The Weekend...
Interesting weekend this...
Saturday night went to Timm's house and generally just hung out. FIFA Street is ridiculously intense when played properly. Several notes: South Korea is terrible, their goalie is like a freakin' matador. Timm and I connect on the aerial ball in ridiculous ways. Overall a good time. Also watched Dr. 90210 for a bit: the sheer callousness of the doctors is hilarious. Not that they don't care about the patient, but the running dry commentary as they are worming their hands around underneath people's skin is simply too much. Also, Hogan knows best is one of my new favorite diversions, simply because the whole idea of Hulk Hogan doing normal things strikes me as funny.
Played golf early Sunday...I'm becoming immensely frustrated with my golf game in its current state. I've regressed since the early summer, especially off the tee and with the putter. The putter will find its way back...I'm not really getting good reads more than anything else and that'll come back. It's the drives that are killing me. I'm not too far from playing reasonable golf. From 100 and in, I play very solid. But I don't have any length and it's very frustrating to play that way. Especially with the flubs and toes. I do need to control my temper a litlte bit though...i think that'll help.
Lifting, lunch, and the extended Lord of the Rings:RotK with Timm. Good times at the Mystery Science Theater. It's fun noting parallels between characters and your real-life associates. I was a fan of the Rakesh-Gimli comparison. Three key items if you watch:
1. Note that Gandalf tends to treat the hobbits as children.
2. Watch for Gimli and Legolas' bow before they attack the corsairs: a scene akin to Casey Jones and the garbage truck at the end of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
3. Consider if every role was played by Samuel L Jackson...our favorite was Samwise L Jackson.
Good series and road trip for the Tribe. 4 of 7 on a West Coast Swing is good every time. The blown save on Wednesday and the inadequate offense on Saturday hurt, costing two potential victories, but good bouncebacks on the following days. No moves at the deadline, which was about what I expected. They're too competitive to sell, unless they just get an outstanding offer, which wasn't going to happen. And the guys on the market just didn't make sense for them to pick up: no young studs or good rental players out there, and, quite frankly, the sellers were asking for way too much. The talk was that, in order to acquire an impact player, teams were asking for Sizemore, Peralta, and/or Lee. I don't understand why anyone would expect the team to trade three of its biggest parts for the future, let alone the present, for a short-term rental. Look at the market, it followed classic economics: there were lots of buyers and few sellers. The sellers were asking for big prices, and priced themselves out. No seller or buyer connected on any deals of significance to set a price, and thus the market failed, due to time constraints. How about that for a term paper?
Other thoughts: we're about two hours from the first of August, which means its getting to be about game time as far as school and the like, and that is becoming an intimidating presence. I really would like to do very well in school, especially in the first year, and that is going to require a lot of work, likely more effort than I ever really put forth in school. To be honest, I think I spent more time building and maintaining the fraternal political machine then I did on schoolwork in the last two years at old CMU. Looking forward, I can't do that again, especially if I want to write as a 2L. More importantly, Timm asked me today what I wanted to do with my law degree, and the answer is still that I don't know, really. I want to be important, more than anything else...and I want to make the world around me better, but I also am aware of a lot of my weaknesses, and I have doubts about my dynamism, to be the leader of a big organization like that. I think my character is built much better to be a number 2 or 3 guy: a Vice President of some sort. I'm good for ideas, I'm good at execution, but I need people to deflect on, especially for emotional security. I also think I need to start working on my relationships more, especially on getting a more special one. Reading on James Buchanan, the 15th President, the other day, one of the remarks was that Buchanan, a bachelor, was so reliant on his close 'business' associates, especially the cabinetm for personal and social support that he could not separate accordingly when he had to be demanding as President. I am also intrigued by the judicial/academic world. By and large, I think I might be happiest and best at writing, interpreting, and opining, and leaving others to execute. That's also my confidence talking, or lack thereof. It's an interesting cycle, my confidence...but, eh...
Anyways, I feel pretty good about things for the immediate term and look forward to what the fall holds, which is unfortunately more than I can say for some of my associates, several of whom are going through some real rough times right now. Having dealt with some rough emotional territory myself, I feel for them and hope things get easier...
That's about it for the moment.
