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So we had our first spring season match in tennis in my 3 years on the team! It was on Saturday, St. Patrick’s Day, and one of the sunniest and hottest days of the year by far. And of course we were outside. I got a pretty bad shoulder burn, but thankfully that was all. I at least had time to apply sunblock before the match started…

The reason I didn’t have time to put it anywhere else is because we got lost. It was actually pretty funny. There was a point when I was on the phone relaying directions and kept saying “right” over and over and the driver still turned left… even as she was saying “right.” It was pretty funny, but I think she got really frustrated.

The match itself was also very frustrating. We were all playing two positions higher than we normally did, because our number 1 was off doing whatever and our number 2 is in France for the semester. So, suffice it to say, we got creamed. One girl won though, in an amazing come back from losing like 2-6 or 0-6, to winning the second set 4-6 (omg I have to interject this to note how this girl is laughing so weirdly over and over, the same laugh as if a broken record is going on and on) and then winning the third set tiebreaker 8-2 or something. I don’t remember if they played to 7, 8, or 10…

I played 2-6, 2-6. Well… I did pretty bad. They were trying to cheer me up saying hey she could actually be the number 1 or 2 on their team, and I’m a number 5, so I shouldn’t feel bad. Sorry, but when I’m making a million mistakes, I will feel bad no matter what. It’s a different story if we were rallying like crazy, down to it going to whoever doesn’t make the one out of ten mistakes. But I was just mishitting everything. I could hardly get serves in half the time. I could get to every ball she hit, she didn’t hit any winners unless I was being aggressive and rushed the net. She didn’t hit any amazing serves. I just would mishit every ball. I even aced her twice. So yeah, maybe she really is that good, and if I wasn’t mishitting maybe I would have lost to her anyway just because maybe she was like a brick wall. But I didn’t have a chance to find that out because I was playing so bad. There is no cheering me up out of that one other than to let me try again.

Which reminds me, the next game against the same school is scheduled on the day that I have two finals. It’s a Saturday, too. Geez.

In other news, today my tennis buddy and I went to play tennis with two guys we met at a party. My buddy is a lesbian, so it’s not like this was any sort of double date or something. So they pick us up and they are pretty funny (I actually don’t remember which guy was which until we met them) and it was a good time. We spent a good couple of hours playing. They were pretty bad, but not so bad that you can’t play. It was funny to watch them honestly. I had been texting one of the guys so it was good to finally match a face to the name. Maybe we will go out and play again. He did, in the texts, invite me to hang out without my tennis buddy too.

And in other, other news. I just finished picking three topics for my senior thesis (here it’s called the tutorial) for my theory class tomorrow. I really don’t know what I want to write about! But I guess I have to pick… maybe I will go into detail in a new post. But that was what I’ve been stressing about. I’m really surprised. This is the first time I’ve posted to tumblr AFTER I finished an assignment…