team

another monday in the history books. and to open today's blog, let me start with what i ended with: maturity is underrated. it's up as my away message now, and it just makes me frustrated. i don't know what to do about it, but i do want to make sure our team doesn't split. it was obvious at girls' night on friday that there was a definite division between the newbies and the veterans, and it was really immature that it happened. why not try to hang out with everyone instead of segregating yourselves off in another section of the room? is that really hard to do? am i expecting too much, or is the team growing to the point where cliques are inevitable? that's what i hated most about the teams i played on in high school. i didn't care that i wasn't part of the clique, i was just pissed off that they existed in the first place. goo.

....a shiny object distracted me again. i'm uploading photos from girls' night to my ofoto album and was chatting with steve about the issue mentioned above. we got into a heated discussion at the corner of comm. ave. and buick street, and it was just frustrating to have to deal with this kind of stuff in college. honestly, people....grow up!

okay, now i'm seriously multi-tasking. i just finished a couple of e-mails, my photos are done uploading, and now i'm going to attempt to edit them and write at the same time. we'll see how this goes.

ah, nearly three hours since i started this blog, i've managed to finish posting pictures on my ofoto album, uploading a select number of pictures to the lady pilots yahoo! group, discussed with lisa our track workout for tonight, came up with questions for my story on the patriots' "roving rally" tomorrow, registered one more lady pilot for the hat tournament at high tide, chatted with a couple of people online, and....wrote this uber-long run-on sentence.

now, back to the originally scheduled blogcast. as much as i want to go with the flow, i can't stand to let this team divide. i know the team is much bigger than it was in the past, that there are a number of personalities, and that things are different from when i joined this team. however, it's not what i want to leave the team with. i don't want to see the team divide, rather i want to see it grow together to a point where everyone can comfortably hang out with each other. i know i'm asking for a lot, but i think that some people let their egos get in the way of what a team really should be. so what if we're different? we've come together because we want to be on a team, we want to hang out and play ultimate, and we want to have fun. then why can't we put our differences aside in one, yes, just one aspect of our lives and be ONE team. is that too much to ask?

gah. i'm venting. i guess that's why i have my blog. i don't know what to do, but i do know what i want to happen. well, i guess it is my fault for not having a more cohesive girls' night earlier in the year.

now that the venting is done, here's the update on my happenings in the last few days:
thurs 2/3: skipped dreamweaver class to do a few errands before my senior picture appointment. went to class, fell asleep during the final cut pro lecture. did a few more errands before returning to the apartment to make spam musubi for suza, jenny, and me before track practice. ran a timed mile....yay 6:15. fastest time ever. came home, ate spam musubi, and called it a night.
fri 2/4: went to the gym. worked out the upper body. feeling a teeny bit stronger. watched sportscenter, had breakfast, napped. went to two classes, picked up a camera so i could shoot my story this weekend, had lunch with sara and jac out west, and returned to the apartment to figure out what we needed for girls' night. had dinner with lisa at the gsu, hung out with jasper and steve at steve's place, returned to stuvi (they went to the hockey game) and got the first load of stuff for girls' night ready. dropped off aforementioned stuff at jac's and walked to blanchard's. picked up rum, tequila, and jack and dropped that stuff off at jac's on my way home. finally home for a bit, and then went over to girls' night! got totally wasted (just ask piper), but enjoyed myself nonetheless. crashed at jac's (thanks jac and everyone else who took care of me).
sat 2/5: beautiful day. woke up at 11:40, walked home, and got ready for practice. played ultimate on nickerson, took some pictures and video, and followed that with a team lunch at west. hung out for a bit, tried to get rid of the hangover by eating, and chatted a bit with chloe. came home for a nice shower, and a relaxing evening with steve. tried to start a puzzle, but ended up watching the "thomas crowne (sp?) affair." missed the 1994 spelling bee on espn classic (boo steve), and just sat around watching espn for the rest of the night. fell asleep to "finding forrester."
sun 2/6: procrastinated long enough to finally get my butt out of the apartment and out shooting my story. went over to northeastern, interviewed a freshman there; walked over to emerson....didn't get an interview; came back to agganis arena, interviewed dean elmore, nathan, and jon, enjoyed the free food and watched the first half of the game with lisa. returned to the apartment for a bit before watching the rest of the game with some of the pilots at ed's. yay patriots! came home grumpy, fell asleep watching sportscenter, and finally went to bed at 2.
mon 2/7: gym again! lower body workout. i think i'm not pushing myself hard enough, but i don't want to get hurt. i guess i'll push myself a little more on friday. harnessed my chi, took a nap, and woke up with just enough time to shower and walk really fast to campus. only five minutes late today. returned the camera to com, attended the second class of the day, and had lunch with jodi at warren. met steve at perd, walked out to boston sweats to drop off the designs, stopped by shaw's for some ocean spray juice and tea, and walked back. had a heated discussion with steve on the corner of comm. ave. and buick street....and the rest is, well, history.

in just over an hour, there's track practice (finally!), and then i get to eat dinner. steve's coming over to talk, and we'll see how much sleep i get tonight. goo. i'm going to see "lion king" tomorrow at the wang theatre. i'm really excited! then we're going out to dinner (crossing my fingers for cheesecake factory or something along those lines).

okee dokee, i think i've written enough for now; time to get ready for track practice.

running gets the frustration out.

-me : )