Fall! Plus US Openy stuff
Sep. 1st, 2004 11:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thebratqueenIt's September! A very joyous time of year, when leaves change, the weather becomes cold, things can be baked, and I can savagely mock everyone who has to go back to school because they do and I don't, neener neener neener.
Tennis last night was fun. Had most excellent seats, which means I was able to not only watch the games but I could also enjoy the amusement of watching people try to sneak their way up front only to be kicked out by an elderly usher weilding a towel. I'm not sure what the towel was for. Possibly if they don't produce tickets and/or leave in an appropriate amount of time he wets it down with a water gun, twists it, and slaps them on the ass. I didn't get to see him do this though so I can only assume.
The first game was between two women I've never heard of before but who gave great game. It was close the entire time, and had a lot of good back and forth. Also? There are worse ways to spend an evening than spending a few hours watching women in tiny skirts wiggling their butts back and forth.
I'm all about the deep and meaningful, with sports.
The second game I only stayed for two sets. Roddick vs. Jenkins, AKA the man ranked 2 in the world up against the 17 year old kid who is ranked, all things considered, not much higher than me in the world and I don't even play. (he's in the 1400s, to be specific)
I saw Roddick last year when he played Agassi and he struck me as an asshole then and I'm not really seeing a need to change that opinion now. First game he busts out with three 150 serves in a row, to which I'm like dude, how small is your penis? I get that this is competition, not charity, and that Roddick isn't going to waste time and energy when he can be saving himself for the finals, but even so there's ways to do that without doing the tennis version of using a shotgun on a mosquito.
That being said, Jenkins did well for a total newbie, and I hope we'll be seeing him again in the future. He managed to win four games which is impressive. Plus his first name is Scovil, so I'd love to go to matches with him and hold up a sign that says "Bring the Heat, Scovil!" just to see how many food geeks understood what the Hell I was talking about.
(Yes, I realize that's not how it's spelled in the food world. It may also not be how his name is spelled either. So it evens out. ;) )
Anyway, that's that. I'd talk about the convention except I've managed to not watch any of it so far, and given what I've read of the speeches after I think I'd better keep up that streak or else I'll be lobbing bricks through my TV.
La la la fall! Soon! Need an autumn icon of some kind! And also to make things with cinnamon in them! La la la!!
Tennis last night was fun. Had most excellent seats, which means I was able to not only watch the games but I could also enjoy the amusement of watching people try to sneak their way up front only to be kicked out by an elderly usher weilding a towel. I'm not sure what the towel was for. Possibly if they don't produce tickets and/or leave in an appropriate amount of time he wets it down with a water gun, twists it, and slaps them on the ass. I didn't get to see him do this though so I can only assume.
The first game was between two women I've never heard of before but who gave great game. It was close the entire time, and had a lot of good back and forth. Also? There are worse ways to spend an evening than spending a few hours watching women in tiny skirts wiggling their butts back and forth.
I'm all about the deep and meaningful, with sports.
The second game I only stayed for two sets. Roddick vs. Jenkins, AKA the man ranked 2 in the world up against the 17 year old kid who is ranked, all things considered, not much higher than me in the world and I don't even play. (he's in the 1400s, to be specific)
I saw Roddick last year when he played Agassi and he struck me as an asshole then and I'm not really seeing a need to change that opinion now. First game he busts out with three 150 serves in a row, to which I'm like dude, how small is your penis? I get that this is competition, not charity, and that Roddick isn't going to waste time and energy when he can be saving himself for the finals, but even so there's ways to do that without doing the tennis version of using a shotgun on a mosquito.
That being said, Jenkins did well for a total newbie, and I hope we'll be seeing him again in the future. He managed to win four games which is impressive. Plus his first name is Scovil, so I'd love to go to matches with him and hold up a sign that says "Bring the Heat, Scovil!" just to see how many food geeks understood what the Hell I was talking about.
(Yes, I realize that's not how it's spelled in the food world. It may also not be how his name is spelled either. So it evens out. ;) )
Anyway, that's that. I'd talk about the convention except I've managed to not watch any of it so far, and given what I've read of the speeches after I think I'd better keep up that streak or else I'll be lobbing bricks through my TV.
La la la fall! Soon! Need an autumn icon of some kind! And also to make things with cinnamon in them! La la la!!
