the braves-giants game last night officially ended in a tie after it starting pouring rain in the 10th inning in atlanta. they will leave it at that unless it affects the playoffs, in which case they’ll replay the entire thing. weird.
last night i braved the deluge and flood and went to sherlock’s to play trivia with three other people from my division. as a side note, this trivia contest is one of many events in the “space games,” something my division and its counterpart at united space alliance do every summer. anyway, last night was a little strange–me the 24-year-old new hire, them the 45-year-old parents that graduated from high school around the time i was born–but i had a pretty good time nonetheless. if they’d asked any questions from the 80s or 90s, i really would have been an asset to the team. instead, the trivia questions were either stupidly easy (does anyone expect a group of engineers to not know what the circumference of a circle is?) or about things i’m too young to remember (why was 9/25/1966 known as “black sunday” to movie theater owners? and who shot j.r.?). i left soon after we turned in our final answer, not waiting around to find out how many we got right. it turns out that my team won! i came in to work this morning and chuck had put my prize on my chair–a jim beam t-shirt. i laughed out loud. becca said it’s a classic, that i should wear it to work. hmm. work out maybe.
the bayou behind my house was more full than normal last night. i had been curious to see how high it would get with all the rain, but not worried, since my apartment is on the second floor. 😉 anyway, it was probably a foot or two higher than normal–enough to be very noticeable, but still a long way from overflowing. i can’t imagine what it must have been like when tropical storm allison came through and filled it.
{sigh} such excitement. whee!
so i know this will make me sound like a ditzy girl, but i have this strong desire to go see the movie “blue crush.” not for the plot line, which i think is given away in its entirety in the previews, but for the surfing. i’ve read a couple reviews that say the camerawork in the film is just fantastic. people who can surf have always impressed me enormously, and the admiration only grew after i tried surfing myself and was royally bad at it.
(12:36 p.m.)
james updates his diary in spurts, so some days there is nothing to read, but some days a week’s worth of entries suddenly appears. sometimes i get mentioned. i am always surprised when i get mentioned. somewhat flattered. shocked to get a compliment.
last night carter said i am one of the healthiest, most active females he knows. i told him in that case, he needs to meet more females. the healthy, active females that i know don’t have fat bellies. and i do.
oh! here is a picture of everyone in my group that is 30 or under. (that basically means that we were taking pictures for no particular reason, and just didn’t bother to gather ray, gil, and doug. besides, we’re not allowed to put a group picture on our webpage so there’s not much point in taking one.) anyway, it’s gavin, george, ryan (our departing co-op) and rich in the back, becca, matt, and me in the front. enjoy.
