No April showers yet

I could probably write for about half an hour and not get down everything I have going around in my head right now. Therefore, I won’t bother trying. Because nothing sucks worse than trying and not succeeding. Actually, that’s not true. Trying and losing a limb would be worse. Although likely that would coincide with not succeeding. The dreaded double-whammy!

Alright, on with it. Last weekend’s tournament in Campbell River was kind of crappy, because although none of us going really thought about how the team chemistry would be affected by having so many non-Spits playing before we got there, we definitely thought about it while we were there. The first game was a bit rough, the second better, and we did win the third game, definitely having gelled somewhat by that time. I wasn’t playing really well in goal. I’m finding it increasingly difficult to adjust back and forth between the pace of the women’s game and the pace of the afternoon shinny at the ISC. Maybe I shouldn’t have this problem and it just means I need more practice or more solid technique … Regardless, it’s still nice to be on the ice. The weekend ended well with a spontaneous outdoor soccer game, organized by myself and my roommate

On the food front: My roommate’s mom performed the profoundly thoughtful deed of sending enough chocolate and other assorted secular Easter-related treats for her to share with me and others … yes, my chocolate is all gone and it’s not even the weekend.

The London Knights made it through to the second round with no problem, sweeping the Attack. This was definitely due in part to the stellar play of Steve Mason (the Knights left-handed goalie, yay!), especially in game 2, where he stopped 61 of 62 shots!
Next up they face the Soo Greyhounds (read as “The Knights will make it to the third round ...” :))

















Steven Mason (and I think Solomon)


The Leafs are still in it, and as long as they win tonight, Saturday’s game against the Habs is going to be something else. I’m finding that a lot of people around here hate the Leafs, but not because of anything to do with the actual team or their players or their play, but because the team and the city are talked about as if they’re the “centre of the universe” and the Leafs are the only hockey team that will ever matter. This is not my fault, I don’t feel this way, and I would be fine with TSN covering other teams at the top of SportsCentre once in a while. I do love the Leafs but I am not biased when it comes to officiating (referring to what I think should and shouldn’t have been called), and I think sometimes the refs make more calls against the Leafs, to make up for the number of people who claim that they are favoured. Mostly I think that there are some bad calls both ways, with certain games maybe favouring one team over the other, and that’s just the way it is. One part of the game (possibly the only part, besides cheap shots) I could definitely do without is the stupid fans who harass the officials. I like the fighting as long as it’s consensual, and if you really don’t want to face the risk of getting hurt (as a lot of talk of eliminating fighting is based around guys being bigger and stronger, so throwing more damaging punches), then don’t fight.

I liked the post my friend Kate made on marking undergrad stuff, and finding that a lot of the papers suck. When you make it to 4th year university and can’t even write a proper sentence maybe you need to reevaluate just where you should be focusing your learning experience. I understand that some people can’t spell amazingly, which is fine, that wasn’t where most of the problems were. I know also that many people do not know all of the rules grammar, which too is fine. I wasn’t being that nitpicky, but I do expect the tense to remain constant throughout a sentence, and verb-subject agreement. And coherence is always a plus.

P.S. It didn’t rain last Thursday, so I got to play tennis outdoors in the sun! YAY!!! It had been a while. I need to get my racquet restrung.