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March 01, 2007
Yea or Neigh?
Wyld Stallyn basketball... Are you in? It's the intramural basketball sensation that's been sweeping Walker Building! We meteo grads hadn't practiced together at all before the start of the season, and it showed in our first game, when it took us over 5 turnover-filled minutes to score (incidentally, I somehow got our team's first points of the year). We trailed 13-6 at half, but played much better in the 2nd half, closing the gap to 28-25, and we even had a few three-point attempts to tie in the last 30 seconds. Our second game was much the same, falling behind 24-10 at the half, before cutting the final deficit to 40-35 (I even had a couple 3s!). Unfortunately our trend of crappy 1st halves continued the next week, when we trailed 20-5 before eventually losing 33-18 (we played *very* poorly as a team that game). And this week our switch from zone to man defense had no effect; we trailed again 20-5 at the half. But we were playing clearly the best team in the division, and they pulled away to cruise to a 51-21 victory. Heck, their point guard outscored our entire team, mostly by draining deep 3 after deep 3. And then their 2-guard started knocking down 3s as well, there really wasn't anything we could do. This coming Tuesday in Rec Hall we'll put our .000 winning percentage on the line one final time. It'd be nice if we could win a game, but we're still having fun.
Cootie Brown is down to just two more concerts before they're done with regular performances, this Friday in Bar Bleu and next Tuesday in Zeno's. I really enjoy listening to them play (and watching Jacob go crazy on the congas, haha), and I had some time this week, so I went with Stephanie to hear them play at Zeno's. She seemed to really like them too, and we stuck around for the whole show so we could get our money's worth. :-) Hopefully their album comes out soon, since after spring break I won't be able to get my Cootie Brown fix for awhile, hehe.
After 30+ hours of work, I finally finished my math assignment this morning. Ugh. It was due Tuesday, but we were all granted an extension because the professor was gone last week and not really available for questions. I almost would've preferred just turning it in Tuesday with less done, but oh well. Now I've got a bunch of research stuff to do before spring break, but on the plus side, we're finally getting some of the results we were aiming to get! Hooray for being unstuck and being able to make progress at long last!
Man, how come we can't be as lucky here in central PA as the Upper Midwest, getting nailed by two major winter storms in the span of a week? Le sigh...
For the third week in a row I'm not gonna be at Friday night team trivia, this time because I'm heading to Baltimore! Carl's throwing a birthday party for himself, and Jolene (& Sara too?) is flying in from Minneapolis for a physics conference, and Betsy is driving up from North Carolina as well. Should be a fun time!
Posted by Jared at March 1, 2007 11:48 PM