Peace
Saturday night went to Timm's house and generally just hung out. FIFA Street is ridiculously intense when played properly. Several notes: South Korea is terrible, their goalie is like a freakin' matador. Timm and I connect on the aerial ball in ridiculous ways. Overall a good time. Also watched Dr. 90210 for a bit: the sheer callousness of the doctors is hilarious. Not that they don't care about the patient, but the running dry commentary as they are worming their hands around underneath people's skin is simply too much. Also, Hogan knows best is one of my new favorite diversions, simply because the whole idea of Hulk Hogan doing normal things strikes me as funny.
Played golf early Sunday...I'm becoming immensely frustrated with my golf game in its current state. I've regressed since the early summer, especially off the tee and with the putter. The putter will find its way back...I'm not really getting good reads more than anything else and that'll come back. It's the drives that are killing me. I'm not too far from playing reasonable golf. From 100 and in, I play very solid. But I don't have any length and it's very frustrating to play that way. Especially with the flubs and toes. I do need to control my temper a litlte bit though...i think that'll help.
Lifting, lunch, and the extended Lord of the Rings:RotK with Timm. Good times at the Mystery Science Theater. It's fun noting parallels between characters and your real-life associates. I was a fan of the Rakesh-Gimli comparison. Three key items if you watch:
1. Note that Gandalf tends to treat the hobbits as children.
2. Watch for Gimli and Legolas' bow before they attack the corsairs: a scene akin to Casey Jones and the garbage truck at the end of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
3. Consider if every role was played by Samuel L Jackson...our favorite was Samwise L Jackson.
Good series and road trip for the Tribe. 4 of 7 on a West Coast Swing is good every time. The blown save on Wednesday and the inadequate offense on Saturday hurt, costing two potential victories, but good bouncebacks on the following days. No moves at the deadline, which was about what I expected. They're too competitive to sell, unless they just get an outstanding offer, which wasn't going to happen. And the guys on the market just didn't make sense for them to pick up: no young studs or good rental players out there, and, quite frankly, the sellers were asking for way too much. The talk was that, in order to acquire an impact player, teams were asking for Sizemore, Peralta, and/or Lee. I don't understand why anyone would expect the team to trade three of its biggest parts for the future, let alone the present, for a short-term rental. Look at the market, it followed classic economics: there were lots of buyers and few sellers. The sellers were asking for big prices, and priced themselves out. No seller or buyer connected on any deals of significance to set a price, and thus the market failed, due to time constraints. How about that for a term paper?
Other thoughts: we're about two hours from the first of August, which means its getting to be about game time as far as school and the like, and that is becoming an intimidating presence. I really would like to do very well in school, especially in the first year, and that is going to require a lot of work, likely more effort than I ever really put forth in school. To be honest, I think I spent more time building and maintaining the fraternal political machine then I did on schoolwork in the last two years at old CMU. Looking forward, I can't do that again, especially if I want to write as a 2L. More importantly, Timm asked me today what I wanted to do with my law degree, and the answer is still that I don't know, really. I want to be important, more than anything else...and I want to make the world around me better, but I also am aware of a lot of my weaknesses, and I have doubts about my dynamism, to be the leader of a big organization like that. I think my character is built much better to be a number 2 or 3 guy: a Vice President of some sort. I'm good for ideas, I'm good at execution, but I need people to deflect on, especially for emotional security. I also think I need to start working on my relationships more, especially on getting a more special one. Reading on James Buchanan, the 15th President, the other day, one of the remarks was that Buchanan, a bachelor, was so reliant on his close 'business' associates, especially the cabinetm for personal and social support that he could not separate accordingly when he had to be demanding as President. I am also intrigued by the judicial/academic world. By and large, I think I might be happiest and best at writing, interpreting, and opining, and leaving others to execute. That's also my confidence talking, or lack thereof. It's an interesting cycle, my confidence...but, eh...
Anyways, I feel pretty good about things for the immediate term and look forward to what the fall holds, which is unfortunately more than I can say for some of my associates, several of whom are going through some real rough times right now. Having dealt with some rough emotional territory myself, I feel for them and hope things get easier...
That's about it for the moment.
Peace
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