thing
Just for one thing
If I sorted it out
If I knew all about this one thing
Wouldnt that be something