gymastics, hamlet
30 Jan 2004 10:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cimorenegymnastics.
went to a gymnastics meet vs. florida tonight--university of alabama is probably ranked second in the ncaa right now, or at least, it was a few weeks ago. florida's nothing like up to our standards, but they were interesting. a team full of freshman and they did surprisingly well. they've ditched the bright blue and orange, apparently for purely aesthetic reasons, in favor of black and baby blue. their leotards and warmup suits were covered with silver glitter. they did a lot of falling off the beam and stumbling the landings on the vault and floor exercises, but they were very sportsmanlike and dogged. just kept trying. and on the floor, whoa, they had some EXCELLENT choreography and kick-ASS music. one piece i loved--('is that tombraider?')--and desperately wished to know the title of. they lost about two points in every event despite doing better than anyone expected. and we made our best meet-wide score of the season so far. no one got below a 9.8 on anything from our team. (the fla. girl who fell off the beam four times got a 9.125, which was the lowest they turned in.) all in all exciting. the lady next to me was watching with binoculars and that was amusing too.
hamlet.
started watching hamlet. mom seemed never to have read it. she kept saying in the 'get thee to a nunnery' scene shit like, 'why is he angry? why is she crying? so he knows they're watching? ARE they watching?' jesus, woman. anyway, we had to leave in the middle and haven't got to finish it yet. then rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead, unless one or both parents falls asleep (>.<) and then i'll watch the commentary on a knight's tale because, hello, RUFUS.
went to a gymnastics meet vs. florida tonight--university of alabama is probably ranked second in the ncaa right now, or at least, it was a few weeks ago. florida's nothing like up to our standards, but they were interesting. a team full of freshman and they did surprisingly well. they've ditched the bright blue and orange, apparently for purely aesthetic reasons, in favor of black and baby blue. their leotards and warmup suits were covered with silver glitter. they did a lot of falling off the beam and stumbling the landings on the vault and floor exercises, but they were very sportsmanlike and dogged. just kept trying. and on the floor, whoa, they had some EXCELLENT choreography and kick-ASS music. one piece i loved--('is that tombraider?')--and desperately wished to know the title of. they lost about two points in every event despite doing better than anyone expected. and we made our best meet-wide score of the season so far. no one got below a 9.8 on anything from our team. (the fla. girl who fell off the beam four times got a 9.125, which was the lowest they turned in.) all in all exciting. the lady next to me was watching with binoculars and that was amusing too.
hamlet.
started watching hamlet. mom seemed never to have read it. she kept saying in the 'get thee to a nunnery' scene shit like, 'why is he angry? why is she crying? so he knows they're watching? ARE they watching?' jesus, woman. anyway, we had to leave in the middle and haven't got to finish it yet. then rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead, unless one or both parents falls asleep (>.<) and then i'll watch the commentary on a knight's tale because, hello, RUFUS.
