How much do I love Survivor? I love it so much that I decided today to start my own really live game of it. Now that I'm in the ED Program, I have to register for certain classes. So all out of whole crew here at OU, I've compliled a list of all my peeps that I keep in contact with. So out of like 20 of my closer friends at school, I talked to a good portion today to see who will be moving on with me in the winter semester and who'll be left behind. Dang SpongeBob along with you Tina! are like 2 semesters ahead of me. So who got voted out today? Stephanie, Ross, Amy, Sarah, and Karen along with the other 2 mentioned. I'm just gonna have to cherish the remainder of the semester with them this year.
Speaking of Survivor, their are only 2 people that I like to see win it all, Ryan O. and Darrah. Man, Darrah is a cutie with a freaky occupation. Dang it, Nicole had to be the first voted off then Michelle just a couple of weeks later.
Mmmmm football Sunday, to play football, Xtreme Stamp Camp, or homework? Hmmm this is a tough choice here. Ok, time to walk Tina to class then off to Passion.
Wookie
Thursday, October 30, 2003
Wednesday, October 29, 2003
Man, I just left the ED Advising office and I feel like I just signed my life over. First off I must be like the most unorganized student in the program now. Anyhoot, I just signed a contract now and I'm excited that I recieved a letter saying that I am now officially in the ED Program. This letter definitly is going up on my fridge baby! The suck part is that now I actually have to attend all these meetings and next winter I actually have to start student teaching again. Man that is one less day for me to sleep in possibly :( Signing this contract also means another step closer to dare we say graduation. On the bright side though, it means more goofing around in the ED courses as it seems that's all I ever do.
Last night at Beech Woods, we played against the team that won B last year and had to move up to A. The sadly quote of the night by Howard "Man I can't believed that guy blocked you" referring to some fat guy. Anyhoot Howard and I kept talking during the time out because we were pumped to play that team since they kept talking. The thing was though, we didn't know if they were talking to us or not because they all spoke Spanish. Nonetheless, it was a first time ever for me to trash talk to the other team in my limited Spanish skills.
Then it was like a tale of 2 cities, going from Beech Woods to Boulan. The fun part was that I roofed Blake and Jason, more fun to roof Blake to shut him up for once. The sad part is I keep wondering how much longer God keeps testing my patience with this team. I got my warning and close to a yellow card with arguing back with the ref. The quote of this game "You should tell your team to start underhand serving" as one of the females from Jason's team was talking to me at the net. I of course didn't take any offense to that because hey she's right. I met our newest teammate, another Melissa that I know now. Gosh she was a cutie, and for the first time ever, I experienced something new on the court. As I was going to get the ball to serve, cutie Melissa came up and slapped me in the booty. I have never had a girl slap me in the butt during a game. My first thought was of JW, thinking "yeah do it again", then my next thought was of Viv thinking back of her booty slapping story. Then my last thought was, wow I feel violated, then oh crap I better serve the ball before time runs out.
Anyhoot, I'm gonna head on down to Toledo now. 5:14 Hot Pot Tonight at llz's place baby, and the Pistons home opener. Have fun Carl and Shaun, sorry I couldn't join y'all at the game.
Resonate
Last night at Beech Woods, we played against the team that won B last year and had to move up to A. The sadly quote of the night by Howard "Man I can't believed that guy blocked you" referring to some fat guy. Anyhoot Howard and I kept talking during the time out because we were pumped to play that team since they kept talking. The thing was though, we didn't know if they were talking to us or not because they all spoke Spanish. Nonetheless, it was a first time ever for me to trash talk to the other team in my limited Spanish skills.
Then it was like a tale of 2 cities, going from Beech Woods to Boulan. The fun part was that I roofed Blake and Jason, more fun to roof Blake to shut him up for once. The sad part is I keep wondering how much longer God keeps testing my patience with this team. I got my warning and close to a yellow card with arguing back with the ref. The quote of this game "You should tell your team to start underhand serving" as one of the females from Jason's team was talking to me at the net. I of course didn't take any offense to that because hey she's right. I met our newest teammate, another Melissa that I know now. Gosh she was a cutie, and for the first time ever, I experienced something new on the court. As I was going to get the ball to serve, cutie Melissa came up and slapped me in the booty. I have never had a girl slap me in the butt during a game. My first thought was of JW, thinking "yeah do it again", then my next thought was of Viv thinking back of her booty slapping story. Then my last thought was, wow I feel violated, then oh crap I better serve the ball before time runs out.
Anyhoot, I'm gonna head on down to Toledo now. 5:14 Hot Pot Tonight at llz's place baby, and the Pistons home opener. Have fun Carl and Shaun, sorry I couldn't join y'all at the game.
