I think over the summer, I got lucky with some bloop hits and clutch moments that covered up for my poor mechanics, but now they are starting to catch up to me.
Let this post remind me to get out of this slump and get some extra batting practice in. Starting with this english midterm coming up.
... UCI Basketball coming up in a week and a half!!!
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Saturday, October 24, 2009
friendship
Don't know why, but I've always valued dedication and longevity in my friendships. Maybe not consistency all the time, because that's just an impossible road to maintain at times, but i just don't get people who prefer to go through phases of friends, forming and breaking bonds like alkali metals.
Currently listening to:
Phil Wickham's Heaven & Earth Album (omg concert on 10/19 was not only amazing, but uplifting and refreshing)
She Drives Me Crazy - Fine Young Cannibals
Currently listening to:
Phil Wickham's Heaven & Earth Album (omg concert on 10/19 was not only amazing, but uplifting and refreshing)
She Drives Me Crazy - Fine Young Cannibals
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Goobly Gook and The Ewing Theory Analogy
Today I went through the entire day of lecture without thinking that anything I learned was all that interesting or useful.
Instead of memorizing who was Zeus' dad or Poseidon's roman name, what Longinus thought about poetry or what sublimity was, or the historical/economical breakdown of China through the last 5 centuries... two completely different thoughts that randomly popped in my head today.
1. Goobly Gook. Used in the context today, to mean 'absolute gibberish.' My question is... who decided on goobly gook to mean that?! Literally anything at all could be an example of gibberish, yet people usually know what you mean with "goobly gook". Why not... woombaja hoobamja?
2. Ewing Theory is the ESPN coined phenomena of a mediocre team getting better when they lose their best player. The as of yet untitled phenomena of not being friends with your exes, is when you don't spend any time at all on the friend you used to spend the most time on.
--> my analysis/analogy: People never like losing their star player, because everyone likes watching a dominant player, someone they can always count on. However, this star player is not always best for the TEAM dynamic. Sometimes, in the absense of this go-to guy, the rest of the players on the team all step up and end up doing better where it counts--the win/loss column. Obviously, championship teams still have go-to guys often times, guys that carry their team to the top. Indeed, the argument can be made that true dynasties need go-to guys. But the Ewing Theory doesn't apply to everyone. When it does, you know that the go-to guy wasn't the right one.
So sometimes, you have to get rid of the sweet swinging lefty power hitter, the 6'10 menacing lefty who throws 100, and the good-looking shortstop who can seemingly do it all, and go out and win 116 games.
Songs of the Moment (slightly stretched out to catch up):
Entire Forget and Not Slow Down CD by Relient K, especially Savannah & Sahara
When She Loved Me - Toy Story 2 (thanks Luigi)
Bruises - Chairlift
Entire The Resistance CD by Muse
Burndt Jamb - Weezer
Everything - Michael Buble
Magic Perfume - Charlyne Yi
Spaceman - The Killers
Instead of memorizing who was Zeus' dad or Poseidon's roman name, what Longinus thought about poetry or what sublimity was, or the historical/economical breakdown of China through the last 5 centuries... two completely different thoughts that randomly popped in my head today.
1. Goobly Gook. Used in the context today, to mean 'absolute gibberish.' My question is... who decided on goobly gook to mean that?! Literally anything at all could be an example of gibberish, yet people usually know what you mean with "goobly gook". Why not... woombaja hoobamja?
2. Ewing Theory is the ESPN coined phenomena of a mediocre team getting better when they lose their best player. The as of yet untitled phenomena of not being friends with your exes, is when you don't spend any time at all on the friend you used to spend the most time on.
--> my analysis/analogy: People never like losing their star player, because everyone likes watching a dominant player, someone they can always count on. However, this star player is not always best for the TEAM dynamic. Sometimes, in the absense of this go-to guy, the rest of the players on the team all step up and end up doing better where it counts--the win/loss column. Obviously, championship teams still have go-to guys often times, guys that carry their team to the top. Indeed, the argument can be made that true dynasties need go-to guys. But the Ewing Theory doesn't apply to everyone. When it does, you know that the go-to guy wasn't the right one.
So sometimes, you have to get rid of the sweet swinging lefty power hitter, the 6'10 menacing lefty who throws 100, and the good-looking shortstop who can seemingly do it all, and go out and win 116 games.
Songs of the Moment (slightly stretched out to catch up):
Entire Forget and Not Slow Down CD by Relient K, especially Savannah & Sahara
When She Loved Me - Toy Story 2 (thanks Luigi)
Bruises - Chairlift
Entire The Resistance CD by Muse
Burndt Jamb - Weezer
Everything - Michael Buble
Magic Perfume - Charlyne Yi
Spaceman - The Killers
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