Phew. Am I going to sleep well tonight. As you may have read from yesterday's entry I was slated to play some basketball today. I got up around noon to get ready and headed over to the gym. First off I should have realised it was a bad sign when I actually had to consult a map before I left to even know where the gym was. Anyway, I found my way there and my friends were already there on the court shooting around. We decided to play a game of 21. It was sad. I think I got to a maximum of 3 points every time before I was tipped back to zero. Its not like the people I was playing with were star players either, average, but needless to say I didn't come away with a win.

Then after another game of 21 (which I lost by being tipped out, tipped on 3 consecutive shots) we saw these people that were playing badminton leave the court. So me and another guy, Michael, decided to try our hand at badminton. Now Michael was the guy that won both 21 games we had just previously played, and also the guy that managed to tip me those three consecutive times out of the last game. Needless to say he's very competitive. Anyway, he told me that he had never played badminton before, I only told him I had played a few times. Now for those of you that don't know I absolutely love badminton. And along with Scott are reigning champions when it comes to badminton. (Ms. Conner-Gray anyone? Haha) I neglected to tell him about my badminton past and started hitting the birdie around real soft and high floating shots. Let him get the hang of hitting the thing. Then he wanted to play a game ... fine. I started off easy on him, but slowly increased the difficulty. [ Insert Maniacal Laugh Here ] My serves were still easy shots to hit back, but my returns got him running. First I'd hit it to the front, then towards the back, then rear up like for a slam and then hit a soft dropshot to the left corner. It was kind of funny. About halfway through I realised that he realised that I really knew how to play and he was intent on defeating me. To make a long story short (too late) he went down 15-0. So a bad day of basketball, turned into a good day of badminton. He wants to play again sometime to beat me ... anytime, anywhere!

After that we went back to basketball. By then a few more people showed up and we decided to start a game going. 4 on 4 full court. About 5 minutes in I realised this too wasn't the best idea. Running. Running back and forth from basket to basket. Especially since I can't remember the last time I really did any real exercise like that. On the bright side I did block one shot, had a steal, and made a basket. But rest assured (pun intended) those came toward the beginning of the game. Our team ended up losing 20-14. Admirable, but we could have won if I wasn't the team's weak link. Maybe next time. We had to leave after that since a bunch of other people were waiting to use the court. So I then started to walk back to my dorm. It seemed sooo much farther walking back then it did in walking there. Haha. I really need to exercise more.

For the rest of the day, I finished some HW and played a little Halo. My friends and I have this set map and stuff we always play that is really fun. For anyone that plays Halo try this out. We play on Damnation, Oddball, with Rockets as the only weapons. Now in this level there is this huge waterfall room with three narrow parallel walkways with an endless chasm if you fall off them. Conviently the oddball appears directly in the middle of this room. Plus there are like a dozen different ways to get to this room and it only really takes a single rocket shot to kill a person, so at best you only get the oddball for like 5 seconds before you are shot down into the abyss. This leads to enormously high death tolls, the normal for a two minute oddball game is around 70 or so. Fast paced and explosions everywhere, plus you don't really have to be particularly good at aiming, just hit the ground somewhere close to the person and they die with the rocket launcher. I won today's game, yay!

Then some people decided to watch the movie Se7en. I had already seen it, but decided to watch anyway since its such a good movie. You should see it if you haven't. Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Kevin Spacey it you care about the actors.

So today was pretty good. At least I still remembered the rules in basketball. But I still kick ass in badminton! Now I have a DDR score of 1. Haha

you know im better than you
in badminton. *snap* no, i dont think i ever played you. youll have to come visit, i have a badminton set. *nod*
» ikimashokie on 2004-04-04 01:25:38

trust me
we're good....
» finallyfoundareasonnow on 2004-04-04 11:49:26

i havent played in forever.
maybe we can play at my house over the summer, i have a nice front yard for playing. and i dont think its *too* out of the way from anyone... :/ its in dinwiddie, not tyler in dinwiddie, but by 460 and 85 in dinwiddie.
» ikimashokie on 2004-04-04 01:20:16

*grin*
*wants to see who's better* :P I don't think "ass" is thought of as "offensive". :P and I've never seen a DDR score of 1 :P...I think my lastest was 475.. but for some reasn it hasn't been blocked.
» EngelGenannt on 2004-04-04 03:33:15

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