Kara is the Awesome-est

So there's this girl I've known for like, 5+ years... and she is the awesome-est. She's sent me this really cool purple Huskies shirt from her college, and I've sent her one back of Poly. It's not fair that she's getting to go to Hawaii for spring break for FREE. If you can, go out and buy her Starbuck's at 3 in the morning because she'll make you a pretty good deal...

Well this weekend was pretty eventful. It started Thursday night, when Dan picked me up to go have dinner at a sushi place in AG with Kristen and a bunch of her friends for their birthdays this weekend. It was really nice, and we had TONS of sake to drink. The food was pretty good too, and having a Japanese chef cook food in front of you was really cool too because he was doing all these fancy moves. Then after that we came back to SLO and went downtown to Blacksheep where we had a bit more to drink, and then Dan dropped me back off at home.

I woke up the next morning to finish this stupid tech writing project at 6 in the morning. Went to class, then went to work till 4. Then I came home for a couple of hours before having to go BACK to the bowling alley for the Engineering Ambassadors social. We had a pretty good turnout of around 15+ people and we bowled a couple of games. I screwed around the first game, but when the 2nd game came around and we were in teams, I tried to bowl well, and rolled a 193. Let's see if I can't do that again Wednesday night to earn myself a shirt *knock on wood*

After bowling, Kristen called and told me to go over to her and Dan's house to hang out... I couldn't say no to the birthday girl, so I drove out to Morro Bay. We had some drinks and food, watched some Winter Olympics opening ceremonies, and proceeded to play Cranium for like 3 hours. The girls took the first round, but Dan and I took the second round. The girls love the green cards (the acting and humming ones), and Dan and I were awesome at the blue cards (drawing, making things out of clay). Yeah that's right, I can make "fireplace", "saddle", and "top hat / baseball cap / crown" in 60 seconds. We were fucking awesome. We all stayed over that night, and the next morning we went out to breakfast together. I came home that afternoon and just took a nap, as allergy season kicked into full gear and my eyes were red as hell and I had a runny nose. I stayed in that night and just cleaned up the house a bit... and unclogged the toilet, lol.

Sunday morning I went out and washed my car, and got some tree sap remover stuff... which hasn't worked completely yet because I guess it's been on there for a good while and it was also really sunny so it probably didn't work too well. I'll see if I can't get it to work later... then it was time for poker at Lambda Phi Epsilon's quarterly tournament on campus. I started out doing okay, catching a couple hands on the river at our deadly table. But what goes around comes around, as it happened to me a couple of times where I was out river-ed. What I mean by our wicked table is this: almost every hand where someone's in the lead pre-flop or after the flop, will LOSE after the other person catches a turn or river card. It was better to be behind in the hand, as they almost always made their hand. We saw pocket 2's bust Aces... only to have me pick up the same 2 Aces (both black) the immediate next hand and milk 2 people almost dry. I got down to a point, and then I decided to add on chips for another $10. Tables started dwindling, and I made a move at one point with pocket 4's pre-flop, only to have the other guy call and flip over his pocket 6's. I caught a 4 off the flop, and that was that. I stayed in till the final table, and was doing pretty well. I started the final table going strong, picked up a couple good sized pots and was almost the chip-leader at one point I think. But a couple losing pots here and there and blinds wore me down, and I was soon fighting for my tournament life... at that point it was 5th place. I picked up pocket 4's again, and went all in to have someone call with an A J off-suit. He hit his J off the flop, and no 4's showed up to save me. I took home 5th place out of about 90 people, and a 256 Mb MP3 player by Creative (Muvo). It was good fun I think, and good practice for me.

What an entertaining weekend... and it will continue. I have a midterm in 409 to study for this Wednesday, bowling tournament Wednesday night, and I have to go pick up Apollo Thursday. Will should also be getting here Sunday. Busy busy.

Kickball

4 hours worth, and boy was it fun. Rec Sports' Intramurals had a kickball tournament this Sunday, and I played on Greg's team. 9 of us all together, it started this morning at 10 or so. There were a total of 5 teams there, and we got to play each team (so we played 4 games). It was some fun stuff and we kicked butt 1/2 the time. The first game was a nail-biter, as it went into the bottom of the 5th 0-1 and we were scoreless. I should also mention, that I kicked the ball so hard in the 3rd inning, that the ball became flat (yeah I was the one responsible for the delay, what can I say, I kicked the shit out of it).... we made do with the flat ball, pumping it after each play for 1 inning, then we switched to the soccerball for the last inning. I was batting 3rd, and Nick got on base, and Louie kicked it in to score him. 1-1, and it was me up to kick. I smacked that ball directly at the first baseman (base-woman) and ran like hell becauses I knew she couldn't do shit. She bobbled the ball, and I made it across the bag safe... it didn't matter, because Louie made it home and scored the winning run.

Game 2 didn't turn out so well. We were down going into the top of the 5th, as the away team. We had to make up about 6 runs, and didn't come close... we lost that one with me getting pegged in the foot as the last out, after I tried to change directions during a fly ball that I thought they might drop, but they caught it, and hit me with it before I made it back to first base, game over.

Game 3 was a complete joke... we got into a rthym and it didn't end. We developed a new kicking order, and they just demolished them. Final score of that one was like 21-7 or something rediculous, we stopped trying after the 2nd inning, scoring like 11 that half of the inning. They were such a shitty team, and we had like 5 in-the-park home runs.

Game 4 was against what we called the "deuchers".... the guys on steroids. These guys were fucking big, and can drive the ball over our heads. However, they were beat by the same team that beat us in Game 2, because they just kept kicking it into the outfield where it was caught. We lead in the first inning, but then totally fell apart in the 2nd. They scored like 12 runs on us, we just couldn't get the outs. They kept putting the ball on the ground, or in holes where we didn't have people. We mounted a comeback in the 4th, to make the score like 17-6 or something, and we ended them in the 4th and 5th pretty quick. I made some good catches in the outfield, after they FINALLY starting kicking the ball in the air to hit homeruns, but I was there for like 5 catches. We popped a couple home runs to lead off in the 5th, our last efforts. It was to no avail, as we lost to a final score of 20-9 or something.

We ended the tournament 2-2, taking 3rd place. This was tons of fun, and I'll do it again in the future.