ooh, i am so excited. we are trying to finalize where our 5k race will be held in april, and becca has gotten in touch with the airport manager at ellington. we’re going to meet with her sometime soon, and hopefully she will be interested enough in the idea for us to go forward. everyone i’ve recruited to help plan the race has agreed that running on the taxiway past all the planes and hangars would be awesome.
last night we had a half-inning of softball that will go down in loaded bats history. we eventually lost the game in extra innings (what is it with us and extra innings?), but that didn’t cheapen the bottom of the 6th, when we came back from a 6-0 deficit to tie the game (and had to stop only because there’s a 6 runs per inning mercy rule). it was beautiful. hit after hit after hit. not to mention that i finally broke out of my hitting slump. the only downside is that apparently i can only have one of two–catching or hitting. i started to hit well again, and lost all ability to catch. sigh. actually, i think my catching is ok, but i just have trouble judging the ball off the bat when i’m all the way out in left center. i can judge side-to-side distance, but i’m always slightly off on the depth. last night i missed a ball i totally should have caught. dammit.
after our game, i stuck around to sub for the 9:00 game for a team that was short a girl. i played catcher for them. now, i’ve never played catcher before, but i’ve always thought it would be fun. and it was. a little nerve-wracking at first to get used to a bat being swung close to my head, but fun.
soccer tonight. my shins hurt, but i will make do. as for the weekend… tomorrow i’m helping edgar and betsy move into their new house (!), and sunday i’m going to a pre-thanksgiving get-together. lovely.
and as a side note: so the cat in the hat movie comes out today. yes, not until today. what’s that? you thought it came out weeks ago? me too. why? because it’s been so heavily advertised and promoted that i’m already sick of it! and it hasn’t even opened yet! why do studios do that? why do they recruit everyone from dawn dishwashing liquid to the us postal service to hawk their movie? ugh. i like mike myers, but i’m already sick of the stupid cat.
