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heh...i really can't get myself to do any work when i don't have to. i have a short paper and a pset correction (nobody in class got it) due wednesday....so naturally i don't want to do anything...

good thing i'm wide awake at 3am and probably will be wide awake 'till about 7am when i went to sleep yesterday. and my room smells like ultimate...i should really do some laundry. i really do have a shitload of clothes...but i reuse my ultimate clothes a lot 'cause i don't give a shit what i smell like on the field...or at amcaff or tavern afterwards :) but of course, they do have to sit somewhere in the meantime...i gotta find me some febreeze...

i'm getting fuckin' PSYCHED for these next four weeks of ultimate. i'm one of those people who never really knows who the fuck we're playing, what they're ranked....hell sometimes i'm lucky if i know what state we're going to play in...but goddamn i love this game. austin was going over pools and rankings and shit and all i did was drool. was it last year we matched cornell to halftime? that was hot. i've enjoyed playing with this team this year more than any other year here at columbia....granted i've never played a full year of ultimate...heh. short history:

frosh year, i barely played in the fall because i kept spraining my ankles. i sprained three ankles...one in ultimate, the other in racquetball, and the first one in ultimate AGAIN. so i didn't play a lot of fall season.

sophomore year...spring break...wednesday. i broke my back. i could barely WALK at the end of spring break because i decided to play almost the entire way through the second weekend with a small fracture on the right wing of my L5 vertabrae. i didn't get physical therapy until fall of my junior year...so i missed most of spring, soph year, and all of fall i think...junior year. i played in winterleague last year (junior) timidly....and the first tournament i played in officially was spring break junior year...an entire year after i broke my back....

and so far i've been playing ever since.

all in all i think i've played 2.5 years of ultimate....intersting. why was i talkin' about that? who knows. came to mind. oh yeah, this year's team. i don't think we've ever had a team with this kind of DEPTH. uptown local has always had a longstanding tradition of playing a starting line of studs 'till they die. or maybe about 10 guys 'till they die. leaves little room for improvement for the rest of the team...especially in a year like my frosh year and this year when there are like...7-8 people leaving the team after this season. i'm in this game to play, and i feel like everyone else should be, too. yeah, winning's cool. but at the expense of half our team not playing? fuck that. i get all the playingtime i want, really. i can't play as much as i'd LIKE to because my back really will give out...coach understands that and puts me in very intermittently. i tell him to do that. i feel really bad for people who stand on the sideline for entire games, though..but i'm in no position to change that. i'm glad things have been getting mixed up a BIT more. through spring break practices we've brought the rookies up to a level where they can make plays on the field and have really deepened our team. me and mikeliu were talking and we agreed that we had NEVER felt as good as we did on the second day of a tournament (this was southerns)...and it was because our rookies had stepped it up and allowed for more spreading out of the play time. everyone wins! rookies play, vets rest some...and all the rookies go and get hurt. wassupwitdat?

regardless, i'm psyched for these coming weekends. my back's been acting up but i've been babying it...hopefully it'll carry me.

oh...and there's a free weekend before regionals. can you say toga?




hmmm..i bet i coulda' written my paper in that time.


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