Sure Signs of Spring

Sure sign of spring #1: Opening practice for church league softball! On Monday evening we got to get back out on the diamond for the first time this season, taking some batting practice and fielding practice. I was a bit rusty in the field for sure, but I was starting to feel pretty good with the bat, driving a couple balls to deep center. Basically everything else was dead-pull, so I need to work on poking the ball to the opposite field at least occasionally. We have one more practice coming up on Monday, and then the Monday after that is the season opener!
Sure sign of spring #2: Only two lectures left in both of my classes! I’m especially excited to be nearly done with the math class.
Sure sign of spring #3?: Maybe this doesn’t quite fit, but on Tuesday we had an intramural dodgeball tournament! Walter & Moyer got a team put together, with Steve, Nat, Yorks, Luna, Amber O. & I filling out the roster. We were pumped for the 45-minute, 8-game tournament, but that didn’t exactly translate into success on the court. We lost our first seven games before finally winning the last one to avoid going oh-fer. I think at least one team practice beforehand would’ve been helpful, to work on a couple strategies and break people of the habit of trying to catch anything that was within reach, because that’s not the best plan in dodgeball unless you have glue on your hands. I only knocked a couple people out, so I definitely need to improve on that next time we play. And we’ll definitely play again next time there’s an IM tourney!
Sure sign of spring #4: Walker Building is once again exhibiting why it’s the worst climate-controlled building on campus. Especially on Monday when it was 81 degrees outside, it was absolutely stifling inside the building. Stupid OPP still has the heat on. The A/C probably won’t get turned on until sometime in May. Argh. This happens every spring and absolutely ruins productivity, because everyone’s so miserable.
As for what else is going on, last weekend I was elected President of Penn State Christian Grads for the coming year. Apparently there wasn’t an organized write-in campaign to topple me, haha. It’ll be an interesting year for sure, and once my thesis is done I’ll have more time to devote to that.
This Sunday I’m playing piano again for both the 9:00 and 10:30am services at State College Evangelical Free Church. It’s also Katrina Sunday, so I’ll be showing my slideshow from our spring break trip in the 10:30 service probably, while Katie’s will be shown in the 9:00 service. It’s also the last Sunday for Pastor Tober before he goes on his three-month sabbatical.
Only a month to go until my thesis has to be basically finished. Now it’s really time to start getting nervous about that!