Surgery

Had surgery this morning -- I now have a threaded pin sticking 1/4 inch out of my right ring finger. Hopefully this doesn't interfere with soccer too much! Oh yeah, and writing. ;]

Tang

I'm sitting in the University Health Center (the Tang center) waiting for the Dr. to interpret some x-rays for me. I sprained my finger playing soccer the day after I got here, and it hasn't really healed -- I now have a suspicion that it is broken. The nurse agreed and said that the tendon might be damaged as well. Hope not! I was planning on going to the Cal soccer game which is just across the street, so I came down here a whole 35 minutes before the game was to start. An hour and 40 minutes later, I'm still here and have no hope of seeing the rest of the game. =p

In other news, it's been a busy week! I had a quiz or a test for each class -- all of them went well, I believe, but won't know for sure 'til next week.

I'm still playing soccer a lot, on days where I get out of class early. I also got on an intramural team, which is exciting. We'll be playing 1 day every week from 10 to midnight. The guy who's running the team had to stay up all night outside the gym to get us signed up -- apparently that's a common practice with intramural teams, as there are a limited number of fields and many people wanting to play. I may also play on an IM dodgeball team.

I'm getting more and more into cooking! It's relaxing and fun (and cheap! and good!).

Cal Football!

I hemmed and hawed about paying for season tickets for the football here, and they got sold out (since when should students have to pay to watch their team play anyway, eh?). I got lucky though -- a friend of my roommates had tickets and wasn't able to make the game, and although I barely know him (just played basketball with him the other day) he gave me his ticket! Apparently one of the stipulations was that I get painted up for the game. So i did!

It was pretty exciting. The whole campus has this electric feeling on gameday. Our dorm had a special "gameday brunch" so everyone could get their gameday face on. Every single fraternity and sorority had a pregame party, and the streets were packed with students heading to the game. We had front row seats right on the 50 yard line, that were reserved for the "Game Day Spirit Club" which I am now a de facto member of. The game was Cal vs. UC Davis, and was a total blowout: 52 to 3. I got pretty sunburned, but I figured that was all part of the experience. I'm now back in my room doing some homework and listening to my roommates new album he made while brewing some black tea to put on my sunburn. It's been a good day! Looking forward to the rest of the weekend. :)

A Short Update

Today concludes my first full week of school. Next week is full of quizzes and tests, but I have a three day weekend to prepare. For now, my immediate homework is done and time to "relax" after a busy day of homework and classes.

My size one soccer ball came! I just finished playing some riveting hall-ball with some of the 2nd and 4th floor residents. Great fun! Now off to play basketball in the gym with some friends.