ice hockey > rugby okay
Once again: Vote for me! :D Please and thank you.
I feel like the interview went well, though in retrospect I could have sucked up to the company a bit more. I should be hearing back in a couple of days. Fingers crossed!
My sister's basketball game was hilaribad today. Her school has production plague, so the rec center rang the school to see if they were still playing... Except school was closed today, so they didn't get anyone. Understandably the team they were playing figured sis' team wouldn't show up, so they forfeited.
But my sister and her team (well, some of them, and enough from other teams to make up a whole team) turned up anyway, so the rec center put together a makeup team of a whole bunch of randoms (kids from three different schools including Coll (a high school; sis is in primary) and the three refs) so they could still play, just for fun, not counting in the points schedule.
Their coach didn't turn up, though, so before they figured out if they were playing, one of the kids looked up at me and said, "If no one turns up, you're our coach."
"I AM OKAY WITH THIS."
Even though I don't know how to play basketball.
I gave them some tips based on my observations of the season so far and then they went at it, mostly forgetting about it. The kids on the sidelines kept bugging me to be put back on and I never had any idea who they should replace :P While one of the kids pulled off a couple of beautiful three pointers and they were leading first half, most of the time the other team was easily chucking the ball across the court and grabbing rebounds (because the refs were two heads taller than my kids).
So my kids started screaming.
Someone from the other team would try to shoot and one of my girls would shriek to try and put them off; it got to the point where the other team started yelling back ("shut up!" "potato salad!").
It didn't work; the randoms won 19-13. But everyone had a ton of fun because the game was so ridiculous. And the kids still like me, which is more than I can say for one of their actual coaches, who didn't give them subs last week and pissed them all off by telling them when they lost, "Remember what this feels like."
I feel like the interview went well, though in retrospect I could have sucked up to the company a bit more. I should be hearing back in a couple of days. Fingers crossed!
My sister's basketball game was hilaribad today. Her school has production plague, so the rec center rang the school to see if they were still playing... Except school was closed today, so they didn't get anyone. Understandably the team they were playing figured sis' team wouldn't show up, so they forfeited.
But my sister and her team (well, some of them, and enough from other teams to make up a whole team) turned up anyway, so the rec center put together a makeup team of a whole bunch of randoms (kids from three different schools including Coll (a high school; sis is in primary) and the three refs) so they could still play, just for fun, not counting in the points schedule.
Their coach didn't turn up, though, so before they figured out if they were playing, one of the kids looked up at me and said, "If no one turns up, you're our coach."
"I AM OKAY WITH THIS."
Even though I don't know how to play basketball.
I gave them some tips based on my observations of the season so far and then they went at it, mostly forgetting about it. The kids on the sidelines kept bugging me to be put back on and I never had any idea who they should replace :P While one of the kids pulled off a couple of beautiful three pointers and they were leading first half, most of the time the other team was easily chucking the ball across the court and grabbing rebounds (because the refs were two heads taller than my kids).
So my kids started screaming.
Someone from the other team would try to shoot and one of my girls would shriek to try and put them off; it got to the point where the other team started yelling back ("shut up!" "potato salad!").
It didn't work; the randoms won 19-13. But everyone had a ton of fun because the game was so ridiculous. And the kids still like me, which is more than I can say for one of their actual coaches, who didn't give them subs last week and pissed them all off by telling them when they lost, "Remember what this feels like."