March 4, 2017

I woke up at five in the morning. Again. Yet once again, that was what I needed.  I went downstairs, treating myself to a delicious all-carb breakfast of pancakes with sugar syrup and bagels, then walked to Safeway to buy myself some baby lotion for The Great Leg Shaving.  Gentlemen, I can assure you, having experienced man-leg-hair for the past few weeks, you will love the way your legs feel after they’ve been shaved. 

I began reading “Blink” by Malcolm Gladwell.  I’m a  very intuitive person, yet struggle in following my intuition because I’ve been trained that we need cited resources and evidence-based reasoning, so I really appreciate this book.  “We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We’re a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don’t really have an explanation for”(p. 69).  I really like this sentence, in particular.

I didn’t think about lunch at all because of my huge breakfast ( I later went back for Second Breakfast and had a delicious omelette and have a grapefruit), and soon, we only had 20 minutes until we were leaving for the tournament with game-time scheduled at three. Maggie and I ran next-door to Safeway again where Maggie purchased food at Starbucks  I bought a large cup of tomato bisque soup.  It was such delicious and  I soup-sipped all the way to the tournament in the San Jose Convention Center.

The schedule was rough one: Ref first game, play two games, ref another game, then play their third. The girls played well together, they were really beginning to sync with one another and start playing as a team. They won their first game, barely  lost their second, and barely lost their third.  My voice is hoarse from yelling.   Having been intubated when I was in my coma, it’s changed my yelling skills. I’m a sensitive yeller now.

I gave Maggie 20 bucks and she headed to Red Robin with the rest of the team while I walked next-door and had a delicious Indian dinner. I’m excited to watch the first Saturday Night Live and about four years, though  chances are I won’t be able to stay up for much, if any of it. We may have a very early game in the morning.