i finally discovered the reason for my unproductiveness this semester. i've been obsessively checking email and reading about ultimate. somehow i always end up putting schoolwork behind these two tasks. you can now see where my priorities lie. and frankly, i don't feel bad about it.
i tend to get a burning headache whenever i think about schoolwork now. like today, in chinese class, i couldn't answer the teacher's question because my head contained a concrete slab, not a brain that can think. my hypothesis was, maybe it's because i haven't been drinking enough water (silly reason, i know). but alas, once i start thinking about anything other than schoolwork, my giant headache goes away.
and it's wonderful! i like reading ultimate blogs; it educates me in all the things you can do as an ultimate player--like the moves and the strategies. i'll read about some ultimate technique, and then really want to try it out. i usually fail in carrying it out in practice or at the games, but it doesn't hurt to try.
one of these days, i'll become both productive in academics, AND a more useful ultimate player.
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ultimate is way more important than academics. when i got this job, no one asked for or looked at my transcript. it was all interview. ultimate however, has surrounded me with a bevy of new friends and given me a fantastic social life. i'm going to australia this friday to play at worlds, and then i'm going to manila the weekend after that. life rocks when you play frisbee. you also tend to meet some amazing ppl. when i played chicago summer league, i met the guy who ran the med-school interviews for northwestern. since i was still premed, i was pretty excited about this. i could tell he liked me better because i was a good frisbee player (i defected to his team cuz they didn't have enough females and we had too many). you won't believe the number of people who get jobs via ulty connections after college. frisbee is real life. school is not.
btw, i heard you had a nice backhand break during the wellesley game. way to not freak out while trapped! was there a cross-wind?
i'm excited about frisbee in the spring! i have this feeling that we're gonna come out of our cocoon after iap and be a pretty awesome team. as for not freaking out, i think i was just oblivious to what they were trying to do, and tried to find an open space.
To answer Lily's question, there was a crosswind, but Minwah had her back to the upwind sideline and so was throwing downwind. And it was a forehand and not a backhand.
To Minwah: those headaches sound familiar, (remember me complaining about them doing 8.03 p-sets?). Take breaks when you need them and don't feel guilty about it. You don't want the headaches to get worse.
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