Water Polo, Day 3

Hogui Bear was there! I'm so happy. He made me grin, and it made me work harder, just to show him what he's taught us. I wish he could be there all the time. *sigh* But he talked to the new coach about each one of us (privately, of course, but you could tell he was pointing to the players he knew and saying what he thought of them). That makes me happy as well.

I now know a total of...seven names, but I can only match six of them to a face. The names I know do not include people I knew before this season of water polo.

The new recruits are learning well. Yes, they are. Mwahaha! We'll make fiends of them yet. There are a certain two guys that I just met that are catching on quickly. Certain other folks are good too. Zach (guy #1 or 2, methinks) has a nice shot, but he hesitates about it. His little brother needs to get his arm out of the water when he throws.

Next week we start defensive work! Then I can really shine. I love defense oh so much. Beyond that, if I can prove that I can take hole-d, the bobcat won't have to worry about having to play both hole and hole-d. (I'm sorry to those of you who don't understand the positions I'm talking about. If you're really curious, I'll go into detail and perhaps scan a picture. On second thought, there will be no picture. I don't think I can make it work. Just know that hole and hole-d are the hardest positions for offense and defense, respectively.

Anywho, my back is full of knots, my legs are about to fall off, but my enthusiasm is still running strong. We are going to be awesome this year!

And I'm mongo stressed over stuff in general--school, poetry night, my CPR certification, the birthday kidnapping tomorrow--and now I stupidly agreed to help plan a season-opening party for water polo. Yeesh. If I would just stop doing things, I wouldn't stress! Gosh!