Game Night!
Tonight was Math Club game night. I got there about 40 minutes late because of running late at work and then stopping at home for a few things. But there were a lot of people there including two professors: Dr. Wolf and Dr. Patton. I played Cranium for about the first 2 hours. That was fun, I hadn't played that version before. I was on a team with Melissa, Andre and Ian (we won). Then those of who played that game (there was also some scategories and scrabble going on) either talked for a bit or left. The rest of us afterward played Taboo and some other people arrived. I was probably overly tense/competitive during that. I can't help it, in some games I just get into that competitive mode. I think everyone had fun with it despite my dictorialness (is that even a word?). Anyway, good times were had by all. I was up for some more but everyone else was taking off.

Now I'm contemplating this beach clean up/BBQ with Honors tomorrow. I don't need any community service hours but a BBQ sounds like fun. I guess I'll play by ear tomorrow. I should be working on Linear Algebra and get it out of the way so I can study for Combinatorics test on Tuesday but I also want to need to finish this logic puzzle Bridget got me stated on at work. I almost had it but fucked up at one point so now I need to start over. Going to that now.

Grrrr
My Linear Algebra professor changed the last assignment that was turned in after I had originally wrote it down. He added one problem to one section and I got 5 points off for not having it. Grrrr. This is the problem with posting the problems on the internet, he can change them at any time. Bah I say, Bah!

Last Softball Game
It went pretty well. We actually got to play as we had 5 girls (although one left at 6) and 9 guys. Although we were the visitors, boo. I liked their first pitcher. Mainly because all she pitched was balls ;-). She walked the first four people. We were very excited that we scored a run in the first inning. Anywho, I got on base a couple times, but only made it to second once. *EDIT* I lied, I made it to third and as I was running home, we got out third out. Although the only times I got on base was due to walks. I think we mostly learned to watch for good pitches ;-).

I liked the umpire. His name was Justin and I actually knew him from playing with Poly Reps in the spring. So he and Randy were friends. He was a very "liberal" umpire. I'm not sure if that's the right word for it. But some would be strikes he called as balls and actually gave the ties to the runner.

Regardless of all this, we still lost but we played our best game yet. Actually, if you comibine our scores from our previous official games and that was our score tonight (aka 8). I think Leia's boyfriend Jared hitting a home run with two people on helped a lot in that category. But the other team got 18 so, yeah. They, having yet to lose a game, are going to the playoffs whereas we are done for the quarter. Ah well, it was most definitely fun while it lasted =).

I think I will look into starting a volleyball team for next quarter. Although I want my classes finialized first which is a whole other issue. But yeah, volleyball should be fun. Plus it doesn't require as many people. (Watch, we'll still forfeit). So yeah, note to self, look into this.

About my Halloween costume
[Meghan] Well, how are you going to play it? Sexy? Psychotic?
[Me] I don't know. I guess I'll be going as myself.
*short pause*
[Me] So bitchy I guess.
[Meghan between fake coughs] Wasn't going to go there.

I am the computer guru who hates her feet
So after getting back my Combinatorics midterm back (67, eep!) I went shopping for a new pair of shoes as mine have seen much better days. (Plus the blood stain that is now on my left heel isn't that attractive). First I went to Payless but wasn't happy with their selection. Then I went to Copland's and spent the next 45 minutes deciding between 3 pairs of shoes. The first two were the same style just different sizes. What I hate about my feet is that not only are they wide, but also my left foot is about half a size bigger than my right foot. I knew one was bigger than the other but I measured them in the store. Then I tried on a third pair after getting clarification between a "walking" shoe and a "fitness" shoe from a salesperson. The third pair, a "fitness" shoe was the one I finally went with after walking around for a bit making sure that both of my feet were quite comfortable. I hat buying shoes because of trhe different sizes and the width. Especially any dress shoes. Just to get them to fit my width I have to go up a half size or a full size and then put pads in to make my feet snug in terms of length. *sigh* This is why I just wear my one pair of sneakers to death.

Anyway, tonight after Juile, Meghan and I had some laughs over putting up our new "doorbell" and naming it and Meghan's parrot, Meghan brought out her senior project to show us some funny things. One of the things was the work "currricular" on the top of every page in the header. She was surprised that someone made that mistake and that no one has bothered to correct it over the past 4 years. Although she noted that she and her partner couldn't fix it either. She said that they tried but it was all greyed out. I told her "well, yeah, until you hit View Header and Footer." She gave this sort of amazed look and then went to try it on the computer. She was very happy when it worked. While I was there, she had me try to fix another problem with a page printing lines that weren't suppose to be there. I didn't see anything in normal view but they were there in print preview. So I simply edited them away while I was in print preview and vwala (sp?), no more lines. This also made Meghan very happy. She said "Note to self: schedule senior project meetings on the weekends when Mandy is here." She also said that while she herself may not be brilliant, she's brilliant in how to use people yet can offer nothing in return except for an amusement factor. Which is true. Meghan can almost always make me smile or laugh (read: poking me with a fork after losing the race to the microwave last night).

Dreams
This time I dreamt that the mouse was back. All I remember is chasing it around but that's it.

[Matthew] I'm excited. On Friday we get to do Stoke's Theorem!
[Guy] Are you stoked?

Softball Dreams
Early this morning, I slipped into a dream about our softball game last night. For some strange strange reason, Colin Hanks was there and on our team.

So I guess Colin was on third and Kiel was up to bat. Kiel hit a ball way way out there and started to round the bases. Except from where I was on the side, it looked like he cut first, hit second and cut third. But it didn't matter because when Colin came home, he touched home plate getting the third out.

That's about all I remember before I woke up about 30 seconds before my first alarm went off.

When I left for the Sports Complex today at 4:20, I thought for sure that we would be short players and that we would be playing an unofficial game. Boy, was I wrong. Not only did we have enought people to play, we had fourteen people there (9 guys, 5 girls). That was so cool. Playing a real game is so much more fun.

Hopefully we'll have everyone back again next week when we play the Yellow Darts (the only team to not lose a game yet (keeping in mind that I don't know about tonight's game)).

I got a couple people out tonight and got as far as second base thanks to two walks. I played pretty mcuh just second base. And I got to play the whole time since all 5 girls had to be on the field in order to have a full field.

Holy Cow!


Talk about under predicting! The newspaper said the record high for SLO was 99 in 1965. However, weather.com shows a record high for October to be 109 in 1980 and an overall high as 112 in September of 1971. Makes me wonder who's right and who's wrong. But still...97 at the end of October? (and for that matter, a report of 109 in October? *shakes head* Wow.)