Finished off my three weeks of travelling last Thursday night, with a red-eye back from California. I'm still recovery from lack of sleep. Word to the wise: If you ever take an west->east red-eye, get plenty of sleep the next night. (East->west red-eyes are better because you go against the jet stream and get in at an four which still allows you to sleep at a hotel.)
Despite my sleepiness, Chu and I went to Batman Begins on Friday night (after baking a birthday shortcake for Rupa). Due to some confusion, we were unable to make the 11:30pm showing, so we did midnight-thirty instead. (Hrmm, this might also be why I'm still tired.) I greatly enjoyed the movie, although I found the League Of Shadows--pillaging Rome, burning London, and all that--to be a bit beyond of an implausible aside. I would have preferred the Scarecrow as the main villain, as I remember episodes with him being very good in the cartoon version of Batman that I grew up with, but I understand how that might not have played too well to the larger audience.
Saturday afternoon I played the worst half of goalkeeping since in about a decade. I let in three goals in the opening half of our soccer game, two of which were stoppable. I performed adequately in the second half, and we ended up losing 4-1. To redeem myself I played for a team in the game following ours, and earned a 2-0 shutout.
Speaking of ending long streaks, on Sunday, after a 10-year hiatus, I picked up the game of golf again. My father had bought me my first set of clubs when I was seven, and I played occasionally until I was 15 (at one point I even tried out for TJ's golf team). Frustrating with puberty continually changing my height and thus my swing, I quit. Sunday I was back with a vengeance, shooting 54 over nine holes, which I don't think was too shabby considering my sabbatical.
From golf I went immediately to pickup basketball, where my teammates made me look at lot better than I actually am. By the end of the weekend, I had about eight cuts and scrapes on my body (most of them in places where I had previously destroyed most nerves anyway).
LOTD: Zombie dogs
Hey next time you play pickup basketball give me a call. I've been longing to get a game together for a while now. It wasn't a popular option for friends in Seattle, and as it stands now I don't know that many DC based players.
Aaron
Sure, will do: we usually play somewhere in Arlington.