Flying so high
I'm in the BEST mood right now. And my day totally didn't start this way:
Last night it was a friend's b-day and the plan was to go to this wine and martini bar to celebrate. However, we had dinner (without her, as she was with her boyfriend at a show of some sort) as a group beforehand and...I was getting irritated. Then, I learned that the bar in question had a dress-code to get in (and, as per usual, I didn't put a lot of effort into dressing up and was wearing jeans and a v-neck blue shirt with Vans) and the disgust I felt pushed me over the edge, so I begged off early. I felt...betrayed? I'm not sure why, but I was feeling rather lonely and like I didn't fit in. I hate "going out" and the drinking it entails, even if I'm not drinking. These people are boring at best when drunk and grate on my nerves. And the effort of getting downtown, arriving, and socializing is not worth any benefit that I might actually get from it.
So I left and went to bed rather cranky. I then had to wake up early for rugby and was annoyed because I was trying to determine how I was gonna schedule a workout around my trip up there and left a bit late and barely made it in time.
But once I got there. Bam. I had SO MUCH FUN. It's weird. All we did, really, was practice the scrum, but the amount of team-building and getting to know each other that occurred in a mere hour was outstanding. I feel like I have such a great time every time we have dedicated scrum time. The coach is super cool, but she becomes even cooler when instructing us and it's laid-back, yet still serious, and there's joking* and the camaraderie is absolutely fantastic. I felt like I've been accepted.
My drive back had me in a completely different mood than my drive up there and it made me rediscover that, truly, ruggers are my favorite type of people.
We have an away game next weekend, so it'll be interesting to see if this sentiment survives an entire weekend in their company. I also have yet to see how the respond to the fact that I don't drink.
I would also like to note that I spent almost all of my free time this week playing Pokemon Crystal on my computer. I bought a magazine for it about 15-ish years ago, but I never got the chance to ever play it because my parents (quite rightly) were entirely against video games while we were growing up.
*I realized at this practice that no one has truly made me laugh in MONTHS. I'm the funniest person I hang out with her at the med school (or at least, the humor of the other people doesn't strike me as actually funny, per se, and they're all pretty much boring as hell to begin with). But my team mates? Holy shit, they're hilarious.
Last night it was a friend's b-day and the plan was to go to this wine and martini bar to celebrate. However, we had dinner (without her, as she was with her boyfriend at a show of some sort) as a group beforehand and...I was getting irritated. Then, I learned that the bar in question had a dress-code to get in (and, as per usual, I didn't put a lot of effort into dressing up and was wearing jeans and a v-neck blue shirt with Vans) and the disgust I felt pushed me over the edge, so I begged off early. I felt...betrayed? I'm not sure why, but I was feeling rather lonely and like I didn't fit in. I hate "going out" and the drinking it entails, even if I'm not drinking. These people are boring at best when drunk and grate on my nerves. And the effort of getting downtown, arriving, and socializing is not worth any benefit that I might actually get from it.
So I left and went to bed rather cranky. I then had to wake up early for rugby and was annoyed because I was trying to determine how I was gonna schedule a workout around my trip up there and left a bit late and barely made it in time.
But once I got there. Bam. I had SO MUCH FUN. It's weird. All we did, really, was practice the scrum, but the amount of team-building and getting to know each other that occurred in a mere hour was outstanding. I feel like I have such a great time every time we have dedicated scrum time. The coach is super cool, but she becomes even cooler when instructing us and it's laid-back, yet still serious, and there's joking* and the camaraderie is absolutely fantastic. I felt like I've been accepted.
My drive back had me in a completely different mood than my drive up there and it made me rediscover that, truly, ruggers are my favorite type of people.
We have an away game next weekend, so it'll be interesting to see if this sentiment survives an entire weekend in their company. I also have yet to see how the respond to the fact that I don't drink.
I would also like to note that I spent almost all of my free time this week playing Pokemon Crystal on my computer. I bought a magazine for it about 15-ish years ago, but I never got the chance to ever play it because my parents (quite rightly) were entirely against video games while we were growing up.
*I realized at this practice that no one has truly made me laugh in MONTHS. I'm the funniest person I hang out with her at the med school (or at least, the humor of the other people doesn't strike me as actually funny, per se, and they're all pretty much boring as hell to begin with). But my team mates? Holy shit, they're hilarious.