What part of "season starts mid-May!" would lead you to reasonably expect the first game MID-JUNE??
...aka, lol, NZIHL, lolllll. But seriously, I am so fucking beyond ready for hockey season to start. GIVE ME THOSE FREEZING CONCRETE STANDS AND WAY TOO MANY POTS OF FAIRLY MEDIOCRE HOT CHIPS! Sigh. Heh. (I do, in fact, realise that being cranky about this is super childish -- people who got to see hockey six weeks ago don't get to whine now! -- but. Hockey. Come back to me. :( ) Mostly I am just extra jealous because the Australian season started already and I keep having to sleep/go to work instead of watching Worlds/the NHL playoffs.
Most of team Auckland went skating last Saturday night, and it was super fun as usual. It was inexplicably fairly quiet, especially since it was half price for ladies, and while yes, sexist, I am not gonna complain about saving ten bucks, so. Mostly I'm not complaining because this didn't result in them attracting the type of male crowd that is usually drawn to such events, hooray. Although that being said, there was one dude in a Bruins jersey who was being a gigantic jerk all evening and whom stickmarionette and I took great pleasure in skating past several times while having very loud conversations about people who live down to stereotypes and also how bout them Capitals, eh? At least the bruises on my knees (shut up) are healing up pretty fast this time? I fell as we were LEAVING, sigh. So close and yet so far.
In other news, the gym and work are both kicking my ass pretty spectacularly right now -- my hearing has cleared up (YAY) and I'm mostly better from the sinus infection, aside from how my lungs have decided that they are delicate flowers who must be coddled any time I do any form of exercise. Apparently "walking back to my car after my doctor's appt" is sufficient "exercise" to make me start wheezing. :( Awesome. :( I have strict instructions to double all my asthma meds and report back in two weeks if I haven't regained the ability to function normally by then.
In much more EXCITING news, this Friday morning I get a katrin!!! And then Friday night we get a digitalsprawl! And then all weekend we have a lot of fun and merriment, or, uh, hanging out having laptop parties and then going out and doing karaoke. \o/ ino I saw Kat, like, six weeks ago and all BUT IT'S BEEN FOREVER AND I MISS HER FACE PS DISTANCE IS STUPID, OCEANS OF INCONVENIENCE ARE DUMB, ETC ETC ETC.
There was definitely something else I had been reminding myself all week I should post but it's eluding me right now, so I guess it'll have to wait. Oh, I finally heard that Call Me Maybe song everyone keeps talking about today? So that was illuminating. That thing IS damn catchy.
Also, you know how you can tell that a) you've played a lot of Rock Band and b) your flatmates have played a lot of Portal? I was rewriting some documentation about the sieves this morning, and every time I had to read/write the word "aperture" I got Still Alive in my head. Which led me to discover that apparently I only have four JoCo songs on my iPod (criminal!) of which that is NONE. So I will be fixing that now. But mostly I've just had Mandelbrot Set in my head for the last 15 hours. You're welcome.
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Most of team Auckland went skating last Saturday night, and it was super fun as usual. It was inexplicably fairly quiet, especially since it was half price for ladies, and while yes, sexist, I am not gonna complain about saving ten bucks, so. Mostly I'm not complaining because this didn't result in them attracting the type of male crowd that is usually drawn to such events, hooray. Although that being said, there was one dude in a Bruins jersey who was being a gigantic jerk all evening and whom stickmarionette and I took great pleasure in skating past several times while having very loud conversations about people who live down to stereotypes and also how bout them Capitals, eh? At least the bruises on my knees (shut up) are healing up pretty fast this time? I fell as we were LEAVING, sigh. So close and yet so far.
In other news, the gym and work are both kicking my ass pretty spectacularly right now -- my hearing has cleared up (YAY) and I'm mostly better from the sinus infection, aside from how my lungs have decided that they are delicate flowers who must be coddled any time I do any form of exercise. Apparently "walking back to my car after my doctor's appt" is sufficient "exercise" to make me start wheezing. :( Awesome. :( I have strict instructions to double all my asthma meds and report back in two weeks if I haven't regained the ability to function normally by then.
In much more EXCITING news, this Friday morning I get a katrin!!! And then Friday night we get a digitalsprawl! And then all weekend we have a lot of fun and merriment, or, uh, hanging out having laptop parties and then going out and doing karaoke. \o/ ino I saw Kat, like, six weeks ago and all BUT IT'S BEEN FOREVER AND I MISS HER FACE PS DISTANCE IS STUPID, OCEANS OF INCONVENIENCE ARE DUMB, ETC ETC ETC.
There was definitely something else I had been reminding myself all week I should post but it's eluding me right now, so I guess it'll have to wait. Oh, I finally heard that Call Me Maybe song everyone keeps talking about today? So that was illuminating. That thing IS damn catchy.
Also, you know how you can tell that a) you've played a lot of Rock Band and b) your flatmates have played a lot of Portal? I was rewriting some documentation about the sieves this morning, and every time I had to read/write the word "aperture" I got Still Alive in my head. Which led me to discover that apparently I only have four JoCo songs on my iPod (criminal!) of which that is NONE. So I will be fixing that now. But mostly I've just had Mandelbrot Set in my head for the last 15 hours. You're welcome.
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