Catching Up

Loyal readers,
I apologize for having disappeared for a month despite bloggable goings-on going down. Excuse: I had a temp job, which didnt leave much time for anything else. I don't know how real employed adults can find time to keep detailed blogs...
What you missed:

1. Sean Ryan.
Braineaters got 6th place I believe, losing a stinker to SLO in which SLO played great and Claremont refused to make adjustments against a team that was beating them with a strictly open-side offense. On Sunday, they lost a total barn-burner to the Slugs in a placement game. Maniac established himself as the preseason favorite for Claremont Callahan nominee in my eyes. Boo of the weekend: Weston taking my bag to a car from the fields without my knowledge, leading to an 8 hr period in which I was separated from my boys.

2. SoCal Warmup.
Braineaters got 5th place. In Santa Cruz they didn't look especially great in their wins, but San Diego was a different story. Claremont really takes care of business on Saturday, dispatching opponents with ease as the Hodags and refusing to play down to the competition. The Hodag theme was executed awesomely. Markham jumped past an absent Maniac in my Callahan book with his typical break mark throws to space that the cutter isn't expecting but can bring in easily because they are so perfect. And his pulls were ON. Quarterfinals on Sunday sucked big time. USD had few capable throwers, but one little guy that was jacking huge flick hucks with no qualms. I think he was probably literally 9 for 9 or so, with many of the completions coming on huge skies over our guys. We struggled against their basic zone, with no movement anywhere on the field. My prescription: the handlers need to get together and play mini with each other to develop short chemistry.

3. Homecoming
I went home to Seattle with Rachel for Thanksgiving/my birthday. It was dope. Caught a Husky Hoops win, good times with family, and a blowout joint birthday party with me, Greg, Kevin, and Sam. Lost to Greg in 1-on-1 hoops. Fuck me.

4. SFUC Winter League.
I am playing on an SFUC Winter League team, weekly games in The Shitty. My team is awesome; 4-0 so far, and I get to play with Claremont stalwarts Shy, Whit, Claire, Abby, and assorted other ballers. I'll start posting game recaps today through the future, I promise.

5. Cultimate
I here from a little birdy that Cultimate has some more tricks up their sleeves, but I passed on hearing the details for the sake of ruining my night. We shall see.

6. RSD
Slow right now... not much going on in the Fall I guess.

7. Birthday Presents
Wall-E DVD. F yeah. Already watched the movie, and then the movie again with Director's commentary, and the Audio Mixing feature, and the new short.
Allagash Curieux
Chimay Premiere
Bike Lock
Bike Light

photos from Daniel Bobrowsky (Maniac) 's Facebook Albums.

LSAT Results - No Ultimate Content

So I was minding my own business on a balmy Oakland afternoon, sitting in a cake of dried sweat from my first workout in months, when I found out that LSAT scores were being released a few days early. I googled a little to find some message board that confirmed this tip (seriously, who are these people that hang around standardized test message boards?).

I was Facebook chatting with my LSAT friend KD when I got the new message notification in Gmail. From: "LSAC SCORE." Subject: "Your October 2008 LSAT Score." I couldn't bring myself to open it. It was a feeling more intense than waiting to see your semester report card or final exam score in one of those classes where it actually mattered.

I switched tabs back to Facebook chat.
"oh shit I got an email"
"didnt open it yet"
"i feel like i am staring down the firing squad"

Back to Gmail. I opened the e-mail cautiously. I had just started to make a little chart with what emotion I would feel for any of the scores in my potential range. Too late. I scanned the e-mail. The first line with any numbers jumped out at me. It had low digits in it. I panicked for about a quarter of a second before I realized that was just my account number.

Next line down.

"Your October 2008 LSAT score is 169. The percentile rank is 97."

Yyyyeeeaaaaahhhhhh baby! Better than any of the 5 practice tests I took. Higher than approx. 48,500 of the other approx. 50,000 that took the exam. If I had gotten 170 I would've been over the moon. So 169 was a close door prize.

This calls for some Joose!

Not much going on...

except
1. Took the LSAT on Saturday. Had a near brush with disaster as "police activity" shut down the freeway for 40 minutes and I showed up late, but it worked out in the end as everything was behind schedule anyway. Shooting for a 170, but we'll see come October 27th.

2. First Regionals weekend. I had to take the LSAT while my squad was battling the finest teams in the country in terrible weather in the good ol NW. Highlight: Shy handblocks Tim Gehret on one goalline and skies him on the other one all in the same point. Not bad, but not THIS: Anyway, we could only get 9 guys (plus Ollie and Joaq) up to Burlington which is a bummer, but I am excited to get my hands on the sweet jerseys finally.

3. Looking for a job. Any suggestions?

4. Apparently Beau lives in Oakland now. Not that I am excited about running into him at the store or anything.

5. Decided to give Google Reader a chance. I love clicking on the same 57 (literally) links over and over again (truthfully) but perhaps this will take away an excuse to spend so much time on the old comp.

6. Trying to beat Minesweeper with a custom grid: Expert size, 145 mines instead of 99. My best so far is 140.

7. Almost done with the Sopranos. I think I can admit that it is better than The Wire, and while I still am very fond of Dexter, Sops is right up there with it. Hm, that is a lot of violence.

Hiatus

Rachel and I will be in Belize, Guatemala, and El Salvador for the next two weeks.
Peace.

First Poll

I've been curious about who is reading this blog. Let me know in the poll on the right.

Future

1. Future of The Jughead Show:
-Posts about Senior Week, SW/Braineaters next year, Airtight/DarkHorse for Potlatch, YR/Joaqsquad/Whitteam for club this season, and if you and I are especially lucky a vain multimedia surprise.
2. Future of the Jughead:
-Unfortunately, I have no future, as I had to sell my soul to the UPA for this little hyperlink: http://upa.org/college/all-region/2008 . Here it is again: http://upa.org/college/all-region/2008 and one more time: http://upa.org/college/all-region/2008 . But, I am actually graduating on SUNDAY, moving to Oakland on Monday, then doing not much of anything until I decide to.

I'll leave you with this:
http://tinyurl.com/6lea7e
and this:
http://tinyurl.com/2g9mqh

Welcome to the Jughead Show

Hello teammates, friends, and stalkers,
I've been an avid (obsessive) ultimate blog reader for some time, and I thought I would be remiss in not joining in the conversation now that I am done with college. I was inspired to finally start a blog while researching my final term paper for a history course. The books A Social History of the Media by Asa Briggs and Peter Burke, We the Media by Dan Gillmor, and Fans, Bloggers, Gamers: Exploring Participatory Culture by Henry Jenkins really convinced me to add my voice to the mix. I might post the paper later if I think it's appropriate.

Anyway, my current conception of this blog is that I'll critique (positive and negative) the posts of other blogs I read, as well as significant RSD threads. Most likely there will be more criticism than agreement...

I'll also write a lot about my former team/brothers the Claremont Braineaters, my Seattle ultimate friends/teammates, and whichever team in the Bay Area I end up playing for this club season (Whit's unnamed mixed team? YR? This Santa Cruz team Joaq keeps telling me about? A more traditional club powerhouse?). And whatever else I feel like writing about.

Enjoy.