Being a captain is a completely bizarre experience, because while my team is those who were left, a lot of them have by no means stopped running for the brass ring, nor should they. But many of the team are not competitive players or personalities, and it is difficult to try and present both a fun opportunity to play ultimate around the midwest for ( Read more... )

I am practicing my "missed connections" stare on the bus these days.

I'm living a ridiculous life at the moment, captaining three ultimate teams (one is a travelling club team, practicing twice a week and going to four upcoming tournaments through the summer months, plus Sectionals, one is a summer league team, one is a throwaway beach tournament team) and writing a bit (three more restaurant reviews coming up, and ( Read more... )

I didn't make the cuts for the ultimate team I helped start, but I knew this outcome a long time ago. Any other outcome would have been pretty strange, in retrospect. It's still hard knowing that I tried, put effort, put myself out there to be judged and got the thumbs down. How the hell am I ever going to hope to be a writer with a response to ( Read more... )

Friday night was an emergency painting session at Casa de Sept, Miss N being a truly frazzled creature at this point. She's as sweet as can be, and fits my criteria for people I like - pouring themselves passionately into anything and everything they can. But some do it recklessly, some do it well, and some are more calculated about it than they ( Read more... )

Sometimes I feel like I've had a celebration dinner, and it's that hour of the night where the raucous dancing and songs were two hours ago, and the lights will be totally dark and the hall empty in 30 minutes, but for now the last few, whether pockets of two and three and two, or just one, are left with the glitter pressed into their heels and the ( Read more... )

I was supposed to be on my way to plant an orchard this weekend, but several rides did not work out for one reason or another, and thus I am here in the norm,al swing of things - drinking UNIBROUE 17 and talking about art controversy with friends and how it affects Cletus Q. Oklahoma-Public ( Read more... )

It makes me kinda happy that view count, rating count, favorite count is the new mean, median, mode. Ah, the rise of the leisure maths.

walking up Elston along the river and the factories, passing the lattice bridge with it's solid patches over the metal mesh, so the cars all sounded like this ( Read more... )

Planned a dinner with Kate Schlachter tonight, to catch up while she was in town and discuss the recent single-ness. Her friend Kailee was stranded at OHare, so she came out too, and we ate dinner at Earwax with the friendly attendance of Matt, The Guy I See Around At Thrill Jockey Music Stuff and Who Knows WLUW people. Oh, and Mary Nisi, Dustin ( Read more... )