Resonate
Tuesday, October 28, 2003
Wow, it's funny reading or listening to everyone talking about their soreness from Sunday's Football Madness. Another great job by the Fungster of setting it up. One thing that I wanna start working back on is my QB skills. I never got to play QB much growing up because my cousins always wanted to play QB. But I think I can be a darn good QB. What I've been thinking about lately, is vision. Do I have vision for CBC? Do I have it for 5:14? In sports, playing PG in b-ball, I feel like I see a lot of things that people don't see. The same thing with v-ball in terms of hitting, not often do I get roofed. When I line up as a WR, to me it's like I see the coverage and the blitzes coming. So if I was lined up at QB, I know who were gonna be my check downs before I even snap the ball. I guess I'm just thankful for God giving me the gift of vision in a lot of ways.
Speaking of vision, I've been thinking about my future a lot lately. Eh, maybe because I'm still one of the youngest in 5:14 and peeps always talk about their jobs and moving. I often think about moving out to Minnesota, to be with some of my extended family out there. It's just so beautiful over there with all the lakes, and walking around St. Paul. Then my mind shifts over to the likes of NYC. After driving there the past 2 years now, I love the action out there, it's never dull. Plus I got family out there too, so it would be nice to spend time with them. I even thought of Florida, going down to our condo and living it up in Daytona, where it's always warm, along the beach, and the roads are smooth. Then again this past Sunday got me thinking, nah I'm here at CBC in MI. I don't think I could leave my parents as they get older because I want to take care of them as much as they have taken care of me, plus I don't think my sis will stick around to help them either. Then their was getting my teaching stuff for my term when I teach Jr. Church. I was looking over everything and I was excited to use a lot of different methods that I learned this semester into my teaching skillz. Then just playing with Christopher and Audrey, makes me think that yeah I wanna be around to see their generation be strong Christians.
Now I keep thinking about my sis, yes my actual one. She's been sick now for 2 weeks, and she puked the other day. It makes me think that I wish she was home so I could take care of her because she ain't really good at that on her own. Or if I could, just pass the gift God has given me with, of quick healing abilities. I hope she is feeling better up there otherwise I'll have to take some time off to make a trip to Sparty land.
Quote of the day from Amanda "Those 3 should not be sitting next to each other."
Hahahah, referring to Carl, Shaun, and myself as we were laughing it up in EED yesterday. Melissa now wants to break us 3 up because all we do is crack jokes at each other. What was fun was trying to shoot hoops with these beans that we got from Kristin's group. Kristin we hooked your group up with 1's on the evals!
Dang it, just got done taking my HST exam too. Man it looks like playing football on Sunday was a bad idea, but oh well, grades aren't everything. 1 class left for today before I get the exciting back to back v-ball games at Beech Woods, and Troy. I get to take on the Super Powers today in Jason and Blake, man I need to kick it up a notch and not waste too much energy at the Ford game.
Reality
Speaking of vision, I've been thinking about my future a lot lately. Eh, maybe because I'm still one of the youngest in 5:14 and peeps always talk about their jobs and moving. I often think about moving out to Minnesota, to be with some of my extended family out there. It's just so beautiful over there with all the lakes, and walking around St. Paul. Then my mind shifts over to the likes of NYC. After driving there the past 2 years now, I love the action out there, it's never dull. Plus I got family out there too, so it would be nice to spend time with them. I even thought of Florida, going down to our condo and living it up in Daytona, where it's always warm, along the beach, and the roads are smooth. Then again this past Sunday got me thinking, nah I'm here at CBC in MI. I don't think I could leave my parents as they get older because I want to take care of them as much as they have taken care of me, plus I don't think my sis will stick around to help them either. Then their was getting my teaching stuff for my term when I teach Jr. Church. I was looking over everything and I was excited to use a lot of different methods that I learned this semester into my teaching skillz. Then just playing with Christopher and Audrey, makes me think that yeah I wanna be around to see their generation be strong Christians.
Now I keep thinking about my sis, yes my actual one. She's been sick now for 2 weeks, and she puked the other day. It makes me think that I wish she was home so I could take care of her because she ain't really good at that on her own. Or if I could, just pass the gift God has given me with, of quick healing abilities. I hope she is feeling better up there otherwise I'll have to take some time off to make a trip to Sparty land.
Quote of the day from Amanda "Those 3 should not be sitting next to each other."
Hahahah, referring to Carl, Shaun, and myself as we were laughing it up in EED yesterday. Melissa now wants to break us 3 up because all we do is crack jokes at each other. What was fun was trying to shoot hoops with these beans that we got from Kristin's group. Kristin we hooked your group up with 1's on the evals!
Dang it, just got done taking my HST exam too. Man it looks like playing football on Sunday was a bad idea, but oh well, grades aren't everything. 1 class left for today before I get the exciting back to back v-ball games at Beech Woods, and Troy. I get to take on the Super Powers today in Jason and Blake, man I need to kick it up a notch and not waste too much energy at the Ford game.
