when you feel that heat, and we're gonna ride that boogie, share that beat of love...

ahhh, where do i begin? this weekend in north carolina was...right, let me elaborate:

friday: nancy, nurit, catherine, lindsay, and i don't get into our hotel in greenville until 1 am. everyone's flight was delayed. catherine's was only 1/2 hour late. lindsay and i waited for our plane for like 3 hours before it finally started moving away from the gate. nancy and nurit's flight didn't get in until 11 something. then nurit had to drive us from raleigh to greenville. we all slept in the same room. and of course, i was so excited to sleep on the floor : )

saturday: despite only 6 hours of sleep after a week of hell, i was totally up and ready for the tournament. i ate just the right amount of breakfast. i knew it was just the right amount because i didn't get any stomach cramps during the games! that's pretty amazing for me, the girl who needs to eat dinner at least three hours before night practices. we played richmond, appalachian state and upenn. and we won all our games! we beat richmond and app. state by a good margin, but when upenn stepped up to the line, they brought us a good challenge. they were up 3-0 by three quick easy points. then of course, nancy came up to us on the line and smiled, calling positions for zone d. we were excited and ready for some of that zone we've been practicing. And all of a sudden...the turnovers came like gold at the end of the rainbow...and the emotions were beyond phenomenal. You could feel the surge of smite energy in your bones. the points were still long and hard, but we took half, and eventually won the game. i just absolutely loved the way we kept changing our defensive strategy and how it confused them terribly. on almost every point, it was about trying something new. i never imagined how smart ultimate could be played or how those smart strategies could be implemented.

sunday: we played middlebury and tufts. we lost to tufts, which is why we only had two games. tufts was a decent opponent, but at the same time, i think we didn't have the fire that we had the day before. when we were down 3-1, you could already sense the downness in our spirits, as opposed to the previous 3-0 situation with upenn, where we had vengeful energy surging out of us. despite our not so together first half with tufts, the second half we came out much stronger. we impressed nancy with our improvement in man-d. we were pretty much even in the second half. for every point that they got, we also got. we had some trouble recognizing and cutting to the open side, but that should be a simple thing to fix. we also straightened up our clearing and going back into the stack movements by the end of the tufts game. the game's ending was hopeful, and our potential is there.

my favorite moment of the day, was when we called bulldozer in the end zone. veena ran to the open side calling "MMMMMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE". it was the most distracting thing she could do. i had couldn't stop the huge grin when i heard it once the disc was in. in the end, we didn't get that point because meri got d'ed when she came in for the disk.

so now i'm in virginia with my rugrat nieces (10 and 8 years old), and still throwing frisbees! i did not pressure them...it was their idea to throw frisbee outside. i'm glad i still got some throwing in today.

random thoughts

when you think of WILG, what do you think of?

LOVE...one huge ball of love. which includes food, creativity, comfort, and relaxation.

do you sometimes feel like a certain song characterizes a uniqe emotion and time in your life?

right now it's daughters (john mayer) and cartwheels (the reindeer section)