Reality
Saturday, October 25, 2003
Frustration, pisstation, furiated, etc. is how I felt after yesterday's Conference Finals lost 20-6. Normally, I would say yeah it's my fault for losing but there is nothing that I could of think of for this one. A lot of teams in this league always kept challenging our QB's arm. Even our own teammates question his QB skills. I was one of the few who always stood up for him. The past few games I haven't seen the ball thrown my way as much. I kept my mouth shut, instead of "Throw me the damn ball" attitude I had in the regular season. Why? Because we were winning when I didn't see the ball thrown as much. But come on, in the Conference Finals, I kept looking around at who exactly on the team wanted a play. The sad part was, it wasn't even the defense that shut me down, but our conservative offense that kept me in check. I mean I had to line up at RB just to catch screen passes because we're afraid to throw deep or anything pass 10 yards.
On defense, it was set me vs. Mike that was the showdown. However, someone wanted me to take John because he was the fastest guy. But my opinion Mike is the more complete WR. 5 plays after the coin toss, yup Mike scores a 40 yard bomb over the CB who wanted to switch. After that play, for the rest of the game, Peter made me cover Mike. Oh yeah and let's see Mike stats after the switch, 2 receptions for 15 yards. The other CB who switched with me got burned again for what would be the last TD of the game. How much do I study games? I studied Mike's first 2 receptions against me. I noticed him and his QB go by the same thing I do, a number system on routes. For them, 1 was drag, 2 was an out pattern. Simple as that, I told everyone at halftime to anticipate it when you see a finger signal or a mouth signal. Of course people still got burned especially again the same CB. This was pissing me off, it's like who the G am I suppose to cover here?
Now we move on to special teams. As we were lining up to punt, it was decided that I would return this sucker. So of course the ball is in the air, and I'm running under it to get ready to catch it. However, my blockers are all looking up at the fricking ball too and one of them decides to catch it instead of blocking. My first thought was going back to last Sunday's game. I get the chance to return a kick, and all my blockers are looking up at the fricking ball with me instead of looking horizontal to block, and boom I get the clothesline from hell by JW because of course everyone is still staring at the ball. I mean geeez it's simple either you're a returner or a blocker, you can't be both here. QB's picking up blitzes, is it really that hard too? I mean for me I feel it's easy as reading a full court press in b-ball. There are a lot of people out there that think they can play this game but it's like if we played tackle, then people are gonna get hurt, no doubt about it.
The other sucked part in the Conference game was on one play, I was covering Mike. I saw him mouth the number 2, so I anticipated, and tweaked the same knee on the play. I heard a minor pop, but I was able to walk it off and not miss a play. Man now my knee feels like a rubber band though. I guess I gotta test this bad boy out on Sunday.
Someday
On defense, it was set me vs. Mike that was the showdown. However, someone wanted me to take John because he was the fastest guy. But my opinion Mike is the more complete WR. 5 plays after the coin toss, yup Mike scores a 40 yard bomb over the CB who wanted to switch. After that play, for the rest of the game, Peter made me cover Mike. Oh yeah and let's see Mike stats after the switch, 2 receptions for 15 yards. The other CB who switched with me got burned again for what would be the last TD of the game. How much do I study games? I studied Mike's first 2 receptions against me. I noticed him and his QB go by the same thing I do, a number system on routes. For them, 1 was drag, 2 was an out pattern. Simple as that, I told everyone at halftime to anticipate it when you see a finger signal or a mouth signal. Of course people still got burned especially again the same CB. This was pissing me off, it's like who the G am I suppose to cover here?
Now we move on to special teams. As we were lining up to punt, it was decided that I would return this sucker. So of course the ball is in the air, and I'm running under it to get ready to catch it. However, my blockers are all looking up at the fricking ball too and one of them decides to catch it instead of blocking. My first thought was going back to last Sunday's game. I get the chance to return a kick, and all my blockers are looking up at the fricking ball with me instead of looking horizontal to block, and boom I get the clothesline from hell by JW because of course everyone is still staring at the ball. I mean geeez it's simple either you're a returner or a blocker, you can't be both here. QB's picking up blitzes, is it really that hard too? I mean for me I feel it's easy as reading a full court press in b-ball. There are a lot of people out there that think they can play this game but it's like if we played tackle, then people are gonna get hurt, no doubt about it.
The other sucked part in the Conference game was on one play, I was covering Mike. I saw him mouth the number 2, so I anticipated, and tweaked the same knee on the play. I heard a minor pop, but I was able to walk it off and not miss a play. Man now my knee feels like a rubber band though. I guess I gotta test this bad boy out on Sunday.
Someday
Wednesday, October 22, 2003
Hello everybody I want you to meet my best friend for the night, Naproxen. It is my lovely prescribed pain killers I keep with me in case I run out of Motrin or in my case somebody lost them. Boy what a day, first we go off again to more playoff drama. Dickman vs. URAPK, both offenses were awful. Let's cap down to the last play of the game where we opted to punt on 4th down with 5 seconds left when we had the lead 20-13. However, Ray fumbled the punt and with 1 second left at their 30 yard line had a chance. However, their dumb QB decides to run and actually got sacked again by Ray to end the game. The stars of the game, first has to be Steve. He is the least athletic person on our team, but what I love about him is that he knows his role and does a good job with it. His role is being the center and protecting Stan. He had a big catch and a big pass deflection.
The other stars had to be our newest addition Matt, Ray's friend. Those 2 just tormented the QB in the backfield. It was like Simeon Rice and Warren Sapp lined up on the line. Now as for me, let's see Dickman's QB completed more passes to me than Stan did. I mean does the word "lockdown" mean anything yet? I finished the game with 2 interceptions and plenty of return yards. That makes 5 interceptions for me in the last 6 games, almost averaging 1 a game.
So this Thursday, is the conference final game 5 West vs. URAPK. Man only one more win and we are off to the OU SuperBowl. Who would of thought that our team would make it this far? My assignment this Thursday, is to dog Mike all day. I have a great deal of respect for him because he was and still is on my v-ball team, and he is a great football player too. He is one of the league's big play recievers too. So I look forward to the challenge of 2 of the best players in the conference locking it down.
After the game though, I drove down to Beech Woods and as soon as the game started, it started to hurt. My back was like acting up, like if it had some dent in it or something. It hurt just to bend down to recieve a pass hence majority of my passes sucked. Hitting line was hard because I had to torque my body more. I ate my friend Mr. Naproxen which helped me finished the 3 games. It hurt when Bill went to put his hand on my back to go around me. I'm squirming right now just to keep it loose because it's stiff now. My shoulder feels like it's gonna fall off from hitting the past few nights now. Tomorrow, gotta make sure I sit in the hot tub to relax my muscles and keep loose for Thursday's game. This sucks though because can't even sleep with this pain in the back. What sucked even more was I tried to pull out everything I had in my energy, even on this one sweet back 1 set from Bill, and it just wasn't enough. On the bright side, Vertically Challenge is 6-0 now, gosh I can't stand our team name. This pain feeling is some what a good feeling too because at least I know I've been giving it my all, and as Howie said "he's still the youngster, he'll heal by tomorrow." Amen to that, in the mean time, time to look for that heating pad. Would be nice to let Brother Steve or Doc Kim take a looksy though. Oh well, I'm sure it's just a spasm.
Come Into My World
The other stars had to be our newest addition Matt, Ray's friend. Those 2 just tormented the QB in the backfield. It was like Simeon Rice and Warren Sapp lined up on the line. Now as for me, let's see Dickman's QB completed more passes to me than Stan did. I mean does the word "lockdown" mean anything yet? I finished the game with 2 interceptions and plenty of return yards. That makes 5 interceptions for me in the last 6 games, almost averaging 1 a game.
So this Thursday, is the conference final game 5 West vs. URAPK. Man only one more win and we are off to the OU SuperBowl. Who would of thought that our team would make it this far? My assignment this Thursday, is to dog Mike all day. I have a great deal of respect for him because he was and still is on my v-ball team, and he is a great football player too. He is one of the league's big play recievers too. So I look forward to the challenge of 2 of the best players in the conference locking it down.
After the game though, I drove down to Beech Woods and as soon as the game started, it started to hurt. My back was like acting up, like if it had some dent in it or something. It hurt just to bend down to recieve a pass hence majority of my passes sucked. Hitting line was hard because I had to torque my body more. I ate my friend Mr. Naproxen which helped me finished the 3 games. It hurt when Bill went to put his hand on my back to go around me. I'm squirming right now just to keep it loose because it's stiff now. My shoulder feels like it's gonna fall off from hitting the past few nights now. Tomorrow, gotta make sure I sit in the hot tub to relax my muscles and keep loose for Thursday's game. This sucks though because can't even sleep with this pain in the back. What sucked even more was I tried to pull out everything I had in my energy, even on this one sweet back 1 set from Bill, and it just wasn't enough. On the bright side, Vertically Challenge is 6-0 now, gosh I can't stand our team name. This pain feeling is some what a good feeling too because at least I know I've been giving it my all, and as Howie said "he's still the youngster, he'll heal by tomorrow." Amen to that, in the mean time, time to look for that heating pad. Would be nice to let Brother Steve or Doc Kim take a looksy though. Oh well, I'm sure it's just a spasm.
Come Into My World